Freiburg Exchange

Since 2009 a vibrant research exchange has linked the Arts Faculties of QMUL and the University of Freiburg. Following the naming of Freiburg as one of Germany's ten top research universities, colleagues from Freiburg sought to foster intellectual contact. Two areas in particular were attractive for a research exchange with QMUL: the long Renaissance and the cultural history of literary communication. With supprt from Queen Mary's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences annual colloquia have brought together PhD students and early career scholars, under the leadership of Professors Ronald Asch, Barbara Korte and Birgit Studt from Freiburg, and of Virginia Davis, Miri Rubin and he late Kevin Sharpe, from Queen Mary. The colloquia offered occasions for discussion of emergent research themes, presentation of the fruits of doctoral research, and networking among emergent European scholars in the Humanities.

The 2012 colloquium will take place at QMUL on 2012 May.

Previous Events

Professor Birgit Study opens the ceremony

On 23 January Professors Virginia Davis and Miri Rubin of the School of History a meeting of the Graduate School in Social and Cultural Studies at the University of Freiburg and its prize-giving ceremony. Professor Rubin gave a lecture and Professor Davis presented the best dissertation prize.

Professor Miri Rubin delivers her lecture

Professor Virginia Davis presents the best dissertation award

2011 Exchange Programme

QMUL/Freiburg Exchange Colloquium
Freiburg, 20-22 May 2011
Conflict and Contestation

Friday, 20 May 2011

4pm Augustiner Museum, guided Tour

6pm Augustiner Museum, supper at the Spezeri

Saturday, 21 May 2011

9am
Welcome, Professor Ronald Asch

9.10am
Session I
Chair: Professor Birgit Studt (UofF)

Milan Zonca (QMUL, History)
Conflict Institutionalized: Medieval Jewish-Christian Public Disputations

Matthias Herm (UofF, History)
Eyewitnesses in Conflict: The Bruges Wedding and Contemporary Narratives

Matthew Champion (QMUL, History)
Conflict over Liturgical Music in the Cathedral of Cambrai, 1400-1475

Thomas Gilgert (UofF, History)

11am
Coffee

11.15am
Session II
Chair: Professor Virginia Davis (QMUL)

Caroline Watkinson (QMUL, History)
Political Conflict and the English Convents in Exile, 1688-1715

Miranda Stanyon (QMUL, English and Drama)
Contesting the Ode: Music and the Classical Tradition in eighteenth century England

Peter Mitchell (QMUL, English and Drama)
Conetsting the Ideology of Empire: evidence from the India Office Archives

12.45pm
Lunch

2pm
Session III
Chair: Professor Kevin Sharpe (QMUL)

Camilla Leathem (QMUL, SLLF)
Strategies of Persuasion in the Writings of Houston Stewart Chamberlain

Katharina Baier (UofF, Scandinavian Studies)
Negotiations of Leadership in Norse Literature

Thorsten Leiendecker (UofF, English Studies)
Don't Feed the Troll: Disturbing Forums and Strategies of Contention

3.30pm
Coffee

4.30pm
Walking Tour of Lorettoberg, including dinner around 6pm at the Schloß-Restaurant at Lorettoberg

Sunday, 22 May 2011

9am
Session IV
Chair: Professor Barbara Korte (UofF)

Chris Millard (QMUL, History)
Domestic Conflict and the ‘Cry for Help’ in 1960s Britain

Kathrin Goeb (UofF, English Studies)
War Correspondents vs. the Military

Matthew Laban (QMUL, History)
Conflict in the House: the Effect of the Irish ‘Troubles’ on Parliamentary Debate in the UK

10.15am
Coffee

10.30am
Session V
Discussion of Colloquium themes and plans for the future

11.30am
Early lunch and departure

Yet to be added to existing sessions

Renate Wieland (UofF, History)

2010 Exchange Programme

The Second Freiburg-Queen Mary
Research Exchange, London, 7-9 May 2010

Images of Power/The Power of Images

Friday, 7 May 2010

Arrival at Stansted, 10.25
Train to Liverpool Street

12.45 - sandwich lunch at QM, Physics Room 609

Welcome by Professor Trevor Dadson, Vice-Principal for Humanities and Social Sciences 1.30 - 3.30
Session I, chaired by Kevin Sharpe
Images of Royal Power
Sarah Kamp,
Images of Royal Power in Elizabethan sermons
Ronald Asch
Sacral Kingship in France and England in the Age of the
Wars of Religions, between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment

3.30-4 - Tea

4 - Make way to the Royal Historical Society Lecture

5-7 and drinks
Lecture by Professor Alexandra Walsham, followed by a Reception by the Royal Historical Society

7.15 - Dinner in local restaurant, Yaloussa

Saturday, 8 May 2010

9.30-11
Session II, The Exchange Lecture
Image*Power*History, by Evelyn Welch
followed by discussion

11-11.30
coffee
11.30-1.15
Session III, Chaired by Colin Jones
The Power of Gifts?
Benjamin Kram
Staging Papal Authority in a Manuscript Gift
Charlotte Bolland
‘The thing and the costume are ridiculous’: Italian Rulers and the Order of the Garter
Judith Atty
‘A poem is cheaper than a statue’: Du Bellay’s Offering to King Henri II

1-2 lunch

2-3.30, Session IV, Chaired by Bronach Kane

Religious and Dramatic Imagery and its Powers
Sybilla Schneiders
Early Medieval Crosiers: From Shepherd's Crook to a Symbol of Ecclesiastical Power
Gustavs Strenga
The Imagery of the Teutonic Order
Sabina Trigueros
The Power of Knowledge: View of Academia in Elizabethan Drama

3.30-4 - Tea

4.45-6.30
Visit to the New Medieval and Renaissance Galleries of the Victoria and Albert Museum

Dinner

Sunday, 9 May 2010

9.30-11, Session V, Chaired by Barbara Korte

The Power of Visual Media
Kathrin Göb
Images of Power in War Reporting
Chris Millard
The Imagery of ‘Self-Poisoning’: ‘attempted suicide’ and intellectual work in 1960s Edinburgh
Peter Kirby-Harris
The Images of Climate Change: Polar Bears, Plankton and People
Geraldine Brodie
Translation for Performance: the Refracted Visibility of the Translator in Contemporary London Mainstream Theatre

11-11.30 Coffee

Session VI, Chaired by Virginia Davis and Birgit Studt
Final Discussion and Plans for the Future