Events of the Department of Historical Regional Studies

Research Colloquiums on the Early Modern Period (Tricoire / Laux)

Since the summer semester of 2021, Damien Tricoire and Stephan Laux have been jointly organizing a colloquium on the Early Modern Period. The program and the respective lecture topics of previous semesters can be viewed here:

FNZ-Kolloquium SoSe2024

FNZ-Kolloquium WiSe 2023/24

FNZ-Kolloquium SoSe 2023

FNZ-Kolloquium WiSe 2022/23

FNZ-Kolloquium SoSe 2022

FNZ-Kolloquium WiSe 2021/22

FNZ-Kolloquium SoSe 2021

 

 

Past Conferences and Workshops (since 2014):

Wer regiert die Stadt? Politische Repräsentation und sozialer Konflikt im Spätmittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit

 

Online workshop of the DFG project „Bürgerausschüsse in Aachen“ at the University of Trier.

>> Download the program as a PDF file

Led by: Prof. Dr. Stephan Laux, Michel Jäger MA

Date: March 17, 2022, from 9 a.m.

 

„Tiere und Hexen – Animal Turn in der Hexenforschung?

 

An event organized by the AKIH (Arbeitskreis für Interdisziplinäre Hexenforschung / Working Group for Interdisciplinary Witch Studies) in cooperation with the Catholic Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart

Led by: PD. Dr. Rita Voltmer, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Behringer, Dr. Willem de Blécourt, Prof. Dr. Iris Gareis, Dr. Petra Steymans-Kurz

Date and Location: September 25–28, 2019, Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart/Conference Center Weingarten (Upper Swabia)

Conference languages: German and English

Flyer (German): here

 

„Hexen im Archiv. Zur interdisziplinären und hilfswissenschaftlichen Sondierung von Quellen zu Magie, Zauberei und Hexerei.“

 

Second Interdisciplinary Workshop for Advanced Students and Regional Researchers

Organization and Director: Dr. Rita Voltmer

Date and Location: October 12–13, 2017, Lecture Hall of the Trier City Library

Program: here

Flyer: here

 

„Magie, Zauberei, Hexerei – Wissenskulturen im Kontext

 

An event organized by the AKIH (Arbeitskreis für Interdisziplinäre Hexenforschung / Working Group for Interdisciplinary Witch Research) in cooperation with the Catholic Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart and the Center for Historical European Studies in Saarland (Zentrum für Historische Europastudien im Saarland) (ZHEUS)

Organization: Dr. Rita Voltmer, Prof. Dr. Iris Gareis, Dr. Hans de Waardt

Date and Location: September 28 to October 1, 2016, Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart/Conference Center Weingarten (Upper Swabia)

Conference Languages: German and English

Flyer (German): here

Flyer (English): here

 

„Herrschaft und Konflikt in kleinen Räumen

 

Organization: Dr. Rita Voltmer and Prof. Dr. Stephan Laux

Date and Location: May 8, 2015, University of Trier

Program: here

 

„Grenzraum und Repräsentation. Impulse zum Verständnis spätmittelalterlicher und frühneuzeitlicher Vorstellungs- und Darstellungswelten.“

 

Organization: Maike Schmidt M.A. and Prof. Dr. Stephan Laux

Date and Location: March 5–6, 2015, University of Trier, Room N2/N3

Concept Sketch: here

 

„Hexerei und Öffentlichkeit.“

 

Conference with the Working Group for Interdisciplinary Witch Research (Arbeitskreis für interdisziplinäre Hexenforschung) (AKIH)

Organization: Dr. Rita Voltmer and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Behringer (Saarland University)

Date and Location: February 19–21, 2015, Stuttgart-Hohenheim (Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg)

 

„Herren und Hexen. Zur politischen Relevanz eines frühneuzeitlichen Feindbildes.“

 

Organization: Dr. Rita Voltmer in collaboration with Dr. Claudia Kauertz (LVR Archives Advisory and Training Center) and Dr. Gabriele Rünger (Euskirchen District History Society)

Date and Location: November 7–8, 2014, Seminar House at Schweinheim Monastery (Euskirchen-Kirchheim)

Conference program: here