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<DIV align=justify><FONT face="Palatino Linotype"><STRONG>Conference: The Holy
Roman Empire / Das Heilige Römische Reich, 1495-1806<BR><BR>30 August - 2
September 2006<BR>New College, Oxford</STRONG><BR><BR>The Modern European
History Research Centre at Oxford University is planning a conference on this
topic to be held at New College, Oxford, from 30 August to 2 September 2006, in
co-operation with the German Historical Institute and the Austrian Cultural
Forum. In some measure it will thus constitute a commemoration of the Empire's
dissolution exactly two hundred years earlier; but our main purpose is to assess
the current<BR>state of scholarship on important aspects of the later history,
through the early modern period, of one of Europe's most enduring political
structures, and to set this into a full international context. Such a
stock-taking has not previously been attempted in Britain, and a further aim
will be to contribute to a better understanding in this country of that era in
central-European history. Both plenary and parallel sessions will be held. A
session will be dedicated for postgraduates and young scholars to present their
papers. We hope the conference will yield a publishable volume of essays. The
languages of the conference will be English and German. <BR><BR>Themes and list
of confirmed plenary speakers.<BR><BR>Theme 1: The Reich as a state or
federation.<BR> Karl Otmar von Aretin<BR>
Georg Schmidt<BR><BR>Theme 2: The Reich as a society or series of
societies.<BR> Susan Karant Nunn<BR> Marc
Forster<BR><BR>Theme 3: Political culture.<BR> Thomas
Kaufmann<BR> Thomas Winkelbauer<BR><BR>Theme 4: Core and
periphery.<BR> Jan Lindegren<BR> Nicolette
Mout<BR><BR>Theme 5: The Reich and Europe<BR> Heinz
Duchhardt<BR> Grete Klingenstein<BR><BR>Conference
organisers:<BR>Robert Evans (History Faculty, Oxford)<BR>Robert Oresko
(London)<BR>David Parrott (New College, Oxford)<BR>Lyndal Roper (Balliol
College, Oxford)<BR>Michael Schaich (German Historical Institute,
London)<BR>Hagen Schulze (German Historical Institute, London)<BR>Peter Wilson
(University of Sunderland)<BR>Johannes Wimmer (Austrian Cultural Forum,
London)<BR><BR>Further information is available at<BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/mehrc/seminarsandlectures.htm"><FONT
face="Palatino Linotype">http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/mehrc/seminarsandlectures.htm</FONT></A><FONT
face="Palatino Linotype">. If you have any further queries, please do not
hesitate to contact the conference<BR>co-ordinator, Masatake Wasa, at
<</FONT><A href="mailto:masatake.wasa@history.ox.ac.uk"><FONT
face="Palatino Linotype">masatake.wasa@history.ox.ac.uk</FONT></A><FONT
face="Palatino Linotype">>.<BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>