The Lisbon Earthquake and Tsunami
An interdisciplinary workshop
28/29 October 2005
Friday
1.30 pm Welcome (Alexander Bird)
Introduction to the workshop (Alexander Ko?enina)
2.00 - 3.15 pm
George Helffrich (Bristol): Seismological issues and consequences of the
1755 Lisbon Earthquake
Ana Cristina Araújo (Coimbra): Pombal and the Lisbon Earthquake: risk,
disaster, war and political propaganda
3.15 - 3.45 pm Coffee
3.45 - 5.15 pm
Alexander Bird: Kant's explanation of the earthquake in 1756
Haydn Mason (Bristol): Voltaire's response to Lisbon
Chris Bertram (Bristol): Rousseau and the Lisbon Earthquake
5.15 - 6.30 pm
Constanze Baum (Berlin): Ruins of suddenness. The Lisbon earthquake of 1755
and its pictorial representation
Shelley Hales / Jo Paul (Bristol): The last days of Pompeii': A historical
parallel to the Earthquake of Lisbon
Saturday
9.30 - 10.15
Chris Smith (Cambridge): The English Reaction to the Earthquake
10.15 - 10.45 Coffee
10.45 - 12.15
Hugh B. Nisbet (Cambridge): Lessing and the defence of optimism in Germany
Martin Rector (Hannover): Between penitential sermon and didactic poetry:
Poetic fantasies on the catastrophy of Lisbon
12.15 - 13.15 Lunch
13.15 - 14.30
David Hill (Birmingham): Theodicy and perspective in the eighteenth-century
German novel: Wezel and Klinger
David Hook (Bristol): The Lisbon Earthquake in the correspondence of Father
Irla
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Prof. Alexander Kosenina
University of Bristol
Department of German
21 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TE
(+44-0117)928 8794
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