Session Details

Saturday, 08 January

637. Narrating Lives from East to West (1400–1700)

5:15–6:30 p.m., 309, LA Convention Center

Program arranged by the Division on German Literature to 1700

Presiding: Kathryn Starkey, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

1. “Over the Line: Laughing about Vlad Dracula in Late Medieval Germany,” William Layher, Washington Univ. in St. Louis

2. “Inverted Literacy: Word, Image, and Self in Hans Staden’s Wahrhaftige Historia (1557),” Lynne Miles-Morillo, Wabash Coll., IN

3. “The Other That Is the Same: On Leibniz’s Attempted Christianization of China with Binary Arithmetic,” Will Hasty, Univ. of Florida

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