Session Details

Saturday, 08 January

524. Exotic Collections

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 406A, LA Convention Center

Program arranged by the Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature

Presiding: Bethany Wiggin, Univ. of Pennsylvania

1. “Curiosity, Memory, and the Raritätenkammer: The Grand Tour and Collecting in Early Modern Germany,” Karin Anneliese Wurst, Michigan State Univ.

2. “The Influence of Adam Olearius: The Exotica Collection of Hedwig Eleonora of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf,” Lisa Skogh, Stockholm Univ.

3. “Baroque Self-Fashioning: The Creation of Duke Frederick III’s Kunstkammer at Schloß Gottorf,” Elio C. Brancaforte, Tulane Univ.

For abstracts, visit www.germanic.uiuc.edu/people/mwade.

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