A polycentric war and its narratives – a new approach to the Thirty Years War

8h30-9h 
Introduction (Thomas Lau, Claire Gantet) 

1.The polyphony of News Markets 
Chair: Kilian Schindler (Uni. Fribourg) 

9h05-9h50 
Sigrun Haude (Uni. Cincinnati), Uses and Realities of the News Market during the Thirty Years’ War 
9h50-10h35 
Michael Kaiser (Max-Weber-Stiftung Köln), News for politics or news for business? Advices from news writers during the Thirty Years' War 
10h35-11h20 
Thomas Lau (Uni. Fribourg), “We have safe news” – news, knowledge and decision making during the Grison Turmoil 
11h20-11h35 Coffee break 

2. Religious Pluralism in a polycentric Conflict 
Chair: Kilian Schindler (Uni. Fribourg) 
11h35-12h20 
Guido Braun (Uni. Mulhouse), Une institution multipolaire face à un conflit polycentrique : la Curie romaine et ses nonciatures devant le défi de la guerre de Trente ans 

Chair : Vitus Huber (Uni. Fribourg) 
14h-14h45 
Bridget Heal (Uni. St. Andrews), War and Religious Narrative in Electoral Saxony 
14h45-15h30 
Gábor Kármán (Academy of Sciences Budapest), Regio or religio? The debates of the Transylvanian princes and the Hungarian elite on the Thirty Years War 
15h30-15h45 Coffee break 

Urban Politics and transurban conflicts 
Chair: Marco Schnyder (Uni. Fribourg) 
15h45-16h30 
Rahms Isabell (Uni. Mainz), Was the flight a blessing? Mainz between 1637 and 1644 
16h30-17h15 
Peter Wallace (Hartwick College Oneonta New York), Intercity news networking among Alsatian towns 
17h15-18h 
Philippe Martin (Uni. Lyon II), Les comptes des villes, une source pour dire la guerre de Trente ans ? 

15.11 Mis 10 01.13 

Spaces of Violence 
Chair: Dominic-Alain Boariu (Uni. Fribourg) 
8h30-9h15 
Markus Meumann (Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universität Erfurt), An Unbounded Conflict? Violent Soldiers, Civilian Populations, and Military Justice in the Thirty Years' War (and beyond) 
9h15-10h 
Luca Lo Basso (Università di Genova), Au service des Habsbourg. Ambrogio Spinola et la guerre polycentrique d’Ostende à Casale (1603-1630) 
10h-10h15 Coffee break 
10h15-11h 
Simon Franzen (Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø), Spaces of Devastation and Violence–A Spatial Historical Analysis of Maps from the Time of the Thirty Years' War 
11h-11h45 
Gantet Claire (Uni. Fribourg), La lutte contre les épidémies : savoirs et pratiques, informations et circulations (1626-1651)