23-26 August, 1999, and
financed by the Academy of Finland, the NorFa and the Royal Academies of Sweden and Denmark
Programme
21 August 1999: arrival of the speakers. There will be a reception service at Tallinn Airport. Buses will take the speakers to Tartu, where they will be met and taken to Hotel Barclay
22 August 10.30-12.30: Tartu sightseeing, starting at Hotel Barclay
Monday, 23 August, 1999
10.00-10.20 Opening of the colloquium
Welcoming words by prof. Aaviksoo, Rector Magnificus of Tartu University
Welcoming words by Outi Merisalo, chair of the organising committee
10.20-11.20 Papers and discussion
Eugenija Ulcinaite (University of Vilnius): Classical education and specific features of Lithuanian literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Ramune Dambrauskaite Muraliene (University of Vilnius): The Latin funeral oration genre in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (sixteenth-seventeenth centuries)
11.20-11.35 Coffee
11.35-12.35 Papers and discussion
Hans Helander (University of Uppsala): Gustavides. Latin epic literature in honour of Gustavus Adolphus
Kristi Viiding (University of Tartu): Gustav II Adolph - Schöpfer oder Vernichter? Verzweiflung und Kritik von Daniel Sarcovius
12.35-14.15 Lunch (at restaurant "4 aste")
14.15-15.15 Papers and discussion
Marju Lepajõe (University of Tartu): On Latin grammatical tradition in seventeenth-century Estonia
Raija Sarasti-Wilenius (University of Helsinki): Exempla in Finnish Latin oratory
15.15-15.30 Coffee
15.30-16.00 Papers and discussion
Vibeke Roggen (University of Oslo): A reading of Nils Thomasson's rebus poem in his Neo-Latin work on marriage, Cestus Sapphicus, Christiania 1661
16.30-17.30 A boat trip on Emajõgi river
Tuesday, 24 August, 1999
10.00-11.00 Papers and discussion
Minna Skafte Jensen (University of Southern Denmark at Odense): The Latin poetry of Zacharias Lund (1608-1667)
Maria Berggren (University of Uppsala): Johannes Columbus (1640-84) as an official poet
11.00-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.15 Papers and discussion
Marianne Pade (University of Copenhagen): Frederic the Second and Hermann Cruser: the dedication of the Latin translation of Plutarch's Artaxerxes, Aratus, Galba and Otho
Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson (University of Iceland): Bishop Finnur Jonsson's Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiae
12.15-14.15 Lunch
14.15-15.15 Papers and discussion
Outi Merisalo (University of Jyväskylä): Carl Abraham Clewberg and eloquence
Annika Ström (University of Stockholm): Progymnasmata and florilegia - manuals between theory and practice
17.00 Reception organised by the Mayor of Tartu
Wednesday, 25 August 1999
9.30-18.00 Excursion featuring the Kreutzwald Museum at Võru, the church of Urvaste, the manor of Vana-Antsla and the castle of Sangaste
19.45 Dinner at Restaurant Wilde
Thursday, 26 August 1999
10.00-10.30 Paper and discussion
Anne Lill (University of Tartu): Classical motives in Neo-Latin poetry at the Academia Dorpatensis (1632-1636)
10.30-10.45 Coffee
10.45-11.45 Round table: Perspectives of research co-operation between the countries of the Baltic Sea in the field of Neo-Latin studies
11.45-12.00 Conclusion of the colloquium