Lessing’s Materials/Materialities (sponsored by the Lessing Society)
Thursday, April 9, 2026
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM 

Session Chair
Mary Helen Dupree, Georgetown University

Presentations 

The Performative Agency of Rings in Lessing’s “Minna von Barnhelm” (1767)
Meryem Deniz, Dartmouth College

Lessing as Editor: Discovering, Acquiring and Writing Marginalia for a New Edition of Defensio Trinitatis
Eleonora Travanti, Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universität Erfurt

A few good (and honorable) (wo)men?!
Isabell Alice Meske, Independent Researcher

Material Traces of Metastasio’s German Reception in the Herzog August Bibliothek
Glen Gray, Johns Hopkins University