Michael writes, “While I expect to have only 5 or so of the 28 pages of the Latin original rendered into English by that time, most of my presentation will be on the significance of Kummer's paper, not only for the eventual proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, but even more importantly for the development of modern mathematics more generally, right down to a present-day controversy concerning the so-called ABC Conjecture.  

I plan to explain the topic at the level of a high-school student.  The context involves the establishment, within Prussia, of theoretical mathematics as a topic of university instruction for the first time (and what the Prussian educational bureaucracy intended to accomplish by that establishment); the talk will thus combine both internal and external history of mathematics."