Program Thirteenth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity

On this page you will find the program. Last update: May 6, 2024

The pdf of the pogram booklet can be downloaded here.

Tuesday 14 May, 2024

 

Onsite Registration

Onsite registration opens on 14 May at 09:00 at the “Giorgio La Pira” Library. Although onsite registration during the three days is always possible for those who have registered online and paid the registration fee, it is highly recommended to register onsite before the conference starts. Upon registration you will receive a printed program and your name badge. Please note that you must wear this badge all the time throughout the conference.

13:00 Opening of the conference and welcome addresses
13:15 Plenary Lecture 1: Fabrizio D’Avenia (University of Palermo): Sicilia Sacra Between Bishops, Missionaries and Inquisitors: Mobility, Encounters, Conflicts
14:15 Plenary Lecture 2: Aleksandra Lipińska (University of Cologne): Leopolis Multiplex: Art and Architecture as Instruments of Interconfessional Encounters in Early Modern Lviv  
15:15 Coffee Break
15:45 Short Paper Panels 1
17:30 Guided Tour of the La Pira Library
19:30 Concert by the Artea Piano Quartet at the Palazzo Alliata di Villafranca, Piazza Bologni, 20, Palermo. Concert Programme

Wednesday 15 May, 2024

09:00 Plenary Lecture 3: Jan Loop (University of Copenhagen): The Qur’an in the Age of Confessionalization. Theodor Bibliander’s Edition of 1543/50 and Its Impact
10:00 Short Paper Panels 2
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 Short Paper Panels 3
13:30 Lunch Break
15:00 Award Ceremony REFORC Book Award 2024
15:15 Plenary Lecture 4: Laura Beck Varela (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): Index and Constitution. Natural Law and Catholic Constitutionalism in the Iberian American World (1700-1837)    
16:15 Coffee Break
16:45 Plenary Lecture 5:  Daniel Lindmark (Umeå University): Encounters between the Church and the Sámi People in the Lutheran North
17:50 Short Paper Panels 4
19:20 End of Short Paper Panels 4
Starting 19:30 Reception with contributions from De Gruyter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht at Antica Focacceria San Francesco, via Alessandro Paternostro, 58, Palermo

Thursday 16 May, 2024

08:30 Short Paper Panels 5
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Short Paper Panels 6
12:15 Plenary Lecture 6: Réka Újlaki-Nagy (Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest): The Label of Judaization among Early Modern Transylvanian Antitrinitarians
13:15 Announcement Fourteenth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity, May 22-24, 2025 in Vienna, by Martin Pjecha(CEU)
13:30 Other announcements, closing of the conference

 

 

 

 

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