On this page you will find the program. Last update: May 6, 2024
The pdf of the pogram booklet can be downloaded here.
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
