SHORT PAPER PANELS 1
Thursday May 22, 14:30-16:00
Room A-516
Rebellion or Revival? Interconfessional Exchange Across the Early Modern Confessional Divide
Chair: László Kontler (Central European University)
- Paolo Astorri (University of Copenhagen): Controlling Rebellious Thoughts: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction on Thoughts in Protestant and Catholic Territories
- Niels de Bruijn (KU Leuven): ‘Rebellious’ Thoughts on Usury in Early Modern Arminianism and Jansenism
Room A-415
1525–2025: Beginnings of Higher Education in Reformation Zurich
Chair: Herman Selderhuis (REFORC)
- Luca Baschera (Universität Zürich): Prophets and Grammarians: On the Purpose and Method of Higher Education in Reformation Zurich
- Anja Goeing (Universität Zürich): Agents of Practice: Students and Networks at the Schola Tigurina in the 16th Century
- Urs Leu (Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte der Universität Zürich): Zwingli’s “Hohe Schule” and the Reformed Book Culture in Zurich
Room A-419
Perspectives on Early Modern Hungary
Chair: Zsombor Tóth (Centre for Reformation Studies, Budapest)
- Peter Benka (Department of Slovak History, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava): Between Loyalty and Rebellion: Upper Hungarian Royal Towns in the 17th Century
- Brigitta Schvéd (Ludovika University of Public Service, Research Institute for Politics and Government): Hungary as the Bilanx of Europe? Discourse on the European Balance of Power and the Role of Hungary in Early Eighteenth-century English Political Press
- Dorottya Piroska B. Székely (Eötvös Loránd University – Faculty of Humanities): An Archbishop and his Network – Political and Religious Issues of the Kingdom of Hungary at the End of the Seventeenth Century
Room A-420
Natural Law and Rebellion
Chair: Matthias Riedl (Central European University)
- Diego Lucci (American University in Bulgaria): The Law of Nature, God’s Law, and the Right to Resist and Revolt in Hobbes and Locke
- Ian Campbell (Queen’s University Belfast): Jesuit versus Franciscan Understandings of Natural Law, Religion and Rebellion
Room B-421
Framing Rebels from the Outside in England
Chair: Bernward Schmidt (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
- Ben Crosby (McGill University): Richard Hooker, Guy de Bres, and the Rhetoric of Anabaptist Violence in Elizabethan England
- Jake Griesel (George Whitefield College): John Pearson’s Defence of Prayer Book and King in Parliamentarian Cambridge amidst the Early English Civil War (1643)
- Sofia Degli Espositi (University of Pavia): Loyal Subjects or Rebels? England, the Huguenots, and Political Justification in the Wars of Religion
Room C-419
Medieval Continuities of Reform
Chair: Pavel Soukup (Centre for Medieval Studies, Prague)
- Giovanni Gellera (University of Geneva): Between Rebellion and Continuity: the Case of John Mair and His ‘Network’ (c.1500-1530)
- Marek Druga (Slovak Academy of Sciences): The Waldensian Campaign against the Saints. On One aspect of Waldensian Theology and Preaching at the Turn of the 14th-15th Centuries
SHORT PAPER PANELS 2
Thursday 22 May, 16:30-18:00
Room A-516
Perseverance under Persecution
Chair: Violet Soen (KU Leuven)
- Anna Lerch (University of Bern): Fighting Nuns? Female Resistance during the Reformation
- Barbara Muller (Universität Hamburg): Perseverance as Rebellion. Johannes Bugenhagen’s Defeat over the Hamburg (Beguine-) Convent opposite St Jacob’s Church
- Sabine Hiebsch (Theologische Universiteit Utrecht): Aggressions against Luther-an Congregations in the Dutch Republic
Room A-415
Resistance, Rebellion, and Sociability: Shaping Communities in Early Modern Hungary
Chair: Zsombor Tóth (Centre for Reformation Studies, Budapest)
- Márton Zászkaliczky (University of Szeged): Obedience and Disobedience, Self-defence and Rebellion in 16th Century Protestant Political Theology in Hungary
- Gábor Petneházi (University of Innsbruck): Ethnicism and Rebellion. „Great Replacement” in Protestant Propaganda in 17th Century Hungary from Bocskai to Bethlen
- József Simon (University of Szeged): From Natural Obligation to Resistance in Miklós Bethlen’s (1642-1714) Political Philosophy
Room A-419
Subversive Art
Chair: Cristina Fontcuberta (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Bonnie Noble (University of North Carolina at Charlotte): Intellectual Rebellion in Hans Holbein’s Ambassadors
- Willem Peek (The Warburg Institute): The ‘Laienkelch‘ in Hans Mielich’s Codex with 26 Motets by Cipriano de Rore: (Counter-)Reformation and Artistic Rebellion at the Court of Albrecht V of Bavaria
- Marcin Wisłocki (University of Wrocław): Echoes of Caspar Schwenckfeld’s Theological Views in Early Modern Art
Room A-420
European Theologies of Dissent
Chair: Aneke Dornbusch (Universität Bonn)
- Christine Kooi (Louisiana State University): Theological Rebellion in 1572
- Sarah Killam Crosby (McGill University): To “study in the book of the crucifix”: Katherine Parr’s Theology of the Atonement in The Lamentation of a Sinner
Room B-421
Interconfessional Harmony and its Limits
Chair: Carsten Wilke (Central European University)
- Clarisse Roche (United Arab Emirates University): Rebelling against Religious Moderation: Georg Eder’s Confessional Challenge to the Habsburg Middle Way in Sixteenth-century Vienna
- Przemyslaw A. Lewicki (Makowski Academy of Reformed Theology): Polish Reformed Confession at Colloquium Charitativum 1645: Exploring Polish Reformed Theology in Search of Harmony
- Martin Pjecha (Central European University): Politics in Jan Comenius’s Holistic Vision of Coexistence
Room C-419
Humanism: Legacy in Reformation
Chair: Tobias Jammerthal (Institute for Swiss Reformation Studies, University of Zurich)
- Neil Tarrant (UCL): The Italian Reformation in Exile? Francesco Pucci’s Early Theological Thought
- Bernward Schmidt (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): Late Medieval” or “Catholic” Reform? Johannes Eck and Church Reform in Bavaria
- Marta Quatrale (Freie Universität Berlin): Clashing Anthropologies and Intellectual Exchange: Humanism and Reformation in Tension
SHORT PAPER PANELS 3
Thursday 22 May, 18:15-19:15
Room A-516
Female Religiosity of Dissent
Chair: Philipp Pilhofer (Universität Wien)
- Deirdre Raftery & Ruth Ferris (University College Dublin): Soldiers of Christ and ‘Galloping Girls’: Rebellion, Conformity and Early Modern Influences on Institutes of Women Religious (Nuns) in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries
- Emma Gabor: Healers or Heretics? Witchcraft and Christianity in Early Modern Europe
Room A-415
Non-Violent Dissidence
Chair: Anna Szyrwińska-Hörig (Universität Vechta)
- Trevor Brisbin (United Church of Canada): Radical Reformation as Rebellion: Two Anabaptists, Empire, and the Subversion of Religious Hegemony
- Sonam Dickey (University of Mysore): Silent Resistance: Buddhist Nonviolent Rebellion and Monastic Dissent Against Political and Religious Authority
Room A-419
Nobility and Religious Confrontation
Chair: Ben Crosby (McGill University)
- Priscilla Bucher (Aix-Marseille Université): Religious Reform or Political Coup? Rethinking the Confrontation between Mary of Guise and the Lords of the Congregation during the Scottish Reformation (1557-1560)
- Mark Hutchinson (University of Gloucestershire): Christian Political Action and Conceptions of Estate in German and English Ex-changes over the Crisis in the Palatinate, c. 1618-1624
Room A-420
Protestantism in Transylvania
Chair: Márton Zászkaliczky (University of Szeged)
- Maria Craciun (Babes-Bolyai University): The Reformation of the Common Man: Confessional Diversity and Social Strife in Early Modern Transylvania
- Edit Szegedi (Universitatea Babes-Bolyai): The Forgotten Century and its Many Conflicts: Lutheranism in 17th Century Transylvania
Room B-421
Reformation and Protest in 16th Century Norway
Chair: Steffie Schmidt (Osnabrück University)
- Sivert Angel (University of Oslo): Theological Elites and Farmers’ Revolts in 16th Century Norway
- Joar Haga (VID Specialized University): Ecclesial Communication during the Great Nordic War (1700-1721)
Room C-419
History of Ideas in Reformed Theology
Chair: Herman Selderhuis (REFORC)
- Gideon Rossouw (Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary): The Concept of Consolatio in Antiquity and Early Modern Reformed Theology: a Case Study of the Heidelberg Catechism (1563)
- Pieter Rouwendal (Theological University Apeldoorn): Calvin’s ‘conversio’ and Calvin’s ‘conversion’
SHORT PAPER PANELS 4
Friday 23 May, 09:00-10:30
Room: A-516
Peasant Wars and Protestantism in Austria
Chair: Self-chairing
- Philipp Pilhofer (Universität Wien): Protestantism in Austria in the (Long) 16th Century
- Robert Rebitsch (University Innsbruck): The Influence of Protestantism on the Peasants’ Uprisings of 1525/26 and 1626 in Austria
- Leonhard Jungwirth (Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät der Universität Wien): The Reception of the Peasantsʼ Wars in Austrian Protestantism
Room B-319
From Ignorance to Insight: Epistemic Consequences of Original Sin from a Cross-Confessional Perspective
Chair: Marta Quatrale (Freie Universität Berlin)
- Aza Goudriaan (ETF Leuven |PThU): Gisbertus Voetius and Scholastic Views of Ignorance and Sin
- Linde Van den Eede (KU Leuven): Preaching after the Fall: Jacobus Janssonius (1547-1625) and the Possibility of Knowledge in Seventeenth Century Women’s Convents
- Jarrick Van der Biest (KU Leuven): The Theologian behind the Philosopher: Libertus Fromondus (1587-1653) on the Cognitive Effects of Original Sin
Room A-419
Divine & Human Knowledge in Early Modern Transconfessional Perspectives
Chair: Pieter Rouwendal (Theological University Apeldoorn)
- Christian Westerink (ETF Leuven | PThU) : “What, Then, Should Be Stated about the Ideas?” The Theory of Divine Ideas in the Loci Theologici of Johann Gerhard (1582-1637)
- Peter Wijnberger (ETF Leuven | PThU): Conflict or Agreement? Lutheran and Reformed Ideas on Christ’s Omniscience
- Takayuki Yagi (Aoyama Gakuin University): Diego Álvarez and Synchronic Contingency: Advancing the Dominican Defense Against Molinism
Room A-420
Modernity and the Legacy of Reformation
Chair: Matthias Riedl (Central European University)
- Fabian Sieber (Theologische Fakultät Fulda): A Revolution through Faith – Thomas Müntzer, Theology and the Peaceful Revolution of 1989
- Konrad Buzala (The Christian Theological Academy in Warsaw): Reformation and Counter-Reformation Origins of Modernity: Two Opposing Narratives in the Works of Brad S. Gregory and Richard H. Popkin
- Roger Whittal (Australian Lutheran College, Adelaide): Yves Congar on “True and False Reform”
Room B-421
New Perspectives on Philipp Melanchthon
Chair: Benedikt Brunner (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)
- Brandt Klawitter (NLA University College): Sex and Self-defense: The Surprising Significance of the Natural Affects in Reformation Wittenberg
- Jan van de Kamp (Theological University Apeldoorn): Reformation, Education and Rhetoric: Declamations at Wittenberg University, 1519-1560 and the Role of Philipp Melanchthon
- Christian Neddens (Europäische Melanchthon-Akademie, Bretten): Rebels – or Not? Cranach’s ‘Judith’ and Melanchthon’s ‘Confessio Augustana’ and the Role of ‘fiducia’ in Religion and Politics
Room C-419
Marriage, Family, and Dissent
Chair: Sabine Hiebsch (Theologische Universiteit Utrecht)
- Aneke Dornbusch (Universität Bonn): A Female Revolt in Augsburg? The Curious Case of Katharina Vöglin
- Tomasz Karol Mantyk (UMK Toruń (Poland) | KU Leuven): Virginity, Marriage and Divorce in Erasmus’ and Titelmans’ Paraphrases of the New Testament
SHORT PAPER PANELS 5
Friday May 23, 15:00-16:00
Room A-516
Commemoration in Lutheranism
Chair: Tobias Jammerthal (Institute for Swiss Reformation Studies, University of Zurich)
- Arturo Massa (University of Bari Aldo Moro): Hagiography of Rebellion. The New Martyrs of the Reformation against Catholic Idolatry in the Sixteenth Century
- Gábor Ittzés (Debrecen Reformed Theological University): The Death of Frederick the Wise and the Birth of the Lutheran Funeral Sermon
Room A-415
A Sublime “Heterodox” Voice? New Perspectives on Andreas Osiander (1496-1552)
Chair: Christian Neddens (Europäische Melanchthon-Akademie Bretten)
- Ruth Atherton (University of South Wales): Rebel with a Cause: Andreas Osiander and Pastoral Ministry in Nuremberg, 1522-1548
- Benedikt Brunner (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena): Christ in me. The Pastoral Dimension of Osiander’s Controversial Christology
Room A-419
Rebellion: Causes and Legitimacy
Chair: Jan Hennings (Central European University
- Stanisław Rabiej (University of Warsaw) (in French): The Long-lasting Socio-religious Effects of the Battle of the “White Mountain” (1620) in Bohemia. Paper in French
- Luke O’Connel (Georgetown University): Just Rebels: An Analysis of Just War Theory in the Context of Religious Conflict in 17th Century Ireland
Room A-420
Thought and Agency in Modern Protestantism
Chair: Matthias Riedl (Central European University)
- Katharina Opalka (Faculty of Protestant Theology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn): Power in the Protestant Church in Light of the ForuM-Study
- Jakub Koryl (Jagiellonian University, Krakow): The Responsibility for Philosophy in the Encounter with Theology: A Lutheran Alternative Take on Philosophy
Room B-421
Rebels or Innovators? Thinkers in Early Modern Christianity (Part I)
Chair: Tijana Krstić (Central European University)
- Dario Gurashi: Dissimulandi nescius: Agrippa and Nicodemism
- Noel Putnik (Institute of Ethnography, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts): Homo Integer in a World of Lies: Cornelius Agrippa on Corporeality and Knowledge
Room C-419
The Influence of Prophecy in Reform
Chair: Phillip Haberkern (Boston University)
- Özge Terzi Yazici (Marmara University): Girolamo Savonarola: A Contrarian Voice in the Early Modern Period and a Pioneer of Reform
- Marco Giardini (independent scholar): (Pseudo-)Joachim and the Call to Church Reform in Germany: Different Appropriations of Joachimite Propheticism at the Beginning of the Reformation
SHORT PAPER PANELS 6
Friday May 23, 16:30-18:00
Room A-516
New Directions in Luther Studies
Chair: Gábor Ittzés (Debrecen Reformed Theological University)
- Mei-Hsin Chen (University of Navarra): Martin Luther’s Stance on Religious Images: A Moderate Approach to Iconoclasm
- Tapio Leinonen (University of Helsinki | University of Eastern Finland): Responding to the Revolts: Martin Luther on Masculinity and Leadership
- Yang Meng (University of Münster): “Faith in Liang-Zhi” and “Faith in Christ” — A Comparison of Wang Yangming’s and Martin Luther’s Thoughts on “Faith”
Room A-415
Revolution/Revolt/Rebellion: Theory and Practice in Early Modern Eastern Europe
Chair: Matthias Riedl (Central European University)
- Stefaniia Demchuk (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv): Baroque as Rebellion: The Politics and Iconography of Status and Power in Early Seventeenth-century Ukraine
- Hanna Filipova (University of Gothenburg) and Erik Zitser (Duke University): “Bacchus’ Ecclesiastical State”: Offensive Political Humor and the Formation of Peter the Great’s Counter-Court
- Svitlana Potapenko (Goethe University Frankfurt | National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine): The ‘Revolution’ of 1762, Kyrylo Rozumovsky, and the Fate of the Hetmanate
- Volodymyr Sklokin (Ukrainian Catholic University | IAS CEU): The Late 18th-Century Justifications of the Revolt Against Tyranny: The Case of Roman Tsebrykov
Room A-419
Revolutionary Hussites
Chair: Martin Pjecha (Central European University
- Marie Skarpova (Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague): Rebellion by the Word of God: Jan Hus’s Discrediting of the Authority of the Council in His Letters
- Dominik Tóth (Military History Institute and Museum): Hussites, Partisans, Guerillas – Analysis of Carl Schmitt’s Theory of the Partisan in the Context of Hussite Wars
- Phillip Haberkern (Boston University): From Movement to Church: Bohemian Reflections on Ending a Revolution
Room A-420
Pauline Exegesis in the 16th Century
Chair: Pieter Rouwendal (Theological University Apeldoorn)
- Jeb Ralston (University of Geneva | Trinity International University): Original Sin and the Catholic Reformation Renouncing and Reclaiming Erasmus’s Reading of Romans 5:12
- Noemi Schürmann (University of Zurich): Saved by Marriage? Katharina Schütz Zell and Female Marital Agency in the Early Reformation
- Ueli Zahnd (Institut d’histoire de la Réformation, University of Geneva): Huldrych Zwingli’s Doctrine of Predestination
Room B-421
Rebels or Innovators? Thinkers in Early Modern Christianity (Part II)
Chair: Noel Putnik (Institute of Ethnography, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
- Monika Frazer-Imregh (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary): Rebellion Against Late Scholastic Philosophy – Ficino’s Return to Augustine and Neoplatonic Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul
- Endre Ádám Hamvas (HUN-REN RCH | Moravcsik Gyula Institute): Hannibal Rosseli’s Pymander: the Corpus Hermeticum and the Catholic Revival
- Maria Luísa Jacquinet (Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa): Echoes of the Reformation in the Catholic Refugee Communities in the 16th and 17th Centuries Portugal: a Case Study
Room C-419
Religious Dissent and Religious Policy in France
Chair: Christine Kooi (Louisiana State University)
- Nicolò Di Dio (Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies): The “Exhortation aux Princes” and the Struggle for Religious Pacifi-cation in France: the Rise of Civil Tolerance
- Lorenzo Paoli (Institut d’histoire de la Réformation, Université de Genève): Sources and Degrees of Resistance in Huguenot Monar-chomach Treatises (1574–1579)
- Seraphine Nzue-Agbadou (Charleston Southern University): The Choice between Recon-version-Death-or Exile: How Religious Violence Disrupted the Lives of French Huguenots in Some Southern Regions of France (1500-1600
SHORT PAPER PANELS 7
SATURDAY MAY 24, 09:00-10:30
Room A-516
Endangered or Dangerous Christianity? Rebellion and Theologies of Resistance in the Long Reformation
Chair: Steffie Schmidt (Osnabrück University)
- Benedikt Brunner (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena): A Dangerous Man with a Dangerous Book? Melchior Hoffman and the Anabaptist Dominion of Münster
- Damian Domke (University of Heidelberg, History Department): Against Adversaries, Tyrants and the Anti-christ. Amandus Polanus (1561-1610), his Political Calvinism and the Uprising in Opava at the Beginning of the 17th Century
- Yasmin Vetter: The Marian Exile: A Peaceful Resistance?
Room A-415
Authority and Dissent in Poland-Lithuania
Chair: Martin Pjecha (Central European University)
- Milda Kvizikeviciute (National Museum of Lithuania): Religious Aid Across Borders: How Lithuanian Protestants Sought Support in the 17th Century
- Anat Vaturi (University of Haifa): To Rebel or not to Rebel? Protestant Responses to Catholic Violence in Reformation Cracow
- Jakub Wolak (Polish Academy of Sciences): Between Contract and Covenant, or a Theologico-Political Solution to the Riddle of the Lubomirski Rebellion (1665–66)
Room A419
New Perspectives on Pietism
Chair: Jan van de Kamp (Theological University Apeldoorn)
- Anna Szyrwińska-Hörig (Universität Vechta): Philipp Jakob Spener‘s Struggle Against Thomas Hobbes‘ Absolutism, or What Do We Know About the Philosophical Origins of Pietist Individualism
- Doron Avraham (Bar Ilan University): Rebellion within Limits: German Pietism and the Contestation of Established Order
- Konstantin Anikin (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg): Rolle der Bogomilen im Denken der Pietisten und der “lutherischen Orthodoxie”. Paper in German
Room A-420
Art as Propaganda
Chair: Maria Craciun (Babes-Bolyai University)
- Cristina Fontcuberta (Universitat de Barcelona): Image, Religion and Rebellion. Use and Absence of Combative Art in Early Modern Catalonia
- Andrew Hope (University of Oxford): Echoes of the Oldcastle Revolt in the N-Town Plays: Jesus as Heretic and Traitor
- Maria Kazimiera Staniszewska (independent scholar, Kraków, Poland): “Occultatae per Lutheranos et Hussitas”. The Image of Protestant Presence in the Canonical Visitations from Spiš Region (1655–1712). Between Propaganda and (Possible) Realities
Room B-421
Persecution, Mission, and Dialogue
Chair: Katalin Szende (Central European University)
- Bernhard Holl (University of Potsdam): Defeated, yet Victorious: the Toledo Rebellion of 1449 and the Lasting Effects of its Pure-Blood Agenda
- Avner Shamir (University of Copenhagen): Faith or Law: Sixteenth-century Christian, Jewish, and Christian-Jewish Disputations
- Carlos Piccone-Camere (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú): The Capuchin Rebellion: Challenges of Living the Franciscan Rule in South American Missions
Room C-419
Authority and Dissent in Scandinavia
Chair: Joar Haga (VID Specialized University)
- Andreas Mazetti (The Newman Institute, Uppsala): Tracing the Roots of Tyranny: Explanations in the Annales Ecclesiastici for the deposition of Christian II of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
- Laura-Marie Mork (Universität Osnabrück): Good Authority, Bad Authority – Discourse on Authority in the First Half of Gustav Vasas Reign
- Georg Stenborg (Stockholm University): Johannes Messenius and the Dacke Uprising in 16th-century Sweden
