Latest update: October 23, 2026
Jakub Basista (Jagiellonian University): Samuel Przypkowski and His Dissertatio de pace & concordia ecclesiae as a Plea for the Recognition and Acceptance of Those Who Differ, Yet Remain Faithful to Christ and His Teachings
Nathanaël Beat (IRG Zürich | Schweizerischer Verein für Täufergeschichte): The Theological Convictions and Way of Life of the Zurich Anabaptists in the 16th and 17th Centuries in the Light of the Schleitheim Confession
Theresa Beckert (Technische Universität Dresden): Between Doing the Self and Othering: 16th-century German-language Printed Sermons on the Turks in the Context of Reformation and Confessional Disputes
Ana Biočić (University of Zagreb, Catholic Faculty of Theology): Confessional Identity Formation in the Kingdom of Croatia (Seventeenth Century)
Oğulcan Çelik (TED University): From Catholic Restoration to Protestant Settlement: Religious Identity and Alterity in Marian and Elizabethan Gloucestershire Wills
Sung Hoon Choung (University of Glasgow): Consensus without Uniformity: David Lindsay and the Making of Presbyterian Identity in the Second Book of Discipline
Wim M.E. Collin (Università Pontificia Salesiana): From Preaching to Pamphlets: Francis de Sales and Catholic Propaganda in the Chablais (1594–1598)
Tobias Dänzer (Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt): Forging Religious Identity in a Time of Crisis: Celio Secundo Curione’s Editorial Work on Olympia Fulvia Morata’s Letters. Panel: Religious Conflicts in Letters of Women in the Early Modern Era
Jakob Elias Debelka (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg): Constructing the Anabaptist Heresy: Anti-Anabaptist Article Collections, 1527–1530
Achilleas Dellopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki): The Philokalic Revival as an Orthodox Response to the Western Enlightenment Voltaire and Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite
James Dunn (St Mellitus College): Program versus Reality: Melanchthon’s Puzzling Prefaces to his Handbooks on Ethics and Psychology. Panel: Scholarship from Wittenberg in Microgenres
Hanna Gottlieb-Zimmermann (University of Graz, Department of English Studies): Between Grief and Guilt: Coping with Child Loss and its Representation in Early Modern Personal Discourse
Jake Griesel (George Whitefield College, Cape Town): Vindicating Ignatius: John Pearson, the Ignatian Epistles, and the Case for Primitive Episcopacy (1672)
Bernhard Holl (Theologische Fakultät Paderborn): Limpieza de sangre: A Minority Mindset Shaping a Majority Worldview?
Jan van de Kamp (Theological University Apeldoorn): Wittenberg Declamations and the Notion of Utility. Panel: Scholarship from Wittenberg in Microgenres
Ata ul Kareem (Allama Tabatabai University): Polemic as Network. A Computational Philology of Scriptural Corruption (taḥrīf) across the Catholic–Safavid Manuscript Exchanges, Mughal India to Isfahan, c. 1609–1722
Ingo Klitzsch (Universität Münster – Seminar für Kirchengeschichte II): Apophthegmata Lutheri (Luther’s “Table Talks”) as a Compilatory Microgenre of the Reformation. Panel: Scholarship from Wittenberg in Microgenres
Benedetta Lazzeri (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele): The Making of the Heretical Other: Luther, Medieval Heresy, and Catholic Identity in the Early Reformation
Sebastião C. Martins (NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH)): Beyond the Norm: a New Perspective on Religious Tolerance in Early Modern Iberia
Seraphine Nzue Agbadou (Charleston Southern University): The Quest for a “new” Identity through Scripturization as a Catalyst for the Birth of Protestantism in France (1534-1592)
Gideon Rossouw (Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary): Before Heidelberg: The Breslau School, Moibanus, and the Making of a Reformed Identity
Saad Ahmad Riaz (Sargodha University Punjab): From “Enemy of Grace” to Protestant Textbook: Aristotle as Boundary Object in the Making of Reformation Identity, Wittenberg to Zurich, 1517-1563
Sahar Samadi (Allama Tabatabai University): Ephemeral Media and the Sonic Staging of Confessional Alterity in the Early Swiss Reformation
Isabelle Stauffer (Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt): Religious Identity and Alterity of Noblewomen: The Letters of Electress Sophie of Hanover. Panel: Religious Conflicts in Letters of Women in the Early Modern Era
Irene Gómez Valverde (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): The Bible and Confessional Identity: Postreformation Readers of the Song of Songs
Rafaela Vasconcelos (School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University of Lisbon): Clothing during the Reformation – The case of Portugal and England
Yasmin Vetter (University of Birmingham) “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul…” (Mt 10:28) – Fear, Punishment and Pastoral Care in Marian Exile
