Last update: April 19, 2023
Piotr Alexandrowicz, The Poznań Society for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences: Law and Theology According to Johann Paul Windeck
Sivert Angel, University of Oslo: Why did Frederik IV Establish the Mission to His Colony in India in 1705? On the Dynamics of the Kingdom of God and the Danish Empire Around the Turn of the Eighteenth Century. Panel: Internationalizing Lutheranism: Case Studies from the Dutch Republic and the Danish Lands
Co-panelists: Sabine Hiebsch, Mattias Sommer Bostrup
Chair: Nina Javette Koefoed
Theo Basoski, Theological University Kampen | Utrecht: Divine Justification and Political Discipline. Special Days of Prayer during the Seventeenth Century in the City of Groningen
Andreas Beck, Evangelische Theologische Universiteit, Leuven: Gisbertus Voetius on Usury and Lending Money to the Poor
Jan Andrea Bernhard, Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte, Universität Zürich: Gelingen oder Scheitern des sozialen Engagements der Schweizer Reformation (Zürich, Chur, Genf)
Federico Bonansea, University of Turin: Images of African Slaves in Seventeenth-Century Latin America: Jesuit Perspectives
Panel: People of Americas: Birth, Representations, and Images in the Modern Catholic World (Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries)
Co-panelists: Michela Catto, Alessandro Maurini
Discussant: Franco Motta
Gerard Bosker, Theological University Apeldoorn: Willem Teellinck (1579-1629) About Death and Dying
Gianmarco Braghi, University of Palermo | FSCIRE: One Office, Multiple Meanings: Ambiguities, Polemics, and Debates over the Episcopacy in Sixteenth-Century Reformed Circles
Panel: Episcopate and Episcopacy in the Long Sixteenth Century
Co-panelist: Fabrizio D’Avenia
Theo Brok, Vrije Universiteit | Doopsgezind Seminarium, Amsterdam: Anabaptist Networks in the Low Countries: The Antwerp Case from 1530 to the 1550s
Benedikt Brunner, IEG Main | Max-Weber-Kolleg Erfurt: “Der verkehrte und doch widerbekehrte Thomas”. Philosemitism and Jewish Conversions in Nuremberg around 1700
Panel: Conversions in Early Modern Germany
Co-panelists: Martin Christ, Richard Kirwan
Michela Catto, University of Turin: From West to South. The Vocation of a Hero in the Wealthy America: The Pilgrimage of Bartolomé Lorenzo by José de Acosta
Panel: People of Americas: Birth, Representations, and Images in the Modern Catholic World (Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries)
Co-panelists: Federico Bonansea, Alessandro Maurini
Discussant: Franco Motta
Martin Christ, Max Weber Centre, University of Erfurt: The Early Modern Revocation Sermon: Creation and Development of a Lutheran Genre
Panel: Conversions in Early Modern Germany
Co-panelists: Benedikt Brunner, Richard Kirwan
Matteo Colombo, Université de Genève: Erasmus’ Encouragement Concerning Pauline Exegesis
Panel: Sixteenth Century Exegesis of Paul
Co-panelists: Benjamin Manig, Noemi Schürmann
Chair: Ueli Zahnd
Fabrizio D’Avenia, Università degli Studi di Palermo: Bishops on the Move between Spain and Sicily: The Case of Prelates of Converso Origin
Panel: Episcopate and Episcopacy in the Long Sixteenth Century
Co-panelist: Gianmarco Braghi
Sharon van Dijk, University of Birmingham: A Correspondence in Print? The 1536 Edition of the Letters of Zwingli and Oecolampadius
Aneke Dornbusch, Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät, Universität Bonn: The Connections of the Dissident Ludwig Hätzer: A Historical Social Network Analysis
Paweł Dziwiński, Jagiellonian University, Cracow: Protestant Perspective on the Prohibition of Usury – the Contribution of Differentiae
Ana Luiza Ferreira Gomes Silva, KU Leuven: The “gemmae” of the Church: the Propriety of Clerics in a Lecture by Petrus Peckius (1529-1589)
Olivia Garro, Coventry University (Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities): A New Perspective on the Roman Inquisition’s Treatment of Witchcraft: the Complex Relationship between the Compendium Maleficarum, Natural Philosophy, and Early Modern Science
Antonio Gerace, Fscire | KU Leuven: The Council of Trent and the Creed
Giulia Gioel, LUMSA University: “I have neither gold nor silver”: Rethinking and Looking at Today’s Economy in the Light of the Franciscan Poverty of the Fifteenth Century
Gregory Haake, University of Notre Dame: Debt and Marriage: Rabelais’s Economy of Grace in the Tiers Livre (1546)
Stefan Halikowski-Smith, Swansea University: Using Lexicographical Collection and Vector Positioning to Gauge Early Modern Christian Missionary Opinions of the Verenigde Oost Indische Compagnie (VOC)
Walker Haskins, University of Amsterdam, and David Mendoza, Westminster Theological Seminary: Constitutionalism and the Image of God: The Political Theology Underlying Goślicki’s the Accomplished Senator
Freerk Heule, Leiden University Library: With Levinas and Huang Shen: ‘How to read the Chinese Face’
Freerk Heule, Leiden University Library: Jesuit Chinese Porcelain
Sabine Hiebsch, Theological University Kampen|Utrecht: German Lutheran Influences on the Development of Dutch Lutheranism: a Spatial Perspective. Panel: Internationalizing Lutheranism: Case Studies from the Dutch Republic and the Danish Lands
Co-panelists: Sivert Angel, Mattias Sommer Bostrup
Chair: Nina Javette Koefoed
Bo Holm, LUME | Aarhus University: Social Imaginaries of Kingship in the Nordic Household State – Danish and Swedish Variations
Arthur Huiban, University of Geneva: Melanchthon on Original Sin: imputatio injustitiae?
Panel: Reformation Theology and its Medieval Past
Co-panelists: Zachary Seals, Ueli Zahnd
Eva Janssens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel – Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte: The Church Upside Down as Depicted in a Protestant Illustrated Broadsheet by Robert De Baudous and Paulus De Kempenaer
Byunghoon Kang, Theologische Universiteit Kampen: Guy de Brès’ Use of the Epistle of the Hebrews
Sukhwan Kang, Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte and Genji Yasuhira (Kyoto University): “The New Geneva” in France and “The Popish Impudence” in the Netherlands: A Comparative Study on Religious Coexistence in Seventeenth-Century Nîmes and Utrecht
Richard Kirwan, University of Limerick: Social Danger and the Perils of Conversion in Early Modern Germany
Panel: Conversions in Early Modern Germany
Co-panelists: Benedikt Brunner, Martin Christ
Jonas Kjøller-Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen: Genre, Form, and Meditation in the Sermons of Jesper Rasmussen Brochmand
Jakub Koryl, Jagiellonian University: Which one of the Aristotle(s) did not Reek at all? Martin Luther at Heidelberg and Humanist Aristotelianism
Lidia Lanza, Centre Philosophy University of Lisbon: Responsibility Towards the Poor: Molina and Lessius on Almsgiving
Urs Leu, Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte, Universität Zürich: Die Reformation als Katalysator für die Entstehung empirischer Medizin und Pharmazie in Zürich
Przemysław A. Lewicki, Fundacja Instytut Tolle Lege: ‘Anti-Socinus’: Trinitarian Polemics of Jan Makowski (1588–1644) and Mikołaj Arnold (1618–1680), Polish Reformed Theologians at Frisian Franeker
Benjamin Manig, University of Zurich: To Be Born Again. Shifts in the Concept of ‘Rebirth’ in Biblical Exegesis in the Sixteenth Century in Commentaries on Romans
Panel: Sixteenth Century Exegesis of Paul
Co-panelists: Matteo Colombo, Noemi Schürmann
Chairs: Ueli Zahnd, Stefan Krauter
Tomasz Mantyk, KU Leuven: “Pluris siquidem interpretanti esse sententiarum fructus debent quam verborum folia” – Theology and Philology in Biblical Translation According to F. Titelmans on the Example of the Book of Job
Yelena Matusevich, University of Alaska Fairbanks: Henry Hammond (1605-1660) and Jean Gerson (1363-1429): an Unknown Seventeenth Century English Connection
Alessandro Maurini, University of Turin: Biblical Interpretation and Racial Discourse in Nineteenth-Century United States
Panel: People of Americas: Birth, Representations, and Images in the Modern Catholic World Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries)
Co-panelists: Federico Bonansea, Michela Catto
Discussant: Franco Motta
Wim Moehn, Protestant Theological University, Amsterdam: Guy de Brès as Faithful Reader of Pierre Viret’s Books
Szilvia Musasizi: National Identity and the Idea of Homeland in Hungary in the Early Modern Era
Gui Nabais Freitas, Trinity College, University of Cambridge: Sacramental Poetry and Seventeenth-Century English Anti-Calvinism: Peter Heylyn’s Poetry Notebook
Steff Nellis, Ghent University: Picart, Bernard, and the Economization of Spiritual Life in the Early Eighteenth Century
Bonnie Noble, University of North Carolina at Charlotte: My Melancholy (Church) Father
Marta Quatrale, Freie Universität Berlin: Reception and Re-use of Evangelical Sources in Sixteenth Century Italy: The Case Study of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Austra Reinis, Missouri State University: Love, Childbirth, Adultery, War, and Religion: Letters from Women of the von Münsterberg House in Silesia to Margarethe of Anhalt (1473-1530) in Dessau
Pieter Rouwendal, Theological University of Apeldoorn: “Incapable of Doing Any Good”. Background, Content and Reception of Heidelberg Catechism Question & Answer 8
Ana Roda Sánchez, KU Leuven: A Political or Pastoral Enterprise? The Implementation of Church Reform in Castile by the Archbishops of Toledo Alfonso Carrillo de Acuña and Pedro González de Mendoza (1446–1495)
Tadeusz Rubik, University of Warsaw, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”: The New Testament of the Polish Jesuits and the Roman’s Vulgate (1590–1599)
Bernward Schmidt, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt: Cochlaeus as a Stroke of Luck? Social Predispositions of Catholic Controversial Theology (1517-1539)
Noemi Schürmann, University of Zurich: Is the Body More than a Prison? – Calvin’s Image of the Body in Comparison
Panel: Sixteenth Century Exegesis of Paul
Co-panelists: Matteo Colombo, Benjamin Manig
Chairs: Ueli Zahnd, Stefan Krauter
Zachary Seals, University of Geneva: The Two Powers and the Extent of the Atonement in Reformed Orthodoxy
Panel: Reformation Theology and its Medieval Past
Co-panelists: Arthur Huiban, Ueli Zahnd
Mattias Sommer Bostrup, Aarhus University: Flexible Lutheranism, Stable Religion? Using Nordstrand as Political Leverage in Danish-controlled Lands in the Early Eighteenth Century. Panel: Internationalizing Lutheranism: Case Studies from the Dutch Republic and the Danish Lands
Co-panelists: Sivert Angel, Sabine Hiebsch
Chair: Nina Javette Koefoed
Carl Springer, University of Tennessee Chattanooga: “Greed is not good.” Martin Luther and Profit Economics
Zsombor Tóth, Centre for Reformation Studies, Budapest: “Car vous êtes sauvés par la grâce”: Pierre Du Bosc’s (1623‒1692) Hungarian Readership in the Context of Long Reformation (a Case Study)
Timothy Twining, KU Leuven: Richard Simon and Vernacular Biblical Translation in Early Modern France
Jarrik Van Der Biest, KU Leuven: Cardinal Virtues in the Classroom: Michael Baius and the Reception of Classical Virtue Ethics in the Sixteenth-Century Debate on Human Nature
Wout Vandermeulen, KU Leuven | UCLouvain: Privileges and the ius commune: Practically Oriented Morality?
Marcin Wislocki, University of Wroclaw: I Will be Crucified. Remarks on the Passion Devotion in Emblem Books by Lutheran Pastors
Ueli Zahnd, Institute of Reformation History, University of Geneva, Switzerland: Bullinger’s View and Use of Medieval Theology
Panel: Reformation Theology and its Medieval Past
Co-panelists: Arthur Huiban, Zachary Seals
Sam Zwemer, Protestantse Theologische Universiteit Amsterdam: A Missing Link. The Extension of the Liturgical Form for the Celebration of the Lord’s Supper in one Edition of the Dutch Psalter of Dathenus in 1568
