Program Twelfth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity

On this page you will find the preliminary program.
Last update: April 17, 2023

Program booklet version 20.04.2023

Thursday May 11, 2023

13.00 h Opening of the conference and welcome addresses
13.15 h Plenary Lecture 1: Eleonora Rai, University of Turin | KU Leuven: The Salvation of the Soul: Leonard Lessius’ Theology of Freedom and Moral Economy (1554-1623)
14.15 h Plenary Lecture 2: Germano Maifreda, University of Milan: Church/State, Canon/Civil Law, Sin/Crime: Three Comfortable Juxtapositions Economic Historians Should Discard?
15.15 h Coffee Break
15.30 h Short Paper Panels 1
17.15 h Short Paper Panels 2
20.00 h Concert BELLUM & PAX, by Capella Nova, directed by Marleen Reynders, in the Saint John the Baptist Churh

Friday May 12, 2023

09.00 h Plenary Lecture 3: Brian Owensby, University of Virginia: Toward a Moral History of the Rich
10.00 h Short Paper Panels 3
11.30 h Coffee Break
11.45 h Short Paper Panels 4
13.15 h Lunch Break
14.45 h Award Ceremony REFORC Book Award 2023 & Book Presentation Profiling Saints by Eleonora Rai and Elisa Frei
15.00 h Plenary Lecture 4: Nina Javette Koefoed, Aarhus University: The Lutheran Household – a Social and Institutional Legacy in Danish Society
16.00 Announcement Thirteenth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity, May 14-16, 2024 in Palermo, by Gianmarco Braghi
16.05 h Coffee Break
16.20 h Plenary Lecture 5: Keith Stanglin, Heritage Christian University: Arminianism and the Economy of Salvation
17.20 h Short Paper Panels 5
19.00 h Sponsored Reception

Saturday May 13, 2023

09.00 h Short Paper Panels 6 (2 papers)
10.00 h Ongoing (Post) Doctoral Work
11.00 h Coffee Break
11.15 h Plenary Speaker 6: Wim Decock, UCLouvain: The Unfinished Max Weber: Retrieving the Soul of Economic Entrepreneurship in the Low Countries
12.15 h Announcements, closing of the conference
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