Below are the short paper proposals accepted until mentioned date for the Fourteenth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity, to be held May 22-24, 2025 at Central European University in Vienna. The target date for short paper proposal submissions remains March 1, 2025.
Updated: January 30, 2025.
Konstantin Anikin (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg): Rolle der Bogomilen im Denken der Pietisten und der “lutherischen Orthodoxie”
Doron Avraham (Bar Ilan University, Israel): Rebellion within Limits: German Pietism and the Contestation of Established Order
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
Luca Baschera (Universität Zürich, Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte): Prophets and Grammarians: On the Purpose and Method of Higher Education in Reformation Zurich. Panel:1525–2025: Celebrating the Beginnings of Higher Education in Reformation Zurich
Theo Brok (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam): Crafting the History of Early Modern Dutch Anabaptism: The Legacy of Willem Kühler (1874-1946)
Konrad Buzała (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
Ian Campbell (Queen’s University Belfast): Jesuit versus Franciscan Understandings of Natural Law, Religion and Rebellion
Mei-Hsin Chen (University of Navarra): Martin Luther’s Stance on Religious Images: A Moderate Approach to Iconoclasm
Nicolò Di Dio (Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies): The “Exhortation aux Princes” and the Struggle for Religious Pacification in France: the Rise of Civil Tolerance
Marek Druga (Institute of History of 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
Aneke Dornbusch (Universität Bonn): A Female Revolt in Augsburg? The Curious Case of Katharina Vöglin
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. Panel: Rebels or Innovators? Thinkers in Early Modern Christianity
Emma Gabor: Healers or Heretics? Witchcraft and Christianity in Early Modern Europe
Anja Goeing (Universität Zürich, Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte): Agents of Practice: Students and Networks at the Schola Tigurina in the 16th Century. Panel: 1525–2025: Celebrating the Beginnings of Higher Education in Reformation Zurich
Jake Griesel (George Whitefield College, Cape Town): John Pearson’s Defence of Prayer Book and King in Parliamentarian Cambridge amidst the Early English Civil War (1643)
Dario Gurashi: Dissimulandi nescius: Agrippa and Nicodemism. Panel: Rebels or Innovators? Thinkers in Early Modern Christianity
Phillip Haberkern (Boston University): From Movement to Church: Bohemian Reflections on Ending a Revolution
Endre Ádám Hamvas (Hungarian Research Network, Moravcsik Gyula Institute): Hannibal Rosseli’s Pymander: the Corpus Hermeticum and the Catholic Revival. Panel: Rebels or Innovators? Thinkers in Early Modern Christianity
Bernhard Holl (University of Potsdam): Defeated, yet Victorious: the Toledo Rebellion of 1449 and the Lasting Effects of its Pure-Blood Agenda
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
Christine Kooi (Louisiana State University): Theological Rebellion in 1572
Hiram Kümper (Mannheim University): Terpander’s Heirs: Taming Rebellion with Music in Early Modern Theorists
Urs Leu (Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte der Universität Zürich): Zwingli’s “Hohe Schule” and the Reformed Book Culture in Zurich. Panel:1525–2025: Celebrating the Beginnings of Higher Education in Reformation Zurich
Przemyslaw A. Lewicki (Makowski Academy of Reformed Theology): Polish Reformed Confession at Colloquium Charitativum 1645: Exploring Polish Reformed Theology in Search of Harmony
Diego Lucci (American University in Bulgaria): The Law of Nature, God’s Law, and the Right to Resist and Revolt in Hobbes and Locke
Arturo Massa (University of Bari Aldo Moro): Hagiography of Rebellion. The New Martyrs of the Reformation against Catholic Idolatry in the Sixteenth Century
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”
Barbara Müller (Universität Hamburg): Perseverance as Rebellion. Johannes Bugenhagen’s Defeat over the Hamburg (Beguine-) Convent opposite St Jacob’s Church
Bonnie Noble (University of North Carolina at Charlotte): Intellectual Rebellion in Hans Holbein’s Ambassadors
Seraphine Nzue-Agbadou (Charleston Southern University): Religion and Violence: A Comparative Analysis of the Protestant Uprising in some southern regions of France (1500-1600)
Katharina Opalka (Faculty of Protestant Theology/Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn): Power in the Protestant Church in light of the ForuM-Study
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
Carlos Piccone-Camere (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú): The Capuchin Rebellion: Challenges of Living the Franciscan Rule in South American Missions
Noel Putnik (Institute of Ethnography, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts): Homo Integer in a World of Lies: Cornelius Agrippa on Corporeality and Knowledge. Panel: Rebels or Innovators? Thinkers in Early Modern Christianity
Deirdre Raftery and 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
Robert Rebitsch (University Innsbruck): The Influence of Protestantism on the Peasants’ Uprisings of 1525/26 and 1626 in Austria
Clarisse Roche (United Arab Emirates University): Rebelling against Religious Moderation: Georg Eder’s Confessional Challenge to the Habsburg Middle Way in Sixteenth-century Vienna
Pieter Rouwendal (Theological University Apeldoorn): Calvin’s ‘conversio’ and Calvin’s ‘conversion’
Fabian Sieber (Theologische Fakultät Fulda): A Revolution through Faith – Thomas Müntzer, Theology and the Peaceful Revolution of 1989
Marie Škarpová (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
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
Edit Szegedi (Universitatea Babes-Bolyai): The Forgotten Century and its Many Conflicts: Lutheranism in 17th Century Transylvania
Neil Tarrant (UCL): The Italian Reformation in Exile? Francesco Pucci’s Early Theological Thought
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
Roger Whittall, (Australian Lutheran College, Adelaide): Yves Congar on “True and False Reform”
Jakub Wolak (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences): Between Contract and Covenant, or a Theologico-Political Solution to the Riddle of the Lubomirski Rebellion (1665–66)
Takayuki Yagi (Aoyama Gakuin University): Diego Álvarez and Synchronic Contingency: Advancing the Dominican Defense Against Molinism
