WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19th
Location: lecture hall P5, Philosophicum
6:00pm-6:15pm
Address Wolfgang Hofmeister, Vice President for Research
Address Stephan Jolie, Dean of Philosophy and Philology
6:15pm-6:30pm
Introduction
6:30pm-8:00pm
Opening Keynote
David A. Copeland
Religious Press, Print Culture, and Defining the Nation
8:00pm
Reception
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20th
Fakultätssaal Philosophicum, room no. 01-185
9:00am-10:15am
Method Keynote
David Paul Nord
Religion, Reading, and Readership
10:15am-10:30am
Coffee
10:30am-12:15pm
Panel 1: Print Cultures and Early Transatlantic Religious Communication
Oliver Scheiding
Fraktur Writings and Print Culture in the Early German-Language Atlantic World
Andreas Pietsch
Old Books for a New World: John Henry Miller’s Catalogus von mehr als 700 meist Deutschen Büchern (1769)
Rainald Becker
Catholic Print Cultures: German Jesuits and North America
12:15pm-2:00pm
Lunch break
2:00pm-4:15pm
Panel 2: Nineteenth Century Religious Press and Print Culture
Shari Rabin
People of the Press: The Occident, the Israelite, and the Origins of American Judaism
John M. Giggie
The Development of African American Religious Print Culture and Sacred Identity, 1865-1905
Damien Schlarb
‘A Rendezvous of Advanced Philosophers and Free Thinkers’: Skepticist Publishers and Literary Scene of Early Nineteenth-Century New York
Julius Bailey
Public Opinion, Social Issues, and the African American Religious Press
6:30pm
Conference Dinner
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21st
Fakultätssaal Philosophicum, room no. 01-185
9:00am-10:15am
Case Study Keynote
Gisela Mettele
Circulation of Knowledge, Moravians, and Globalization
10:15am-10:30am
Coffee
10:30am-12:15pm
Panel 3: Missionary Periodicals and Transnational Religious Networks
Felicity Jensz
Communities of Knowledge: Nineteenth Century Transatlantic Moravian Missionary Networks and the Religious Press
Ashley E. Moreshead
American Missionary Magazines and the Promotion of Cosmopolitan Evangelicalism
Judith Becker
International Missions in National Mission Periodicals: The Depiction of a Global World in the Early Nineteenth Century
12:15pm-2:00pm
Lunch break
2:00pm-4:15pm
Panel 4: Twentieth Century Protestant Press
Matthew S. Hedstrom
Commodification and the ‘Cultural Victory’ Thesis: Liberal Religious Publishing in the Twentieth Century
Jana Hoffmann
Mainline Ideals of Marriage and Gender Roles in the 1970s Columns of the Magazine The Christian Home
Elesha Coffman
Marketing the Mainline: Circulation, Advertising, Design, and Identity in The Christian Century
Anja-Maria Bassimir
‘A long-caged lion roars’: Evangelical Periodical Publications
4:15pm-4:30 pm
Coffee
4:30pm-6:15pm
Panel 5: The Online Age: Contemporary Religion and Identity
Nabil Echchaibi
Muslim Communities and the Online Migration of the Diasporic Press
Frank Neubert
Connecting and Educating Hindus: Hinduism Today and the Mediatization of a Global Hinduism
Michael Kinsella
Portraying the Near-Death Experience: Experience, Authority, and Authorship in the Afterlife Movement
From 6:15pm
Free evening
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22nd
Fakultätssaal Philosophicum, room no. 01-185
10:00am-11:15am
Concluding Keynote
Candy Gunther Brown
Religious Press and Print Culture
11:15am-11:30am
Coffee
11:30am-12:30pm
Final Discussion
2:00pm-4:00pm
‘Highlights Tour’ Mainz for those interested