Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Reformation Era
A Joint Conference Organized by
Verein für Reformationsgeschichte & The Society for Reformation Research
Conference Schedule (Draft)
Tuesday, July 18
17:00 Reception Schöner Saal, Altes Rathaus, Rathauspl. 2
- Wine and pretzel reception with Dr. Klemens Gsell, Bürgermeister Nuremberg, followed by a tour of the Rathaus and the Medieval Lochgefängnisse Museum
Wednesday, July 19
8:00-8:30 Welcome and Opening Comments Eckstein 1.01
Introduction:
- ANSELM SCHUBERT (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
- THOMAS KAUFMANN (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), Verein für Reformationsgeschichte
- DAVID WHITFORD (Baylor University), Society for Reformation Research
8:30-10:00 Plenary One Eckstein 1.01
Chair:
- MATTHIAS POHLIG (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) “Die Wahrnehmung des Islams im Europa des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts. Textsorten der Turcica und ihre Druckorte im Kontext der europäisch-osmanischen Beziehungen”
- ALMUT HÖFERT (Universität Zürich) “The Renaissance Crusade: Turks and Persians at the Papal Court”
- MARGARET MESERVE (University of Notre Dame)
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Session One
1A: Europeans in the Ottoman World Eckstein 1.01
Chair:
- OTFRIED CZAIKA (Norwegian School of Theology) “Anglo-Sephardic Relations in Constantinople, 1585 to 1597”
- DANIEL J. BAMFORD (Independent Scholar) “The Protestant Reformation and the Confrontation Between Faiths: The Ottoman Empire as a Case Study (17th- 18th Century)”
- FELICITA TRAMONTANA (University of Warwick) “Intra-Islamic Challenges as an Eurasian Phenomenon?”
- CHRISTIANE CZYGAN (Bundeswehruniversität München)
1B: Comparison of Confessional Groups Eckstein E.01/a
Chair:
- CHRISTOPH STROHM (Universität Heidelberg) “Wie die Heiden—wie die Papisten. Religiöse Polemik und Vergleiche vom Spätmittelalter bis zur Konfessionalisierung” (Part I)
- SITA STECKEL (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) “Wie die Heiden—wie die Papisten. Religiöse Polemik und Vergleiche vom Spätmittelalter bis zur Konfessionalisierung” (Part II)
- CHRISTINA BRAUNER (Universität Bielefeld) “,Die newe Judaszunfft’ und ‚die lutherischen Machometisten’ – Synonymisierung der Evangelischen mit Juden und Muslimen in jesuitischen Predigten und Schauspielen des 16./17. Jahrhunderts als Modus eines konfessionellen Sündenbockmechanismus”
- JOACHIM WERZ (Universität Tübingen)
1C: Creating Separation Eckstein E.01/b
Chair:
- AMY NELSON BURNETT (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) “Whose ‘Holy Land’? The Contested Representation of Israel/ Palestine in Early Modern Cosmographies and Regional Maps”
- JEFFREY JAYNES (Methodist Theological School in Ohio) “Cum nimis absurdum: Jews and the Urbanism of Oppression in Early Modern Europe”
- MATTHEW KNOX AVERETT (Creighton University) “Perception of the Lost Tribes and the Reformation of the World (16th-17th centuries)”
- JOSÉ ALBERTO R. SILVA TAVIM (Centro de História, Universidade de Lisboa) (draft 3/5/2017)
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session Two
2A: Living with Religious Minorities Eckstein 1.01
Chair:
- MARKUS WRIEDT (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main) “Jews and Lutherans: Two Successful Religious Minorities in Early Modern Amsterdam”
- SABINE HIEBSCH (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) “Christliche Obrigkeiten, christliche Bevölkerungen und die jüdische Minderheit in der Reichsstadt Nürnberg 1500-1670”
- STEFAN EHRENPREIS (Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck) “Judaism and Jews in Early Danish Protestantism”
- TARALD RASMUSSEN (University of Oslo)
2B: Discourses on Religious Diversity Eckstein E.01/a
Chair:
- NICHOLAS TERPSTRA (University of Toronto) “The Confessionalization of Plague: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Early Modern Plague Discourse”
- CHARLES D. GUNNOE (Aquinas College) “Skepticism, Interreligious Dialogue and Sexuality in Reformation Europe”
- UMBERTO GRASSI (ARC Center of Excellence for the History of Emotions, University of Sydney) “Gefahren für Seele, Geldbeutel und Gemeinwohl: Juden und Osmanen als ökonomische Drohbilder der Reformationszeit”
- HIRAM KÜMPER (Universität Mannheim)
2C: Mutual Influences Eckstein E.01/b
Chair:
- BRIAN C. BREWER (Baylor University) “Islamic Influence in the Establishment of Reformed Protestantism in the Dutch East Indies in the Early Seventeenth Century”
- YUDHA THIANTO TJONDROWARDOJO (Trinity Christian College) “A Productive Misunderstanding? Reassessing the History of Iberian Christian Hebraism against Confessional Frameworks, 1514-1650”
- JESÚS DE PRADO PLUMED (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) “‘Jewish’ Muslims in Reformation-Era Rhetoric”
- DAVID M. FREIDENREICH (Colby College)
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Plenary Two Eckstein 1.01
Chair:
- MARJORIE ELIZABETH PLUMMER (Western Kentucky University) “The Rabbinate and Jewish Communal Structures in Reformation Germany”
- DEAN BELL (Spertus Institute) “Lokale Koexistenz von Juden und Christen: Alltagspraktiken und Konflikte”
- SABINE ULLMANN (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) 19:00 Conference Dinner (Optional) Marientorzwinger Restaurant Advance reservations required
Thursday, July 20
8:30-10:00 Plenary Three Eckstein 1.01
Chair:
- KASPAR VON GREYERZ (Universität Basel) “What Luther Could Have Known of Judaism”
- STEPHEN BURNETT (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) “Christliche Kabbala. Transformationen der Religion zwischen Judentum und Christentum”
- ANSELM SCHUBERT (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break (draft 3/5/2017)
10:30-12:00 Session Three
3A: Considering Other Religions Eckstein 1.01
Chair:
- WOLF-FRIEDRICH SCHÄUFELE (Philipps-Universität Marburg) “Islam through Confessional Eyes: European Orientalists in the Age of Reformation on the Sunni-Shi’a Divide”
- ASAPH BEN-TOV (Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universität Erfurt) “Zwischen Altdorf und Jerusalem. Salomon Schweigger im Kontext der lutherischen Orientalistik um 1600”
- ALEXANDER SCHUNKA (Freie Universität Berlin) “The Ethnographic Writing about the Jews and the Reformation”
- YAACOV DEUTSCH (Hebrew University, Jerusalem and David Yellin College, Jerusalem)
3B: Religious Diversity and Boundaries Eckstein E.01/a
Chair:
- DAVID LUEBKE (University of Oregon) “The Scholarship of New Religious Movements as a Post-Christian Alternative to the Confessionalization Model of Religio-Political Change”
- MICHAEL DRIEDGER (Brock University) “Experimenting with Religious Diversity: Anabaptists, Mennonites, Jews, and Muslims in the Dutch Republic, c. 1570 to c. 1630”
- GARY WAITE (University of New Brunswick) “Spatial and Sensory Catechisms: Raising and Violating Boundaries between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Reformation Italy”
- NICHOLAS TERPSTRA (University of Toronto)
3C: The Other in Sermons Eckstein E.01/b
Chair:
- CHARLES D. GUNNOE (Aquinas College) “The Apocalypse in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg and Prussia: Jews and Turks in Andreas Osiander’s World”
- ANDREW L. THOMAS (Salem College) “Reformation Preaching and the Destruction of the Temple: Historical Jews as Examples for Christian Audiences”
- PAUL STRAUSS (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) “Juden und Türken in Calvins Predigten: Metapher oder aktueller Bezug?”
- GÖRGE K. HASSELHOFF (TU Dortmund/UA Barcelona)
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Plenary Four Eckstein 1.01
Chair:
- UTE LOTZ-HEUMANN (University of Arizona) “The Jewish Culture War in Nuremberg: Albrecht Dürer and Devotional Anti-Judaism”
- DAVID PRICE (Vanderbilt University) “Ottoman imaginations of Christian Reformation politico-religious schisms”
- CLAIRE NORTON (St. Mary's University)
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:30-18:30 Afternoon Break
Two optional tours in English will be offered (advance reservations required)
- Reformation Nuremberg (Meeting at the entrance of Sebalduskirche)
- Nuremberg in the Third Reich. The Reichsparteitagsgelände (Meeting Haltestelle Luitpoldhain, Straßenbahnlinie 9)
19:00-20:00 Public Lecture Kartäuserkirche/Germanisches Nationalmuseum
Introduction:
- DANIEL HESS (Stellvertretender Direktor des Germanischen Nationalmuseums) “Judenfurcht und Türkenhoffnung—Christliche Sichtweisen auf die fremden Religionen”
- THOMAS KAUFMANN (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
20:15-21:00 Reception with Cash Bar
Friday, July 21
8:00-9:30 Plenary Five Eckstein 1.01
Chair:
- KATHRYN EDWARDS (University of South Carolina) “Embodiment and Religion: ‘Turks’ within the Holy Roman Empire”
- CARINA JOHNSON (Pitzer College) “Interaction between Islamic and Canon Law: Testimony of Ottoman Appointment Documents for Orthodox Patriarchs”
- HASAN ÇOLAK (Universiteit Leiden)
9:30-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-12:00 Plenary Six Eckstein 1.01
Chair:
- IRENE DINGEL (Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte) “Jüdisch-christliche Endzeiterwartungen im Zeitalter der Reformation”
- REBEKKA VOSS (Goethe University Frankfurt) “The Road to Armageddon: Islam and Eschatology in Luther and the Lutheran Tradition to 1700”
- GREGORY MILLER (Malone University)
12:00-1:00 Concluding Remarks Eckstein 1.01
- THOMAS KAUFMANN
- DAVID WHITFORD
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