Wednesday, May 21

2:00 pm Luca Giuliani, Wissenschaftskolleg Rektor, Welcome

Jenna Gibbs, Wissenschaftskolleg Fellow and Florida International University: Opening Remarks

2:15 pm Session 1: Missions, Slaves, and Native Americans in the Americas (Chair: Yair Mintzker, Wissenschaftskolleg Fellow and Princeton University)

Travis Glasson, Temple University: ‘A Christian Splendour from an Ethnic Sky’: Transatlantic Anglicanism, Slavery, and the Mohawks.

Edward Andrews, Providence College: Native Missionaries and the Problem of Slavery in the British Atlantic World.

4: 30 pm Keynote Address

Aaron Fogleman, Northern Illinois University: A Woman, her Husband, and Protestant Missions in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Thursday, May 22
9:30 am Session 2: Transnational Religious Networks and Abolitionism (Chair: Peter Burschel, Humboldt-Universität)

Sünne Juterczenka, Humboldt-Universität: Transatlantic Quaker Networks and the Abolition of Slavery

Jenna Gibbs, Wissenschaftskolleg and Florida International University: Moravian Missions, Slavery and Antislavery: the Case of Christian Ignatius LaTrobe

11:45 am Jan Hüsgen, Leibnitz-Universität Hannover: ‘A Bulwark of Slavery’? Local and Global Factors in the Abolition of Slavery in the Moravian Mission to the Danish West Indies

2:00 pm Session 3: Global Religious and Reform Networks (Chair: Michael Mann, Humboldt Universität)

Gisela Mettele, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena: Moravian Global Networks

Andrea Major, Leeds University, The Peripatetic Mr. Thompson: Traversing global networks of colonial philanthropy in Britain, America, and India, 1835-58

4:15 pm Klaus Koschorke, Ludwig-Maximillian-Universität, München: ‘Beyond their own dwellings’: Indigenous Christian Elites and Transcontinental Missionary Networks in the 18th and 19th Centuries