Tuesday, July 18
17:00 RECEPTION with Dr. Klemens Gsell, Bürgermeister Nürnberg
Wednesday, July 19
8:00 - 8:30 WELCOME AND OPENING COMMENTS
8:30 - 10:00 PLENARY ONE
Chair: Matthias Pohlig (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
1) 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)
2) The Renaissance Crusade: Turks and Persians at the Papal Court, Margaret Meserve (University of Notre Dame)
10:30 - 12:00 SESSION ONE
1) EUROPEANS IN THE OTTOMAN WORLD
Chair: Otfried Czaika (Norwegian School of Theology)
2) COMPARISON OF CONFESSIONAL GROUPS
Chair: Christoph Strohm (Universität Heidelberg)
3) CREATING SEPARATION
Chair: Amy Nelson Burnett (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
14:00-15:30 SESSION TWO
1) LIVING WITH RELIGIOUS MINORITIES
Chair: Markus Wriedt (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
2) DISCOURSES ON RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY
Chair: Nicholas Terpstra (University of Toronto)
3) MUTUAL INFLUENCES
Chair: BRIAN C. BREWER (Baylor University)
16:00-17:30 PLENARY TWO
Chair: Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer (Western Kentucky University)
1) The Rabbinate and Jewish Communal Structures in Reformation Germany, Dean Bell (Spertus Institute )
2) Lokale Koexistenz von Juden und Christen: Alltagspraktiken und Konflikte, Sabine Ullmann (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
Thursday, July 20
8:30-10:00 PLENARY THREE
Chair: Kaspar von Greyerz (Universität Basel)
1) What Luther Could Have Known of Judaism, Stephen Burnett (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
2) Christliche Kabbala. Transformationen der Religion zwischen Judentum und Christentum, Anselm Schubert (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
10:30-12:00 SESSION THREE
1) CONSIDERING OTHER RELIGIONS
Chair: Wolf-Friedrich Schäufele (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
2) RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY AND BOUNDARIES
Chair: David Luebke (University of Oregon)
3) THE OTHER IN SERMONS
Chair: Charles D. Gunnoe (Aquinas College)
14:00-15:30 PLENARY FOUR
Chair: Ute Lotz-Heumann (University of Arizona)
1) The Jewish Culture War in Nuremberg: Albrecht Dürer and Devotional Anti-Judaism, David Price (Vanderbilt University)
2) Ottoman imaginations of Christian Reformation politico-religious schisms, Claire Norton (St. Mary’s University )
19:00-20:00 PUBLIC LECTURE
Introduction: Daniel Hess (Stellvertretender Direktor, Germanisches Nationalmuseum)
Judenfurcht und Türkenhoffnung – Christliche Sichtweisen auf die fremden Religionen, Thomas Kaufmann (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Friday, July 21
8:00-9:30 PLENARY FIVE
Chair: Kathryn Edwards (University of South Carolina)
1) Embodiment and Religion: ‘Turks’ within the Holy Roman Empire, Carina Johnson (Pitzer College)
2) Interaction between Islamic and Canon Law: Testimony of Ottoman Appointment Documents for Orthodox Patriarchs, Hasan Çolak (Universiteit Leiden)
10:15-12:00 PLENARY SIX
Chair: Irene Dingel (Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte)
1) Jüdisch-christliche Endzeiterwartungen im Zeitalter der Reformation, Rebekka Voss (Goethe University Frankfurt)
2) 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
Thomas Kaufmann
David Whitford