Reporting Christian Missions. Communication, Culture of Knowledge and Regular Publication in a Cross-confessional Perspective, 18th Century

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Reporting Christian Missions. Communication, Culture of Knowledge and Regular Publication in a Cross-confessional Perspective, 18th Century

Veranstalter
Markus Friedrich, Historisches Seminar, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main; Alexander Schunka, Historisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart
Veranstaltungsort
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Campus Westend, Frankfurt am Main, Raum 1.414 (1. Stock, Querbau 4)
Ort
Frankfurt am Main
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
12.12.2008 - 13.12.2008
Deadline
05.12.2008
Website
Von
Markus Friedrich / Alexander Schunka

Regular reporting on extra-European Christian missions was a distinctive feature of early modern Europe, especially in the eighteenth century. Usually, regular publication was linked to missionary organizations trying to promote their activities through publicity.
So far, however, the phenomenon has never been studied in a comparative, comprehensive, and cross-confessional way. Our workshop attempts first of all to survey the field and establish a corpus of comparable sources. Therefore, the conference ultimately aims at establishing a broader framework for understanding the organized and institutionalized transfer of knowledge from the missions to Europe. Thus, not only the content of the relevant publications, but also the technologies and procedures employed to broadcast information about the extra-European world should receive attention. It is a basic assumption of the conference that these ‘formal’ or ‘technical’ aspects played a crucial part in changing the world-view of Europe and Europeans in the eighteenth century.
The conference is supported by the Cluster of Excellence: Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen – Formation of Normative Orders (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).

Programm

Friday, Dec 12, 2008

13:00
Coffee/Tea

13:30-13:45
Opening Remarks (Markus Friedrich, Frankfurt/Alexander Schunka, Stuttgart)

13:45-14:45
Keynote: Missionary Reports and their Relevance as Ethnographic Sources (Iris Gareis, Frankfurt)

14:45-15:15
Coffee/Tea

Session 1: Catholic Missionary Reports: The European Dimension (Chair: Alexander Schunka)

15:15-16:00
Producing Catholic Missionary Reports: The Jesuits (Markus Friedrich, Frankfurt)

16:00-16:45
Lettres édifiantes (Adrien Paschoud, Lausanne)

16:45-17:00
Break

Session 2: Catholic Missionary Reports: The German Dimension (Chair: Markus Friedrich)

17:00-17:45
Neuer Welt-Bott (Galaxis Borja Gonzalez, Kassel)

17:45-18:30
Missions to China in the Neuer Welt-Bott (Claudia von Collani, Würzburg)

18:30-18:45
Break

Session 3: Cross-Confessional Aspects (Chair: Markus Friedrich)

18:45-19:30
Catholic and Protestant Missions in early eighteenth-century German Periodicals (Alexander Schunka, Stuttgart)

20:00 Dinner

Saturday, Dec 13, 2008

Session 4: Protestant Missionary Reports: The Anglican Case (Chair: Alexander Schunka)

9:00-9:45
SPCK – Anniversary Letters and Sermons (Alexander Pyrges, Trier)

9:45-10:30
SPG – Anniversary Sermons (Jeremy Gregory, Manchester)

10:30-11:00
Coffee/Tea

Session 5: Protestant Missionary Reports: The German Context (Chair: Markus Friedrich)

11:00-11:45
The “Hallesche Berichte”: mechanisms of production, dissemination and reception (Heike Liebau, Berlin)

11:45-12:30
The “Hallesche Berichte” as sources: online representation and search possibilities (Britta Klosterberg, Halle)

12:30-12:45
Break

12:45-13:30
Moravian “Gemein-Nachrichten” (Gisela Mettele, Leicester)

13:30-14:00
Comments/Closing Discussion

14:00
End of workshop, optional lunch, city walk

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Aufgrund des begrenzten Platzangebots bitten wir um vorherige Anmeldung bis 5.12.2008, gerne per E-mail an:
Dr. Markus Friedrich, friedrich@em.uni-frankfurt.de
oder
Dr. Alexander Schunka, Alexander.Schunka@po.hi.uni-stuttgart.de

Kontakt

Alexander Schunka

Universität Stuttgart, Historisches Institut
Heilbronner Str. 7, 70174 Stuttgart
0711-685-82817
0711-685-82381
Alexander.Schunka@po.hi.uni-stuttgart.de