Thursday, September 15, 2016

2:00 p.m. Opening Addresses
Andreas Gestrich, German Historical Institute London
Wilhelm Krull, Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover

Introduction
Bridget Heal, University of St. Andrews

2:30 p.m. Radical Identities
Chair: Lyndal Roper, University of Oxford

Economic Radicalism in the English Reformation (working title)
Ethan H. Shagan, University of Berkeley

The nature of names: negotiating radical belonging in the Reformation
Katherine Hill, University of East Anglia

4:00 p.m. Coffee Break
4:30 p.m. Radical Identities Cont.
Chair: Graeme Murdock, Trinity College Dublin

Radicalism and Invectivity. ‘Hate Speech’ in the German Reformation
Gerd Schwerhoff, TU Dresden

The Birth of French Quakerism: Between Religious dissent and Political Allegiance (1685-1789)
Lionel Laborie, Goldsmiths, University of London

6:00 p.m. Coffee Break
6:30 p.m. Radicalism in Politics
Chair: Luise Schorn-Schütte, University of Frankfurt

The political thought of the Radical Reformers in early German and Swiss Reformation
Thomas Kaufmann, University of Göttingen

Scottish Protestantism and Political Radicalism 1560-1690: Myth or Reality?
Roger Mason, University of St. Andrews

8:00 p.m. Dinner at nearby restaurant

Friday, September 16, 2016
9:30 a.m. Chair: Michael Schaich, German Historical Institute London

Keynote
Radicalism Turned Upside Down in Revolutionary England
Alec Ryrie, University of Durham

10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. Radicalism in Print and Play
Chair: Andrew Pettegree, University of St. Andrews

Textual Communities and Political Dissent in an Ostensibly Pacifist Tradition; or, Revolutionary Mennonite Publishers in the 1780s as Late Representatives of a Long Radical Reformation?
Michael Driedger, Brock University

The Drama of the Two Word Debate among Liberal Dutch Mennonites, c. 1620-1660: Preparing the Way for Baruch Spinoza?
Gary Waite, University of New Brunswick

12:30 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. Gender and Family Relations
Chair: Xenia von Tippelskirch, Humboldt-University Berlin

Gender and Family Relations in Radical Pietist Circles
Mirjam de Baar, University of Groningen

Erben des Himmelreichs. Familie, Verwandtschaft und Erlösung in der Radikalen Reformation
Anselm Schubert, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

3:30 p.m. Coffee Break
 
4:00 p.m. Missionary Activity and Radicalism
Chair: Crawford Gribben, Queen’s University Belfast

Millenarian Hope and the Pietist Empire
Ulrike Gleixner, Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and TU Berlin

Radical Reformation and the Black Atlantic
Jon F. Sensbach, University of Florida

5:30 p.m. Tea
6:30 p.m. Walk to the British Museum
7:00 p.m. Public Lecture:
Venue: British Museum
Chair: Andreas Gestrich, German Historical Institute London

Martin Luther's Unruly Offspring: The Protestant Reformation and Radical Critique
Hartmut Lehmann, em., Universities of Kiel and Göttingen

8:00 p.m. Possibility to attend the Chuseok festival at the British Museum

Saturday, September 17, 2016
9:30 a.m. Radicalism Across Borders
Chair: Johannes M. Müller, Leiden University

Radical Reputations in ‘Magisterial’ England
Susan Royal, University of Durham

The Puritan Revolution as England’s Radical Reformation
John Coffey, University of Leicester

11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:30 a.m. Radical History Writing
Chair: Glenn Burgess, University of Hull

Radical patristics in the Interregnum and the Royal Society: John Beale on pantheism and philosophy in early Christianity
Dmitri Levitin, All Souls College, Oxford

The Servetus-case in the Early-Modern Anabaptist-Reformed Polemic
Mirjam van Veen, University of Amsterdam

1:00 p.m. Final Remarks
Wilhelm Krull, Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover

1:15 p.m. Lunch
and end of conference