Thursday, 01 July 2021
09.30–10.00
Introduction: Christina Brauner and Renate Dürr (Tübingen)
Panel I: Globalizing Practices: Collecting, Translating, Encountering
Chair: Philip Hahn (Tübingen)
10.00-10.45
Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge): Hainhofer’s Global Worlds
10.45-11.15
Jutta Wimmler (Bonn): Translating African slavery: European Travel Accounts for German audiences (pre-circulated paper)
Introduction: Eve Rosenhaft (Liverpool)
11.15-11.30 Short break
11.30-12.15
Richard Calis (Cambridge): Greek Orthodox Christians in the Holy Roman Empire
12.15-13.00
Felicia Gottmann (Newcastle):Prussia’s East India Companies: A Microcosm of European Expansion
13.00-14.00 Lunchbreak
Panel II: Embodying Differences and the Diversity of Global Lives
Chair: Simon Siemianowski (Tübingen)
14.00-14.45
Rebekka von Mallinckrodt (Bremen): Slavery in the Holy Roman Empire
14.45-15.15
Sigrid Köhler (Tübingen): Germany’s Share of the Global World: Enslavement and Abolition as Topics in German Popular Literature and Journal Reporting (1770-1790) (pre-circulated paper)
Introduction: Antje Flüchter (Bielefeld)
15.15-15.30 Short break
15.30-16.15
Tobias Graf (Berlin): ‘Poor Persecuted and Beleaguered ... Christians in Syria and Palestine’: Encounters with Christian Alms-Collectors from the Middle East in Eighteenth-Century Germany
16.15-16.45
Suzie Hermán (Princeton): Hansards as “Global Players”? Reflections on the Hanse, Art, and Architecture in the Early Modern Period (c. 1550-1650) (pre-circulated paper)
Introduction: Alexander Bevilacqua (Williamstown)
16.45-17.30 Coming together at wonder.me
Friday, 02 July 2021
Panel III: Hometowns? Peripheral Spaces of Trade and Appropriation
Chair: Anne Sophie Overkamp (Tübingen)
09.00-09.45
Jelle van Lottum and Lodewijk Petram (Amsterdam): VOCation: Migrants, Careers and the Dutch East India company
09.45-10.15
Francisca Hoyer (Uppsala): Reframing the History of the German ‘Ostindienfahrer’: Potentials and Limitations of Cross-referencing Archives (pre-circulated paper)
Introduction: Fabian Fechner (Hagen)
10.15-10.30 Short break
10.30-11.15
Klaus Weber (Frankfurt/Oder): Heavy Metal and Flimsy Linen: German-Made Products on Markets of the Atlantic World (15th-19th C.)
11.15-11.45
Christine Fertig/ Henning Bovenkerk (Münster): Sweet Coffee and Pretty Fabrics: Global Goods in Rural Households (Northwestern Germany, 17th/18th Centuries) (pre-circulated paper)
Introduction: Roberto Zaugg (Zürich)
11.45-13.00 Lunch break and wonder.me
13.00-13.30
Daniel Menning (Tübingen): Global Food in Southwestern Germany, 1650-1800 (pre-circulated paper)
Introduction: Hannah Murphy (Cambridge)
13.30-14.15
Kim Siebenhüner (Jena): Cultures of Paper. Why Europe Merchandised Knowledge and India did Not
14.15-14.30 Short break
Panel IV: The Location of Religion: Between Universalism and Appropriation
Chair: Simon Siemianowski (Tübingen)
14.30-15.15
Rebekka Voss (Frankfurt/Main): Jewish-Pietist Networks: The Pietist Mission to the Jews and Local Mechanisms of Cultural Transfer in Eighteenth-Century Germany
15.15-16.00
Renate Dürr (Tübingen): Bringing the World to Early Modern Germany: Lutheran Baptisms of Slaves and Muslims
16.00-16.15 Short break
16.15-17.00
Anne Mariss (Regensburg): Exotic Materials, Jesuit Martyrs, and Local Beliefs: Rosaries in the Holy Roman Empire
17.00-17.30 Break
17.30-19.00
Forum: The Global and the Local – New Narratives and the Politics of Perspective
Chair: Philip Hahn and Anne Sophie Overkamp (Tübingen)
Christina Brauner (Tübingen)
Ewald Frie (Tübingen)
Tim Neu (Wien)