08.30 – 09.00
Coffee
09.00 – 09.15
Welcome and Opening Remarks: Eugenio Biagini (University of Cambridge)
09.15 – 10.30
Keynote Lecture. David Bebbington (University of Stirling): Uses of the Bible in Evangelical History
Chair: Ian Randall (Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide)
10.30 – 10.45
Coffee Break
10.45 – 12.45
Panel I. Cultural Approaches to the Bible
Chair: Laura Popa (University of Giessen)
Philipp David (University of Giessen): Scriptural Hermeneutics After the Death of God
Maike Schult (University of Marburg): “New Seeing”: Homiletics of Estrangement (Defamiliarisation)
12.45 – 14.00
Light lunch
14.00 – 15.30
Panel II. The Bible and Emancipation: A Matter of Perspective?
Chair: Eugenio Biagini (University of Cambridge)
Karina Bénazech Wendling (University of Lorraine): The Revolution of Vernacular Bibles: Empowering or Submitting the ‘Natives’?
John Coffey (University of Leicester): Reading the Bible on a Slave Plantation: The Case of the Demerara Uprising, 1823
Laura Popa (University of Giessen): The Meaning(s) of the Bible in Protestant Women’s Evangelization, 1860–1915
15.30 – 15.45
Coffee Break
15.45 – 17.45
Panel III. “There are Doubtless Many Different Languages in the World, and None is Without Meaning”: Translation Matters
Chair: Karina Bénazech Wendling (University of Lorraine)
Hilary M. Carey (University of Bristol): British and German Collaboration in the Production of Indigenous Bibles
Floris Solleveld (University of Bristol): Two Processes of Verschriftlichung: Bible Translations and Oral Traditions
Ian Randall (Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide): Conflicting Convictions: The Bible Society in Russia in the 1870s and 1880s
Emanuel Conțac (Theological Pentecostal Institute of Bucharest): “A Bible for the simple folk”: Princess Ralu Callimachi (1867-1944) and Her Vision to Translate, Print and Distribute the Bible in Romanian
17.45 – 18.00
Concluding Remarks
Chair: John Coffey (University of Leicester)
Hilary M. Carey (University of Bristol)
Philipp David (University of Giessen)
David Bebbington (University of Stirling)
19.00 Dinner