Institute of Modern History

Workshop Series "Religious Knowledge in the Early Modern World" (Cambridge–Tübingen Workshops)

Since 2014, the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge and the Institute for Modern History at the University of Tübingen have organized the workshop series "Religious Knowledge in the Early Modern World" in cooperation between Prof. Dr. Ulinka Rublack and Prof. Dr. Renate Dürr and with the financial support of the DAAD Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies.

The resulting annual workshops provide opportunities for teaching staff, postdocs, and doctoral students from both universities to present their research, familiarize themselves with the different academic traditions, and extend their international scientific networks. The gatherings provide an interdisciplinary forum which, in addition to historians, has included scholars in disciplines such as anthropology, German Studies, Islamic Studies, and theology to promote dialogue across traditional disciplinary boundaries.

[Visit the relevant page on the website of the DAAD Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies]


Further information on the individual workshops in this series: [2017], [2016], [2015], [2014]


2017

Religion, Culture & Society in the Early Modern World (Religion, Kultur und Gesellschaft in der Frühen Neuzeit) (4. Cambridge–Tübingen Workshop), Cambridge, 18–19 September 2017.

Organized by Professor Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge), and Dr Stefan Hanß (Cambridge).

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Programme

Monday, 18 September 2017

Ivory figurine of St Anthony (Toni Malau), Angola, eighteenth centuryIvory figurine of St Anthony (Toni Malau), Angola, eighteenth century. Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (image edited by Dr Stefan Hanß).

9:00–9:15 Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge) and Renate Dürr (Tübingen), Welcome & Introduction
Experiencing Religious Identities
9:15–10:00 Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge), Recycling the Sacred: Material Culture & Cultural Memory in Post-Reformation England
10:00–10:45 Christina Farley (Cambridge), '[T]he livelier the counterfeit is, the greater error is engendered'?: Re-Assessing Vividness in Post-Reformation English Visual Culture
   
10:45–11:00 Coffee break
   
11:15–12:00 Emma Nicholls (Cambridge), Negotiating Convent Identities in Florentine Tuscany
12:00–12:15 Mary Laven (Cambridge), Commentary & Discussion
   
12:15–13:45 Lunch
   
Shaping the Ottoman Empire
13:45–14:30 Lejla Demiri (Tübingen), Doing Theology in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman World
14:30–15:15 Helen Pfeifer (Cambridge), Ottoman Salons & the Making of an Imperial Elite
15:15–16:00 Philip Hahn (Tübingen), A Patrician as Button Maker: Hans Ulrich Krafft in Tripoli (1574–77)
   
16:00–16:30 Coffee break
   
16:30–17:15 Tobias Graf (Tübingen), Knowing the 'Arch-Enemy': Austrian-Habsburg Intelligence in the Ottoman Capital in the Late Sixteenth Century
17:15–18:00 Christiane Ackermann (Tübingen), Imago Turci: 'Turk Plays'’' as a Focal Point in Premodern Media Transformations (Fifteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)
18:00–18:15 Stefan Hanß (Cambridge), Commentary & Discussion
   
19:30 Dinner

Tuesday, 19 September 2017

Religion & Power in the Spanish Americas
9:00–9:45 Irina Pawlowsky (Tübingen), Making Mission Spaces: Jesuit Geographical Knowledge & Cartography of the Upper Amazon
9:45–10:30 Marie Schreier (Tübingen), The Limits of Mission & Imperial Control: The Case of Early Modern Panama
   
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00–11:45 Laura Dierksmeier (Tübingen), Indigenous Knowledge as Enlightened Knowledge? A Priest's Defense of Herbs Prohibited by the Inquisition in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
Religion(s) in the Transatlantic World
11:45–12:30 Patrick McGhee (Cambridge), Sites of Unbelief in the Early Modern World
   
12:30–13:30 Lunch
   
13:30–14:15 Naomi Pullin (Warwick/Cambridge), 'A Holy Nation': The Transatlantic Quaker Community and the Problem of the American Revolution, c.1650-1775
14:15–15:00 Fabian Fechner (Hagen), Commentary & Discussion
   
   
15:00–15:30 General discussion




2016

Global Dimensions of European History (3rd Cambridge–Tübingen Workshop), Tübingen, 26–27 September 2016.


Organized by Prof. Dr. Renate Dürr, Dr. Anne Mariss, and Dr. Philip Hahn.


[Read the workshop report]


Programme

Monday, 26 September 2016

Portrait of an East India Company Official by Dip Chand, painted c. 1760-4
Portrait of an East India Company Official (probably William Fullerton of Rosemount) by Dip Chand, painted c. 1760–4. Via Wikimedia Commons

9:00–9:30 Welcome and introduction (Renate Dürr/Ulinka Rublack)


9:30–12:15 Panel 1: Ethnography, cartography and the transfer of knowledge
  • Katy Bond: Charles V and religious ethnographies
  • Irina Pawlowsky: Jesuit Geographic Knowledge and the Construction of the Amazon: Cartography between Empirical Knowledge, Missionary World Views and Political Claims
  • Lena Moser: "For the unreasonable, I care not a fig for them": The masters of the Royal Navy and the production and transfer of knowledge
  • Fabian Fechner: Commentary
  • Discussion

12:15–14:30 Lunch and break


14:30–18:30 Panel 2: Material cultures
  • Anne Mariss: "Por los ojos entre a los indios la fee": Jesuit pious practices in Mexico
  • Gabriele Alex: Shifting meanings and contested ownership – the role of ethnographic artefacts in the museum and the collections
  • Mary Laven: Madonnas and Miracles: Between the Micro and the Global
  • Ulinka Rublack: Commentary
  • Discussion

19:00 Dinner


Tuesday, 27 September 2016

9:00–10:30 Panel 3: Conflict and cohesion in early colonial societies
  • Sarah Pearsell: Missionaries, Marriage, and the Global in North America
  • Stephanie Mawson: Conflict and Conversion in the Seventeenth Century Philippines
10:45–12:15 Panel 4: Relations to the Ottoman Empire
  • Theodor Dunkelgrün: The Pentateuch's early modern Mediterranean
  • Yahya Nurgat: Space, Ritual and Religious Experience in the Ottoman Ḥajj

12:15–13:45 Lunch


13:45–15:00 Panel 3: Conflict and cohesion in early colonial societies (Fortsetzung)
  • Stefan Hanß: Tübingen – Istanbul – Cambridge: Habsburg–Ottoman Imagery in the Making, 1574/75
  • Helen Pfeifer: Commentary
  • Discussion
15:00–16:00 Concluding discussion (Chair: Renate Dürr)


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2015

Religious Knowledge in the Early Modern World (2nd Cambridge–Tübingen Workshop), Cambridge, 28–29 September 2015.

Organized by Prof Ulinka Rublack with the financial support of the Trevelyan Fund of the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

Programme

Monday, 28 September 2015

2–3 p.m. Session I: Keynote, chaired by Dr Simone Maganzani (Cambridge)
  • Prof Deborah Howard (Cambridge): Anabaptism in the Circle of Palladio and the Diffusion of Cross-Cultural Knowledge
3–4 p.m. Session II, chaired by Dr Gabriela Ramos (Cambridge)
  • Morgan Ring (Cambridge): Reading and Remembering the Golden Legend in Early Modern England
  • Steven Tong (Cambridge): Doctrine and Worship in the Liturgy of Mid-Tudor Evangelicals
  • Patrick McGhee (Cambridge): Knowing through Doubt in Seventeenth-Century England

4–4.30 p.m. Tea break

4.30–5.30 p.m. Session III, chaired by Dr Mary Laven (Cambridge)
  • Dr Helen Pfeifer (Cambridge): Good Muslim, Better Muslim: The Sunnitization of the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth Century

5.30 p.m. Tour of Cambridge and dinner

Tuesday, 29 September 2015

9.30–11 a.m. Session IV, chaired by Prof Renate Dürr (Tübingen)
  • Dr Fabian Fechner (Tübingen): Theological Examination, Discursive Knowledge and Negative Memory in Early Modern Peru
  • Laura Dierksmeier (Tübingen): Competing Visions of Childhood: Assistance to Orphans by Sixteenth-Century Mexican Confraternities

11–11.30 a.m. Tea and coffee break

11.30 a.m.–12.30 p.m. Session V, chaired by Prof Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge)
  • Katy Bond (Cambridge): Early Modern Costume Books' Fashioning of Religious Identity
  • Dr Anne Mariss (Tübingen): Between Religious Knowledge and Empirical Knowledge: Johann Reinhold Forster as Enlightened 'World Maker'

2014

Visualizing Religious Beliefs: Images, Spatial Contexts and Religious Practice in Early Modern Europe and Beyond (1st Cambridge–Tübingen Workshop), Tübingen, 29–30 May 2014.

Organized by Dr. Philip Hahn and Dr. Fabian Fechner.

[Read the workshop report]

Programme

Panel 1: Theological positions
  • Susanne Junk (Tübingen), How to recognize an angel at first sight: Lutheran uncertainties about visions
  • Coral Stoakes (Cambridge), The Jesuits and Visualizing the Apocalypse
  • Fabian Fechner (Tübingen), The Body of Christ in Early Colonial Peru – Visualizations between Miracle and Empirical Method
  • Andreas Holzem (Tübingen), Commentary
Panel 2: Spatial contexts
  • Daniela Blum (Tübingen), Churches in Sixteenth-Century Speyer: Sacral Buildings and Religious Beliefs in the Scope of the Protestant Reformation
  • Christian Kühner (Freiburg im Breisgau), The confessional as a tool of Tridentine Catholicism
  • Florian Bock (Tübingen), “Gute alte Gebräuch ...” – visualized space and arranged order in Catholic Baroque sermons
  • Suzanna Ivanic (Cambridge), Visual and material pious culture in seventeenth-century Prague households during recatholicization
  • Monique Scheer (Tübingen), Commentary
Keynote 1:

Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge), The Holy Maid of Wales: Visions, Politics, and Catholicism in Early Modern Britain

Panel 3: Creating Images
  • Philip Hahn (Tübingen), The power of images: early modern theories of sensory perception
  • Mary Laven (Cambridge), Picturing miracles in Renaissance Italy
  • Irene Cooper (Cambridge), Retouching the Rosary in Early Modern Italy
  • Renate Dürr (Tübingen), Count, survey, draw ... and believe? The debate on the Exodus of the Israelites in the eighteenth century
Keynote 2:

Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge), How symbolic was politics at the Augsburg Imperial Diet in 1530?

Final discussion