Jenna M. Gibbs (Florida International University/GHI Washington) and Sünne Juterczenka (University of Göttingen/GHI Washington)
Friday, May 24
9.00 – 9.30: Welcome and Opening Remarks
Axel Jansen (GHI Washington)
Jenna M. Gibbs (Florida International University/GHI Washington)
Sünne Juterczenka (University of Göttingen/GHI Washington)
9.45 – 11.45: Culture and Communications in Catholic Missions
Chair: Sünne Juterczenka (University of Göttingen/GHI Washington)
Renate Dürr (University of Tübingen): “Emotions in Jesuit Ethnography”
Eva M. Mehl (University of North Carolina, Wilmington): “Expanding Boundaries in the Catholic Spanish Empire: Spanish Augustinian Missionaries in China, 1680-1724”
1.45 – 3.45: Global Pietist Missions
Chair: Claudia Roesch (GHI Washington)
Markus Berger (University of Bamberg): “The Globality of Providence. A German Minister in New York City and his Views on Mission, God’s Kingdom on Earth, and the American Independence in the late 18th Century”
Jean DeBernardi (University of Alberta): “Pietism and the Globalization of Evangelical Christian Practice: The Open Brethren Movement in London, China, and Southeast Asia”
4.00 – 6.00: Slavery, Religion and Humanitarianism
Chair: Jan C. Jansen (GHI Washington)
Justine Walden (University of Toronto): “Antagonists of Empire: Slavery, Profit, and Italian Capuchins in Congo, 1641-1686”
Jake Griesel (University of Cambridge): “Paving the Way for Dutch Colonial Missions: Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein (c. 1717-47) and his Defence of Slavery”
Saturday, May 25
8.30 – 10.30: Theology and Ethnography
Chair: Peter H. Reill (University of California Los Angeles)
Jordan Kellman (University of Louisiana, Lafayette): “Franciscan Natural Theology and the Early 18th Century Francophone New World Encounter”
Roberto Chauca (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Equador, Ecuador): “Spanish Missionary Debates and the Transatlantic Configuration of Amazonian Ethnic Categories”
10.45 – 12.45: American Maritime Expansion
Chair: Jenna Gibbs (Florida International University/GHI Washington)
Sarah Crabtree (San Francisco State University): “Whaler, Traitor, Coward, Spy!: William Rotch, the Quaker Ethic & the Spirit of Capitalism”
Darin Lenz (Fresno Pacific University): “Immersed in Dependency: American Missionaries, Empires, and India in the 1830s”
1.45 – 3.45: Missions and Philanthropy
Chair: Elisabeth Engel (GHI Washington)
Ulrike Kirchberger (University of Kassel): “Footsoldiers of Globalization? The Pupils of Eleazar Wheelock’s ‘Indian Charity School’ in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World”
Manikarnika Dutta (University of Oxford): “Sailors’ Homes in the Nineteenth Century: A Global History”
3.45 – 4.00: Wrap up