Wednesday 5 Sept. 2012
14:00 Welcome & introduction
14:30 – 17:00
I Global players and humanitarian networks
Chair: Johannes Paulmann (Mainz)
Ian Tyrrell (Sidney)
American missionaries and moral reform in the conception and mobilisation of humanitarian transnational movements in the age of formal empire, 1898-1934.
Daniel Maul (Gießen)
»Lay upon us the burden of the world's suffering« - the Quakers transatlantic network of relief 1890-1940
Jeffrey Cox (Iowa City)
The invisibility of liberal Protestantism: from mission society to NGO in twentieth century Britain.
19:00
Filmvorführung:
Des hommes et des dieux, Frankreich 2010 (dir.: Xavier Beauvois)
screening and discussion (am Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte)
Thursday, 6 Sept. 2012
9:00 – 10:30
II Media and humanitarian mobilisation
Chair: Harald Fischer-Tiné (Zürich)
Alexandra Przyrembel (Essen/Göttingen)
Media, money, and empathy – missionary organizations and fundraising strategies in the 19th century
Michael Berkowitz (London)
From nationalization to refugee relief: photography, Zionist publicity and fundraising
11:00 – 13:00
III Gendering religious humanitarianism
Chair: Judith Becker (Mainz)
Harald Fischer-Tiné (Zürich)
Muscling in on Asia: the YMCA in India and Ceylon, c. 1890-1930
Pamela Walker (Ottawa)
Gender and British faith missions: the South Africa General Mission
Jana Tschurenev (Zürich)
Science, religion, morality: the Women’s Christian Temperance Union’s educational programs.
14:30 – 16:00
IV Religious humanitarianism in transition
Chair: Rebekka Habermas (Göttingen)
Mark R. Frost (Colchester)
Humanitarianism from the other side: snapshots from Britain’s Asian Empire, 1860-1920
Gwilym Beckerlegge (Milton Keynes)
Samnyasins (renouncers), jivanvratis (life-workers) and the growth of seva (service) as a sadhana (›spiritual discipline‹): a study of recent expressions of Hindu humanitarianism inspired by Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)
16:30 – 18:00
Chair: Vincent Viaene(Amsterdam)
Esther Möller (Mainz)
Adapting a Christian European organization to Islamic anticolonial needs: the Egyptian Red Crescent in the first half of the 20th century
Soumen Mukherjee (Berlin)
A ›liberal‹ and secular imagination: Islam and Ismaili ethics in the twentieth century
Friday, 7 Sept. 2012
9:00 – 10:30
V Civilising missions in and outside of Europe
Chair: Andreas Eckert (Berlin)
Thomas Weller (Mainz)
The long road to abolition: Spanish discourses on slavery in the nineteenth century
Bronwen Everill (Coventry)
Mission station and anti-slavery settlement: the civilising mission and humanitarian interventions in British Africa
11:00 – 12:30
Chair: Thomas David (Lausanne)
Felix Brahm (Bielefeld)
Protecting the interior: Missionary concerns and the politics of restricting the arms trade in East Africa, 1870s to 1890s
Dean Pavlakis (Buffalo)
Debating the role of religion in the Congo reform movement, 1896-1913
14:00 – 16:30
Chair: Alexandra Przyrembel (Göttingen)
Francesco Spöring (Zürich)
Spirits and spirituality: the Basle mission’s anti-alcohol activism between Switzerland and West Africa, c. 1880–1940
Nikolay Kamenov (Zürich)
Evangelicals and Tolstoyans: global connections and abstinence activism in Bulgaria
17:00 – 18:45
How to write a global history of humanitarianism:
Concluding discussion and perspectives
Veranstalter:
Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz
und
Professur Geschichte der Modernen Welt an der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich
Organisation:
Prof. Dr. Harald Fischer-Tiné
Prof. Dr. Johannes Paulmann
PD Dr. Alexandra Przyrembel
Die Konferenz wird gefördert vom DFG.
Information on participating / attending:
Anmeldungen werden erbeten an:
Stefanie Wiehl
Referat Veranstaltungen und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte
Alte Universitätsstr. 19
D-55116 Mainz
Tel.: 0049 (0) 6131-3939350
E-Mail: ieg4@ieg-mainz.de
Date:
09/05/2012 14:00 - 09/07/2012 18:45
Event venue:
Akademie des Bistums Mainz
Konferenzraum im »Haus am Dom«
Liebfrauenplatz 8
55116 Mainz
Rheinland-Pfalz
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, Students
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Cultural sciences, History / archaeology, Religion, Social studies
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference
Entry:
08/03/2012
Sender/author:
Stefanie Wiehl
Department:
Geschäftsführung / Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event40476
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