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04/10/2014 - 04/12/2014 | Mainz

European Missions in Contact Zones: Transformation through Interaction in a (Post-) Colonial World

Abschlussveranstaltung durchgeführt vom Projekt »Europabilder« des Leibniz-Instituts für Europäische Geschichte (BMBF-Nachwuchsforschergruppe 'Transfer und Transformation der Europabilder evangelischer Missionare im Kontakt mit dem Anderen, 1700-1970'/BMBF Junior Research Group 'Transfer and Transformation of Missionaries' Images of Europe in Contact with the Other, 1700–1970'.

Das Zusammentreffen von westlichen und nicht-westlichen Akteuren in der kolonialen und nachkolonialen Welt fand in contact zones statt und provozierte Veränderungen auf beiden Seiten des Kontakts. Die Konferenz stellt diejenigen Kontakte in den Mittelpunkt ihres Interesses, die im Kontext der Mission stattfanden, und zielt darauf ab zu untersuchen, was im Zusammentreffen von Personen mit unterschiedlichen religiösen, kulturellen, sozialen und politischen Hintergrund geschah: Wie veränderten sich ihre Denkkonzepte, Haltungen und Handlungsweisen? Was entstand in diesen Begegnungen und durch diese Begegnungen an Neuem – im westlichen wie im nicht-westlichen Kontext?

Thursday, 10 April 2014

9:15 a.m.
Judith Becker / Johannes Paulmann, Mainz
Welcome, Introduction

Chair: Johannes Paulmann, Mainz

General

9:30 a.m.
Jeffrey Cox, Iowa
Missionary Narratives of Anti-Conquest

Asia

10:15 a.m.
Judith Becker, Mainz
Liberated by Christ: Evangelical Missionaries and Slavery in Nineteenth Century South India

Chair: Thomas Weller, Mainz

11:30 a.m.
Peter James Yoder, Rome (GA)
‘Temples in the Hearts of Heathens’: Developments in August Hermann Francke’s Preaching after the Halle Missionaries’ Contact with India

12:15 p.m.
Sabine Hübner, Mainz
To Sigh before God: Prayer in the 18th Century Lutheran Mission in Tamil Nadu

Chair: Lucian Hölscher, Bochum

3 p.m.
Mrinalini Sebastian, Philadelphia/Mainz
Localized Cosmopolitanism and Globalized Faith: Echoes of ‘Native’ Voices in 18th and 19th Century Missionary Documents

3:45 p.m.
Andreas Heil, Mainz
One’s Own Concept Challenged: Western Missionaries Renegotiating the Concept of the Missionary in a Postcolonial World

5 p.m.
Rosemary Seton, London
Close Encounters, Racial Tensions: The Church of Scotland Mission in Calcutta [Kolkata], India

7:30 p.m.
Public Interview:
The Experience of the Missions in Decolonizing Countries
Andrew Walls and Roger Bowen interviewed by Brian Stanley on European Missions in Contact Zones

Friday, 11 April 2014

Chair: Ulrike Gleixner, Wolfenbüttel

9 a.m.
Andreas Nehring, Erlangen
Politics and Meditation: The Influence of Missions on the 19th Century Burmese Lay Reform Movement in Theravada Buddhism

9:45 a.m.
Thoralf Klein, Loughborough
How to Be a Contact Zone: The Missionary Karl Gützlaff between Nationalism, Transnationalism and Transculturalism, 1827–1851

Chair: Judith Becker, Mainz

Australia & Oceania

11 a.m.
Eva Bischoff, Trier
“To Do Good Spiritually and Temporarily to Fellow Men”: Quaker Missionaries and the Formation of Colonial Governmentality

11:45 a.m.
Felicity Jensz, Münster
Understandings of Religion within Australia: The Changing Conceptualisation of Christian and Indigenous Religion

Chair: Kocku von Stuckrad, Groningen

2:30 p.m.
Katharina Stornig, Mainz
Cultural Conceptions of Purity and Pollution: Childbirth and Midwifery in a New Guinean Catholic Mission, 1896–c. 1970

Africa I

3:15 p.m.
Silke Strickrodt, London
The Place of Missionary Education in Nineteenth-Century Freetown Society: Methodological Considerations

Chair: Helmut Thome, Halle/Saale

The Americas

4:30 p.m.
Ursula Lehmkuhl, Trier
“Christianity Accommodated”: Jesuits as Cultural Brokers at the American Frontier, 1840–1900

5:15 p.m.
Stefan Rinke, Berlin
A State Within a State? The “Jesuit State in Paraguay” and Eurocentric Constructions of Space

Saturday, 12 April 2014

Chair: Frieder Ludwig, Hermannsburg

9 a.m.
Michael Sievernich, Mainz
Comparing Ancient and Native Customs: Joseph Francois Lafitau and the “sauvages américains”

Africa II

9:45 a.m.
Rebekka Habermas, Göttingen
Mission and Gender: Sexual Politics in the Colonies around 1900

Chair: Esther Möller, Mainz

11 a.m. David Maxwell, Cambridge
Intimate Outsiders and Local Confidants: Missionaries and African Christians in the Contact Zone, Katanga, Belgian Congo, c. 1910s–1920s

11:45 a.m.
Heather Sharkey, Philadelphia
The Case of Henry Athanassian, an Armenian in the Suez Canal Zone: Questioning Assumptions about Missions and Missionaries

12:30 p.m.
Introduction & Chair: Brian Stanley, Edinburgh
Final Discussion

Information on participating / attending:
Die Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung ist kostenfrei.
Bitte richten Sie Ihre Anmeldung an Frau Ute Latz (latz@ieg-mainz.de oder 0049 (0) 6131-3939472).

Date:

04/10/2014 09:15 - 04/12/2014 13:00

Event venue:

Kardinal-Volk-Saal
Erbacher Hof, Akademie des Bistums Mainz Grebenstraße 5-7
55116 Mainz
Rheinland-Pfalz
Germany

Target group:

Scientists and scholars, Students

Email address:

Relevance:

transregional, national

Subject areas:

History / archaeology, Religion

Types of events:

Conference / symposium / (annual) conference

Entry:

02/24/2014

Sender/author:

Stefanie Wiehl

Department:

Geschäftsführung / Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

Event is free:

yes

Language of the text:

German

URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event46474

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