Thursday, December 2, 2010
9.30 am – 10.00 am
Welcome and Introduction
Fashioning the Other
10.00 am – 10.30 am
Dolls as Transmitters of Western Culture and Modernity: Methodist Episcopal Missionary Magazines for Women and Children, 1869-1895
Janet Rice McCoy & Lisa Shemwell, Morehead State University
10.30 am – 11.00 am
Body Politics: Swedish Missionary Discourses on Hygiene
Hanna Acke, Universität Münster
Missionary Nationalism
11.30 am – 12.00 pm
Confessing to an Imperial Mission: Religious Youth Periodicals and the Battle for the Future in Turn-of-the-Century Germany
Jeff Bowersox, University of Mississippi
12.00 pm – 12.30 pm
Reading Boer Sub-imperialism of the 1890s in the Wesleyan Missionary Notices and the Berliner Missionsberichte
Lize Kriel, University of Pretoria
Modes of Nationalism
2.00 pm – 2.30 pm
Science for Mission and Empire: The Allgemeine Missions-Zeitschrift and Missionary Nationalism
Jeremy Best, University of Maryland
2.30 pm – 3.00 pm
Diverging Reports of European Politics and Colonial Aspirations in the Periodical Accounts and Missionsblatt
Felicity Jensz, Universität Münster
3.00 pm – 3.30 pm
Nation, Nationalism and Europe in Early 19th Century Missionary Periodicals: A Comparison of German and English Argumentations
Judith Becker, Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz
Friday, December 3, 2010
Creating the Nation
9.30 am – 10.00 am
Asserting the Mission, Defending the Nation: The transformation of the Lutheran mission Journal Freimund in April 1933
Christine Winter, University of Queensland
10.00 am – 10.30 am
An "Indigenous" Lutheran Mission Periodical in German and Australian Ruled "New Guinea" in the Pacific and Its Entangled Nature
Gabriele Richter, Universität Rostock
Constructing Missionary Politics
11.00 am – 11.30 am
Narrating Redemption: Autobiographies and Biographies of Converts in Late Nineteenth Century German Missionary Periodicals.
Albert Wu, University of California
11.30 am – 12.00 pm
The Lettres édifiantes et curieuses and the Politics of History in Different 19th Century Editions
Helge Wendt, Universität Mannheim
Missionary Discourses
2.00 pm – 2.30 pm
The "Indian Coolie Mission" in Fiji: Discourses of Labour, Religion and Race in the Australasian Methodist Missionary Review
Amelia Bonea, Universität Heidelberg
2.30 pm – 3.00 pm
Martyrdom, Solidarity, and Justification: Debating the Boxer War, 1900-1901
Thoralf Klein, Universität Erfurt / Universität Loughborough
Politics and World Religions
3.30 pm – 4.00 pm
The Gospel and Politics: The London Society and its missions to the Polish Jews, 1848-1855
Agnieszka Jagodzinska, University of Wroclaw
4.00 pm – 4.30 pm
The Image of Islam in Missionary Periodicals (1870-1930)
Armin Owzar, University of San Diego/ Universität Münster
4.30 pm – 5.00 pm
Discussion