2025 Spring Program and Symposium

Friday, 14 February 2025: Reformed Orthodoxy & Diplomacy

Sarah Rindlisbacher Thomi (Bern) 

“Exploring Reformed Orthodoxy in Seventeenth-Century Zurich: A Diplomatic Historian’s Perspective on a Neglected Era.”

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Friday, 7 March 2025: Jesuit Guides & Global Missions

Elisa Frei (Frankfurt am Main)

“Guiding Body & Soul: Practical and Spiritual Advice for Early Modern Jesuit Missionaries.”

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Friday, 11 April 2025: Colonialism, embodiment and the transatlantic slave trade

Pablo F. Gómez (UWisconsin-Madison)

“Aggregating Bodies: Slave Trade and the Imagination of Modern Corporeality.”

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Friday, 9 May 2025: Global Information History Workshop Symposium

“Archives and Information in the Early Modern World.”

Speakers: Vera Keller (University of Oregon), Markus Friedrich and Konrad Hirschler (both University of Hamburg) and Yael Sternhell (Tel Aviv University). Comment: Benjamin Steiner (University of Erfurt/LMU Munich).

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