EMoDiR report (2019-2021)

EMoDiR Research Group Report 2019-2021 Edited by Helena Wangefelt Ström & Stefano Villani Table of Contents Introduction 3 EMoDiR Statutes (2018) 4 Associated Universities and Research Centers 7 Boards 8 Steering Committee 8 Executive Committee 8 Scientific Committee 9 List of Members 10 Events Organized by EMoDiR 15 EMoDiR workshop: Mapping Early Modern Religious Dissent. (Online, June 18, 2021) Panels Organized by EMoDiR at the Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America 15 17 Towards a Vocabulary of Dissent. (RSA, Toronto, March 17-19 2019) 18 Early Modern Anticlericalisms. (RSA, Toronto, March 2019) 19 RSA Virtual: Mapping Early Modern Religious Dissent. (Online, April 2021) 21 Events Co-Sponsored by EMoDiR 22 Conference series in Rome, Maryland, and Jerusalem 2019/20: THE JEWS IN ITALY DURING THE LONG RENAISSANCE 22 1. Sabbateanism in Italy and its Mediterranean context. (Rome, January 20-22 2019) 23 2. State Building and Minorities: Jews in Italy (College Park and Baltimore, May 5–7, 2019) 28 3. The Humanities and Social Sciences Fund Conference on Imagining the Renaissance / Defining the Jews. ( Jerusalem, January 12-15, 2020) 30 Connected Histories of Religion, Science & Other Objects. (University of Verona, July 18-19, 2019) 41 2nd History of Early Modern Spiritualism Symposium. (Amsterdam, July 10-11, 2019) 43 Online discussion: The Fall from Grace. Religious Skepticism and Sexuality in the Early Modern Mediterranean World. (May 9, 2020) 45 Online discussion: British Protestant Missions and the Conversion of Europe, 1600-1900. ( January 11, 2021) 46 A Cycle of Online Seminars: CURSED BLESSINGS. Sexual Pleasure and Radical Dissent in Western Christianity. (March, 2021). 47 Online book presentation: Donne e Inquisizione by Marina Caffiero and Alessia Lirosi (Online, March 16, 2021) 48 Online roundtable discussion of Massimo Firpo’s book on Pontormo’s Frescos in San Lorenzo. (May 17, 2021). 49 1 Online roundtable discussion on Tamar Herzig’s A Convert's Tale: Art, Crime, and Apostasy in Renaissance Italy. (Online, June 21, 2021). 49 Online roundtable: Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent: Naked, Veiled, Vilified, Worshiped. (Online, October 21, 2021). 50 EMoDiR Routledge Series 51 1. Simone Maghenzani, Stefano Villani (eds), British Protestant Missions and the Conversion of Europe, 1600-1900. (London: Routledge, 2020) 52 2. Elisabeth Fischer, Xenia von Tippelskirch (eds), Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent Naked, Veiled, Vilified, Worshiped. (2021) 54 EMoDiR Newsletter & Communication 56 Becoming a Member of EMoDiR 58 Forthcoming EMoDiR event 59 RSA 2022, Dublin: Under the Power of God: Trembling, Shaking, & Convulsions in Early Modern Practices and Imagination 59 RSA 2022, Dublin: Heritagization & Religion in Early Modern Times. Exploring the Disciplinary Crossroads between Heritage, Museums, and History 61 Support EMoDiR 63 2 Introduction We look back on difficult months in which due to the pandemic, international meetings suddenly became impossible, planning was made difficult, public funding for research became even more scarce, and many worried about the future. And yet, in this time, EMoDiR was able to win a number of new members, the digital formats gave rise to new forms of cooperation, and new ideas were successfully brought forward. A number of conferences had to be postponed or even cancelled, but there was no lack of opportunities for discussion - and several publications were brought to a happy conclusion. And that is what we would hope for in the near future: Intensive exchange on the topics that interest us all, namely Religious Dissent in all its facets, in a globally connected early modern world. EMoDiR (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism) is an international research group dedicated to the study of religious differences, conflicts and cultural pluralism in Europe during the early modern period. The group was first constituted at Pisa by a group of European scholars based in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the USA and the UK in 2007. A er four years, during which the members of the group met regularly and organized a series of workshops in Italy, EMoDiR formally instituted a scientific organization, based in Verona in 2011. Since then, scholars from a wide range of universities and research centers located in Europe, North America, Israel, and Australia have joined the group and a series of formal institutional partnerships have been established. EMoDiR has grown considerably in recent years, and what started as a small group now counts 168 members. The aim of the research group is to examine the early modern discursive constructions of religious dissent and the socio-cultural practices of radical movements and religious minorities. We seek to go beyond traditional historiographical boundaries (notably national and/or confessional). Since the ‘construction of the dissenter’ is the outcome of a complex process, it is necessary to analyze this process both in terms of internal and synchronic 3 dynamics, and of external and diachronic ones. We understand religious dissent as discourses, practices, attitudes, or habits that express tension with, or rejection of, the dominant socio-cultural dynamic, whether openly, clandestinely or unconsciously. Study of such dissent must be connected with a thorough reflection on the categories that inspire and structure the researchers’ own terminologies. From its very beginning EMoDiR has promoted research into the social networks of individuals and specific groups, as well as into the dynamics involved in constructing socio-cultural identities. By considering dissent as a socio-cultural construction rather than a doctrinal position, the first objective of the group consists in deconstructing and historically contextualizing such commonly used categories as dissent, radicalism, dissidence, libertinism, heresy, and heterodoxy as prerequisite to a critical and problematic use of them. Therefore EMoDiR is committed to gathering together a variety of research projects on early modern religious culture conceived as a multi-faceted and dynamic system. Analysis, both at local and transnational level (from a predominantly but not exclusively European perspective) is intended to contribute to a cultural and social history of dissent. We will do everything in our power to ensure that EMoDiR continues to play an active role in the international academic scene in the coming years. Xenia von Tippelskirch Helena Wangefelt Ström Umberto Grassi 4 EMoDiR Statutes (2018) EMODIR is governed by its Articles, and by Bylaws made under those articles. 1 – EMoDiR is an international research group focused on early modern religious dissents, conflicts, and pluralities. 2 – EMoDiR’s stated goals are: to promote national and international research projects; to organize seminars, conferences, and meetings between scholars; to facilitate communication about scholarly activities, interdisciplinary collaborations, published research, and works in progress; and to foster understanding, collaboration, and exchange with analogous national and international research centers. 3 – EMoDiR welcomes membership from institutions (universities or research centers), research groups, and individual scholars interested in the realm of religious dissent in the 15th-19th centuries. 4 – Institutions may stipulate their own membership guidelines and statutes either directly with EMoDiR, with a member institution, or among all the member institutions, according to local needs. The terms of the agreement must be approved by EMoDiR’s Steering Committee and by the institution in question. Each institution may name up to two representatives to join EMoDiR’s Scientific Committee. 5 – Individual scholars may join EMoDiR by the invitation of the Steering Committee, the Scientific Committee, or by applying and sending a curriculum vitae to the Membership Chair of the steering committee. Guidelines for this process and relevant contact information are available on the EMoDiR website. 6 – All members of EMoDiR are welcome to participate in General Assemblies. The Steering Committee will convene General Assemblies that will take place at least once every three years. 7 – At the General Assembly members will propose and discuss future research directions and scientific activities for EMoDiR. 5 Governing Bodies 8 –EMoDiR is governed by a Steering Committee and a Scientific Committee. 9 – The Scientific Committee proposes and discusses future research directions and upcoming seminars, conferences, and publishing initiatives. 10 – The Scientific Committee is composed of representatives from scholarly institutions that take part in the research group, from the founding members, and by other scholars at the invitation of the Scientific Committee. 11 – The Steering Committee is responsible for the normal administration and activity of the research group. 12 – The Steering Committee is composed of a coordinator, a secretary, and a treasurer who are elected by the General Assembly. 13 – The coordinator is also the president of the Scientific Committee. 14 – At the recommendation of the Steering Committee, the Scientific Committee will nominate an Executive Committee to be made up of members of EMoDiR to oversee strategic initiatives. The members of the Steering Committee are part of the Executive Committee. 15 – The task of the Executive Committee is to discuss, propose, and put into action the most appropriate initiatives for EMoDiR. 16 – All Steering and Executive Committee appointments hold a three-year term, they may be renewable, with no limits. 17 – Members of the Steering Committee, the Scientific Committee, and the Executive Committee may hold multiple appointments within EMoDiR. 18 – The EMoDiR statute can be modified with the vote of a simple majority at a Gathering of the General Assembly. 19 – The Steering Committee, Scientific Committee, and Executive Committee may meet remotely via teleconference. 20 – All matters not directly addressed in these statutes can be decided directly by the Steering Committee. (Voted on June 28, 2018, EMoDiR General Assembly, Verona) 6 Associated Universities and Research Centers EMoDiR was formally constituted as a scientific organization with its seat at the University of Verona, Dipartimento di Culture e civiltà (2011) Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2011) Centre de Recherches Historiques, École des Hautes Études de Sciences (EHESS), Paris (2012) Historisches Institut of the Ruhr Universität of Bochum (2012) Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park (2012) Institut d’Histoire de la Réformation, University of Geneva (2013) LERMA – Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone, University of Aix-Marseille (2014) Morris E. Curiel Institute for European Studies , Tel Aviv University (2015) Research unit Formes et idées de la Renaissance aux Lumières (FIRL–EA174) University of Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle (2015) Institut für Geschichtswissenscha en, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2016) DEaMoNs – Digital Early Modern Networks (2019) 7 Boards Steering Committee Coordinator: Xenia von Tippelskirch (Humboldt University, Berlin) Secretary: Umberto Grassi (University of Verona) Treasurer: Helena Wangefelt Ström (Uppsala University) Executive Committee EMoDiR Media Manager: Helena Wangefelt Ström Admission of New Members: Jean-Pierre Cavaillé Newsletter and Social Media: Manuela Bragagnolo/Alessandra Celati/Giselle Bernard Webmaster: Isabel Harvey/Elisabeth Fischer Logistics: Umberto Grassi Fundraising: Philip Soergel/Giovanni Tarantino/ Helena Wangefelt Ström EMoDiR Series: Federico Barbierato/Hannah Marcus Coordinator of the East European Network: Maria Ivanova Coordinator of the French Network: Sophie Houdard Coordinator of the German and Dutch Network: Andreas Pietsch Coordinator of the Israeli Network: Tamar Herzig Coordinator of the Italian Network: Adelisa Malena Coordinator of the North American Network: Bernard Cooperman Coordinator of the Swiss Network and cooperation with Institut d’Histoire de la Réformation: Daniela Solfaroli Camillocci Cooperation with the Renaissance Society of America: Stefano Villani Cooperation with International Society for Cultural History: Alessandro Arcangeli Cooperation with the Italian Research Program of National Interest-PRIN 2015 The Long History of Anti-Semitism: Serena Di Nepi Cooperation with Società di Studi Valdesi: Lucia Felici 8 Scientific Committee Alessandro Arcangeli (University of Verona) Federico Barbierato (University of Verona) Emese Balint (European University Institute) Jean-Pierre Cavaillé (EHESS, Paris) Bernard Cooperman (University of Maryland) Pierre-Antoine Fabre (EHESS, Paris) Nicolas Fornerod (University of Geneva) Tamar Herzig (Tel Aviv University) Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths, University of London) Sophie Houdard (University of Paris 3) Mario Infelise (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Adelisa Malena (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Philip M. Soergel (University of Maryland) Daniela Solfaroli Camillocci (University of Geneva) Xenia von Tippelskirch (Humboldt University, Berlin) Anne-Charlott Trepp (University of Kassel) Stefano Villani (University of Maryland) 9 List of Members Addante, Luca (University of Turin) Águeda García-Garrido, Manuela (University of Caen Normandie) Alibrandi, Rosamaria (University of Messina) Alfieri, Fernanda (Italian-German Historical Institute) Al Kalak, Matteo (University of Modena) Amato, J.G. (Stanford University) Arcangeli, Alessandro (University of Verona) Armando, David (Istituto per la storia del pensiero filosofico e scientifico moderno, Naples) Aron-Beller, Katherine (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Arsic, Ivana (Autonomous University of Barcelona) Balint, Emese (European University Institute) Barbierato, Federico (University of Verona) Baron, Sabrina (University of Maryland) Bauer, Stefan (University of York) Bernard, Mathilde (Paris Nanterre University) Bernardi, Teresa (University of Padua) Bernat, Chrystel (Protestant Institute of Theology, Montpellier) Berti, Silvia (Sapienza University of Rome) Biagioni, Mario (High School Amedeo di Savoia duca d’Aosta, Pistoia) Biasori, Lucio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) Birtachas, Stathis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Boeglin, Michel (University of Montpellier) Boillet, Élise (University of Tours) Boute, Bruno (Frankfurt University) Bragagnolo, Manuela (École Normale Supérieure, Lyon) Brok, Theo (VU University Amsterdam) Brunner, Benedikt (Leibniz-Institute for European History, Mainz) Caffiero, Marina (Sapienza University of Rome) Camaioni, Michele (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) Camden, Vera, J. (Kent State University) Cantillon, Alain (University of Paris 3) Cappuccilli, Eleonora (University of Olso) Cavaillé, Jean-Pierre (EHESS, Paris) 10 Cavarzere, Marco (University of Pisa) Celati, Alessandra (University of Verona/ Stanford University) Chayes, Evelien (Radboud University) Colavecchia, Stefano (University of Molise) Cooper, Brookelnn (Queen’s University) Cooperman, Bernard (University of Maryland) Corsi, Mattia (University of Padua) Courtney Kneupper, Frances (University of Mississippi) Curelly, Laurent (University of Upper Alsace) Cusumano, Nicola (University of Palermo) Dall’Aglio, Stefano (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Dall’Olio, Guido (University of Urbino) Deschamps, Marion (Centre Marc Bloch Berlin) Di Nepi, Serena (Sapienza University of Rome) Dipple, Geoffrey (University of Alberta) Dongu, Maria Grazia (University of Cagliari) Driedger, Michael (University of Brock) Dunan-Page, Anne (University of Aix-Marseille ) Dunkelgrün, Theodor (University of Cambridge) Duru, Audrey (University of Picardie Jules Verne) Eliav-Feldon, Miriam (Tel Aviv University) Engelhardt, Juliane (University of Copenhagen) Evrim Binbas, Ilker (Royal Holloway, University of London) Fabre, Pierre-Antoine (EHESS, Paris) Facchini, Cristiana (University of Bologna) Faini, Marco (University of Toronto) Falcone, Filippo (University of Milan) Felici, Lucia (University of Florence) Ferlan, Claudio (Italian-German Historical Institute) Fernandez Gonzalez, Luis (University of Toulouse) Fiorentini, Roberto (Center of Advanced Study in the Visual Arts – National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)) Fischer, Elisabeth (University of Hamburg) Font Paz, Carme (Autonomous University of Barcelona) Fornerod, Nicolas (University of Geneva) Fowler, Jessica (IE University Humanities Center) Frohnapfel-Leis, Monika (University of Erfurt) 11 Gabriel, Frédéric (CNRS, Lyon) Gagliardi, Isabella (University of Florence) Gard, Lennart (Free University of Berlin) Gehr, Damaris (Swiss Institute in Rome) Gibson, William (Oxford Brookes University) Gill, Catie (Loughborough University) Gimaret, Antoinette (University of Limoges) Giordano, Maria Laura (Universitat Abat Oliba CEU) Goeury, Julien (University of Picardie Jules Verne) Gotor, Miguel (University of Turin) Grassi, Umberto (University of Verona) Green, Sarah (University of Bristol) Hardy, Martine (University of Montreal) Harvey, Isabel (Humboldt University, Berlin) Hatzopoulos, Marios (Panteion University Athens) Herzig, Tamar (Tel Aviv University) Hessayon, Ariel (Goldsmiths, University of London) Hill, Katherine (Birkbeck, University of London) Hillman, Jennifer (Queen Mary University of London) Houdard, Sophie (University of Paris 3) Infelise, Mario (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Ivanova, Maria (McGill University, Montreal) Jone Intxaustegi Jauregi, Nere (University of Deusto) Juterczenka, Sünne (Göttingen University) Kirwan, Richard (University of Limerick) Kostylo, Joanna (British School at Rome) Laborie, Lionel (Goldsmiths, University of London) Lavenia, Vincenzo (University of Bologna) Lazzerini, Luigi (Independent Scholar) Lee, Seth (University of Alabama-Huntsville) Leta, Matteo (Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, Naples) Lodone, Michele (University of Venice) Lurgo, Elisabetta (University of Piemonte Orientale) Maghenzani, Simone (University of Cambridge) Maifreda, Germano (University of Milan) Malena, Adelisa (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Mampieri, Martina (University of Roma Tre) 12 Manning, David (University of Leicester) Marconcini, Samuela (Mantua State Archive) Marcus, Hannah (Harvard University) Mariani, Giacomo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) Marías, Clara (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Martin, Lucinda (University of Erfurt) Mascetti, Yaakov (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Mathieu, Jeanne (University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès) Mattei, Francesca (University of Roma Tre) Mithen, Nick (European University Institute Florence) Modena, Giulia (University of Verona) Monge, Mathilde (University of Toulouse) Moreno, Doris (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) Müller, Thomas T. (Mühlhäuser Museen) Muratori, Cecilia (University of Warwick) Olar, Ovidiu (Romanian Academy) Petrolini, Chiara (University of Macerata) Piana, Marco (Smith College, MA) Pietsch, Andreas (University of Münster) Piguet, Louise (University of Artois) Pirillo, Diego (University of California, Berkeley) Piron, Sylvain (EHESS, Paris) Pitassi, Maria-Cristina (University of Geneva) Preston, VK (University of Toronto) Pullin, Naomi (University of Cambridge) Quatrini, Francesco (Queen’s University of Belfast) Räisänen-Schröder, Päivi (University of Helsinki) Régent-Susini, Anne (University of Paris 3) Roads, Judith (University of Birmingham) Roscioni, Lisa (University of Parma) Rothkegel, Martin (Elstal Theological Seminary) Salvadori, Stefania (Herzog August Bibliothek) Schindler, Kilian (University of Fribourg) Schroeder, Nina (Vrije University, Amsterdam) Schulz, Adrina (University of Zürich) Schunka, Alexander (Free University of Berlin) Seiling, Jonathan (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies) 13 Selzner, Cyril (Panthéon-Sorbonne University) Sennefelt, Karin (Stockholm University) Shamir, Avner (University of Copenhagen) Sierhuis, Freya (University of York) Sly, Jordan (University of Maryland) Smith, Nigel (Princeton University) Soergel, Philip (University of Maryland) Solera, Dennj (University of Padua) Solfaroli Camillocci, Daniela (University of Geneva) Suitner, Riccarda (University of Erfurt) Tarantino, Giovanni (University of Melbourne) Terracciano, Pasquale (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) Tippelskirch, Xenia von (Humboldt University, Berlin) Titone, Fabrizio (University of the Basque Country) Trepp, Anne-Charlott (University of Kassel) Valente, Michaela (University of Molise) Vega, María José (Autonomous University of Barcelona) Vettore, Luca (Independent scholar) Villani, Stefano (University of Maryland) Wangefelt Ström, Helena (Uppsala University) Ward, James (New York) Waite, Gary K. (University of New Brunswick) Zen, Stefano (ISIS “E. DE NICOLA” Napoli) Zuber, Mike (University of Amsterdam) 14 Events Organized by EMoDiR EMoDiR workshop: Mapping Early Modern Religious Dissent. (Online, June 18, 2021) This workshop wanted to draw on recent research on entangled and global history to focus on the study of the modalities of religious spatialization, whether they be plural forms of belonging or the superimposition of religious territories and routes of dissent in the early modern era. Far from simply wanting to revisit the concept of confessional space, with its frontiers and norms of exclusion, we invited participants to focus on the social and argumentative anchoring of dissenting positions, to observe the ways in which individuals, ideas, books, and objects circulated. By analyzing material or metaphorical space(s), the conference's main emphasis was thus on ideological, sexual, and ritual movements, organized openly or clandestinely, in opposition as well as in negotiation with religious authorities. Specific attention paid to religious territorializations and their dissolution in early modern times allowed us to reconsider our own cartographies of dissent. 15 The distribution of EMoDiR members as per summer 2021 (a special thanks to Katharina von Böhm-Bezing und Manuela Kästl from Tübingen University for compiling the map) 16 Panels Organized by EMoDiR at the Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America Since 2011, EMoDiR has participated regularly in the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA). The EMoDiR sessions followed the announced core of the conference. Since 2014, EMoDiR has been in the RSA associated organizations. The representative of the group to the RSA is Stefano Villani, University of Maryland. 17 Towards a Vocabulary of Dissent. (RSA, Toronto, March 17-19, 2019) 18 Early Modern Anticlericalisms. (RSA, Toronto, March 17-19, 2019) 19 20 RSA Virtual: Mapping Early Modern Religious Dissent. (Online, April 2021) 21 Events Co-Sponsored by EMoDiR Conference series in Rome, Maryland, and Jerusalem 2019/20: THE JEWS IN ITALY DURING THE LONG RENAISSANCE See also the conference blog, https://jewsitalylongrenaissance.wordpress.com The University of Maryland in College Park, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, the Italian Research Program of National Interest-PRIN 2015 The Long History of Anti-Semitism, and the International Research Group in Early Modern Religious Dissents & Radicalism EMoDiR hosted an exciting series of three conferences during 2019-20 on the history of Jews in Italy during what is called the “long Renaissance.” These meetings seeked to explore forms of cooperation, imitation, exchange, alliance, and interaction between Jews and Christians in early modern Italy. The research project seeks to challenge the traditional paradigm that looks at the history of Christian-Jewish interactions only through the prism of anti-Semitism. Also, the project seeks to demonstrate strategies of coexistence between different religions and cultures, strategies that helped to shape early modern European political and social history and were instrumental in defining what has been defined as Modernity. Social media summary from all three conferences: https://my.walls.io/t5xsk? clid=IwAR0fCPQJEJANsg05DmM73IQFyMlA7bH__ DVWqlwSguam0xFIiU7pZy-9lqk 22 1. Sabbateanism in Italy and its Mediterranean context. (Rome, January 20-22 2019) 23 24 25 26 Some snapshots from the Sabbateanism conference in Rome... 27 2. State Building and Minorities: Jews in Italy (College Park and Baltimore, May 5–7, 2019) 28 29 3. The Humanities and Social Sciences Fund Conference on Imagining the Renaissance / Defining the Jews . ( Jerusalem, January 12-15, 2020) 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 Exciting papers, engaging discussions, stunning surroundings, and good food in Jerusalem: 39 The Jerusalem conference trended on Twitter in Israel three days in a row...! Find a social media summary from all three conferences here: https://my.walls.io/t5xsk? clid=IwAR0fCPQJEJANsg05DmM73IQFyMlA7bH__DVWq lwSguam0xFIiU7pZy-9lqk 40 Connected Histories of Religion, Science & Other Objects. (University of Verona, July 18-19, 2019) Workshop organized by Alessandra Celati and Federico Barbierato in collaboration with DEaMoNs (Digital Early Modern Networks). 41 Connected histories and connecting discussions in Verona 42 2nd History of Early Modern Spiritualism Symposium. (Amsterdam, July 10-11, 2019) 43 The proceedings of this symposium were published in a special issue on “Spiritualism in Early Modern Europe,” edited by Michael Driedger, Gary K. Waite, Francesco Quatrini, and Nina Schroeder, Church History and Religious Culture, vol. 101/2-3 (2021): https://brill.com/view/journals/chrc/101/2-3/chrc.101.issue-2-3.xml 44 Online discussion: The Fall from Grace. Religious Skepticism and Sexuality in the Early Modern Mediterranean World. (May 9, 2020) 45 Online discussion: British Protestant Missions and the Conversion of Europe, 1600-1900. ( January 11, 2021) This discussion is also available on our YouTube channel. 46 A Cycle of Online Seminars: CURSED BLESSINGS. Sexual Pleasure and Radical Dissent in Western Christianity. (March, 2021). Marie Skłodowska Curie Project SPACES (Dr. Umberto Grassi) PoliTeSse Research Centre (University of Verona) – History Dpt. (University of Maryland) Funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement n. 795514 47 Online book presentation: Donne e Inquisizione by Marina Caffiero and Alessia Lirosi (Online, March 16, 2021) 48 Online roundtable discussion of Massimo Firpo’s book on Pontormo’s Frescos in San Lorenzo. (May 17, 2021). Online roundtable discussion on Tamar Herzig’s A Convert's Tale: Art, Crime, and Apostasy in Renaissance Italy . (Online, June 21, 2021). 49 Online roundtable: Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent: Naked, Veiled, Vilified, Worshiped. (Online, October 21, 2021). 50 EMoDiR Routledge Series Titles in the Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism series address the discursive constructions of religious dissent and the practices of radical movements in the early modern world. The series transcends traditional national and confessional historiographies to examine early modern religious culture as a dynamic system that was essential in forging complex identities and encouraging dialogue among them. The editors seek manuscripts that consider questions of dissent, radicalism, dissidence, libertinism, heresy, and heterodoxy, and examine these themes historically as socio-cultural constructions. Series Editors Federico Barbierato Hannah Marcus Stefano Villani Xenia von Tippelskirch 51 1. Simone Maghenzani, Stefano Villani (eds), British Protestant Missions and the Conversion of Europe, 1600-1900. (London: Routledge, 2020) Contents: Simone Maghenzani, Stefano Villani, Introduction; Section I: Missionary Models: 1. Simon Ditchfield ‘One World is not enough’: the ‘myth’ of Roman Catholicism as a ‘World Religion’; 2. John Coffey, The Jesuits have shed much blood for Christ’: Early Modern Protestants and the Problem of Catholic Overseas Missions. Section II. The Origins of Global Protestantism: 3. Joan Redmond (Re)making Ireland British: Conversion and Civility in a Neglected 1643 Treatise ; 4. Sünne Juterczenka, Charting the ‘Progress of Truth’: Quaker Missions and the Topography of Dissent in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe ; 5. Simone Maghenzani, The English and the Italian Bible. Section III. Missions 52 and Church Unifications in the Age of the Enlightenment: 6. Catherine Arnold, “True Catholic Unity”: The Church of England and the Project for Gallican Union, 1717-1719; 7. Adelisa Malena, “Promoting the Common Interest of Christ” H.W. Ludolf’s ‘impartial’ Projects and the Beginnings of the SPCK ; 8. Sugiko Nishikawa (Tokyo) – Between Anti-popery and European Missions: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and its Networks . Section IV. A British Missionary Land: 9. David Bebbington, The Evangelical Transformation of British Protestantism for Mission ; 10. Brent S. Sirota, The London Jews’ Society and the Roots of Premillenialism, 1809-1829 ; 11. Gareth Atkins, Missions on the Fringes of Europe: British Protestants and the Orthodox Churches, c. 1800-1850; Section V. Making Propaganda, Making Nations: 12. G. Alex Bremner, Sermons in Stone: Architecture and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts within the Diocese of Gibraltar, c.1842-1882; 13. Michael Ledger-Lomas, The Land of Calvin and Voltaire: British Missionaries in Nineteenth-century Paris. Book launches: (See also Co-sponsored events) 1) January 11, 2021. A roundtable with Hannah Marcus (Harvard), Hilary Carey (Bristol) and Alec Ryrie (Durham). The event has been recorded and you can watch it on youtube at this address: https://youtu.be/1ahkXkfcajc 2) February 11, 2021, A seminar organized by the "Early Modern World History seminar of the Cambridge History Faculty", where our book was presented together with Ulinka Rublack (ed.), Protestant Empires: Globalising the Reformations (Cambridge, 2020). 53 2. Elisabeth Fischer, Xenia von Tippelskirch (eds), Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent Naked, Veiled, Vilified, Worshiped. (2021) Contents: Part 1: Prologue: 1. Xenia von Tippelskirch, Introduction. Corporeality and Early Modern Religious Dissent; 2. Gianna Pomata, Body, Remember: A Plaidoyer for the History of the Body’s Expressiveness. Part 2: Body and Soul: 3. Julian Herlitze and Anne-Charlott Trepp, "God be Praised that I did not Sweat to Death." The Power of the Body and Martin Luther’s Concept of Melancholy ; 4. Vera Faßhauer, A Pure Abode for an Unblemished Soul: Medical, Spiritual, and Political Significances of Bodily Characteristics in Johann Christian Senckenberg’s Journals; 5. Benjamin Pietrenka, Bloody Bodies: Embodied Moravian Piety in Atlantic World Travel Diaries, 1735-1765. Part 3: Naked/Veiled: 6. Robert Jütte, "[…] that we strip them all bare and naked" (Hans Folz) — Nakedness as a 54 Physical Practice in the Religious Dissent between Jews and Christians in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times ; 7. Jean-Pierre Cavaillé, From Quakers to Femen. Practices in Protest Nudity; 8. Julien Goeury, The Postures and Impostures of Clothing: Jean de Labadie’s Sartorial Ambiguities . Part 4: Bodies in the Contact Zone: 9. Vincenzo Lavenia, Contaminating Infidels, Burnt Bodies, and Saved Souls: Sodomy and Catholicism in the Early Modern Age ; 10. Michael Leemann, Like Squirrels: Religious Dissent and the Body of the "Savage" in Marie de l’Incarnation’s Writings; 11. Sünne Juterczenka, Corpses in the Contact Zone: Holy Bodies as Ambivalent Signifiers in the Seventeenth-Century French Canadian Missions. Part 5: Holy Bodies: 12. Jutta Sperling, Observing the Observant Self: Female Reader Portraits, Marian Imagery, and the Emergence of Skepticism in Illuminated Prayer Books and Devotional Art (ca. 1475-1566) ; 13. Elisabeth Fischer , Mysticism and Sanctity in the Eighteenth Century: The Stigmatized Body of Maria Columba Schonath (1730–1787), Poor Souls, and the Discernment of Spirits. Book launch: (See also Co-sponsored events) October 21, 2021. An online roundtable discussion with Hannah Marcus (Harvard), Lyndal Roper (Oxford), and Karin Sennefelt (Stockholm). Forthcoming volumes 3. Mathilde Monge, Natalia Muchnik, Early Modern Diasporas A European History (2022) 4. Marina Caffiero, The History of the Jews in Early Modern Italy From the Renaissance to the Restoration (2022) 5. Damien Tricoire, Lionel Laborie (eds), Apocalypse, Back Then: Connected Histories of Eschatological Movements in Early Modern Times (2022) 6. Alessandra Celati, The World of Girolamo Donzellini: A Network of Heterodox Physicians in Sixteenth-century Venice (2022) 55 EMoDiR Newsletter & Communication Newsletter Through our newsletter we share information on research activities, conference participation, workshops, and recent publications on the subject of Early Modern religious Dissents and Radicalism. To contribute items for circulations please contact: [email protected] To subscribe to the list go to: https://sympa.cms.hu-berlin.de/sympa/subscribe/emodir_news EMoDiR Webpage For more information on EMoDiR’s long-term goals, go to https://emodir.hypotheses.org. Here you will find more about the themes of our work, about our members, and our activities, as well as useful links to the broader field. Academia On EMoDiR’s Academia page https://independent.academia.edu/EMoDiRResearchGroup you will find news and posters of all events organized or co-sponsored by our research group, calls for papers, and our newsletters and publications. 56 Humanities Commons https://hcommons.org/groups/emodir-early-modern-religious-dissents-and-rad icalism/ Facebook Join us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/emodir/?fref=ts to get the latest updates on our activities, as well as news in the field. This channel is updated frequently. Twitter Through our Twitter account @_EMoDiR_ you can follow our activities as they happen, through live tweets and photos from conferences and workshops. Instagram https://www.instagram.com/emodirresearchgroup/ YouTube channel Occasionally, and when possible respecting copyrights, we publish recordings of events in our YouTube channel. EMoDiR Media Manager: Helena Wangefelt Ström Isabel Harvey (webpage) 57 Becoming a Member of EMoDiR We welcome new members who are working in our field. To express interest in becoming a member of EMoDiR, please submit a CV and a list of selected publications to Jean-Pierre Cavaillé, [email protected]. 58 Forthcoming EMoDiR event RSA 2022, Dublin: Under the Power of God: Trembling, Shaking, & Convulsions in Early Modern Practices and Imagination 59 The Body as Prophetic Theatre Chair David Armando 1. Stefano Villani, The Body as Prophetic Theater in seventeenth-century Quakers 2. Pawel Maciejko, The Unlearned Body of Sabbatianism. 3. Carme Font Paz, ‘Sweet is to feel Life’s Blood’: Ecstatic Bi-location and Psychomagia in Jane Leade’s The Heavenly Cloud Now Breaking (1681) Prophetic Charisma and Gender Chair Xenia von Tippelskirch 1. Eleonora Cappuccilli, The Gendered Body as Medium of Prophetic Charisma in Domenica da Paradiso 2. Isabel Harvey, The “Accidenti” of the Dominican Reform: Political Uses of Women Ecstatic Convulsions in Tridentine Naples 3. Richard Todd Yoder, The Heart of Judith: Jansenism and the Gendered Epistemology of Religious Convulsions Questions of Discernment Chair Helena Wangefelt Ström 1. Mario Biagioni, The Reason and the Body (Christian Francken) 2. Kevin Killeen, Holy Frenzy: The Bedlamesque Word in Anna Trapnel 3. Xenia von Tippelskirch, 4. Karin Sennefelt, “Writhing like a worm”: Convulsions and shaking from orthodox acceptance to radical practice, Sweden 1650-1750 Constructing Categories Chair Federico Barbierato 1. Judith Roads, Early Quaker identity: the perspective of some ecclesiastical anti-Quakers 2. Clara Marías, “Demonic possession or the divine: the bodily manifestations from the Catholic and reformed perspective (Spain, 17th century)” 3. Jen Edwards, ‘Suffering ecstasy’: Diagnosing Trances in Early Modernity 4. David Armando, 'In All times, in Every Country'. XVIIIth century debates and the construction of a genealogy of early modern convulsionarism and prophetism 60 RSA 2022, Dublin: Heritagization & Religion in Early Modern Times . Exploring the Disciplinary Crossroads between Heritage, Museums, and History 61 In this roundtable scholars and museum or other heritage professionals from different disciplines will seek to identify and discuss some key questions in the intersection between heritage (as a concept), heritagization (as a process), historiography, and sensitive religion such as religious dissent, oppressed beliefs, etc. Since heritage studies methodology is a field under development, and particularly so in a context of history and historical sources, this discussion provides an occasion to explore and suggest new and fruitful approaches, methodologies, and interdisciplinary collaborations could make a valuable starting point for further work in this field. See our CFP for further introduction to the theme: https://emodir.hypotheses.org/2000 Organizers Federico Barbierato (Università di Verona) Helena Wangefelt Ström (Uppsala University) Chair Federico Barbierato Participants ● Sabina Brevaglieri (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) ● Vera Camden (Kent State University, Case Western Reserve University, and Emodir Research Group) ● Liesbeth Corens (Queen Mary, University of London) ● Luigi Lazzerini (Independent scholar) ● John Reeve (UCL Institute of Education, and RCHG: Religion, Collections & Heritage Group) ● Helena Wangefelt Ström (Uppsala University and Emodir Research Group) ● Henrik Ågren (Uppsala University) 62 Support EMoDiR EMoDiR has initiated and supported scholarly research, conferences and workshops, publications and networking since 2007. We are developing our group and our ways of collaboration, and we hope to expand geographically and thematically. 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