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Conncting acadmics
The Reformation Research Consortium, RefoRC, as
the academic department within Refo500, wants
to connect academics and support them in their
research activities. Thereby RefoRC wants to col-
laborate as closely as possible with all the RefoRC
members and their scholars whose field of activity
is connected with the history and theology of the
reformation era.
RefoRC offers academics a varied program of con-
ferences, research support, academic studies etc.
Short paprs and gnral attndanc
The conference is open to short paper presenta-
tions and thematic sessions with two or t hree pa-
pers on all aspcts of th 16th cntury rforma-tions, independent
of the theme of the plenary
papers. Attendance of the conference without giv-
ing a paper is encouraged also.
Short paper proposals can be entered in the regis-
tration form at www.reforc.com. The deadline for
registration is February 1, 2012.
Thm of plnary paprs
Prparing for ath Rmmbring th ad
The plenary papers of the second RefoRC confer-
ence 2012 will cover both Northern Protestant
(mainly Lutheran and Reformed) and Southern
(mainly Catholic) Europe related to the question:
What changes did the Protestant Reformation and
the Catholic Reform bring about in the individual
and the collective dealings with death and the
dead? Comparative perspectives and new research
results will be presented.
Plnary paprs
Volker Leppin, Tbingen: Preparing the Death.
From the Late Medieval Ars Moriendi to the Lu-
theran Funeral Sermon
Helen Watanabe (Oxford) : A Gender Perspective
on Death and Burial Traditions in the 16th Cen-
tury
Peter Marshall (Warwick): After Purgatory. Death
and Remembrance in the Reformation World
Vanessa Harding (London): Personal and Politi-
cal: Burial in Early Modern England and France
Herman Selderhuis (Apeldoorn/Emden): The dy-
ing Calvinist. Death in Early Reformed Theology
Philipp Zitzlsperger (Berlin): Memoria in Rome.
Tombs of Elites in Early Modern Rome
Tarald Rasmussen (Oslo): The Uses of Compara-
tive Methods in Reformation History Martin Wangsgaard Jrgensen (
Copenhagen):
Spacing Death - Facing Death: Early Modern
Death Culture in Scandinavia
Thmatic sssions
Reformation at the Museum? A round-table dis-
cussion on arts museums and the 2017 jubilee
with participants from museums in Amsterdam,
Budapest, Heidelberg and Copenhagen.
Presenting ArtRefo. ArtRefo is the Refo500 sec-
tion coordinating various international projects
on visual arts, music and poetry.
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