PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11
All sessions on Friday held at The McNeil Center for Early American Studies.

9:00 – Buses depart from the Nassau Inn to the McNeil Center.
Reservation only; space is limited so please contact the organizers to reserve a spot.

10:00 – 10:15
Coffee and Registration

10:15 – 10:30
Introductory Remarks

Stephanie Kirk, Washington University in St. Louis

Sarah Rivett, Princeton University

10:30 – 12:00
Panel I: Transforming Sacred Spaces and Languages

Chair: Stephanie Kirk, Washington University in St. Louis

Lisa Gordis, Barnard College
“Redeemed out of Languages": George Fox and the Babel of Human Language"

Carmen Fernández Salvador, Universidad de San Francisco, Quito, Ecuador
“Mapping the Amazon: Jesuit missionaries and the Imperial Frontier”

12:00 – 1:00
Lunch on your own

1:00 – 2:30
Panel II: Religion and the (Trans)Formation of Political Paradigms

Chair: Wendy Warren, Princeton University

David Hall, Harvard University
“Transatlantic Passages: the Reformed Tradition and the Politics of Writing”

Sandra Gustafson, University of Notre Dame
“Iconoclasts and Republicans”

2:30 – 4:00
Panel III: Piety, Conversion, and the Transformation of America

Chair: Rachel Price, Princeton University

Matt Cohen, University of Texas, Austin
“Believing in Piety?”

Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
“The Return as Mission: The Conversion Journey to Dahome of the Luso-Brazilian Catholic Priests, the Mulattos Cipriano Pires Sardinha and Vicente Ferreira Pires (1796-1798)”

4:00 – 5:30
Reception

Buses return from the McNeil Center to the Nassau Inn.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12
Saturday sessions held at Prospect House Presidential Dining Room, Princeton University.

8:30 – 9:00
Coffee

9:00 – 10:30
Panel IV: Religious Identities Transformed

Chair: Camilla Townsend, Rutgers University

Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland
“The Devil in the New World: Colonialism and Magic in the Sixteenth-century Atlantic World”

Asunción Lavrin, Arizona State University
“Dying for Christ: Martyrdom in New Spain”

10:45 – 12:15
Panel V: Colonial Exempla: Transformative Texts

Chair: Sarah Rivett, Princeton University

David A. Boruchoff, McGill University
“Exemplarity and Colonial Religious History”

Teresa Toulouse, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Pietas in Patrium: The Life of His Excellency, Sir William Phips"

12:15 – 1:45
Lunch

1:45 – 3:00
Concluding Session: Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas

Chair: Kathryn A. Gin, Princeton University

Stephanie Kirk, Washington University in St. Louis

Sarah Rivett, Princeton University

Departures

program conveners:

 Assistant Professor, English
 Princeton University

STEPHANIE KIRK
 Assistant Professor, Spanish
 Washington University in St. Louis

Please direct all inquiries to reltrans@princeton.edu.

We will make every effort to provide you with a prompt reply.

speakers:

Ralph Bauer
University of Maryland

David A. Boruchoff
McGill University

Matt Cohen
University of Texas, Austin

Carmen Fernández Salvador
Universidad de San Francisco
Quito, Ecuador

Júnia Ferreira Furtado
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Lisa Gordis
Barnard College

Sandra Gustafson
University of Notre Dame

David Hall
Harvard University

Asunción Lavrin
Arizona State University

Teresa Toulouse
University of Colorado, Boulder

panel chairs:

Kathryn Gin
Princeton University

Stephanie Kirk
Washington University in St. Louis

Rachel Price
Princeton University

Sarah Rivett
Princeton University

Camilla Townsend
Rutgers University

Wendy Warren
Princeton University

Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas is sponsored by The McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the American Studies Program of Princeton University. The conference will be held at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies on November 11, 2011 and at Princeton University on November 12, 2011.

Funding for this conference has been generously provided by:

The Stewart Fund for Religion and the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University, The American Studies Program at Princeton University, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, and the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University.