Lunch for Conference Participants (12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.)

Welcome Remarks (1:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.)

Session I: Religious Actors in an Imperial World (1:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.)

Chair: Mira Siegelberg (Harvard University)

Elisabeth Engel (Free University Berlin)

Indigenizing Black Christianity in the South Atlantic: The African Methodist Episcopal Church, Ecumenical Internationalism, and the Modern World Mission in Colonial Africa, 1918-1939

Commentary: Richard Elphick (Wesleyan University)

Yukako Otori (University of Tokyo)

"Deutschlands Kinder danken Euch!": American Quakers' Child-Feeding in post-WWI Germany

Commentary: Michael McGuire (Emmanuel College)

Eva Payne (Harvard University)

Katharine Bushnell's "Great Crusade": Women, Religion, and Transnational Social Purity Reform, 1880-1920

Commentary: Connie Shemo (SUNY Plattsburgh)

Coffee Break (3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.)

Session 2: God, Law, and the Political Order (4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.)

Chair: David Armitage (Harvard University)

Giuliana Chamedes (Columbia University)

The Quest for Sovereignty: The Vatican in International Law after World War I

Commentary: Charles Gallagher (Boston College)

Hussein Alkhazragi (University of Geneva)

The Globalization of World Politics and Religion: Islam at the League of Nations

Commentary: David Northrup (Boston College)

Grainne McEvoy (Boston College)

"The More Favorable Distribution of Men on the Earth's Surface": Papal Doctrine, Catholic Thought, and the Immigration Debate in Post-World War II United States

Commentary: Darra Mulderry (Providence College)

Dinner (7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.)

Harvard Faculty Club

(By invitation only)

Keynote Speaker: John Berthrong (Boston University)

 

Friday, March 9

Breakfast for conference participants (9:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m)

Center for European Studies Foyer

Session 3: Historicizing Narratives of Civilization (10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.)

Chair: Philip Fileri (Harvard University)

Luca Maggioni (University of Florence)

Toynbee's Idea of Religion and Civilisation During the Cold War

Commentary: Michael Lang (University of Maine)

Heidi Kong (University of British Columbia)

Chinese Civilization Beyond Borders: Global Space, Capitalism, and Migration in the Nineteenth Century

Commentary: Karen Teoh (Stonehill College)

Doug Leonard (Duke University)

Reading African Civilization in Islamic Histories: French Colonial Scholars in West Africa, 1894-1926

Commentary: William Granara (Harvard University)

Lunch for Conference Participants (12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.)

Session 4: Religion in the Decade of Upheavals (1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.)

Chair: William Granara (Harvard University)

Lauren Turek (University of Virginia)

Kingdom or Empire? Billy Graham, the Congress on World Evangelization and the Theological Politics of Christian Missions in the 1970s

Commentary: Randall Balmer (Columbia University)

Lior Sternfeld (University of Texas at Austin)

Iran's Forgotten Sons: The Iranian Minorities During the Pahlavi Era and the Islamic Revolution, 1941-1989

Commentary: Roy Mottahedeh (Harvard University)

Victor McFarland (Yale University)

Saudi Arabia, Oil, and Islam in the 1970s

Commentary: Roger Owen (Harvard University)

Coffee Break (3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.)

Plenary Session (4:15 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.)

Chair: Erez Manela (Harvard University)

Randall Balmer (Columbia University)

Michael Lang (University of Maine)

Charles Maier (Harvard University)