Conferences

The Research project ‘Death in Early Protestant Tradition’ invites to a concluding conference in beautiful surroundings at Utstein Monastery, located at the southwest coast of Norway. 

The second RefoRC Conference 2012 will be held in Oslo May 10-12, 2012 at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Oslo (UiO).

Theme of plenary papers

The plenary papers of the second RefoRC conference 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.

Shortpapers and general attendance

The conference is open to shortpaper presentations and thematic sessions with two or three papers on all aspects of the 16th century reformations, independent of the theme of the plenary papers. Attendance of the conference without giving a paper is encouraged also.

Workshop in Copenhagen 18th-20th of November

Friday 18th of November: Excursion to Helsingør, Slangerup and Roskilde, led by Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen.

Saturday 19th and sunday 20th of November: Presentation of papers

The topic of the Workshop is "What was it to die?"

The intention is to focus on the concept of dying in the early protestant culture, as it appears in textual and visual sources from Scandinavia and the central protestant areas of Germany. The workshop will result in a publication.  

The project participates with four papers in this conference:

Jon O. Flæten (Oslo): Heinrich Suso’s Letter to a Dying Nun

Kristin Bliksrud Aavitsland (Oslo): Visualizing the Art of Dying in Early Protestant Scandinavia

Eivor A. Oftestad (Oslo): The “Sisters of Rachel”: Early Protestant Funeral Sermons and the Female Art of Dying

Bjoern Ole Hovda (Oslo): “Worse Than the Papists” – The Controversy Over the Lord's Supper in Danzig (Gdansk) 1561-1567: Presence and Practice – Theology and Confessional Politics.