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21.-22.07.2022

The Pursuit of Science in Conservative Religious Settings since 1945

Conveners: Stefanie Coché (JLU Gießen), Sophia Egbert (a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne), Axel Jansen (GHI Washington)

 

 

Workshop Programm

 
Thursday, July 21, 2022

1pm - 1.30pm
Welcome and introduction by Stefanie Coché and Axel Jansen

1.30pm - 2.30pm
David Mislin (Temple University, Philadelphia), 'Science Beyond College Walls: Conservative
Catholic Institutions, Their Communities, and the Modern Culture War '
Chair: Almuth Ebke (U Mannheim)
Comment: Michael Hochgeschwender (LMU Munich)

2.45pm - 3.45pm
Axel Jansen (GHI Washington), 'Vatican Support of Biomedical Research '
Chair: Manuel Franzmann (U Kiel)
Comment: Michael Hochgeschwender (LMU Munich)

4pm - 5pm
Rachel Pear (University of Haifa), "'Torah U'Mada' (Religion and Science): Yeshiva University in New York '
Chair: Axel Jansen (GHI Washington)
Comment: Greg Eghigian (Penn State)

5.30pm - 6.30pm
Lecture by Adam Laats (Binghamton, NY), 'Institutionalizing Dissenting Science: American
Creationism and Conservative Colleges'
Chair: Stefanie Coché (U Gießen)

8pm Conference dinner at Café & Restaurant Riphahn, Apostelnkloster 2, 50672 Köln

 

Friday, July 22, 2022

9am - 10am
Joel Barnes (Melbourne), 'Evolutionary Science in Denominational Colleges at Australian
Universities since 1945 '
Chair: Axel Jansen (GHI Washington)
Comment: Jana Hofmann (U Bielefeld)

10.15am - 11.15am
Sophia Egbert (U Cologne), The Rise of  'Christian Psychology' and Its Historical Contexts,
or: How Fuller Theological Seminary Advocated for Their Clinical Psychology Graduate
Programs in the 1960s '
Chair: Stefanie Coché (U Gießen)
Comment: Greg Eghigian (Penn State)

11.30am - 12.30pm
Zilola Khalilova (Academy of the Sciences, Uzbekistan), 'Political Science and Secularism in
Madrassas in Soviet Uzbekistan'
Chair: Axel Jansen (GHI Washington)
Comment: Martin Riexinger (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark)

12.30pm - 1.30pm: Lunch

1.30pm - 2.30pm
M. Alper Yalcinkaya (Ohio Wesleyan U, Delaware OH), 'Religion and Science in Turkey in the
1950s ́
Chair: Stefanie Coché (U Gießen)
Comment: Martin Riexinger (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark)

2.45pm - 3.30pm
Concluding discussion
Discussant: Almuth Ebke (U Mannheim) and Manuel Franzmann (U Kiel); Chair: TBD