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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · 1d

This @lectio-institute.bsky.social Junior Initiative explores the production of knowledge in the early modern era, critically examining what defined knowledge as “academic” and why certain forms of inquiry were excluded from universities.

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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · 7d

What a fantastic place to open #REFORC2026 in Wrocław. Thank you for the warm welcome, Aleksandra Lipińska (Cologne) and Katharina Opalka (Bonn)!

#earlymodernchristianity #materiality #aulaleopoldina #conference

REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · 13d

Call for Proposals:
Writing of the Transcendental in Egodocuments

conference at the @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social in Kraków, March 12-14, 2026.

tinyurl.com/4fk5w4pm

REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · 16d

Welcome to #REFORC2026 and to present your Early Modern Christianity research!

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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · 19d

We congratulate Riccarda Suitner (University of Rome Sapienza) for winning the prestigious Premio Desiderio Pirovano 2024 Prize for her book "Venice and the Radical Reformation. Italian Anabaptism and Antitrinitarianism in European Context", published in our R5AS series.

tinyurl.com/f2zut4u5

REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · 22d

Today in Prešov, Ulrich Wien (Landau) presented the new REFORC series “Studies of Early Modern Christianity in Central Europe”, published by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social inviting scholars to submit manuscript proposals:

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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · 22d

Welcome to Portland! You are cordially invited to attend the REFORC supported session at the 2025 conference of the Sixteenth Century Society, entitled “Bibles and Books: Sources of Reformation Theology”, November 1.

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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · 22d

Today we are at the University of Prešov for the international conference "Transfer of Knowledge and Scholarship in the academic world of Early Modern Central Europe", which is now being opened by Rector Prof. Peter Kónya

REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · 27d

Fluchtpunkt 1525? Internationales Symposium

Religiöse, politische und soziale Empörung und ihre Medien vor und um 1500. Symposium der Europäischen Melanchthon-Akademie Bretten in Zusammenarbeit mit dem KIT Karlsruhe, 6.-8. November 2025.

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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · Sep 2

Yesterday, during the opening of the academic year at TUA in Apeldoorn, the completely revised fifth edition of the "Handboek Nederlandse kerkgeschiedenis" was presented. Wonderful to see so many people together who made this possible! Thank you all! (Also those who are not on the picture).

REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · Aug 29

Zwischen Duldung und Teilhabe. Täufer und ihr Obrigkeitsverständnis

Internationale Tagung in Emden im Rahmen des Editionsprojekts „Das Ringen um Integration und Selbstbehauptung: Der Briefwechsel der ostfriesischen Mennonitin Antje Brons, geb. Cremer ten Doornkaat (1810–1902)“

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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · Aug 28

The Synod of Dordrecht (1618–1619) has monumental significance for Reformed churches. While officially assembled for the provinces of the Netherlands, it gathered an international cast of delegates to solidify a pan-European accord on Reformed doctrine.

tinyurl.com/3j32sc6u

REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · Aug 26

Volume 109 in our #R5AS series:

tinyurl.com/5yjku7we

#luther #disputation #heidelberg @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · Aug 25

Die Europäische Melanchthon-Akademie Bretten vergibt ein Qualifikationsstipendium, Mit diesem Stipendium soll die Diskussion auf dem Fachgebiet ökumenischer Theologie bereichert und vertieft werden zum Themenfeld: Die „Confessio Augustana“ im ökumenischen Gespräch.

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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · Jul 10

@emodir.bsky.social is planning for the upcoming RSA conference in San Francisco (February 19–21, 2026), a series of panels analyzing the concept of the devil in the context of religious dissent and announced the call for papers:

tinyurl.com/2crpxvje

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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · Jul 9

The Calvin Studies Society (CSS) invites proposals for short, twenty-minute paper presentations for its biennial colloquium to be held in Birmingham, AL from 19-21 March 2026. The conference theme is “Calvin And Creation”.

tinyurl.com/bkna7err

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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · Jul 8

Editor meeting of Unio Cum Christo, just before the official start of the European Academy of Religion at the University of Vienna, discussing future issues of the International Journal of #Reformed #Theology and #Life.

@degruyterbrill.bsky.social

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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · Jul 2

The call for papers for #REFORC2026 is open!

tinyurl.com/y8sefp82

#earlymodernchristianity #materiality #conference #research #shortpapers

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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · Jul 1

In deze geheel herziene, vijfde druk van het Handboek Nederlandse Kerkgeschiedenis neemt een team van specialisten de lezer mee in de fascinerende geschiedenis van de kerk in de Lage Landen. In twee delen, vanaf 3 juli in de boekhandel:

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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · Jun 30

Last week we had great meetings in Wrocław preparing #REFORC2026 with team members from Wrocław, Bonn and Cologne. What a beautiful setting to explore Early Modern Christianity research and more specifically Early Modern Christian Materiality!

REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · May 27

Volume 12, issue 1 of the Journal of Early Modern Christianity @degruyterbrill.bsky.social is out! It is a special issue on Conversions and Lutheranism in Early Modern Central Europe.

Guest Editors: Benedikt Brunner, Martin Christ and Richard Kirwan.

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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · May 26

Studie-tweedaagse: AUGUSTINIANA NEERLANDICA II: STAAT VAN HET ONDERZOEK EN TOEKOMSTPERSPECTIEVEN, 11 en 12 september 2025 (KU Leuven). Lees hier de call for papers:

tinyurl.com/ywymz84x

REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · May 26

Still full of impressions from #reforc2025 at @weareceu.bsky.social , which the video shows. A huge word of thanks to everyone who contributed to the organization, scholarly contributions, reflections, and the warm and fruitful personal contacts!

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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · May 25

What a week! #REFORC2025 has ended, and it was a blast. I had the opportunity to discuss a Lithuanian text published in London to raise aid for Reformed churches in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania devastated by the Deluge.
#NationalMuseumOfLithuania #rarebooks #specialcollections
@reforc.bsky.social

A speaker presenting at an academic conference.

Title page of a book: A Relation of the Distressed Statė of the Church of Christ processing the Protestant Religiom in the Great Dukedom of Lithuania.

Title page of a book by Samual Clarke. A Generał Martyrologię, published in London, 1677

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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · May 23

Proud that these scholars are contributing to our conference with a keynote on the theme of religion and rebellion: Pavel Soukup (Prague), Philippe Buc (Leiden), Violet Soen (Leuven) and Lyndal Roper (Oxford).

#reforc2025 #religion #rebellion #earlymodernchristianity

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