| WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19th | ||
| 6:00pm-6:15pm | Welcoming Address | |
| 6:15pm-6:30pm | Introduction | |
| 6:30pm-8:00pm | Opening Keynote | |
| David A. Copeland Elon University, NC | Religious Press, Print Culture, and Defining the Nation | |
| 8:00pm | Reception | |
| THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20th | ||
| 9:00am-10:15am | Method Keynote | |
| David Paul Nord Indiana University, Bloomington, IN | Religion, Reading, and Readership | |
| 10:15am-10:30am | Coffee | |
| 10:30am-12:15pm | Panel 1: Print Cultures and Early Transatlantic Religious Communication | |
| Oliver Scheiding Universität Mainz | Fraktur Writings and Print Culture in the Early German-Language Atlantic World |
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| Andreas Pietsch Universität Münster | Old Books for a New World: John Henry Miller’s Catalogus von mehr als 700 meist Deutschen Büchern (1769) | |
| Rainald Becker Universität Bayreuth | Catholic Print Cultures. German Jesuits and North America | |
| 12:15pm-2:00pm | Lunch break | |
| 2:00pm-4:15pm | Panel 2: Nineteenth Century Religious Press and Print Culture | |
| Shari Rabin Yale University, CT | People of the Press: The Occident, the Israelite, and the Origins of American Judaism | |
| John M. Giggie University of Alabama, AL | The Development of African American Religious Print Culture and Sacred Identity, 1865-1905 | |
| Damien Schlarb Universität Mainz | ‘A Rendezvous of Advanced Philosophers and Free Thinkers’: Skepticist Publishers and Literary Scene of Early Nineteenth-Century New York | |
| Julius Bailey University of Redlands, CA | Public Opinion, Social Issues, and the African American Religious Press | |
| 6:30pm | Conference Dinner | |
| FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21st | ||
| 9:00am-10:15am | Case Study Keynote | |
| Gisela Mettele Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena | Circulation of Knowledge, Moravians, and Globalization | |
| 10:15am-10:30am | Coffee | |
| 10:30am-12:15pm | Panel 3: Missionary Periodicals and Transnational Religious Networks | |
| Felicity Jensz Universität Münster | Communities of Knowledge: Nineteenth Century Transatlantic Moravian Missionary Networks and the Religious Press | |
| Ashley E. Moreshead University of Delaware, DE | American Missionary Magazines and the Promotion of Cosmopolitan Evangelicalism | |
| Judith Becker Leibnitz Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz | International missions in national mission periodicals. The depiction of a global world in the early Nineteenth century | |
| 12:15pm-2:00pm | Lunch break | |
| 2:00pm-4:15pm | Panel 4: Twentieth Century Protestant Press | |
| Matthew S. Hedstrom University of Virginia, VA | Commodification and the ‘Cultural Victory’ Thesis: Liberal Religious Publishing in the Twentieth Century | |
| Jana Hoffmann Universität Bielefeld | Mainline Ideals of Marriage and Gender Roles in the 1970s Columns of the Magazine The Christian Home | |
| Elesha Coffman University of Dubuque, IA | Marketing the Mainline: Circulation, Advertising, Design, and Identity in The Christian Century | |
| Anja-Maria Bassimir Universität Mainz | ‘A long-caged lion roars’: Evangelical Periodical Publications | |
| 4:15pm-4:30 pm | Coffee | |
| 4:30pm-6:15pm | Panel 5: The Online Age: Contemporary Religion and Identity | |
| Nabil Echchaibi University of Colorado, Boulder, CO | Muslim Communities and the online migration of the diasporic press | |
| Frank Neubert Universität Bern | Connecting and Educating Hindus: Hinduism Today and the Mediatization of a Global Hinduism | |
| Michael Kinsella University of California, Santa Barbara, CA | Portraying the Near-Death Experience: Experience, Authority, and Authorship in the Afterlife Movement | |
| From 6:15pm | Free evening | |
| SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22nd | ||
| 10:00am-11:15am | Concluding Keynote | |
| Candy Gunther Brown Indiana University, Bloomington, IN | Religious Press and Print Culture | |
| 11:15am-11:30am | Coffee | |
| 11:30am-12:30pm | Final Discussion | |
| 2:00pm-4:00pm | 'Highlights Tour' Mainz for those interested | |
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