Migration and Religion: A Snapshot of Eighteenth-century Central Europe and North America – wykład prof. Barbary Becker-Cantarino
W imieniu Zakładu Literatury Niemiec, Austrii i Szwajcarii XIX i XX wieku Instytutu Filologii Germańskiej zapraszamy na wykład Pani prof. Barbary Becker-Cantarino z Ohio State University.
Wykład Pani prof. Barbary Becker-Cantarino z Ohio State University zatytułowany: Migration and Religion: A Snapshot of Eighteenth-century Central Europe and North America odbędziesię 9 października 2024 r. o godz. 12.00 w sali 220 w Instytucie Filologii Germańskiej przy ul. PL. BISKUPA NANKIERA 15b
50-140 WROCŁAW.
Abstrakt: The lecture asks the question: what are the effects of religion on migration, the push-and-pull factors for mass migration in the eighteenth century? It looks at catholicizing efforts in Central Europe, the establishment of the Unity of the Brethren (Herrnhuter) among others and their missionary work specifically in the British Colonies of North America, called here: Moravians. – What role did religion play generally in European migrant settlements in North America, in the development of the colonies into what became the United States of America? What role did the ‘Black Church’ play? – The lecture concludes with some questions concerning the role of religion in today’s mass migrations into Europe, and into North America.
Biogram naukowy: Barbara Becker-Cantarino ist Professor Emerita at the Ohio State University. Her areas of Expertise are: German literary culture from 1700–1900, Enlightenment, Pietism, Romanticism and the construction & representation of gender. Barbara Becker-Cantarino has published widely on German literary culture from 1600 to the 20th century with a concentration in the seventeenth, eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. She has maintained an abiding interest in the Enlightenment, Pietism, Romanticism, women writers, the construction and representation of gender, and the intersection between literature and other social and cultural discourses. Her teaching interests included also German migrations to North America. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Humboldt Foundation Forschungspreis, research fellowships from NEH, DAAD, Fulbright among others and received the OSU Distinguished Scholar and the OSU Distinguished Lecturer Award.
