International Conference on the Missionary Experience in Late Ottoman Empire and Imperial China
Boğaziçi University, Asian Studies Center
Boğaziçi University, Department of History
Confucius Institute at Boğaziçi University
Shanghai University,
November 15, 2014 Saturday (Özger Arnas Hall)
9 :30-10 :00
Opening Speeches
Arzu Öztürkmen (Boğaziçi University)
Taylan Akdoğan (Boğaziçi University)
10:00-11:00
Panel 1: Chair Selçuk Esenbel (Boğaziçi University)
« Tracing the Permeable Boundaries of the Protestant Missions to Turkey »
Christine B. Lindner (Near East School of Theology, Beirut)
«From Cultural Imperialism to Cultural Internationalism: Reflections on the Double Legacy of American Missionary Movement in Modern China»
Wang Lixin (Peking University)
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30
Panel 2: Chair Liu Jiafeng(Shandong University)
«Suspicions about Western Missionaries: The Reasons for and the Influence ofProhibitions againstChristianity in the Early and Middle Qing Dynasty »
Tao Feiya (Shanghai University)
« Barking the Dogs and Moving the Caravan: Imperial State Regulations and American Missionary Publications in the Ottoman Empire »
Emrah Şahin (University of Florida)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30
Panel 3: Chair Meltem Toksöz (Boğaziçi University)
«Was European Jewry’s Philanthropy a Model for Christian Missionary Initiatives Inside Ottoman Territories During the 19th Century? »
Nora Şeni (Université Paris VIII)
« Protestant Missionaries among the Jews and Sabbateans/Dönmes in the Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire »
Cengiz Şişman (Furman University)
14:30-15:00 Break
15:00-16:00
Panel 4: Chair Anna Maria Beylunioğlu (European University Institute)
« Al-Matba‘a al-Amirkaniyya: A Case Study for the Exploration of Missionary and Arab Syrian Encounters in Ottoman Beirut »
Hala Auji (American University of Beirut)
«Encounters and Dialogues Between Christianity and Islam: Protestant Missionaries’ Experience in Late Imperial China»
Liu Jiafeng (Shandong University)
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:30
Panel 5: Chair İsenbike Togan (Boğaziçi University)
«Xu Guanqi, A Pioneer Chinese Catholic Who Dialogued with the Western Culture in the 17th Century »
Yan Kejia (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences)
«An Important Document in Indigenization of Catholicism: The Maximum Illud in China»
Liu Xian (Renmin University)
18:00-20:00 Dinner
November 16, 2014 Sunday (Cultural Heritage Museum)
10:00-11:00
Panel 6: ChairLiu Xian(Renmin University)
« Between Mission, Education, and Commerce: The Lazarist Past of Istanbul St. George Avusturya Lisesi »
Lale Babaoğlu (Boğaziçi University)
« Photo-albums of French High Schools: Advertising the Denominational Education in the Late Ottoman World»
Saadet Özen (Boğaziçi University)
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30
Panel 7: Chair Altay Atlı (Boğaziçi University)
«Constructing a Multidimensional Identity of Citizenship, Ethnicity and Religion: The Christian-Islamic Dialogue in China »
Li Xiangping (East China Normal University)
«Pastor Hsi’s Legacy: A Local Christian Community in South Shanxi»
Liu Yi (Shanghai University/Confucius Institute at Boğaziçi University)
12:30-13:00
Closing: Chair Liu Yi (Shanghai University/Confucius Institute at Boğaziçi University)
Selçuk Esenbel (Boğaziçi University)
Tao Feiya(Shanghai University)
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