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Refo500 

By January 1, 2011 the Faculty of Theology has joined the international platform and umbrella organisation Refo500. The organisation is rooted in the Netherlands and lead by Professor Hermann Selderhuis from the Theological University of Apeldoorn. Refo500 aims to gather and coordinate research, exhibitions and activities concerning the Reformation in the period leading up to the Reformation Jubilee 2017. Refo500 houses a row of international partners from North America, Europe and Asia, as well academic partners (universities and seminaries) as commercial partners (such as cities, museums and travel agencies).

The Faculty is a member and in the board of the academic section Reformation Research Consortium (RefoRC), which primarily coordinates and develops the academic cooperation in Refo500. The goal  and purpose of ReforRC is to establish new international research projects about the theology and history of the Reformation era,  to stimulate international and interdisciplinary research, promote student interests in the Reformation period, raise money for underfunded students, scholars and institutions and finally to organize an annual international conference. Under ReforRC the project partner Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht has established an academic book series focusing on the religious, theological, political, social, legal, and cultural dimensions of the Reformation.

The next international conference takes place in Oslo, June 10-12, 2012. The plenary papers of this second RefoRC conference will cover both Northern Protestant (mainly Lutheran and Reformed) and Southern (mainly Catholic) Europe, related to the question: What changes did the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Reform bring about in the individual and the collective dealings with death and the dead? Comparative perspectives as well as new research results will be presented.

The conference is open to shortpaper presentations and thematic sessions with two or three papers on all aspects of the 16th century reformations, independent of the theme of the plenary papers. Attendance of the conference without giving a paper is encouraged also.

For more information about the program, see: http://www.refo500.nl/rc/pages/319/program-2012-conference.html and

For more general information about Refo500, see www.refo500.nl/en.

Contact person for Refo500 at the faculty is research associate professor, PhD Anna Vind, Department of Church History.