[Discussion] Religious Refugees

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*Religious Refugees in Europe, Asia and the Americas - 6th to 21st
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*Location:* 	Ireland
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Religious Refugees in Europe, Asia and the Americas - 6th to 21st centuri=
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Workshop, 16-18 June 2005

Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change

National University of Ireland, Galway

Abstract
For centuries, differing religious and cultural identities have caused
problems within societies, in particular when - as e.g. in the early
modern period - states attempt to establish religious and cultural
conformity. The migration of dissenting religious groups - whether
forced or voluntary - can be understood as a means of escaping orthodoxy
and of maintaining cultural diversity. In both cases, migrants brought
their cultural diversity into the countries of refuge. These new
destinations now had to succeed in what the homeland had failed: they
had to integrate these newly arriving diversities while simultaneously
enabling them to assimilate - if possible - to the normative systems of
the hosting societies.

The workshop's aim is to analyse in a comparative perspective European,
American and Asian concepts of religious conformity and of religious
diversity. Are there "ideal" patterns - existing over time and space -
to deal with religious diversity? Under which circumstances does
religious diversity lead to expulsion or voluntary migration? Do
"received" concepts as to immigration policy exist? How do they change
over time and space? How do religious minorities react to expulsion or
the pressure of conformity?

To answer these questions, the proposed papers will provide examples
taking the early medieval period, the early modern period and the 19th
and 21st centuries. It will bring together research carried out on
groups expelled for their non-conformity or migrating to other
destinations to safeguard their religious identity.

To ensure that the various papers will lend themselves to comparison a
format will be introduced. All papers will deal with the political and
religious situation of the country from which the refugees originally
came, the political and religious situation of the country of refuge,
the emigration and immigration policies being enforced and the
perception of hosts and refugees and integration problems and processes.

Provisional Programme

Thursday, 16th June

17.00
Welcome and Opening Remarks: Prof. Dr. Nicholas Canny, Academic
Director, Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change
(CSHSHC), National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway

17.15-19.30
 From Diversity to Orthodoxy? Migration and Integration of Religious
Refugees in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: 6th -17th centuries

Chair: Dr. Susanne Lachenicht (NUI, Galway)

Eric Graff (NUI, Galway): Columbanus and Irish Monks in Diaspora
(6th/7th centuries).

Prof. Dr. Seymour Phillips (University College Dublin): Jews in 13th
century England.

Dr. Douglas Catterall (Cameron University, Oklahoma):
Scots and Sephardic Jews in the United Provinces (16th - 17th century).

Discussion

Friday, 17th June

10.00-13.00
"Modern" States and Religious Diversity in Europe (late 17th - early
20th centuries).

Chair: Prof. Dr. Hermann Wellenreuther (University of G=F6ttingen)

Dr. Sandra Maria Hynes (NUI, Maynooth):
Dissenters in England, Scotland and Ireland (1660-1685).

Dr. Susanne Lachenicht (NUI, Galway):
Huguenots in Ireland, Britain and Brandenburg-Prussia (1660-1750).

Coffee Break

Chair: Prof. Dr. Nicholas Canny

Dr. Colm O'Conaill (NUI, Galway):
Politics, Religion and Family Identity. The Exile and Return of the
Dillon Family from the Williamite Conquest to the French Revolution
(1692-1789).

Dr. R=F3isin Healy (NUI, Galway):
The German Empire and the Jesuits (1872-1917).

Discussion

13.00-15.00 Lunch

15.00-18.00
Migration and Integration of Religious Refugees in the Atlantic World
(17th - 18th centuries).

Chair: Prof. Dr. Claudia Schnurmann (University of Hamburg)

Prof. Dr. Rosalind J. Beiler (University of Central Florida):
Information Networks and the Dynamics of Migration: Swiss Anabaptist
Exiles and their Host Communities (Palatinate, the Netherlands, and
British Colonies, 1650-1730).

Prof. Dr. Bertrand van Ruymbeke (Universit=E9 de Paris VIII):
Huguenots in North-America (17th-18th centuries).

Coffee break

Chair: Eric Graff

Prof. Dr. Hermann Wellenreuther (University of G=F6ttingen): The
Herrenhuther in Europe and the British Colonies (1735-1776).

Dr. Christine Hucho (Mainz):
The Schwenkfelder and the Herrenhuther Women in the British Colonies.

Discussion

Saturday, 18th June

10.00-13.00
Christians, Jews and Muslims:
Migration within and from South-East-Europe and the Near East (17th
-21st centuries).

Chair: Dr. William O'Reilly (NUI, Galway and Centre for History &
Economics, Cambridge)

Claus Gattermann (University of G=F6ttingen):
Confessional Changes in the County of Baranya after 1686.

Prof. Dr. Anja Pistor-Hatam (University of Kiel):
Shiite Migration from Iran to the Ottoman Empire.

Coffee break

Dr. Kate Daniels (University of Cambridge):
Religious Conflict and Migration to North America: Arab Christians in
the Late Ottoman Empire.

Dr. Makram Khoury-Machool (University of Cambridge):
Religion, Ideology or Conformity? Jewish Iraqi Migrants to Israel.

Discussion

12.00-13.30

Wrap-up Session and Closing Remarks

Prof. Dr. Nicholas Canny, Prof. Dr. Hermann Wellenreuther, Prof. Dr.
Claudia Schnurmann,
Dr. Susanne Lachenicht

We would like to thank the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Cologne, Germany
and the Faculty of Arts, NUI Galway for funding this workshop.

	Dr. Susanne Lachenicht
Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change
National University of Ireland, Galway
Email: slachenicht@yahoo.com <mailto:slachenicht@yahoo.com>
Visit the website at
http://www.nuigalway.ie/cshshc/Refugees%20programme%202.doc