Panel at Annual Conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

The Center for German American Educational History will hold a panel at the Annual Conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Pittsburgh, USA, in the spring of 2016. Under the title "Catholic Enlightenment, Missionary Work and Education in 18th Century Germany and America"  Prof. Overhoff (convenor and panel chair), Prof. Michael Hochgeschwender from Munich, and Dr. Felicity Jensz and Andreas Oberdorf from Münster will present their newest research.

Panel: "Catholic Enlightenment, Missionary Work and Education in 18th Century Germany and America"
Convenor, Chair: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Overhoff ( University of Münster)


"Introduction: New Perspectives on Enlightened Catholicism and Transatlantic
Educational History" (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Overhoff, University of Münster)

"Catholic Enlightenment: A Transatlantic Phenomenon?" (Prof. Dr. Michael
Hochgeschwender, University of Munich)

"Cross-cultural Teachings, or how Enlightened was Moravian Missionary
Schooling?" (Dr. Felicity Jensz, University of Münster)

"At the Frontiers of Faith: The Life and Work of Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin
(1770-1840), an Enlightened Catholic Educational Reformer in Münster and
Pennsylvania" (Andreas Oberdorf, M.A., University of Münster)