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

The Center for German American Educational History has been on the road agaon. This time the destination was Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the Annual Conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Under the title "Catholic Enlightenment, Missionary Work and Education in 18th Century Germany and America"  Prof. Dr. Overhoff (convenor and panel chair),  Dr. Felicity Jensz and Andreas Oberdorf from Münster presented 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)

"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.Ed., M.A., University of Münster)