Gender and Conversion: a two-day symposium

Posted on 28 June 2012

The Conversion Narratives team will host a two-day symposium to discuss the complex relationships between gender identity and changing faith in early modern Europe and beyond.

Post-reformation exiles on a ship

Leading scholars of History, Art History, and Literature will join the project team to discuss work-in-progress on the theme of 'Gender and Conversion'. Topics covered will include women's conversions in the cultural and religious melting pot of the early modern Mediterranean; Vietnamese women's conversion to Catholicism in seventeenth-century Annam, and their crucial role in converting others; and convent life and the material culture of conversion. A rich strand of papers will uncover the connections between conversion, race, and travel, whilst others still will investigate how manhood was understood to be altered or confirmed by the encounter with ethnic and religious 'others'. For more details of the symposium, see the Gender and Conversion webpage.