Dr. Thomas Schader

2009 Abitur at the Allgäu-Gymnasium in Kempten

2010-2016 Studies of History, Hispanic Studies and Pedagogy at the University of Tübingen

2016-2018 Doctoral candidate at the Seminar for Modern History at the University of Tübingen (Prof. Dr. Renate Dürr) and project assistant at the Global Ethic Foundation

2018-2021 Christoph Martin Wieland scholarship holder in the graduate centre "History of Knowledge in the Modern Era" at the Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt (Prof. Dr. Martin Mulsow)

July 2021 Defense of the dissertation entitled: "Between the Experience of Difference and Contingency: Central European Jesuit Missionaries on the Threshold to Overseas (1660-1760)"

Since July 2021 Associate Fellow in the College Research Group "Religion and Urbanity. Reciprocal Formations" (FOR 2779) at the Max-Weber-Kolleg as well as a member of the DFG research network "Border Crossers in the "Paraquarian Flower Garden". Jesuits of Central European Provenance and the Reductions of Paraguay in the 17th and 18th Centuries."

• Mission and Global History
• History of Latin America

Urban Piety between Resonance and Dissonance. Seville and Lisbon from the Perspective of German Jesuits

Seville and Lisbon were important centers of Iberian baroque Catholicism in modern times. Those who came to these cities were not infrequently astonished by peculiar forms of Catholic piety: "Wen gelüstet Wunder zu sehen / der soll nach Sevilien gehen" - the same was true of Lisbon. The German Jesuits, who were waiting in the port cities for their departure to the missions of Asia and America, were astonished, among other things, by the excessive veneration of saints by local lay brotherhoods and the extent of public penitential practices. Based on archival self-testimonies, I will pursue in the research project the question in which way the German Jesuits received the urban forms of piety in Seville and Lisbon.

"Waiting Room Andalusia: A Heterotopia of Crisis? " in the context of the Winterschool Global Frontiers of the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, 15 - 17. 11. 2017, URL: https: //www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-7517?title=global-frontiers&recno=1&q=Global%20Frontiers&sort=newestPublished&fq=&total=34.

"The Lifeworld of Jesuit Missionaries in Andalusia" in the context of the Annual Conference Theatre and Pedagogy of the Jesuits of Jesuitica e.V. in Straubing, March 16-17, 2018, URL: https: //www.jesuiten.org/wer-wir-sind/aus-den-archiven/jesuitica-ev/archiv-jahrestagungen/ .

"Waiting - a social practice in the field of tension between inclusion and exclusion. The missionaries Eusebius Kino S.J. and Philipp Segesser S.J. on the threshold to overseas." In the context of the 45th conference of the Arbeitskreis für historische Kulturlandschaftsforschung in Mitteleuropa e.V. (ARKUM) "Inklusion/Exklusion - Transkulturalität im Raum", Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, 19.09.-22.09.2018, URL: www.kulturlandschaft.org/Tagungen/arkum-tagung-kiel-flyer.pdf.

"Spatiotemporalities of Waiting: Jesuit Missionaries on the Threshold to Overseas, 1660-1760," in the context of the workshop "New Research on Spatiality and Temporality" of the Erfurter RaumZeitForschung, Erfurt, July 11-12, 2019, URL: www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-8457.

Summer semester 2019: "How to read? - Historical and literary approaches to texts" together with Jessica Maureen Maaßen from the graduate centre "Texte.Zeichen.Medien" at the University of Erfurt(flyer)

Winter semester 2021/22: "Conquista espiritual. German Jesuits in Latin America (17th/18th century)".

Warteraum Andalusien. Zentraleuropäische Jesuitenmissionare auf der Schwelle nach Übersee (1660-1760). Aschendorff-Verlag, Münster 2022.

,[…] die mir in warheit recht sbanisch ist vorkommen.‘ Interkulturelle Hermeneutik auf der Schwelle nach Übersee (1749), in: Themenportal Europäische Geschichte, 2022, URL: www.europa.clio-online.de/essay/id/fdae-115013.

,Homo tubulentus‘. Der Fall Anton Sepp S. J. (1683-?).“ In: Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft 105 (2021), pp. 288–292.

Missionare in der Warteschleife: Einblicke in die Lebenswelt deutschsprachiger Überseekandidaten in den andalusischen Hospicios de Indias, 1660–1760, in: Siedlungsforschung: Archäologie – Geschichte – Geographie 37 (2020), Exklusion/Inklusion – Transkulturalität im Raum, pp. 101–118.

, Wer die Hand am Pflug behält'. Gedanken aus dem Homeoffice, in: Forschen in Gotha. Ein Blog Gothaer Forschungseinrichtungen (Reihe: Forschung zu Corona-Zeiten), 11. Juni 2020, URL: https://www.gotha3.de/forschungsblog/archives/4727 .