Baden-Württemberg Seminar of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies Around the World with Arthur Brown: Missionary Diplomacy at the Turn of the 20th Century
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- Thursday, 22 January 2026, 18:15
- HCA, Atrium
- Prof. Dr. Emily Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University (USA), Department of History
In 1902, Arthur Judson Brown was summoned to the White House. The Presbyterian mission secretary had just returned from a fifteen-month round-the-world tour, and President Theodore Roosevelt wanted to hear about it. He was particularly anxious to hear about the Philippines and China, two places at the center of ongoing debates about American imperialism and the role of American Protestant missionaries in US foreign relations. Brown was happy to comply. After all, he was hard at work writing books about both locations, proclaiming that there were “new forces” at work in China and a “new era” dawning in the Philippines. American missionaries, he was sure, would be essential to both projects. After all, for nearly a century they had been a vital engine driving American engagement with Asia. “Around the World with Arthur Brown” explores the turn of the twentieth century as a key pivot point in the American history of missionary diplomacy.
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