Käte Hamburger Kolleg

Workshop

Formative Exchanges between Late Antique Rome and the Sasanid Empire: Zoroastrians, Manichaeans, and Christians in Contact

01 June 2017, 09:00 a.m. – 02 June 2017, 06:00 p.m.
CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)

This workshop will explore formative dynamics of contacts, interactions, and exchanges that took place in the Sasanian and Roman Empires …

Workshop

Subtle Subversions: Resisting Colonialism through Religion. The Impact of the Colonialization Period on the Development on a Religious Language

Dates

• 06 June 2017, 09:00 a.m. – 06:00 p.m.
  CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
• 07 June 2017, 09:00 a.m. – 04:00 p.m.
  CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
• 08 June 2017, 09:00 a.m. – 06:00 p.m.
  CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)

The conference is twofold into two parts: The first day of the conference (6 June 2017) will focus on the …

Meeting

KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Action"

12 June 2017, 04:15 p.m. – 05:45 p.m.
CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)

Lecture

KHK Fellow Presentation: Beate Löffler

12 June 2017, 06:15 p.m. – 07:45 p.m.
CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)

Workshop

Mining for New Topics and Resources. The Future of Comparative Religion in Transatlantic Perspective

Dates

• 12 June 2017, 02:00 p.m. – 04:00 p.m.
  CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
• 13 June 2017, 10:00 a.m. – 14 June 2017, 09:00 p.m.
  CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)

Joint workshop of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg, CERES and the Department of Religion, Syracuse University (NY) Workshop's programme

Meeting

KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Materiality"

19 June 2017, 04:15 p.m. – 05:45 p.m.
CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)

Lecture

Guest Lecture: The Intersection of Media with Religion in Kashmir: An Overview

19 June 2017, 06:15 p.m. – 07:45 p.m.
CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)

Guest lecture by Raoof Mir (Göttingen/New Delhi) The guest lecture presents a study that looks at the ways in …

Lecture

Lunchbox Lecture: Martyrdom Mythologies: How IS gives Meaning to death

20 June 2017, 12:15 p.m. – 01:45 p.m.
CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)

Guest lecture by Pieter Nanninga (Groningen) The Islamic State (IS) has lost tens of thousands of fighters in battles and …

Workshop

Written, Built, Performed. Thresholds of Transcendence between Western Christianity and the “Wisdom of the East”

23 June 2017, 09:00 a.m. – 06:00 p.m.
CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)

The architecture of Christian churches was historically understood to provide a threshold between immanence and transcendence, with liturgy as the …

Meeting

KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Experience"

26 June 2017, 04:15 p.m. – 05:45 p.m.
CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)

Lecture

Guest Lecture: How the Sociology and History of Religion can meet the Cognitive and Psychological Sciences: What we need from them and they need from us

26 June 2017, 06:15 p.m. – 07:45 p.m.
CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)

Guest lecture presented by Prof Armin Geertz (Aarhus University) This talk will address a wide variety of issues in introductory …

Workshop

The „Inner Self“ and Transcendence – Emergence, Relation, and Religious Impact

29 June 2017, 09:00 a.m. – 30 June 2017, 06:00 p.m.
CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)

In elaborating on the idea of an axial-age Karl Jaspers has put the self and the emergence of transcendence nicely …