Event Calendar

6th October: Dressing for gods and trees: understanding religion as sensual relationality, Prof. Dr. Graham Harvey.

6th - 8th October: 15 Years of Religious Aesthetics, Conference of the Department of Religious Studies.

21st - 23rd October: Annual Conference of the Arbeitskreis Empirische Religionsforschung e.V.

After 20th October: Tübingen Byzantine and Near Eastern Seminar, event series of the Emmy Noether Research Group “Religious Conflict and Mobility: Byzantium and the Greater Mediterranean, 700-900”.

24th October: Political Theology in Imperial Russia: Russian Orthodoxy in the Face of the Ukraine War.

2nd November 2022 - 1st February 2023: Focal Point Ukraine. History, culture and politics of a European nation.

9th November - 12th November: The Menorah and the Seven Branched Candelabrum, Conference of the SFB 1391 „Other Aesthetic“, Subproject A6.

10th November: The Syriac Life of Rubil: Story of a Monastic Community on the Run, Tübingen Byzantine and Near Eastern Seminar.

15th November: Love and jurisprudence in the exclusive characteristics of the Prophet (khaṣā’iṣ nabawiya), Dr. Michele Petrone.

15th November: The challenges of postcolonial theories for ethics and possible perspectives for a postcolonial ethics. Award of the Alfons Auer Ethics Prize 2022 to Prof. Dr. Leela Gandhi.

17th November: Epistemic Nonviolence, Prof. Dr. Leela Gandhi.

17th November: Byzantine Influence over the Early Rus‘ A Reassessment, Prof. Dr. Sergey Ivanov.

21th November: The "Case of Gerhard Kittel" from a Jewish Perspective, Prof. Dr. Karma Ben-Johanan.

28th November: The "Case" of Georg Kuhn: Christian Anti-Judaism before and after 1945, Dr. Ulrich Kusche.

29. November: The Prophet as Axial Perfection in Shi’i Thought: The Arcana, Ethics, and Politics of the Prophetic Person, Prof. Dr. Sajjad Rizvi.

5th December: Protests in Iran – historical, political and societal dimensions. 

5th - 7th December: The Qurʾān and Syriac Christianity: Recurring Themes and Motifs.

6th December 2022 – 7th Februarc 2023: "In Times of 'Hot' War": On the Virtue and Need of Prayer for Peace.

6th December: Island Monasteries and Water in South Asia Examples from Sri Lanka and Assam / India, RessourcenKulturen. 

15th December: From Tianxia to Tianxia-ism.

January 10th: CRCS jour fixe with Prof. Dr. Andreas Holzem.

January 21st: World Ethic conveyed digitally, a project presentation on the new conception of the exhibition World Religions - World Peace - World Ethic by students from Tübingen.

February 7th: Return of Ideologies: A Critical Analysis in the Light of Intercultural Phenomenology, Global Encounters Lecture.

February 8th: The Idea of the New in Early Christian Thought, Vocal Flexibility in Crows, Humboldt Lectures.

February 23rd: On the Go in Japanese Gardens as a Phenomenologist, GiP Lecture.

From April 28th: Byzantine and Middle Eastern Seminar. Emmy Noether Research Group Seminar "Religious Conflict and Mobility: Byzantium and the Wider Mediterranean, 700-900."

April 25th: Remediation, Providence and Memory: The Toxic Heritage of Gold Rushes in the British Empire, Prof. Dr. Pamela Klassen.

May 5th, 19th, 23rd: New Horizon Fellowship, Prof. Dr. Marianne Moyaert.

May 6th - 7th: Religion and Disease in Japan, Working Group Japanese Religions.

May 22nd - 24th: Philo of Alexandria in the Context of the Roman Empire, Prof. Dr. Maren Niehoff.

May 24th: Sacred Violence or Constructive Dialogue - On the Ambivalence of Religions in Armed Conflicts, Prof. Dr. Andreas Hasenclever.

June 14th: Minority Law is not a Solution for Muslims in Europe, Prof. Dr. Khalfaoui.

June 29th: The Literary History of Judaism in Hellenistic-Roman Times, Prof. Dr. Matthias Henze.

July 5th: Religion and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Prof. Dr. Catherine Wanner.

July 6th - 8th: Johannes Reuchlin 1455-1522. Humanistic Scholarship at the University of Tübingen.

September 8th - 9th: Summer School Qualitative Religious Studies.

September 8th - 10th: Epigraphy, the Qur'ān, and the Religious Landscape of Arabia.

September 19th - 20th: Vulnerability. Dimension of Human Life.

September 26th - 30th: Fourth Summer School on Ibadism.

October 6th: Dressing for gods and trees: understanding religion as sensual relationality, Prof. Dr. Graham Harvey.

October 6th - 8th: 15 Years of Aesthetics of Religion, Department of Religious Studies.

October 28th: Disability Rights and Reproductive Rights - Germany in the Summer of 1989, Prof. Dr. Dagmar Herzog.

November 9th: On the competition between religious and scientific interpretations of history using the example of (neo-)paganism in England, Prof. Dr. Isabel Laack.

November 18th: Un/doing Gender | Un/doing Religion in Catholic Framed Situations: A Research Sketch, Prof. Dr. Michael Schüßler.

December 7th: The Qur'an as a Source for Late Antiquity - Presentation of a new research project in Tübingen, Prof. Dr. Holger Zellentin.

January 15th: Homosexuality and Orthodox Judaism. Religious Law Discussion from the Late 19th to the Early 21st Century, Dr. Sebastian Molter.

January 18th: The Jesuits in China - Matteo Ricci's "The True Doctrine of the Lord of Heaven" (天主實義; 1603) as a testimony of intercultural philosophizing, Prof. Dr. Johannes Brachtendorf and Prof. Dr. Achim Mittag.

January 21st: Islamic Theology in Germany - A Model for Europe and the World, Prof. Dr. Mouez Khalfaoui and Prof. Dr. Jean Ehret.

January 21st: Eunuchs, Hijras, Transsexual Women - Negotiating Gender Identity in Globalized Modernity, Leyla Jagiella. Date postponed to summer semester 2022!  

February 4th: Zen Buddhist Paradoxes and the Problem of Articulating Reality, Prof. Dr. Jens Schlieter.

February 8th: Belonging in Contemporary Japanese Buddhism, Prof. Dr. Monika Schrimpf.

February 16th: Island Monasteries as ResourceCommunities? Prof. Dr. Thomas Meier.