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Events

Interested in the connections between religion, culture, and society?

This calendar lists dates and events from the CRCS network that take place at the University of Tübingen or are organized with the involvement of Tübingen researchers.

If you would like to have events from the field of religion, culture, and society included in the calendar, simply send us the information to be published via email at crcs@uni-tuebingen.de.

Summer term 2026

Movie Night! Tarantism Revisited

Film screening followed by a discussion with directors Anja Dreschke and Michaela Schäuble

Thursday, July 16, 2026, at 6:00 p.m., Nauklerstraße 35, Room 105

Winner of the Golden Dove for Best Documentary Feature Film 2024 in the German Competition of the 67th International Leipzig Film Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, the film revisits the cultural phenomenon of tarantism in Southern Italy. It explores the intersections of ritual practice, healing, music, embodiment, gender and social life through historical reflection and contemporary perspectives, offering a unique opportunity to reflect on the relationships between culture, belief, and the collective experience of healing.

Set against the backdrop of Apulia, Italy, in 1959, the film follows the traces of anthropological research on tarantism—the phenomenon associated with ecstatic ‘dancing mania’ affecting women supposedly bitten by a poisonous spider, exorcized and healed through music. Drawing on remarkable archival footage and the correspondence between anthropologist Annabella Rossi and Michela Margiotta, alias Anna, a tarantata, the documentary weaves the past and present to examine how tarantism has been documented and interpreted, and how it continues to resonate today.
 

Poster

Religion and the Global Far Right

International Conference, July 29–31 2026, at the Institute of Psychology, Schleichstr. 4, 72076 Tübingen

In light of current world political dynamics, this conference aims to illuminate how religion and the far right intertwine globally by examining their mutual entanglements, forms of appropriation, and claims to religious authenticity.

Registration by July 20 at International Conference: Religion and the Global Far Right

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Past events in the Summer term 2026

Proximities, Entanglements, Comparisons -  Kongo Christianity and the History of Early Modern Mission

International workshop on March 30 and 31, 2026, Fürstenzimmer, Hohentübingen Castle

The workshop is part of the current workshop series of the Global Encounters platform and is organized by the Institute for Modern History.

Flyer

Early Islamic Narrative Aesthetics and Legal Culture

International conference on April 10 and 11, 2026, Alte Aula (Münzgasse 30)

Organized by SFB 1391 Andere Ästhetik - Teilprojekt B8: Ästhetik narrativer Rechtskommunikation im Koran und im vormodernen Islam

Registration at nora.schmidspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Flyer

General Assembly

on Monday, May 11, 2026, at 4:30 p.m., at the Neue Aula, Room 228

Statute

Emotionale KI: Beziehungen mit Chatbots

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Monique Scheer (Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences; Ludwig Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies)

on June 1, 2026, at 6:15 p.m. in the Kupferbau, Lecture Hall 21

As part of the Studium Generale series on KI - Ökonomische und gesellschaftliche Konsequenzen

Program Studium Generale