Uni-Tübingen

Past Events

Guest lectures and other events at the CRCS

The CRCS regularly hosts international scholars from the field of religious studies for lecture evenings. Here we often cooperate with other institutes at the University of Tübingen.

Winter term 2023/24 - Summer term 2024

19.10.2023

Convenience, Conflict and Collaboration in the Age of Convergence

Prof. Dr. Brian Catlos,University of Colorado Boulder, Director of CU Mediterranean Studies Group Religious Studies

06.05.2024

Immanent Power in Cultural Encounter: Kongo 1480-1520 and global patterns of ruler conversion

Dr. Alan Strathern, Oxford University, Associate Professor in History

Cooperation with the Department of Modern History

12-14.06.2024

(Non-)Reproductive Matters: Global Perspectives on Religion, Gender and Procreation - International conference

with keynotes by Prof. Dr. Nancy Ammerman and civil rights activist Lecia Brooks

in cooperation with the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, the Center for Methodology and the Chair of “Rethinking Global Religion”

Program

29.07.2024

Historicizing the Legendary Pre-Islamic Arabia through the Epigraphic Record

Dr. Hythem Sidky,Executive Director of the International Qur’anic Studies Association

in Cooperation with the ERC-Projekt QaSLA

 

Winter term 2022/2023 - Summer term 2023

26.06.2023

The earthquake in northern Syria and southern Turkey and its impact on the interreligious culture of Hatay

Prof. Dr. Jens Kreinath,Wichita State University, Department of Anthropology

06.07.2023

The Rise of Values and the Future of Religion

Prof. Dr. Linda Woodhead, King's College London, Head of Department, Theology & Religious Studies

07.07.2023

PhD networking workshop

PhD students of the University of Tübingen (Theologies, Religious Studies, Political Science, Empirical Cultural Studies)

11.07.2023

Politics and Secrecy at a Sri Lankan National Heritage Site

Prof. Dr. Frank J. Korom, Boston University, Department of Religion

Cooperation with Religious Studies & AOI

26.09.2023

Reflections on Memory, Extractivism, and Religion in the Anthropocene

Prof. Dr. Dipesh Chakrabarty,University of Chicago, Department of History

Cooperation with the Department of Dogmatics, Faculty of Catholic Theology

 

Winter term 2021/2022 - Summer term 2022

28.10.2021

Disability rights and reproductive rights - Germany in the summer of 1989

Prof. Dr. Dagmar Herzog, Distinguished Professor of History und Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar am Graduate Center der City University of New York

Video

25.04.2022

Remediation, Providence and Memory: The Toxic Heritage of Gold Rushes in the British Empire

Prof. Dr. Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion

05.07.2022

Religion and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Prof. Dr. Catherine Wanner, Penn State University, Professor of History, Anthropology and Religious Studies

Video


CRCS-Jours fixes

Projects, publications and research collaborations from various disciplines and academics from Tübingen's research into religion were presented at the CRCS Jour Fixes, a casual lunchtime meeting. Completed projects were presented as well as initial research approaches and as yet unfinished publications. The CRCS Jour Fixes served to make religion-related research at the University of Tübingen visible and to network interested academics.

Winter term 2023/2024 - Summer term 2024

14.11.2023

Making Sense of Interreligious Practices

Lea Stolz und Lea Schlenker, Faculty of Protestant Theology & ZITh

12.12.2023

Ancestors and the Postcolony. Memory, spirits and healing

AR Dr. Katharina Wilkens, Department of Religious Studies

18.01.2024

From the 'Mass of all times' to the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council or: How an external cultural studies perspective can help theology on its way

Prof. Dr. Johanna Rahner, Chair of Dogmatics and History of Dogma, Faculty of Catholic Theology

25.04.2024

Is this Ironic? Theoretical Insights from the Pre-Modern Islamic Qur’an Commentary Tradition

Dr. Shuaib Ally, Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University

02.07.2024

Decoding Atheistic Knowledge: The Ambiguous Path to Secularization in Communist Czechoslovakia

Dr. Martin Pácha, Eastern European history and regional studies

 

Winter term 2022/2023 - Summer term 2023

08.11.2022

Judaism as religion or as politea in early rabbinic literature: implications for 'orthodoxy' and toleration

Dr. Daniel H. Weiss, Polonsky-Coexist Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies, University of Cambridge; Humboldt Fellow at the Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Tübingen

06.12.2022

Canonizations à la russe: the historical policy of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 21st century

Dr. Oleg Morozov, Visiting researcher SFB “Threatened Orders”, Institute for Eastern European History and Regional Studies

10.01.2023

Being Catholic in the Federal Republic of Germany: Semantics, Practices, Emotions in West German Society 1965-1989/90

Prof. Dr. Andrea Holzem, Professor of Medieval and Modern Church History at the Faculty of Catholic Theology

25.04.2023

Violence against Jews. Perspectives from the Latin-Christian and Islamic spheres

JProf. Dr. Theresa Jäckh, Junior Professor of Medieval History with a focus on the Mediterranean and the Middle East

23.05.2023

Universal history as a diagram. The 'Compendium historiae' of Peter of Poitiers

Prof. Dr. Andrea Worm, Director of the Institute of Art History at the University of Tübingen and Professor of Art History with a focus on the Middle Ages

06.06.2023

Figurations of the national in the pre-modern era

PD Dr. Christian Witt, Chair of Church History of the Protestant Faculty

18.07.2023

Avicenna and Averroës as two paradigms of the history of philosophy in Islam

Prof. Dr. Heidrun Eichner, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Tübingen

Winter term 2021/2022 - Summer term 2022

09.11.2021

On the competition between religious and scientific interpretations of history using the example of (neo-)paganism in England

Prof. Dr. Isabel Laack, Professor of Religious Studies and Non-European History of Religions, Faculty of Humanities

07.12.2021

The Qur'an as a Source for Late Antiquity (QaSLA) - Vorstellung eines neuen Forschungsprojekts in Tübingen

Prof. Dr. Holger Zellentin, Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, Faculty of Protestant Theology

18.01.2021

Jesuit mission in China

Prof. Dr. Johannes Brachtendorf, Prof. Dr. Achim Mittag
Professor of Philosophical Foundations of Theology, Faculty of Catholic Theology
Professor of Chinese Language, Literature and Philosophy at the Department of Sinology, Faculty of Philosophy

08.02.2022

Belonging in contemporary Japanese Buddhism

Prof. Dr. Monika Schrimpf, Professor of Japanese Studies, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Faculty of Humanities

24.05.2022

Holy violence or constructive dialog - On the ambivalence of religions in armed conflicts

Prof. Dr. Andreas Hasenclever, Professor of Peace Research and International Politics; Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

14.06.2022

Minority rights are not a solution for Muslims in Europe

Prof. Dr. Mouez Khalfaoui, Professor of Islamic Law, Center for Islamic Theology

12.07.2022

Instruction and commitment: the humanity of man in rabbinic thought

Dr. Asher Mattern, Institute for Ecumenical and Interreligious Research, Faculty of Catholic Theology

Winter term 2020/2021 - Summer term 2021

01.12.2020 Law and religion 
Prof. Dr. Michael Dröge, Chair of Public Law: Administrative Law, Religious Administrative Law and Canon Law as well as Tax Law, Faculty of Law
12.01.2021

Liturgization and hypersacralization in Constantinople in the 3rd-8th centuries

Prof. Dr. Mischa Meier, Professor of Ancient History, Faculty of Philosophy

02.02.2021

The Theatrical King: Staging Civic Religion from the English Monarchy to the American Presidency

Dr. Dan Poston, Postdoctoral Fellow; English Department, Faculty of Philosophy

03.05.2021

The heavenly ruler and his state - on the sacrality of the Japanese Tennô

Prof. Dr. Klaus Antoni, Chair of Japanese Studies, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Faculty of Humanities

01.06.2021

Jewish Philosophy Beyond the Nation-State

Prof. Dr. Yaniv Feller, Humboldt Fellow at the Ludwig Uhland Institute; Wesleyan University Middletown, USA

06.07.2021

Imperialism, globalization and the search for the origins of monotheism: the case of Martin Haug (1827-1876)

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Maier, Professor of General Religious Studies and European History of Religions, Faculty of Humanities


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