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25 years after the publication of ‘The Spirit of the Liturgy’, the question of Joseph Ratzinger's liturgical legacy arises. A conference at the Catholic University of America in Washington on 25-26 September is dedicated to this topic.
The Leibniz Centre for Archaeology in Mainz is organising a conference on ‘Byzantine Anatolia from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, 600-800: Historical and Archaeological Approaches to a Crisis Era’ from 26 to 28 May. Online participation is possible.
The XIX. International Congress of Christian Archaeology will take place from 2 to 8 October 2028 in Cordoba, Spain. Responsible for the organisation of the international congresses is the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology.
In an interview for Domradio Cologne with Jan Hendrik Stens, Stefan Heid loses himself in the confusing world of patriarchs and their patriarchates.
From 22-24 May 2025, Göttingen will host a conference entitled "Modern Methods, Timeless Questions. Late Antiquity and Byzantium in the Mirror of the Present", the XXVII conference of the Working Group for Christian Archaeology will take place in Göttingen. The conference aims to emphasise the social relevance and importance of Christian archaeology within universities.
Prof. Dr Paolo Liverani will be presenting his current topographical and archaeological studies at the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Regensburg. On Tuesday, 13 May 2025, at 6 pm c.t. in Lecture Hall 23, he will speak on the topic: "The Lateran area in Rome between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Results of the Transformed project".
The new online platform Communio (Verlag Herder) regularly publishes articles with a Roman connection (category ‘City of Wonders’), most recently an article by Stefan Heid on the Easter origins of archaeology.
Katholisch.de has compiled a list of places where Pope Benedict XVI is commemorated. In addition to the Regensburg Institute, the birthplace in Marktl, and the residence in Pentling, the Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI Study Library at Campo Santo Teutonico, which belongs to the College of Priests but is looked after by the RIGG, is also presented.
The Princely House of Thurn und Taxis, with its ancestral seat at St. Emmeram Palace in Regensburg, has always shown an interest in researching its own history. This is also expressed in the new series of ‘Thurn und Taxis Studien’, edited by Wilhelm Imkamp, Peter Styra and Dieter Weiß and published by the Regensburg publishing house Pustet.
Dr Georg Röwekamp, who has long been an institution in Jerusalem and also works closely with the Görres Society and the Roman Institute, has left his post as director of the pilgrims' house in Tabga on Lake Gennesaret, which he has held since 2020.
Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft
