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The Paul Maria Baumgarten Institute for Papal History at the University of Wuppertal is organising a study day on 17 January, which can also be followed online. Federica G. Giordani from the RIGG will be among the speakers.
The sensational essay by Prof. Dr Christian Hecht in the Ratzinger homage ‘Historische Intuitionen’ (Historical Intuitions) of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society, in which he proves the false liturgical orientation of the Sistine Chapel, has now found its way into the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in abridged form.
On 22 January at 6.15 pm, Prof. Dr Rainald Becker will give his inaugural lecture as full professor at the Chair of European Regional History and Bavarian and Swabian Regional History at the University of Augsburg's Faculty of Phil. on the topic of ‘Endstation Sehnsucht - Bayern in Rom’.
On 24 January at 5 p.m., Prof. Dr Helmut Hoping will give his farewell lecture at the University of Freiburg i.Br. (Kollegiengebäude I, Aula) on the topic of ‘Mind and Universe. The Enigma of Consciousness’. Hoping is a full professor of dogmatics and liturgical science and has taken part in the two RIGG liturgical conferences ‘Operation am lebenden Objekt’ and ‘Kult des Volkes’. He is also known for his work in the Ratzinger Schülerkreis.
The special exhibition ‘Carpaccio, Bellini and the Early Renaissance in Venice’, including the altarpieces by Vittore Carpaccio, can be seen at the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart until 2 March. Altarpieces played a central role in Catholic mass practice until they were abolished following the introduction of popular altars after the Second Vatican Council.
Every year, the Gesellschaft für Frankfurter Geschichte e.V. offers remarkable lectures on Frankfurt's city history, currently on the topic of ‘Frankfurt in the Weimar Republic’. The lectures usually take place in the Archaeological Museum Frankfurt (former Carmelite monastery).
The traditional bookshop Bernhard Bercker in the Lower Rhine pilgrimage town of Kevelaer has a tribute to Pope Benedict XVI in its shop window. The commemorative publication was published by the RIGG under the title ‘Historische Intuitonen’ (Historical Intuitions) by the publishing house Herder. It was observed and photographed by Christian Dick from Neuss.
Dr Filip Malesevic (Fribourg), who spent a research stay at the RIGG in autumn, is now moving to the private Bilkent University in Ankara as Assistant Professor for European Modern History (tenure-track). His latest book ‘Rome Unveiled: Cardinal Cesare Baronio, San Giovanni in Laterano, and the Liturgical Spaces of the Roman Curia in the Late Cinquecento’ is due to be published in the spring. He recently published a study on St Peter's and Santa Maria Maggiore.
Prof Dr Marianne Schlosser from Vienna will be speaking in the Cardinal Bengsch Hall in Berlin-Schönefeld on ‘Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI's understanding of faith’. Prof. Schlosser is the winner of the Roman Ratzinger Prize and recently gave a lecture at the conference in honour of Cardinal Kurt Koch.
The Theo-Talk organised by the Catholic Adult Education Department of the Diocese of Trier welcomes Stefan Heid on 9 December. He will be speaking on the topic of ‘Trier and Rome - of archaeologists and prelates’. Ludwig Kaas, of course, but also Theodor Konrad Kempf, Alois Thomas, Stephan Ehses and others will play a role.
Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft
