News around the globe
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 Geschichtsverein Rottenburg-Stuttgart knows how to formulate titles. The next conference in Weingarten Monastery from 14 to 16 March 2025 will focus on "Change of conviction in historical perspective".
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.
A German-Italian conference at Villa Vigoni from 20 to 22 November will deal with ‘Interconfessional coexistence in social change: The Holy See and relations between Catholics and Protestants in the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1958)’.
The Institute for the History of Christianity, Faculty of Humanities at the University of Hamburg and the Archive of the Catholic Military Bishop in Berlin are organising a two-day research colloquium in Berlin in mid-October 2025 on the topic of ‘Military chaplaincy in the view of (church) historical research. National and transnational perspectives’.
Deadline: 28. February
The Institute for the Study of Religions and Interreligious Dialogue at the University of Fribourg/Switzerland is awarding the ‘Bartolomé de Las Casas’ prize for the 8th time.
Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft
