News around the globe
After thirty years at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Vienna, Univ.-Prof. MMag. DDr. Rupert Klieber will give his farewell lecture on the topic: "Bishop appointments for Austria before and after 1918 - a leap in quality? And: What is Church History for?" on 23 May 2023 at 5 p.m. in the Franz-König-Saal / Main Building of the University.
Klieber is curator of the Bischofslexikon der Habsburgermonarchie.
Deadline: 15 June 2023
On the theme of "Light: Art, Metaphysics and Natural Science in the Middle Ages", the VII Forum Art of the Middle Ages will take place in Jena from 25 to 28 September 2024.
Deadline: 31 March
A summer school on Byzantine epigraphy will be held in Bulgaria from 12-15 September. Scholarships can be obtained.
Prof. Dr Michael Durst, priest of the Archdiocese of Cologne, who worked at the Campo Santo Teutonico from 1977 to 1980 - at times as Erwin Gatz's assistant - and was a member of the Antiquities Section of the Görres Society for many years, will give his farewell lecture as Professor of Ancient Church History and Patrology at the Chur School of Theology on 1 June at 5.15 pm. He will speak on "On the significance of archaeological finds and findings for the early history of the diocese of Chur". Durst's publications include dogmatic and diocesan history.
The birthplace of Joseph Ratzinger in Marktl am Inn in the diocese of Passau is hosting a special exhibition of works by the artist Georg Ettl (1940-2014). The programme from April to September includes talks and lectures with Father Eberhard Gemmingen and Msgr Dr Thomas Frauenlob, among others.
From April to July, a lecture series on Byzantium will be held at the University of Göttingen. Lectures will be given by Michael Grünbart, Philipp Niewöhner, Caroline Macé, Armin Bergmeier and others.
Stefan Heid will be giving a lecture at the Dahlem Forum Bernhardinum on 4 April at 7.30 p.m. on "Refrigeria, agape, house churches - what all there was or wasn't in the early church". A zoom-transmission is not planned.
Location: Königin-Luise-Str. 33
Deadline: 30. April
Various institutions invite you to an International Conference on "Church in Transition. Organisational and institutional foundations of the integration of refugees and displaced persons 1945-1963" in Regensburg from 18 to 20 September 2023.
On 8 March at 3 p.m. at the Pontifical College of Santa Croce in Rome there will be a lecture on the topic "Joseph Ratzinger's Elliptical Ecumenism" by Prof. Michael Root from the Catholic University in Washington.
On 24-25 March at the Phil.-Theol. Hochschule Heiligenkreuz there will be a conference on "Das Prophetische in dre Theologie von Papst Benedikt XVI. / Joseph Ratzinger" with Maximilian Heim, Christian Schaller, Jan-Heiner Tück and others.
Matthias Simperl, former assistant at the RIGG (2012/2013), was able to successfully complete his theological doctoral studies at the University of Augsburg with the rigorosum last Thursday. In his dissertation thesis submitted last year, "Das Schreiben der Synode von Antiochia 324/325 (Urk. 18). Überlieferungsgeschichtliche Einordnung, Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentar", Simperl examines the letter of a synod that has survived exclusively in the West Syrian canon law tradition.
Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft
