Visiting scholar

Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Vossenkuhl will be studying at the RIGG for several weeks. He has been a member of the advisory board of the Görres Society since 1981 and from 1993 to 2011 held the so-called Concordat Chair of Philosophy at the LMU Munich, where the founding president of the Görres Society, Count Georg von Hertling, once sat. We hope to welcome Vossenkuhl as a speaker at a Görres lecture soon and recommend his book on what is and what should be:

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Dr Marco Aimone (Vercelli / London), scientific curator and editor of the Wyvern Collection of Byzantine Early Christian Art, is a Fellow of the Antiquaries of London and a member of the Société nationale des Antiquaire de France, founded in 1804, and the RIGG. He is currently conducting research at the RIGG and lecturing on early Christian cult objects at the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology.

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During her stay at the Roman Institute (Oct. 2023), Dr Gordana Jeremić will deal with topics from early Christian archaeology and the history of this discipline, especially with regard to Sebien. She is interested in the work of the first explorer of the early Christian necropolis of Sirmium (today Sremska Mitrovica), the archaeologist and priest Adolf Hytrek, from the circle around Anton de Waal, rector of Campo Santo Teutonico. She would like to present the results of her research at the 18th International Congress of Christian Archaeology in Belgrade 18th International Congress of Christian Archaeology in Belgrade and in a corresponding publication.

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Dr. iur. Frank Czerner, holder of the professorship for law in social work (and in digital forensics) at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences in Middle Saxony, has been spending his research sabbatical at Campo Santo Teutonico since the end of April 2022. He is investigating the question of the extent to which the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is reflected in Roman Catholic canon law, the Corpus Iuris Canonici (CIC), and whether the text of the UN Convention can be regarded as an interpretative aid (or even as an interpretative directive) of the CIC that protects the welfare of children.

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Dr Filip Malesevic is currently working as a doctoral assistant and lecturer at the Chair of General and Swiss Modern History at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). His research focuses on the cultural history of the Roman Curia, Rome and the papacy between the 14th and 17th centuries. He is currently preparing a critical edition of the letters and unpublished works of the scholar-cardinal Guglielmo Sirleto (1514-1585) to be published by De Gruyter (Monumenta Sirletana Romanae Curiae).

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