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The conference "Popes and Paraments from Julius II to Benedict XVI - Textiles, Texts and Contexts from Six Centuries" will take place at Campo Santo Teutonico from 26 to 29 November 2025. The conference is being organised by Prof. Dr. Dr. Jörg Bölling (Hildesheim) in collaboration with Stefan Heid.
Dr Gabriel Steinschulte (Cologne), who worked for many years in Rome at the Osservatore Romano and at the Pontifical Institute for Sacred Music and until last year was conductor of the Schola Cantorum Coloniensis, will speak on the topic: ‘The commitment of the Council prelate Johannes Overath (1913-2002) to Musica Sacra and the Campo Santo Teutonico’.
The conference report of the conference ‘Time, Space and Calendar in Late Antique Rome’ organised by the University of Augsburg and written by Eric Klassen (Augsburg) has now been published on the H-Soz-Kult platform. The conference took place in November last year in co-operation with the RIGG and will be published in the supplement series of the Römische Quartalschrift.
Prof Dr Arnd Uhle (Leipzig) will speak on the topic: ‘Church financing in Europe: Notes on the forms of financing in the present’.
Arnd Uhle is a professor of constitutional law at the University of Leipzig and a constitutional judge of the Free State of Saxony. He is Head of the Law and Political Science Section of the Görres Society and a member of the Board of Directors of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society.
Dr Ruth Slenczka is an art and church historian and has been Director of the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald since 2022. She will be speaking on the topic of ‘The presence of history in Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)’. The Romantic painter Friedrich was born in Greifswald; his 250th birthday was celebrated in 2024.
The Gregorian University YouTube channel offers four English-language lectures from the conference ‘Unity and Unicity’ in March 2024:
Dr Chiara Cecalupo, Professor of Museology at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology in Rome, will speak on the subject of ‘The fascination of the catacombs in 19th/20th century European Catholicism’.
Start: 6 pm
Location: Aula Pope Benedict XVI (Campo Santo Teutonico)
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The originally planned lecture by Sible de Blaauw will take place at a later date.
Dr Matthias Simperl from Augsburg was instrumental in organising the conference on the so-called ‘Chronograph of 354’, a late antique composite manuscript produced in Rome. The conference was characterised by lively debates and produced a whole series of fundamentally new insights. Simperl talks about this in an interview:
Stefan Rebenich, Professor of Ancient History in Bern, will speak on the topic ‘’A richly illustrated calendar‘ - The chronograph of the year 354 in the scholarly debates of the 19th century" (in German). The Chronograph of 354 is a composite manuscript containing extraordinarily important texts from the 4th century that shed light on the history of Rome in pagan-Christian times.
The art historian Prof Dr Christian Hecht will speak on the subject of "The art decoration of the Sistine Chapel and its liturgical function".
He has some spectacular insights to share.
Beginning: 18
Location: Aula Pope Benedict XVI (Campo Santo Teutonico)
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