Frankfurt POLY Lectures on “Space and Religion II”

Veranstalter
Prof Dr Birgit Emich, Research Group ‘Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities’ (POLY) (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Ausrichter
Goethe University Frankfurt
Gefördert durch
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
PLZ
60629
Ort
Frankfurt am Main
Land
Deutschland
Findet statt
Hybrid
Vom - Bis
24.10.2023 - 06.02.2024
Website
http://www.geschichte.uni-frankfurt.de/KFG_POLY
Von
Michael Leemann, DFG-Kollegforschungsgruppe „Polyzentrik und Pluralität vormoderner Christentümer“ (POLY), Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

All talk of religion implies talk of space. In a series of lectures over the course of the winter terms of 2022/23 and 2023/24, the Frankfurt research group ‘Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities’ (POLY) will be exploring the spatial embeddedness of medieval and early modern Christianities, pursuing a host of questions about the often-contested spatiality of religion.

Frankfurt POLY Lectures on “Space and Religion II”

All talk of religion implies talk of space; churches, mosques and synagogues all testify to this fact. But the connection between religion and space goes beyond mere architecture, with the spatiality being of fundamental importance to religion. In a series of lectures over the course of the winter terms of 2022/23 and 2023/24, the Frankfurt research group ‘Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities’ (POLY) will be exploring the spatial embeddedness of medieval and early modern Christianities, pursuing a host of questions about the often-contested spatiality of religion: To what extent, for example, did early modern piety rely on private spaces? For whom did churches serve as sanctuaries in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Atlantic? And how did religious practices that were aimed at the commemoration of extreme climate and weather events shape medieval urban spaces? Besides addressing physical spaces, we will also turn to abstract spaces and examine, among other things, how the proportional representation of human bodies and objects in space were related to Reformation controversies over images. In a reflexive mode, too, we will discuss how notions of space have implicitly and explicitly moulded our understanding of religion, and how they continue to exert an influence on the way historians today write the history of religion.

We will be delighted to welcome to the POLY Lectures anyone who is interested to join. The fourteen lectures, held in German and English, will be given by a select group of internationally-renowned scholars. Attendance is possible in-person or online. To receive an invitation for the Zoom meeting, please contact info@poly-unifrankfurt.de

Programm

24 October 2023
Katherine Hill (Birkbeck, University of London), Ties across Time and Space: Genealogy, Geographies and Mennonite Diasporas from 1500 to the Present Day

31 October 2023
Mette Birkedal Bruun (University of Copenhagen), Privacy in Early Modern Piety: Spaces, Practices and Devotional Auxiliaries

07 November 2023
Cecilia Cristellon (Goethe University Frankfurt), Justice in the Church: Legal Procedures and Conflict Resolution within Sacred Spaces (Italy, 16th–18th Centuries)

14 November 2023
Beat Kümin (University of Warwick), Pfarrei und Pluralität – Lokale Konstellationen des Religiösen in der Vormoderne

21 November 2023
Adina Ruiu (Independent Scholar), An Archipelago of Missions: Jesuit Networks in the Ottoman Aegean

28 November 2023
Karin Vélez (Macalester College), Safe Spaces or Dire Straits: Catholic Church Buildings as Tenuous Refuge in Early Modern Atlantic Frontier Zones

05 December 2023
Irina Saladin (University of Koblenz), Space and Religion in Amazonia: Cultural Contact and Its Influence on Jesuit Cartography

12 December 2023
Martin Bauch (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, Leipzig), Religious Marking of Disaster Spaces: Late-Medieval Processions and Inscriptions in Erfurt and Frankfurt as Memory Strategies for Climate-Induced Natural Extreme Events

19 December 2023
Johannes Pahlitzsch (University of Mainz), Concepts of Space and Orthodoxy beyond Byzantium

09 January 2024
Jeanne Nuechterlein (University of York), Albrecht Dürer’s Studies of Measurement and the Early Reformation

16 January 2024
Thomas Wallnig (University of Vienna), Johannes von Nepomuk und die hagiographische Integration der Monarchia Austriaca: Religiös konnotierter Raum im Kompositstaat

23 January 2024
Katherine Gerbner (University of Minnesota), The Space and Time of Slave Rebellions

30 January 2024
Violet Soen (KU Leuven), Borderlands in Early Modern Catholicism

06 February 2024
Mathilde Monge (University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès), Mapping Early Modern Diasporas. Minorities, Translocal Societies and Shifts in Scales

Kontakt

info@poly-unifrankfurt.de

http://www.geschichte.uni-frankfurt.de/KFG_POLY