Forum for Historical Research since 1888
Located next to St. Peter's Basilica, the Campo Santo Teutonico is the retreat of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society (RIGG), the well-known academic centre for research into the history of the Church and Christian cultural heritage.
The Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology will open the new academic year on 6 November at 9.30 a.m. with Holy Mass in S. Prassede with Grand Chancellor Cardinal Mendonca. Afterwards the book "Cento anni del Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana" will be presented. 3 November is the last day of enrolment as a new student. The printed programme contains all the information, including the chronicle of the past year.
The General Assembly from 22 to 24 September in Tübingen will again offer a rich programme under the guiding theme of "Freedom". Speakers include Boris Palmer and Paul Kirchhof. Other highlights: The History Section will speak about the threat to academic freedom, the Law and Political Science Section will talk about migration and citizenship, the Political Science Section about paternalism and the like. Andreas Holzem will lecture on the Thirty Years' War in the Corpus Catholicorum.
It is important to sign up, to find his name in the list of the participants.
For exactly ten years now, the Römertreffen, i.e. the informal meeting of former or active members of the RIGG, has been held at the General Assemblies of the Görres Society. The first time in 2013, the General Assembly was in Tübingen, the chosen venue for the evening round was Ranitzky am Markt. This year the General Assembly will - how appropriate! - will be in Tübingen again and the meeting will be held this time in the Neckarmüller restaurant. In all those years - except in Covid times - the meetings were held, always on Saturday evenings after the reception. But the tradition of such meetings goes back much further, to the time before the Second World War.
On 7 November, Dr Matthias Simperl will receive the Cardinal Wetter Prize for Young Theology of the Catholic Academy of Bavaria for his dissertation "The Letter of the Synod of Antioch 324/25". The award ceremony will take place at 7 pm on the premises of the University of Augsburg.
The Gesellschaft zur Konziliengeschichtsforschung (Society for Research on the History of Councils), led by Prof. Dr Johannes Grohe (Rome) and Prof. Dr Thomas Prügl (Vienna), is holding an outstanding conference at the University of Bamberg in the run-up to the 1700th anniversary of the first ecumenical Council of Nicaea (325). Among the speakers are Thomas Graumann, Evangelos Chrysos, Josef Rist, Hanns Christof Brennecke, Matthias Simperl, Giulio Maspero, Winfried Büttner, Petar Vrancic, Alberto Ferreiro, Johann Anton Zieme, Ralf van Bühren, Uwe Michael Lang, Ansgar Frenken, Ulli Roth, Peter Bruns, Szilvia Somogyi and Federica G. Giordani.
Thematically in memory of Pope Benedict XVI, the two circles of students will hold his meeting this year in Rome on 23 September, for which a live link will also be installed. Among the speakers will be RIGG members Cardinal Kurt Koch, Archbishop Georg Gänswein and Ralph Weimann. Benedict XVI was a member of the RIGG for 40 years and arranged for the foundation of a Study library at the Campo Santo Teutonico.
Dieter Desczyk in Berlin has published a book on "Bridges and Saints". With its drawings it is a small rarity, there is nothing comparable. "Message": The bridge has something transcendent (crossing over) in the truest sense of the word, but also in the symbolic: over dangers from one world to another, and in this the saints are accompanying intercessors and true pontifices.
Michael Hetz (*1995 in Munich) studied history and Latin philology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. He is working on a dissertation project in regional history entitled "RangOrdnung. High Medieval Nobility Associations in the Alpine Region". The work is supervised by Prof. Dr. Dieter J. Weiß and funded by the Hanns Seidel Foundation.
Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck / Stefan Heid / Michael Hetz
In September, the Bonn art historian and head of the Art History Section of the Görres Society, Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck, together with Prof. Bianca Kühnel from the Hebrew University, who is currently a visiting professor in Bonn, conducted a Rome excursion on the topic of "Rome-Jerusalem Interactions". The programme included numerous churches, but also the big synagogue. Furthermore, the group was guided to the Esquiline by the RIGG's responsible for history of art, Dr. Andreas Raub, the director explained the papal chapel Sancta Sanctorum. Of course, a visit to Campo Santo Teutonico was also on the agenda (see pictures).
The new President of the Pontifical Committee of Historical Sciences is the Jesuit Marek Inglot from the Gregorian University.
The new Undersecretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education is the Jesuit Antonio Spadaro of the "Civiltà Cattolica".
The papal delegate for the Urbaniana University is the former rector of the Lateran University Vincenzo Buonomo.
Prof. Dr. Anja Bettenworth (Köln) and Prof. Dr. Claudia Gronemann (Mannheim) give a double lecture:
Deadline: 16 October
The University of Notre Dame in Indianapolis invites applications for two professorships.
RACTA III - the 3rd Doctoral Colloquium on Christian Archaeology - a student initiative - will take place in Rome from 5 to 7 February 2024. Those who would like to give a lecture must register by 10 September.
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After the conference in February 2018 on the papal historian Ludwig Pastor (1854-1928), which was also partly held at the RIGG (here on the book), Andreas Sohn and Jacques Verger (both Paris) are organising another conference on Pastor on 14-15 September at the Premonstratensian Abbey of Wilten in Innsbruck. Bernard Ardura, Andreas Gottsmann, Volker Leppin, REinhard Meßner, Christof Paulus, Christine Grafinger and Paolo Vian are among the speakers. Winfried Becker speaks about "Ludwig von Pastor and the Görres Society".
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