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From 22-24 May 2025, Göttingen will host a conference entitled "Modern Methods, Timeless Questions. Late Antiquity and Byzantium in the Mirror of the Present", the XXVII conference of the Working Group for Christian Archaeology will take place in Göttingen. The conference aims to emphasise the social relevance and importance of Christian archaeology within universities.

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Prof. Dr Paolo Liverani will be presenting his current topographical and archaeological studies at the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Regensburg. On Tuesday, 13 May 2025, at 6 pm c.t. in Lecture Hall 23, he will speak on the topic: "The Lateran area in Rome between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Results of the Transformed project".

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The Princely House of Thurn und Taxis, with its ancestral seat at St. Emmeram Palace in Regensburg, has always shown an interest in researching its own history. This is also expressed in the new series of ‘Thurn und Taxis Studien’, edited by Wilhelm Imkamp, Peter Styra and Dieter Weiß and published by the Regensburg publishing house Pustet.

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Dr Andreas Raub (consultant for History of Art at the RIGG) also appears in the documentary ‘Jesus goes to Holywood’ (2024) about films and images of Christ. He presents the Stations of the Cross, as they can be seen at Campo Santo, for example, as significant forerunners of the cinematic Jesus Passions.

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The ‘Raffael of Ratzinger’, the Erfurt painter Michael Triegel, currently has an exhibition entitled ‘Beyond the Visible’ at the Suermondt Ludwig Museum in Aachen. It runs until 15 June. Triegel is one of the most important contemporary artists. He has twice painted portraits of Pope Benedict XVI. The Roman portrait adorns the recently published homage to Benedict XVI by the Roman Institute of the Görres Society.

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