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In an interview for Domradio Cologne with Jan Hendrik Stens, Stefan Heid loses himself in the confusing world of patriarchs and their patriarchates.
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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 new online platform Communio (Verlag Herder) regularly publishes articles with a Roman connection (category ‘City of Wonders’), most recently an article by Stefan Heid on the Easter origins of archaeology.
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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 Georg Röwekamp, who has long been an institution in Jerusalem and also works closely with the Görres Society and the Roman Institute, has left his post as director of the pilgrims' house in Tabga on Lake Gennesaret, which he has held since 2020.
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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 Benedict XVI Forum is about the ‘sense of the sacred’. The speakers are Cardinal Kurt Koch, Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer, Ralph Weimann, Markus Grabulich, Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger, Stefanos Athanasiou and Andreas Wollbold.
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On Wednesday, 16 April, Stefan Heid will give a lecture at 7.30 pm as part of the Dahlem Forum Bernhardinum on the topic: ‘Rome and the Jubilee Years, or: The Keys of Pope Boniface VIII’. Venue: Königin-Luise-Str. 33.
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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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