News around the globe
On 7 November, Hartmut Benz will be speaking about the colourful figure of Prelate Rudolf Gerlach (1886–1946), a native of Baden-Baden, on the WDR programme “Zeitzeichen” (WDR-5 from 9.45 am to 10.00 am and on WDR-3 from 5.45 pm to 6.00 pm). Gerlach was Cameriere Segreto of Pope Benedict XV and was forced to leave the Vatican and Italy during the First World War.
To mark the retirement of Director Prof. Dr Hans-Walter Stork, the Archiepiscopal Academic Library in Paderborn is organising a symposium on Roman topics. Jörg Voigt, Medieval Studies Officer at the RIGG, will convey the greetings of the Roman Institute with a lecture on ‘Daily Life at the Late Medieval Curia – Serious and Light-hearted’.
Jörg Voigt (Hanover), the RIGG’s medieval studies expert, will speak on 22 September at the École Française in Rome, on 26 September at Eberbach Abbey, and on 1 October at the Archiepiscopal Academic Library in Paderborn.
The church-based foundation SocioMovens, established by Prelate Dr Peter Klasvogt, Rector of the Campo Santo Teutonico, will receive the International Westphalian Peace Prize in Münster on 1 October. The other recipient is NATO. SocioMovens focuses primarily on youth projects in Eastern and Central Europe.
The European Academy of the Arts, headed by Erdmuthe Brand, has been based in Montepulciano, near Perugia, for 25 years.
On 25–26 June, a one-day seminar on the topic ‘Constructing the Sacred: Liturgy, Architecture and Experience in the Late Antique East’ will take place at the University of Warsaw. The main focus will be on the (Syrian) bema.
On 4 June at 10 am, a protest against the closure of Humboldt University’s Winckelmann Institute of Archaeology will take place at Unter den Linden 6. Many members of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society have also signed the petition to save the institute.
On 5 June, a symposium will be held in Verona on Onofrio Panvinio (1530–1568), the Veronese Augustinian hermit, antiquarian and humanist. The event is organised under the patronage of, amongst others, the Roman Institute of the Görres Society and the Vatican Archives.
The annual meeting of German-speaking church historians will take place from 14 to 16 September at the EmmeramForum in Regensburg. The theme is ‘Epochal breaks and turning points in the history of the Church and theology’. Registration is required by 29 May.
On 21 April, the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Sicily “John the Evangelist” in Palermo is organising a study day on Pope Leo XIV’s Apostolic Letter of 11 December 2025 on the benefits of studying Christian archaeology.
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