The Program of the General Assembly in Regensburg

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Datum: 2024-09-27
Ort: Regensburg

The program for the 126th General Assembly of the Görres Society in Regensburg has now been published. The AGM has already had to be postponed twice, but now the effort put into the preparations (Nikolaus Korber and Albrecht Weiland are on the local committee) is finally being rewarded.

The overall theme is "Creation and Responsibility", but the sections are free to decide whether and how they take this up. In some cases, this is done with serious humour: the art history section with Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck has chosen "Ethical aspects of hunting from an art and cultural-historical perspective" as its main topic - wonderful! Maria Schulze from Dresden will talk about the high stand as a symbol of power and a target!

Further eye-catchers in the programme - without any completeness or preliminary decision:

The Ancient Studies section is doing something similar to the art historians: it is looking at people, animals and plants. Niklas Bend from Cologne will be talking about forests and their deities in the Roman imperial period.

The history section naturally has a large pool of topics on creation, nature and the environment from the Middle Ages through modern times to the present day.

The Modern Philology section deals with literary creation myths. In the Section for Religious Studies, Annette Böckler from Bonn will speak about environmental ethics in Judaism: "Praise be to the Creator of the vine!"

The Section for Musicology has very appealing lectures on the topic of "SacralSoundSpaces" - everything revolves around church space and music from the Middle Ages to the present day.

The Section for Ethnology and Sociology shines with unusual topics: "Amazonia in the Anthropocene", "Age of Monsters", "Toxic Legacies", "Salutoprudentia" and "How to train climate citizens".

AI has also reached the GG thematically (and will certainly continue to do so for a long time to come), for example in the section on pedagogy.

Then there are the joint main events:

Klaus Unterburger will give a lecture on "Wolfgang, Bishop of Regensburg, Saint of Europe" (Friday, 8 pm), followed by the Section dinners.

The Bavarian Minister of the Interior, Joachim Herrmann, will speak at the reception on Saturday evening (8 pm). He thinks particularly highly of the Görres Society, as he publicly announced in Rome not so long ago, because his father Johannes Herrmann was Secretary General of the Görres Society in the "wild years" from 1967 to 1979.

On Sunday, the Ring of Honour will be awarded to Prof. Dr Dr Hubert Kaufhold from Munich. This is very good news, as Kaufhold has rendered immense services to the Christian Orient section and the journal "Oriens Christianus" published by the Görres-Gesellschaft. On the RIGG website, we have pointed out on various occasions that the "Orienst Christianus" was founded at the Campo Santo Teutonico - as an oriental counterpart to the Roman Quarterly, so to speak - and we have also recognised Kaufhold's contribution to the section. We are therefore very grateful for this decision. Josef Rist will give the laudatory speech.

Anyone who has not yet decided to come to Regensburg should do so now!

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