News around the globe
Deadline: 31 October
The Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen of the Academie of the Diocese Rottenburg-Stuttgart invites to its next workshop 23-25 March 2023. The Call for Papers finishes 31 October.
The Eastern Church Institute of the University of Würzburg celebrates its 75th anniversary. Heinzgerd Brakmann (Dölger Institute, Bonn) will give the keynote lecture on the Coptic liturgy.iturgie.
At the conference "Hubert Jedin - Storico del Concilio, cittadino di Trento", Matteo Fadini and Laura di Fabio referred to Jedin's estate in the Fondazione Bruno Kessler-Bibliotheca. This estate includes both his library (about 5000 volumes) and manuscripts and correspondence, which are accessible to the public and are currently being inventoried. It is a substantial Jedin estate alongside that in the Commission for Contemporary History in Bonn.
See all the speakers of the conference on Youtube: 13 October - 14 October
Prof. Chiara Cecalupo (Rome/Madrid), a member of the RIGG, has been conducting a major research project on the rediscovery of the Roman catacombs in the 19th/20th century as a European cultural phenomenon. In this short video, for example, she talks about the catacomb postcards that were used for innovative advertising work at the time. Cecalupo also has her own website.
On 6 October 6 pm there will be an event with, among others, the archaeologist Winfried Weber (Trier) and the JIGG director Nikodemus Schnabel. The topic will be the relationship between St Michael's Church in Fulda and the Jerusalem burial rotunda. The event can be followed on site and via livestreaming.
On 10 October, the second workshop on the Hippolytus statue, initiated by Dr András Handl, will take place in the foyer of the Vatican Library in Leuven and online. The statue is of outstanding importance because of the Greek literature and Easter lists on the cheeks of the chair. It is also piquant that a man's head was placed on the female statue. Therefore, the restoration of the headless statue in the Renaissance is also to be researched .
The exhibition runs until 12 February in the Hildesheim Cathedral Museum. The church treasures of Europe and the Hildesheim cathedral treasury (UNESCO World Heritage) contain numerous works of art from regions influenced by Islam. Based on these objects, the large special exhibition in the Hildesheim Cathedral Museum will show the similarities and interconnections between the cultures.ulturen aufgezeigt. The printhouse Schnell & Steiner has published a splendid catalogue of the exhibition.
The Catholic Academy of Bavaria in Munich is organising a lecture by Olof Blaschke (Münster) on 10 October on the topic "Ein Bischof wie andere? Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber as a representative of his brother bishops' milieu".
The History Society of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart is organising a study day with a general meeting in the magnificent former monastery of Zwiefalten (near Tübingen) on 22 October. Auxiliary Bishop Dr Gerhard Schneider, once a collegiate at Campo Santo Teutonico, will be there.
The highly recommendable journal ACADEMIA (4/2022) of the Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen (Cartel Association of Catholic German Student Fraternities) presents the large volume by Klaus Herbers and Matthias Simperl (picture) on the medieval papal chronicle "Liber Pontificalis" on a full two pages. The volume emerged from a RIGG conference four years ago. In the same ACADEMIA issue, Dr Martin Barth also presents the Görres Society (here, pp. 50-51).
review in academia liber pontificalis
Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft
