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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.
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.
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.
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.
On Wednesday, 1 April, at 7.30 pm, Stefan Heid will give a talk as part of the Dahlem Forum Bernhardinum on the topic: ‘German Catholicism and the Roman Catholic Church – a fascinating and tense relationship’ – a journey through history. Venue: Königin-Luise-Str. 33.
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.
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.
Deadline: 4 May
A workshop on power structures from the 4th to the 10th century will be held at the University of Bonn from 5 to 7 November 2025. Contributions are invited.
The 5th Interdisciplinary Summer Academy for young people will take place at Ottobeuren Abbey from 6 to 10 August 2025. The theme this time is ‘Perspectives on Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Scientific Methods’. Dr Reinhild E. Bues and Dr Thomas Kieslinger are responsible for the event.
On 26 January 2025, a digital conference was held in Italian on the analysis and interpretation of Reinhard Raffalt's (+ 1976 in Munich) philosophical work ‘The Antichrist’. The academic panel was organised by the Sardinian Associazione Culturale ‘Beato Francesco Zirano’. In addition to the philosophers Daniele Cordedda (Cagliari) and Gianluigi Sassu (Oristano), the linguist Daniele Manfredini (Milan) and the historian Julian Traut (Munich), who recently published a monograph on Raffalt, also took part.
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