Before a detailed conference report is published in the next few weeks, we would like to briefly summarise the event here. With over 50 participants, the conference on monastery archives conference on monastery archives at the end of November was undoubtedly a successful event organised by the RIGG's Medieval Department, which is headed by Dr Jörg Voigt.
Father Mariano Dell'Omo, archivist of Montecassino Abbey, will give a lecture in Italian on Friday, 24 November "San Benedetto e la sua Regola. Sui fondamenti scritti del monachesimo occidentale come riflessi negli archivi (e nelle biblioteche) monastici".
Simon Meier has published a detailed report on the platform H/Soz/Kult about the lectures of the conference "Rome as Sacred Topography from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era" held by Prof. Dr. Britta Kägler (Passau) at the RIGG in March.
The famous and controversial archivist of the Holy See Augustin Theiner (1804-1874), who will have the 150th anniversary of his death next year, has a special connection with Campo Santo Teutonico, as he not only belonged, since 1838, to the Archconfraternity but also found his grave in the German cemetery. Theiner was an opponent of the dogma of infallibility.
Change of three lectures: Fra Emmanuel Rousseau speaks on Friday at 9.30, Gianfranco Armando on Thursday at 14.20 and Dr. Federica G. Giordani on Thursday at 15.30.
In honour of Prof. Dr Johannes Grohe - in anticipation of his 70th birthday - an international conference on "Archives of monasteries and religious orders from the Middle Ages to the present: between administration, authority of knowledge and historical research / Les archives des ordres religieux du Moyen Age à nos jours: entre administration, autorité du savoir et science historique" will be held at the RIGG. The organisers are Dr Jörg Voigt (Hanover), RIGG's Medieval Desk Officer, and Dr Augustin Laffay OP (Rome), Director of the General Archives of the Dominicans.
In honour of Cardinal Kurt Koch, who will reach the age of 75 on 15 March 2025, a scientific symposium on the theme of "Unity and Uniqueness" will be held at the Angelicum and the Gregorian University from 6 to 8 March 2024, to which all friends of the Cardinal and those interested are cordially invited. It will be a scientific conference in which Cardinal Koch will be an active participant and co-discussant.
From 26 to 29 July, an international conference "Christian - Heroine - Queen: Maghrebian and European Perspectives on Literary Women in Ancient North Africa" will take place at the RIGG. The conference is organised by Anja Bettenworth (University of Cologne) and Claudia Gronemann (University of Mannheim). In a way, the event is a continuation of the Augustine Conference of March 2019 published in the Roman Quarterly.