Events
Conferences and workshops form a central part of the IGS’s activities. They are held annually on topics relating to the research programme’s areas of interest and the doctoral students’ respective research projects. A conference is held in Graz in the autumn and another in Erfurt in the spring. These are complemented by workshops designed to offer fresh perspectives on relevant topics at various times throughout the year.
20–22 October 2025 | Autumn Conference:
Indifference, Hostility, Disgust: The Ambiguity of Heimat
Organisers: Vincenzo Cerulli, Nicole Navratil, Andreas Pettenkofer, Rupert Rainer, Alina Zeller
24 February 2025–26 February 2025 | Spring Conference:
Mediality of Rituals: Representation – Performance – Transformation
Programme and conference report
Organisers: Lukas Bartl, Elisabeth Begemann, Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati, Jörg Rüpke
In collaboration with the International Research Group on Media and Religion
30 September 2024–2 October 2024 | Autumn Conference:
No Time like the Present? The Role of Time in Resonant Experiences
Organisers: Emma de Koning, Lukas Jung, Florian Oppitz, Lena Spickermann, Marina Schutti
6 March 2024–8 March 2024 | Spring Conference:
Mediality and Self-World Relations
Programme and conference report
Organisers: Dina Bijelic, Heinrich Hofer, Marios Kamenou
23–25 October 2023 | Autumn Conference (in Graz)
Space, Power, and Ritual – Interrelations and Interdependencies
Link to the Autumn Conference and impressions
22–24 March 2023 | Workshop:
Community, Ritual and the Power of Memory: Past, Present and Future
Organisers: Sará Heidl, Marios Kamenou, Veronika Kolomaznik, Elena Malagoli, Matthias Scholler, Clemens Wurzinger
1–3 March 2023 | Spring Conference:
After Resonance
Organisers: Andreas Pettenkofer, Thomas Sojer
11–13 October 2022 | Autumn Conference (in Graz)
Ritual and Resonance
Organisers: Irmtraud Fischer, Enno Friedrich, Christoph Heil, Laerke Recht, Wolfgang Spickermann, Franz Winter
6–8 July 2022 | Retreat:
Doing Interdisciplinarity
Organisers: Jörg Rüpke, Elisabeth Begemann, Enno Friedrich
13–16 June 2022 | Workshop
Vivir Bién
Call for applications (PDF, EN)
Call for applications (PDF, ESP)
Organiser: Manuel Moser
21–25 February 2022 | Spring Conference:
Rituals and Resonances of Interdisciplinary Research
Organisers: Rafael Barroso Romero, Elena Malagoli, Felipe Perissato, Jörg Rüpke, Ramón Soneira Martínez, Markus Vinzent
17 February 2022 | Workshop:
Multidirectional Memory in Germany
Organiser: Nancy Alhachem
27–29 October 2021 | Autumn Conference:
Text, Music, and Image-Object as Counterparts in Resonant Relationships
15–17 September 2021 | Workshop:
Rewiring the House of God: Religious Self-World Relations in the Digital Environment
Organisers: Gabriel Malli, Fouad G. Marei
In collaboration with the University of Birmingham
23–26 February 2021 | Spring Conference
: Measuring the World against the Body: Materialities and Meanings of Magnification and Miniaturisation in Religious Communication in Antiquity and Modernity
Organisers: Elisabeth Begemann, Diana Pavel, Georgia Petridou, Rubina Raja, Anna-Katharina Rieger, Jörg Rüpke
In collaboration with Aarhus University, UrbNet at Aarhus University, and the University of Liverpool
28–29 October 2020 | International Workshop:
Eschatology and Revolution: Building on Giorgio Agamben,
Bildungshaus St. Ursula, Erfurt –
postponed
8–9 September 2020 | Autumn Conference:
Rituals and World-Relations – Types, Qualities and Relations
cancelled
26–28 February 2020 | Spring Conference:
Resonance and Power,
Augustinian Monastery, Erfurt
3–6 September 2019
Annual Conference of the German Association for the Study of Religion (DVRW) in Hanover
Panels on “Religion after the Relational Turn” and “Conceptualisation of Religion through Material Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean”
27–30 June 2019 | Autumn Conference
Ausseer Gespräche 2019: Resonances. Recurring Themes in Science and Art,
in cooperation with the University of Graz
Link to the brought-forward Autumn Conference
10–12 April 2019 | Spring Conference:
The Risk of Repetition: Precarious Continuities in Religion and Elsewhere
17–19 October 2018 | Autumn Conference
: On the Relationship between Resonance and Reception,
University of Graz
11–13 April 2018 | Spring Conference: Theories
of Religion – Theory and Practice
16–18 October 2017 | Opening conference:
Resonant Self-World Relations in Ancient and Modern Socio-Religious Practice