Past events

Symposium: Conviviality in Motion - Interdisplinary Perspectives

From June 16th to June 18th 2023, the project team of Conviviality in Motion hosted a conference of experts in Mariastein (close to Basel). The aim was to bring together researchers from different fields that inspired the project's work. In order to deepen the interdisciplinary perspectives on the project, several international researchers were invited. In an author's workshop, the participants enganged in discussions on conviviality, practices of belonging while negotiating diversity, boundary making, and initial results from the project's research.

The results will be published in a volume in 2024.

Conference "Affective Turn in Theology?!"

Affective turn in theology?!

Do you still believe or do you already feel?

The study of affects and affectivity is becoming increasingly important in the humanities. This conference will examine affects and affectivity in qualitative-empirical research from theological, religious studies and sociological perspectives.

These topics will be addressed at the conference "Affective Turn in Theology?!" in three presentations and two workshops.

In her presentation, Dr. Elgen Sauerborn will explore the question of how affects are researched. Prof. Dr. Andrea Bieler offers an overview of affectivity in theological research. Prof. Dr. Donovan Schaefer will talk to us via Zoom about the relationship between religion, affectivity and secularity.

The two workshops will work with data and initial results from current research projects by doctoral students at the Faculty of Theology in Basel.

For further information and program: Flyer

Registration deadline is April 15, 2023.

Participation in the conference is free of charge thanks to the kind support of the Graduate School of Theologies and Religions Basel. Catering will be provided.

Date and time: May 25, 2023, 9.00 a.m. to approx. 6.45 p.m. Location: University of Basel, Kollegienhaus, Petersplatz 1, 4001 Basel

Seminar: Difference-sensitive ecclesiology

As part of our seminar Difference-Sensitive Ecclesiology: Practical, Intercultural and Systematic Theology in Dialogue, we invite you to four public Zoom sessions with experts:

Each Wednesday from 2:15 to 4 p.m.

 

26 October 2022 withDr. Susanna Snyder (Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford) and Dr. Amélé Ekué (globethics, Geneva) on the topic:

Migration-sensitive church: what does asylum and migration mean for church practice and theological self-understanding of churches: in the field of tension between diakonia, integration aid, liberation, politics, power and racism? (English)

 

November 9, 2022 with Prof. Dr. Dorottya Nagy (Protestantse Theologische, Universiteit Amsterdam) and Dr. Matthew Ryan Robinson (Faculty of Theology, University of Bonn) on the topic:

Xenophobia, racism and theology: what does friendship mean for our church(es) and their theology? (English)

 

November 23 with Dr. habil. Friedemann Burkhardt (Liebenzell International University of Applied Sciences) and Prof. Dr. Gregor Etzelmüller (Faculty of Theology, University of Osnabrück) on the topic:

Intercultural opening of congregations - ecumenical cooperation with migration churches - profile congregations / milieu-sensitive congregation building

 

December 7 with Prof. Dr. Ralph Kunz (Faculty of Theology, University of Zurich) and Dr. Johannes Weth (University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology, Hermannsburg) on the topic:

Vergemeinschaftung der Verschiedenen: prakt.-theol. und syst.-theol. Perspektiven: How can different theological perspectives be combined with a view to community of the diverse in a difference-sensitive ecclesiology?

 

Zoom link for the sessions on 26.10., 9.11., 23.11. and 7.12.2022

https://unibas.zoom.us/j/66210254760?pwd=THJ3eFY5dUQrOFlBdENoc2RPSFE0Zz09