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News and Press Releases 2021

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“Looking into the future when it’s hard to bear the present”

17-12-2021

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“Recent escalation of violence in Myanmar reveals complex struggles over identity”

10-12-2021

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Tradition and the avant-garde: Romance scholar Karin Westerwelle in the lecture series

03-12-2021

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Tradition and appropriation: Egyptologist Angelika Lohwasser in the lecture series

26-11-2021

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Tradition and transmission: Sociologist Christel Gärtner in the lecture series

19-11-2021

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Tradition and innovation: Arabic scholar Syrinx von Hees in the lecture series

18-11-2021

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Jubiläumsprogramm zu 375 Jahre Westfälischer Frieden im Jahr 2023

15-11-2021

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Tradition and legitimation: Liturgical scholar Clemens Leonhard in the lecture series

08-11-2021

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Sigmund Freud Prize of Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung to church historian Prof. Dr. Hubert Wolf

08-11-2021

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Tradition and cognition: Philosopher Oliver R. Scholz in the lecture series

04-11-2021

Marga Bührig Foundation honours the research of Islamic theologian Dina El Omari

03-11-2021

Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities makes historian Patrick Sänger its first research professor in “Unity and Diversity in Law”

03-11-2021

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Advanced training for journalists specializing in religion on “War and peace in the name of God?”

01-11-2021

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Tradition and law: Legal historian Nils Jansen in the lecture series

29-10-2021

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News Winter Tempel Doliche — © Forschungsstelle Asia Minor

Archaeologists find monumental ancient temple

29-10-2021

Byzantine scholar Michael Grünbart is made a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in History in Munich

28-10-2021

Lecture series on "Ashkenas" at the Institute for Jewish Studies

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Traditions in transition from antiquity to the present: Lecture series “Tradition(s)” will launch the second annual theme

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Second annual theme at the Cluster of Excellence on traditions

22-10-2021

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Psychology professor Mitja Back involved in worldwide study on how individuals are dealing with corona

22-10-2021

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Conference on practices of caring for the dead from antiquity to the present day

14-10-2021

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Lecture series “Tradition(s)” will launch the second annual theme

14-10-2021

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Second annual theme at the Cluster of Excellence to examine how traditions emerge and change

11-10-2021

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Lecture series “Broadening the view: Archaeology globally” of the “Archaeology Diagonal” network

08-10-2021

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Third day of Digital Humanities (DH) at the University of Münster, with participation of the Cluster of Excellence

08-10-2021

Political scientist Bernd Schlipphak on the outcome of the 2021 Bundestag elections

02-10-2021

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Historian Prof. Dr. Olaf Blaschke on the Catholic theologian and social reformer Franz Hitze

30-09-2021

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War and Peace – nuclear war in the speeches of Pope Pius XII

24-09-2021

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Facial expressions decisive for first impressions that Germans have of refugees

23-09-2021

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Legal scholar Peter Oestmann on 70 years of the Federal Constitutional Court

17-09-2021

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Kiss of Judas, regicide, whistleblowing: Conference on the history of treason

14-09-2021

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Questions of religious policy for the 2021 Bundestag election

10-09-2021

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Mouhanad Khorchide on religion and power in Afghanistan

03-09-2021

Acquisition of funds for research network “Cultures of Compromise”

02-09-2021

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British Academy awards the Burkitt Medal to Rainer Albertz

03-09-2021

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Advanced training course for journalists specializing in religion continues with the topic “Tradition and Innovation. Faith and Lived Religiosity”

31-08-2021

Lectures on legal pluralism – Start of a lecture series of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Legal Unity and Pluralism"

25-08-2021

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Epidemie Religion Collage — © Jens Niebaum, gemeinfrei, exc, public domain

New Dossier Chapter: God's will/ god's succour? Religious interpretations of epidemics

19-08-2021

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Judaist Walter Schiffer in the podcast about remembrance of the Shoah today

13-08-2021

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Judaist Regina Grundmann in the podcast about the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith)

12-08-2021

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Research at the European Academy on “Religion and Change”

11-08-2021

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Church historian Arnold Angenendt has died

06-08-2021

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Management post to be filled

08-08-2020

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Three positions for Postdoctoral Research Associates Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in to be filled

05-08-2021

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Podcast series “Belonging or Excluded?“: Martin Herholz on the end of the German-Jewish press

23-07-2021

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Theologian Michael Seewald is to become a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin

09-07-2021

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Video of the Roundtable on Belonging and Demarcation in Populist Discourse

07-07-2021

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University society awards prize to Romance Studies scholar Pia Doering

02-07-2021

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Opening of the graduate school "Regional Regulation of Religious Plurality in Comparison" on 8 July 2021

29-06-2021

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Video of roundtable on the ethics and politics of integration

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Fake News in the Middle Ages - Conference beginning 1 July, and episode 8 of the research podcast

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Video of the presentation of an international survey on identity conflicts in Europe

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Study on the role of religious actors in the Covid 19 pandemic

14-06-2021

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Integration Policy and Populism: Roundtables at the Cluster of Excellence

03-05-2021

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Religious life in the Middle Ages – Judaist Katrin Kogman-Appel about the Amsterdam Mahsor in the podcast “Belonging or Excluded?”

11-06-2021

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Jewish scholar Lisa Bachmann on Jewish life in the North Sea resort of Norderney in the 19th and early 20th century in the research podcast

10-06-2021

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German scholar Christian Sieg on Perspectives from cultural studies on Conspiracy Narratives

20-05-2021

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Day of the Cluster of Excellence. Insights into new research projects

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Video of the lecture by Blumenberg Visiting Professor Marc Helbling on "Islamophobia in Western Europe: Fear of Muslims or of Fundamentalists?"

07-06-2021

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Jewish scholar Rainer Barzen on Jewish commemoration of the dead in the Middle Ages in the research podcast

01-06-2021

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Sociologist Marc Helbling new Hans Blumenberg Visiting Professor

28-05-2021

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Study about conspiracy theories in Germany, Poland, Jordan

21-05-2021

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Research podcast about the history of the emotion hate

10-05-2021

Ancient historian Prof. Dr. Johannes Hahn awarded with honorary doctorate by Eötvös Loránd University Budapest

07-05-2021

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Moral satire "The Ship of Fools" by Sebastian Brant – Research podcast with Germanist Bruno Quast

28-04-2021

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Research Findings on Protestant Members of Parliament

22-04-2021

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Former Bundestag president Thierse warns against aggression towards majority society

19-04-2021

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Cluster of Excellence’s new research podcast “Belonging or Excluded?” sheds light on 1,700 years of Jewish life in Germany

16-04-2021

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Panel "How much identity politics does our society need?" – Wolfgang Thierse, Mithu M. Sanyal and Andrea Geier in conversation with Mouhanad Khorchide and Detlef Pollack.

13-04-2021

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Lecture on Religion and Politics in Literature by Germanist Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf

09-04-2021

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Perry Schmidt-Leukel on the late Swiss theologian Hans Küng

01-04-2021

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Approval for the Käte Hamburger-Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research under the leadership of the historian Ulrike Ludwig and the legal scholar Peter Oestmann

28-03-2021

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Perry Schmidt-Leukel on Life after Death in World religions

19-03-2021

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Research project on radicalisation among Muslims acquired

18-03-2021

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“Mount Olympus: populated by gods, but devoid of humans” – Archaeologist Achim Lichtenberger presents first major scientific study of celebrated mountain in a century

02-02-2021

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First episode of the “Religion and Politics” podcast – survey on corona and social cohesion

Research on political activities of Protestant theologians from the 19th century until today

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Survey: People who feel disadvantaged feel threatened by migrants and are more likely than others to vote AfD – Cluster of Excellence investigates what drives societal cleavages

03-02-2021

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According to cultural scientist Jan Assmann, the Internet fails to fulfil important functions in the cultural memory of societies.

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Jan Assmann: Nationalisms and religion fuse in authoritarian regimes

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New network for African research related to religion

31-01-2021

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New newsletter published

22-01-2021

Legal scholar Matthias Casper on trends in Islamic banking

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The cultural scientist and Egyptologist Jan Assmann is the new Hans Blumenberg Visiting Professor at the University of Münster’s Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”.

25-01-2021

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Political scientist Prof. Dr. Armin Schäfer in the WWU Podcast about the situation of the parties before the upcoming parliamentary election and Armin Laschet's possible candidacy for chancellor

25-01-2021

DFG long-term project on Schleiermacher's lectures „Christliche Sittenlehre“ of the protestant theologian Prof. Dr. Arnulf von Scheliha

19-01-2021

Münster School of Ancient Cultures founded with participation of ancient historian Prof. Dr. Johannes Hahn

12-01-2021

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Judaist Franziska Kleybolte in the WWU video series "What comes next" on her research on the transformation of synagogues into churches on the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages

Cooperation group “Normative Challenges of the European Asylum System” with philosopher Dr. Matthias Hoesch starts

06-01-2021

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Continuation of training programme “Religious Journalism”

06-01-2021

DFG funds research unit “Being Catholic in the German Federal Republic” with historians Prof. Dr. Hubert Wolf and Prof. Dr. Klaus Große Kracht