Networking 2026: News

Biblical Studies and Systematic Theology; Exegese und Biblische Theologie und # Dogmatik
„Infrasecular and emotional geography“
Social memory and emotions
Emotional memory and handing over emotions within soc. mem.
Instruments to manage emotions (trauma, loss, …)
A sole of aestethics in forming/ formating memory
Formal memories X non-formal memories
School education (project-edu) as a part of social memory formation

Networking 2026

Time	Wed 20.05.	Thu 21.05.	Fri 22.05.
9.00-10.30	Welcome & Introduction Gemeinsame Projekte seit letztem Jahr Development of an MA Programme “Religion, Memory, Society” Biblical Argumentation in the Investiture Controversy: Computational Approaches to Biblical Text Analyses	Papers II Bakhtin's concept of chronotope and its applicability within social memory/identity studies IMAGO: How do images speak? The dynamics of figures, metaphors and symbols in Christian discourse and beyond	Papers V Slovak series of patristic translations after 1989 and the relevance of allegorical exegesis in present-day Christianity (The case of the gender metaphor) The Grand Tour of John of Capistrano north of the Alps: Objectives, Itinerary, and Strategies of Religious and Political Communication Marriage strategies among dynastic leadership in Hasidism
10.30-11.00	Coffee Break
11.00-12.30	Papers I Die Herausforderungen des beschleunigten sozialen Wandels Soviet religious memory: Anti-Religious Policy in Soviet Georgia	Papers III “Remembering in Faith: Religious Memory and Groome’s Dialectical Hermeneutic in Religious Education” “Religiöse Identität und Wertesystem von Jugendlichen in der Herzegowina: Zwischen traditionellem Erbe und den Herausforderungen der Spätmoderne	Open Space III/ Thematic Space III
Recreation/ Lunch Break
14.30-16.00	Open Space I + Research Funding	Open Space II/ Thematic Space II	Results and external communication
16.00-16.30	Coffee Break		Departure
16.30-18.00	Paper & Thematic Space I Paper: Remembering Judas Iscariot: Reception, Reputation, and the Production of a Christian Villain Researching Religion and Identity – Invitation to a joint research project	Papers IV Psychological patterns of surviving war trauma in Croatia Das Thema Krieg in kroatischen Religionsbüchern. Eine Analyse aus kommunikativ-theologischer Sicht. Playing Marbles: Identities in the Balkans Between Fears and Desires
18.30	Vernissage	Conference Dinner