Leipzig Colloquium

The research colloquium is held usually on every second Thursday during the semester as part of the course offerings at Leipzig University. Each semester it features a special topic reflecting a key research focus of the Institute. The public lectures are usually delivered by scholars from outside of Leipzig.

Winter Semester 2010/2011

 

Transformations. On Religious Conversion in the Early Modern Period

Instructors: Prof. Dr. Dan Diner / PD Dr. Jörg Deventer 

Time: Thursday  6:00 – 8:00 p.m., every other week

Place: Simon Dubnow Institute, Goldschmidtstr. 28

 

The Research Colloquium will explore the Early Modern Era. In the context of newer approaches in research on cultural transfer, translation theory and secularization, the topic of changing one’s faith has become an extremely dynamic research focus in inquiry on the Early Modern Period. The colloquium presentations will discuss findings in recent cultural-historical studies of conversion. This work is characterized by a growing variety of approaches and methods in looking at phenomena of religious (re-)orientation and processes of individual and social transformation and insertion into new cultural and political relations. The colloquium will thematize both conversion within Christianity as well as the conversion of Jews, Christians, and Muslims to other faiths. The presentations will in particular focus on social practices, mutual cultural processes of exchange and appropriation and conversion narratives.

 

Further information will be announced soon.

  

Contact: info[at]dubnow.de; phone 0049-(0)341-2173550