Conferences / Workshops

Events in 2026

23.02.2026–26.02.2026 | Spring Conference 
Resonant Self–World Relations in Ancient and Modern SocioReligious Practices Opening a Field of Research
Organisation: Elisabeth Begemann, Ursula Gärtner, Anna-Katharina Rieger, Hartmut Rosa, Jörg Rüpke, Wolfgang Spickermann  
Programme | Report

30.03.2026 | Symposium
Technology and The Good Life
Organisation: James William Santos, João Tziminadis
Programme

28.09.2026-30.09.2026 | Autumn Conference
Resonante Weltbeziehungen in sozio-religiösen Praktiken in Antike und Gegenwart: Eine Quintessenz.
Organisation: Veronika Kolomaznik, Matthias Scholler, Wolfgang Spickermann, Clemens Wurzinger

Events of past years

2025

24.02.2025–26.02.2025 | Spring Conference 
Mediality of Rituals: Representation – Performance - Transformation 
Organisation: Lukas Bartl, Elisabeth Begemann, Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati, Jörg Rüpke
In collabroation with the International Research Group Medien und Religion
Programme | Report

20.10.2025–22.10.2025 | Autumn Conference
Indifference, Hostility, Disgust: The Ambiguity of Heimat
Organisation: Vincenzo Cerulli, Nicole Navratil, Andreas Pettenkofer, Rupert Rainer, Alina Zeller

2024

06.03.2024 - 08.03.2024 | Spring Conference 
Mediality and Self-World Relations
Organisation: Dina Bijelic, Heinrich Hofer, Marios Kamenou
Programme | Report

30.09.2024 - 02.10.2024 | Autumn Conference
No Time like the Present? The Role of Time in Resonant Experiences
Organisation: Emma de Koning, Lukas Jung, Florian Oppitz, Lena Spickermann, Marina Schutti
Report

2023

October 23-25,  2023 | IGS Autumn Conference 2023 in Graz
Space, Power, and Ritual – Interrelations and Interdependencies 
Abstract | Impressions

March 01-03, 2023 | Spring Conference 
After Resonance
Programme
Organisation: Andreas Pettenkofer, Thomas Sojer

March 22-24, 2023 | Workshop 
Community, Ritual and the Power of Memory: Past, Present and Future
Programme
Organisation: Sará Heidl, Marios Kamenou, Veronika Kolomaznik, Elena Malagoli, Matthias Scholler, Clemens Wurzinger

2022

February 17, 2022 | Workshop
Multidirectional Memory in Germany
Poster / Programme | Calendar entry
Organisation: Nancy Alhachem

February 21-25, 2022 | Spring Conference
Rituals and Resonances of Interdisciplinary Research
Poster
Organisation: Rafael Barroso Romero, Elena Malagoli, Felipe Perissato, Jörg Rüpke, Ramón Soneira Martínez, Markus Vinzent

June 13-16, 2022 | Workshop
Vivir Bién
Call (PDF, EN)
Call (PDF, ESP)
Organisation: Manuel Moser

July 6-8, 2022 | Retreat
Doing Interdisciplinarity
Group Photo
Organisers: Jörg Rüpke, Elisabeth Begemann, Enno Friedrich

October 11-13, 2022 | IGS Autumn Conference (in Graz)
Ritual und Resonance
Programme | Poster
Organisation: Irmtraud Fischer, Enno Friedrich, Christoph Heil, Laerke Recht, Wolfgang Spickermann, Franz Winter

2021

February 23-26, 2021 | Spring Conference
Measuring the World against the Body: Materialities and Meanings of Magnification and Miniaturisation in Religious Communication in Antiquity and Modernity
Poster| Programme| Report
Organisation: Elisabeth Begemann, Diana Pavel, Georgia Petridou, Rubina Raja, Anna-Katharina Rieger, Jörg Rüpke
In cooperation with the Aarhus University, UrbNet at Aarhus University, the University of Liverpool

September 15-17, 2021 | Workshop
Rewiring the House of God: Religious Self-World Relations in the Digital Environment
Call for Papers| Preliminary Workshop Programme
Organisation: Gabriel Malli, Fouad G. Marei
In cooperation with the University of Birmingham

October 27-29, 2021 | Autumn Conference
Text, music, and image-object as counterparts in resonant relationships

2020

October 28-29, 2020 | International Workshop
Eschatology and Revolution: Building on Giorgio Agamben
Bildungshaus St. Ursula, Erfurt
postponed | contact the organizers

September 08-09, 2020 | Autumn Conference
Rituals and World-Relations – Types, Qualities and Relations
cancelled | Contact: Dr. Anna-Katharina Rieger

February 26-28, 2020 | Spring Conference
Resonance and Power
Augustinerkloster Erfurt
download the programme | report

2019

September 3-6, 2019
Jahrestagung der Deutschen Vereinigung für Religionswissenschaft (DVRW) in Hannover
Panels on "Religion after the Relational Turn" and "Conceptualisation of Religion through Material Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean"
Book of Abstracts | press release

June 27-30, 2019
Ausseer Gespräche 2019: Resonanzen. Widerkehrendes in Wissenschaft und Kunst
in cooperation with the University of Graz
To register, please contact the coordinator
download the programme

April 10-12, 2019
The Risk of Repetition: Precarious Continuities in Religion and Elsewhere
download the programme

2018

October 17-19, 2018 | Autumn Conference
Zum Verhältnis von Resonanz und Rezeption
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Poster | Press Release Impression  | Report

April 11-13, 2018 | Spring Conference
Religionstheorie(n) - Theorie und Praxis
Flyer

2017

October 16-18, 2017 | Opening Conference
Resonant Self-World Relations in Ancient and Modern Socio-Religious Practice
Flyer