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The KFG and the “Urban Multilingualism” Workshop Series

The KFG “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations” has an ongoing collaboration with the research project “Multilingualism in Eurasian Premodern Societies: Social Hierarchies and Space“, which is part of the Cluster of Excellence “EurAsian Transformations“. One of the organizers is Katalin Szende, a former fellow of the KFG who published her KFG research under the title “From Model to Rival? Competition or Complementarity in Bishops’ Seats in East Central Europe“.

Three workshops in Vienna are an important part of the “Multilingualism” project. From 17 to 18 January 2026, the first workshop explored “Administrative Spaces and Administrative Languages”. A second workshop from 12 to 13 June 2025 focuses on “Urban Religious Space and its Languages”. The final workshop in November 2025 concentrates on trade and multilingualism. For each of the workshops, one or two members of the KFG present their research.

Vienna’s Stephansdom

In the workshop on “Urban Religious Space”, which is currently taking place in Vienna, Mateusz Fafinski will present a paper on “Urban Religious Protest and Multilingualism in Late Antiquity” and Martin Christ will speak on “Multilingualism and Religion in Early Modern Hội An (Vietnam)”.

Image of the keynote lecture of the workshop “Urban Religious Space and its Languages”. The lecture was delivered by Pavlina Rychterová and entitled “The Preacher and the Crowd: Dynamics of Religious Communication in Medieval Cities”


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urbrel (June 12, 2025). The KFG and the “Urban Multilingualism” Workshop Series. Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations. Retrieved November 6, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/143dm


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