Videos of Lecture Series on “Urban Governance and Civic Participation” now online
All videos of the lecture series “Urban Governance and Civic Participation in Words and Stone” are now free to watch....
All videos of the lecture series “Urban Governance and Civic Participation in Words and Stone” are now free to watch....
Ganz in der Nähe des Max-Weber-Kollegs befindet sich ein monumentales Graffiti an einer Hauswand. Es handelt sich um von Fußballfans gestaltete oder möglicherweise sogar von Sportfunktionären in Auftrag gegebene Kunst. Um Fußball zu verherrlichen, ruft das Graffiti unterschiedliche kulturelle Vorstellungen auf. Auf dem Weg zur Arbeit ist es morgens möglich, über „Religion und Urbanität“ zu stolpern. Was hat dieses Graffiti mit der Forschungsgruppe zu tun?
Interested students, postdocs and archivists can now register for the international summer school which the KFG UrbRel co-organises in the summer of 2022. The 8-day program is organised by Katalin Szende (CEU Budapes/Vienna), Zoe Opacic (Birkbeck College London) and Susanne Rau (KFG RelUrb, Erfurt University). This summer school is a follow-up of the online lecture series with the same title which took place in autumn 2021.
We have just published a video visit of the exhibition “India. Life around Water”!
The work of KFG post-doctoral researcher Elisa Iori was recently covered on the Italian news website “Rainews”. She is working on patterns of transformation in the religious and urban landscape of the north-western regions of South Asia (Gandhāra) in a long-term perspective…
From the 24th to the 26th of November 2021 the research group “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations” welcomed international researchers at Ettersburg castle for the conference “Blurring Boundaries”. Organised by Jörg Rüpke and Emiliano R. Urciuoli, the conference aimed to investigate the diffusion of urban religion beyond urban space. Susanne Rau and Martin Fuchs summarise their observations on the previous two days’ programme…
The KFG’s database “Religion and Urbanity Online” continues to be filled with new research and overview articles. All articles are open access and have been peer reviewed…
Diversity is one of the distinctive features of urbanity as we define it in our research group. The plural character of urban life acts as a stimulating force enabling large-scale endeavours and remarkable achievements…
It is not always easy to find “urbanity” in early modern sources. Many times, historians have to reconstruct what an author considered to be features of urbanity, by reading carefully and between the lines. This is especially the case because words, such as “urbanity” or “rurality” do not feature in these sources, instead problems and benefits of living in an “urban setting” may be explored by early modern authors…
On h-soz-kult, you can read the conference report of the KFG’s most recent conference on water in the South Asian city. the conference was organized by Sara Keller and the report written by Klara-Maeve O’Reilly.
The programme of the KFG’s annual conference (23 to 26 November 2021, Schloss Ettersburg, Weimar) has now been published…
Resilience is on everyone’s lips. There is an exponential growth of the term as a component of book titles after 2000, following some earlier peaks around 1880, 1910 and 1990…
This November, Jörg Rüpke and Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli are organizing the next Religion and Urbanity conference, which will take place in presence in Weimar…
Over the past three years, our blog has seen a wide range of articles, discussions, reviews, announcements and reports. Below,...
Susanne Rau, one of the spokespersons of the KFG, and our former fellows Zoë Opačić and Katalin Szende have organised a lecture series of renowned speakers, who will trace the origins of civic participation in political thought and explore its forms of expression in written and visual media from Late Antiquity to the seventeenth century…