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Susanne Rau, Professor for Spatial History at the University...
Category: Announcements
Awareness Concept for KFG Closing Conference
It is important to us that the conference fosters an inspiring exchange of ideas. We want to ensure that all participants feel comfortable and can benefit equally from the experience. To this end, we have developed an awareness concept…
Holy and Healing Waters in Erfurt
The bilingual exhibition “Holy and Healing Waters” („Heiliges und...
Film Screening: World Station
As part of our closing conference on ‘Religion and Urbanity’, taking place from 1 to 5 June, we will be screening the new film ‘Gare du Monde’ [World Station] by Jacques Lévy, a former and highly esteemed KFG fellow, on Wednesday 3 June…
New Entry in KFG Glossary: Belonging
Belonging has become a key concept especially in the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, and in migration studies. Competing with the static and rigid concept of identity, belonging offers a more open, processual and relational framework for research…
Summer School Report: Performing Religion in the City – Urban Spaces, Interactions and Media
Amidst the plastered narrow alleys of Erfurt’s city centre, fittingly emblematic, it was a piece of light-coloured sandstone that inaugurated the Summer School Performing Religion in the City. Placed on the seminar tables of Erfurt’s International Meeting Centre by co-convenor Isabella Schwaderer, the stone fragments represented the material grounding of Erfurt as a city and its religious life. Retrieved from a ridge close to Gotha, the stone was used to build Erfurt’s landmark, the Erfurt Cathedral, and thereby, symbolically, foreshadowed the Summer School’s theme…
CfP: Urbanity and Religion in Film
Our former fellow Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati has opened a call for papers on the topic of “Urbanity and Religion in Film”…
Conference Report: KFG Annual Conference “Making Boundaries”
While the topic of boundaries has received considerable scholarly attention, this conference focussed on the dynamic processes of making, maintaining and modifying or crossing boundaries and brought together scholars from various disciplines discussing case studies from Europe, the Mediterranean and South Asia from Antiquity to today…
Book release of Accessing Water by Sara Keller
After the workshop organised in 2021 at the Augustinerkloster in Erfurt, Sara Keller edited a volume entitled Accessing Water in the South Asian City. The book published by Primus and released this August contains an introduction by Sara Keller and 9 chapters in a broad range of disciplines by Julia A.B. Hegewald, Julia Shaw, Jutta Jain-Neubauer, Nicolas Morelle, Padma Sunder Joshi, Prakhar Vidyarthi, Akil Amiraly, Heather O’Leary and Laura Verdelli…
2025 Entries in “Religion & Urbanity Online”
In 2025, there were 16 new entries in the database “Religion and Urbanity Online” so far. They cover the time span from antiquity to modernity, cities as different as Aleppo, Singapore and Sens, and approach religion and urbanity from a range of disciplines, including history, anthropology, literature studies and the history of religions. Enjoy reading!
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”. Three workshops are an important part of the “Multilingualism” project…
Making Boundaries 2025: Conference Programme
The programme for the KFG’s annual conference “Making Boundaries. Performing Religion and Urbanity” (4-6 June 2025, Erfurt) has now been released!
New Publication: Envisioning the Indian City
Our former fellow Supriya Chaudhuri has just published a new book entitled “Envisioning the Indian City: Spaces of Encounter in Goa, Calcutta, Pondicherry and Chandigarh”. The volume was published with Jadavpur University Press…
Indo-German Exchanges in Religion and Aesthetics: Insights from Dr. Isabella Schwaderer
This interview marks the beginning of a series in which Ahmad Ali will be engaging with scholars working on India at the Max-Weber-Kolleg. He is a student of Religionswissenschaft at the University of Erfurt, currently working on the project “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations”.
