Activities

Global Christianities - Resources

December 16, 2024
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While the impact of the Christian Churches has constantly declined in Europe during the last century, overall Christianity is on the rise, and particularly in the Global South numbers of Christians are increasing. Pentecostalism and charismatic Christian movements, but also the Catholic Church, find new converts around the world, at the same time as Christianity’s previous (institutional) centers of gravity – Europe and the Near East – are either largely secularized or Muslim.

The Material Life of Nature Representations in Europe: Conference Report

November 21, 2024
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On Monday, November 18 and Tuesday, November 19, the Department of Historical Studies hosted scholars from Vienna, Prague and Birmingham for a workshop discussing the The Material Life of Nature Representations in Europe. We considered visual and textual artifacts, ranging from late antiquity to the present day, and drawing out comparisions and contrasts.

Early Modern Workshop: Berkeley-Berlin-Freiburg-London-Vienna

October 7, 2024
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The Early Modern History Workshop is a collaborative research experiment, a week-long summer school in which postgraduate students and early-career researchers from leading universities interrogate current approaches to the discipline of Early Modern History and grapple with pressing methodological questions. The Early Modern History Workshop began in 2011 as an informal initiative between the universities of Princeton, Oxford and Münster.

Museum as Studio

September 6, 2024
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Khadija von Zinnenberg Carroll and Marcus Neustetter's Museum-as-Studio approach invites students of the Central European University to respond to its setting, spaces and content and present questions, provocations and inspirations through temporary interventions in the museum. The practice-led experimental research activities which took place during the months of April and May in the Wien Museum tested ideas and formats.