Schloss Conversations: Venus in Transit

February 4, 2019 by Religion and Public Memory

Update: View video of this event online.

Venus in Transit: Prehistoric Art and Religion

Schloss Conversations

28 January 2019

A conversation with Silvia Tomášková (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Nicolas Conard (University of Tübingen) hosted by Pamela Klassen (University of Toronto) and Monique Scheer (University of Tübingen)

Tübingen houses some of the oldest works of art ever discovered; archaeologists also hypothesize that they had religious functions. This installment of the ‘Schloss Conversations’ brings together perspectives from religious studies, cultural history, and archaeology to think about the social and political contexts of the narratives that emerge around such artifacts and how they might be fueled by the apparatus provided by the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site.

With the support of the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation, Dr. Pamela Klassen of the University of Toronto and Prof. Dr. Monique Scheer, Director of the Ludwig-Uhland-Institut of Historical and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen, are directing a research project on Religion and Public Memory in Multicultural Societies. The project runs from 2015 to […]

How Should We Understand Indigenous Spirituality (in English)? A reflection on the philosophy of listening Indigenous spirituality matters to Indigenous peoples. In this discussion, I am broadly interested in how Indigenous spirituality is used in contemporary Indigenous politics. More specifically, I ask the question: How should we understand Indigenous spirituality in English? My discussion involves […]