News and events

As one of the last events in the ITN on Human Freedom and Dignity, Jacob Renze Klamer from Aarhus University organized a small course entitled…

In October 2008, the Origen Research Center was established at the Department of Catholic Theology of Münster University. The 10th anniversary will be…

This theme will be a part of “The History of Human Freedom and

Dignity in Western Civilization” workshop at Münster University

25-27 October 2018.

From June 13 to 16, 2018, the 16th Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies (ISNS) took place in Los Angeles. Two of our ESRs, Giovanni and Andrea, hosted a panel on Origen and Neo-Platonism. Read the report to find out what happened there, and why Los Angeles was such a suitable occasion for the panel.

On July 7, the third in a series of Cambridge seminars revolving around the scholar Werner Beierwaltes takes place in Cambridge. Please find a link to the full program below as well as contact information if you want to join.

The second Colloquium Adamantianum revolved around the latest book by Prof. A.-C. Jacobsen, Christ – Teacher of Salvation. Below, you can read about the different papers, which addressed various key topics of Jacobsen’s study and its place in classical and contemporary Origen scholarship.

Dr. Hengstermann has written a report on the newly concluded workshop in Cambridge - the first in a series of interdisciplinary workshops on the Latin works of Henry More. This first one centered on the Concepts of God and Man in More’s Critique of Spinoza.

In January and February 2018, Aarhus University hosted two seminars focusing on Augustine and Origen, respectively. We recorded all the presentations and have made them available on our ITN SoundCloud account. Find the titles and links below.

A large, international conference will take place in Jerusalem this month. It is co-organized by Prof. A. Fürst and the ITN and will focus on the notions of the Self as they emerged in the Greco-Roman period.