News and events

How does an Italian experience three months of cold winter in East Germany? From January to March, Andrea Bianchi was an intern at the Franckesche Stiftungen in Halle. You can read in the report below what made this such a good experience.

"In 1995 we got our first telephone line, in 1997 a dial-up connection, and in 1999 everyone was talking about fibre broadband internet". This was only one of many things ESR Joshua Roe learned about Hungary when he went on a 3-month secondment in Pécs. Read all about his experiences below.

One June 2-4, two workshops will take place in Cambridge. The first centers on the work on Origen by Prof. Anders-Christian Jacobsen, the second on the Concepts of God and Man in Henry More’s Critique of Spinoza.

Please find below the program for the open, day-long symposium on Origen, taking place on 25 April 2018 between 10:00 and 17:00 at the University of Cambridge.

At the University of Reading, ESRs Ilaria and Sara as well as other lucky PhD fellows were treated with a three-day full immersion into Origen, when Professor Samuel Fernández from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile came to visit in mid-February. Sara Contini has shared her experiences with us in this report.

In late February (2018), some of our ESR presented aspects of their research on the network-wide seminar in Drübeck. Based on 10-page articles about a research-related topic of their own choice, each recorded presentation lasts about 15-20 minutes - listen and enjoy.

Dr. Christian Hengstermann has arranged two seminars in Cambridge on Origen and Platonism to take place in July and October 2018. PhD fellows and postdocs are invited to give papers on their current research.

We receive a lot of expressions of interest for our network seminars and workshops. Numerous research events have been planned for the year 2018. Some are only for the ITN participants, but others are open to all interested in our research topic. We have listed them all in this article so you can plan ahead.

In February 2018, a group of young, international scholars met in Aarhus to present papers and discuss their work on the theology and philosophy of the church father Origen from Alexandria.

A new book (in German) by Prof. Dr. Dr. Alfons Fürst has recently been published - Origenes: Grieche und Christ in römischer Zeit. Find an English and German summary in this article.