Collegium Budapest - Central European University - Pasts, Inc. Centre for Historical Studies - CEU Religious Studies Program
Program
Monday, 26 September
at Collegium Budapest, Castle district, Szentháromság u. 2., Seminar Room
9.00 Introduction by Aziz Al-Azmeh
9.15 Pál Ács
“The Final Tyrant and his Victims; Erasmus and the Origin of the Hungarian Protestant Martyrology”
10.15 Gil Anidjar
“The Blood of Empire”
11.15 Coffee break
11.45 Ronnie Po-chia Hsia
“The Political Theologies of Counter-Reformation Europe and the Ming-Qing Empires: Jesuit Commentaries on Chinese Emperorship”
13.00 Lunch
Afternoon session chaired by Gábor Klaniczay
14.30 Gábor Klaniczay presents Petre Guran`s paper:
“The Nimbus as Imperial Theophany: The significance of a Symbol”
16.00 Coffee break
16.30 Monica Juneja
“Imagining the utopian realm - cosmologies, time and history in visual representations of the Mughal Empire.”
Tuesday, 27 September
at Central European University, V. district, Nádor str. 9, Senate Room, I. floor
Morning session chaired by Sorin Antohi
9.00 Karl F. Morrison
“Sacred Art: A Carolingian Window on Theologies of Empire”
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Sergei Podbolotov
“The Great Empire Shaken: the mission, the cult and the religious world of the last Russian Tsar.”
13.00 Lunch
Afternoon session chaired by Nadia Al-Bagdadi
14.30 Alfred Rieber
“Conversion as a Function of Empire: The Case of Imperial Russia”
16.00 Coffee break
16.30 Michael S. Northcott
“In the Belly of the Beast: Apocalyptic Discourse in a Pax Americanum”