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A conference on Romans 5-8 in celebration of Princeton Theological Seminary's Bicentennial

Conference participants will
• Contribute to the study of Romans in our time.
• Explore the four chapters of Romans from which most of the lectionary texts for preaching come.
• Hear exegetes and theologians from half a dozen countries.
• Engage in conversation on central themes in Paul’s most influential, compelling, and puzzling letter.
• Worship to begin each day, a reminder that Paul’s letters and our study is all to the glory of God.

Short papers will be read in simultaneous sessions. To offer a paper, submit a 200-word abstract by September 1, 2011 to: b.gaventa@ptsem.edu.

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om 9u00 op het Vicedecanaat Onderwijs

op het Vicedecanaat Onderwijs

- 9u00: Nederlandstalige programma's, internationale programma's en canoniekrechtelijke graden

- 14u00: academische lerarenopleiding

om 18u00

The goal of this symposium is to bring together the world's leading scholars on the Hebrew of the Late Second Temple period for a thorough exchange on the latest developments in the research on the linguistic characteristics of this transitional phase in the Hebrew language. In so doing, the organisers aim to advance the knowledge of the semantic, syntactic and pragmatic properties of this Hebrew language phase, and hence also to advance the understanding of the now fully disclosed collection of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Conference program: http://theo.kuleuven.be/page/symposium_dead_sea_scrolls/
Location: Faculteit Theologie en Religiewetenschappen, Romerozaal, Collegium Veteranorum 02.10, Sint-Michielsstraat 4, 3000 Leuven
Information and registration: Hanneke van Loon, hanneke.vanloon@theo.kuleuven.be

The goal of this symposium is to bring together the world's leading scholars on the Hebrew of the Late Second Temple period for a thorough exchange on the latest developments in the research on the linguistic characteristics of this transitional phase in the Hebrew language. In so doing, the organisers aim to advance the knowledge of the semantic, syntactic and pragmatic properties of this Hebrew language phase, and hence also to advance the understanding of the now fully disclosed collection of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Conference program: http://theo.kuleuven.be/page/symposium_dead_sea_scrolls/
Location: Faculteit Theologie en Religiewetenschappen, Romerozaal, Collegium Veteranorum 02.10, Sint-Michielsstraat 4, 3000 Leuven
Information and registration: Hanneke van Loon, hanneke.vanloon@theo.kuleuven.be

Eleazar Lopez from Mexico will be a guest speaker at the Forum for Liberation Theologies on: "Theology from Indigenous Perspectives". This meeting takes place in the Romero Room of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Sciences (COVE 02.10). For more information, please contact Kristien.Justaert@theo.kuleuven.be .

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At 8 pm in the Romero Room. A co-organization with Missio. José Comblin was a famous Belgian liberation theologian who passed away in March 2011.

Collegium Veteranorum 01.04

11-13 uur

Adrian Thatcher, Visiting Professor in Applied Theology at the University of Exeter, UK, will draw on some themes in his new book on the theology of sexuality and gender, God, Sex and Gender (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). He will discuss ancient theories of sexuality and gender and their relevance for contemporary theology; new cases for marriage; the Body of Christ as androgynous; and reconfiguring chastity. For further information contact Prof. Thomas Knieps thomas.knieps@theo.kuleuven.be  

Fernando López lives and works as a Jesuit and theologian in the Amazon region in Latin America.

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The Leuven International Doctoral School for the Humanities and Social Sciences hosts its first 'Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences' day. The day is open to all doctoral students and personnel of K.U.Leuven.

Information and registration: http://ghum.kuleuven.be/phd/activities/ResearchDay

Religion and spirituality have made a deep impact on art throughout history. This is the result of the fact that throughout history man has continuously sought to express himself through both art and religion. Early cultures used ‘artwork’ to worship divine beings, and in the Middle Ages, ‘artwork’ was used to canonize religious themes and spiritual leaders. During the Renaissance period, painted images began to gradually move away from society’s spiritual ideologies and become more and more individual. Art lays bare our realities, and religion opens our experience up to God. Think of the Christian church structure, with its cross-shaped nave and transept, its wealth of sign and symbol and story in stained glass, stone and wood carving, and the very design of the church building itself. Art was seen as a vehicle for expressing the glory of God. Art and religion were truly married. With the Enlightenment, art and religion began to split apart in European and Western culture."Art is the daughter of the divine," stated Rudolf Steiner in the 1920s. Most art lovers today would assume that Steiner’s opinion belongs to the past. Art was once the daughter of the divine, but in the 20th century the once-dutiful daughter became independent, even ignoring her religious heritage. Art became a purely aesthetic activity. Some feel sorry about this evolution, but it certainly created new perspectives on the relations between art and religion. In this expert seminar, we consider several aspects of the relationship between art and Christianity in Western Europe. Are there any criteria to speak of religious art? Is there such a thing as religious art? How do Catholic church authorities deal with contemporary art? The abuse of religious symbols in Western Art …

Drawing on the academic debate well established in the fields of sociology, political sciences or theology the 10th Interdisciplinary and International Graduate Conference will focus on the analysis of ‘(Re-)Presentations of Working Life’ and seeks to promote this debate within the humanities, particularly within the field of cultural studies. The conference is taking place at Erlangen University from 12-13 November 2011 and is aimed at graduates and postgraduates from the fields of linguistics, literary and cultural studies, political sciences, sociology, history, philosophy, pedagogy, theology, art history, or theater and media studies whose work is related to the conference theme.

Call for papers and information: http://www.gradnet.de/english/index.html

Drawing on the academic debate well established in the fields of sociology, political sciences or theology the 10th Interdisciplinary and International Graduate Conference will focus on the analysis of ‘(Re-)Presentations of Working Life’ and seeks to promote this debate within the humanities, particularly within the field of cultural studies. The conference is taking place at Erlangen University from 12-13 November 2011 and is aimed at graduates and postgraduates from the fields of linguistics, literary and cultural studies, political sciences, sociology, history, philosophy, pedagogy, theology, art history, or theater and media studies whose work is related to the conference theme.

Call for papers and information: http://www.gradnet.de/english/index.html

Ecclesia semper reformanda: Teologia y Reforma de la Iglesia. En el IV Centenario de la muerte de San Juan de Ribera

Organisation: Faculdad de Teologia, San Vicente Ferrer

Location: Valencia, 14-16 November 2011

information: 15simposio@teologiavalencia.es

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Ecclesia semper reformanda: Teologia y Reforma de la Iglesia. En el IV Centenario de la muerte de San Juan de Ribera

Organisation: Faculdad de Teologia, San Vicente Ferrer

Location: Valencia, 14-16 November 2011

information: 15simposio@teologiavalencia.es

Ecclesia semper reformanda: Teologia y Reforma de la Iglesia. En el IV Centenario de la muerte de San Juan de Ribera

Organisation: Faculdad de Teologia, San Vicente Ferrer

Location: Valencia, 14-16 November 2011

information: 15simposio@teologiavalencia.es

Europalia Brasil and 'Lopend Vuur' organize a meeting with prof. dr. Leonardo Boff, the famous Brazilian liberation theologian, on the topic of Liberation and Ecology. The lecture will take place in Gent, Livinuszaal, Volmolenstraat, Gent. (Entrance: 7 euro). For more information, please contact Kristien.Justaert@theo.kuleuven.be

On Tuesday Nov. 29^th, the first day of a two-day workshop, there will be a formal symposium open to the public. The symposium, which lasts from 9:00 to 18:00, will deal with Greek sermons on the feasts of Ascension and Pentecost in the 4th-6th centuries, including sermons by figures such as John Chrysostom, Basil of Seleucia, and Severus of Antioch. Since the sermons cover a wide range of topics, the symposium will as well: preaching, liturgy, exegesis, Christology, pneumatology, and anthropology, to name a few.   

Location: Mgr. O. Romerozaal, Collegium Veteranorum, St.-Michielsstraat 4, B-3000 Leuven

Contact Person: Rich.Bishop@theo.kuleuven.be

This meeting will continue the conversation of the previous day in a smaller, non-public format and deal with the more practical side of the research project entitled "Preaching After Easter and Christian Identity: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Greek Festal Sermons on Ascension and Pentecost (ca. 350 - ca. 450 AD)." The meeting will present the results of the project thus far, and facilitate planning for the main conference of the project, to be held at KU Leuven in 2013, as well as for associated publications.   

Location: BIGO 92.03, Bibliotheek Godgeleerdheid, Charles Deberiotstraat 26, B-3000 Leuven

Contact Person: Rich.Bishop@theo.kuleuven.be

The annual conference of the Newman Association of America, which will take place on August 9-11, 2012, welcomes paper proposals fo 100-150 words. Please e-mail your proposal to Prof. Ed Miller (miller.e@gmc.edu) by February 21, including your name, title, institution, address and phone number.

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Master student Nicolas Van Cayzeele and doctoral student Anneleen Decoene will talk to us about new developments in queer theology and feminist theology.

Colloquium georganiseerd door het IPB in samenwerking met de Faculteit Theologie en Religiewetenschappen.

Locatie: Maria-Theresiacollege, Sint-Michielsstraat 6, 3000 Leuven

Informatie en registratie:http://www.ipbsite.be/

This international academic expert seminar aims to bring distinguished scholars together to examine the question of power in pastoral care from different perspectives. The seminar seeks to provide a platform where knowledge from various disciplines and multiple approaches can be shared in an enriching encounter that fosters refined and thorough research on power in pastoral care, imbedded in its particular contexts of churches and policy.

Date: 5-7 January 2012
Location: Faculteit Theologie en Religiewetenschappen, Romerozaal, Collegium Veteranorum 02.10, Sint-Michielsstraat 4, 3000 Leuven (Belgium)

Information: Machteld Reynaert, machteld.reynaert@theo.kuleuven.be
Website: http://www.pastoralezorg.be/701

This international academic expert seminar aims to bring distinguished scholars together to examine the question of power in pastoral care from different perspectives. The seminar seeks to provide a platform where knowledge from various disciplines and multiple approaches can be shared in an enriching encounter that fosters refined and thorough research on power in pastoral care, imbedded in its particular contexts of churches and policy.

Date: 5-7 January 2012
Location: Faculteit Theologie en Religiewetenschappen, Romerozaal, Collegium Veteranorum 02.10, Sint-Michielsstraat 4, 3000 Leuven (Belgium)

Information: Machteld Reynaert, machteld.reynaert@theo.kuleuven.be
Website: http://www.pastoralezorg.be/701

This international academic expert seminar aims to bring distinguished scholars together to examine the question of power in pastoral care from different perspectives. The seminar seeks to provide a platform where knowledge from various disciplines and multiple approaches can be shared in an enriching encounter that fosters refined and thorough research on power in pastoral care, imbedded in its particular contexts of churches and policy.

Date: 5-7 January 2012
Location: Faculteit Theologie en Religiewetenschappen, Romerozaal, Collegium Veteranorum 02.10, Sint-Michielsstraat 4, 3000 Leuven (Belgium)

Information: Machteld Reynaert, machteld.reynaert@theo.kuleuven.be
Website: http://www.pastoralezorg.be/701

De nieuwjaarsreceptie van de Faculteit Theologie en Religiewetenschappen vindt plaats op woensdag 12 januari 2012 om 16.30 uur in de Maurits Sabbebibliotheek, Charles De Bériotstraat 26 in Leuven.

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Dillemans vergaderruimte (Annex Maurits Sabbebibliotheek)

Macht is een complex fenomeen. Overal in de samenleving, op heel veel verschillende manieren, zowel in positieve als in negatieve betekenis, is macht aanwezig. Ook de context van zorg en pastoraat – van structuren tot individuele contacten, van sacramenten tot counseling, van parochie tot ziekenhuis – is doordrongen van macht.

Macht in zorgcontexten en pastoraat is zowel aanwezig in vormen van dominantie, duidelijke onderdrukking, expliciete woorden en overduidelijk misbruik van macht, als op een meer subtiele, vermomde manier. Ook de functie van pastor zelf impliceert een vorm van ‘macht’. Maar juist in deze pastorale context werd macht geruime tijd nauwelijks besproken. De ‘softe’ sector van pastoraal lijkt immers ver weg van het harde discours van de macht. Macht kan in deze context vaak niet openlijk benoemd worden omdat het botst met een aantal christelijke visies, bijvoorbeeld met nederigheid en dienstbaarheid. Tevens strookt het spreken over macht niet altijd met de ervaring van machteloosheid die heel wat pastores ervaren, bijvoorbeeld ten aanzien van systemen, ten aanzien van de context waarin ze werkzaam zijn of ten aanzien van het lijden van mensen.

Het is juist het taboe dat rond macht heerst dat macht zo machtig maakt. Op deze studiedag trachten we daarom het taboe over macht in het pastoraat te doorbreken door er openlijk over te spreken en te kijken hoe pastores omgaan met macht.

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Guest Lecture by Prof. John Witte

Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Emory Law School, Emory University/USA

The lecture will take place in MTC 00.15 (Kleine Aula)

For further information contact Prof. T. Knieps thomas.knieps@theo.kuleuven.be

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9:00 – 11:00 am.: Guest lecture by Dr. Nicholas Lombardo (Assistant Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology, The Catholic University of America)

Respondents: Andrea Robiglio (Medieval Philosophy) and Yves De Maeseneer (Theological Ethics)

The lecture will take place in MTC 01.03, Maria-Theresiacollege, Sint-Michielsstraat 6, 3000 Leuven

2:00 – 4:00 pm.: Seminar: “The Crucifixion in Patristic Thought”

The seminar will take place in MTC 00.12, Maria-Theresiacollege, Sint-Michielsstraat 6, 3000 Leuven

The idea of self-transcendence, or of leaving aside one's own self-interest and adopting the point of view of the other, is a central theme in moral philosophy and religious studies. Sacrifice, moreover, is an essential phenomenon for legal and political life. This workshop addresses the role that sacrifice plays in a political and legal order, with particular emphasis on the establishment and preservation of constitutional law. This question will be approached from the perspective of legal, political and religious studies.

The workshop will raise the following questions: First, does a political and legal order need to be grounded on a sacrificial logic? The second question, arising from the contemporary fact of pluralism, considers how a given political order copes with moral conflicts arising from the performance of sacrifice. The third question considers how different monotheistic religions deal with the phenomenon of sacrifice, given that they themselves recognize a sacrificial logic. Finally, we ask which contemporary institutions are best equipped to tackle a politics that can turn self-sacrifice into a practice of idolatry, or, on the other hand, into a political order completely devoid of any sacrifical aspect (as the European Union has sometimes been described).

Main contributors: Prof. Dr. Vivian Liska, Prof. Dr. Moshe Halbertal, Prof. Dr. Paul Kahn, Prof. Dr. Johan van de Walt, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Palaver.

Organizers: Institute of Jewish Studies (Antwerpen) and Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values (Antwerpen), with the support of the Institutum Iudaicum. The Workshop takes place at the University of Antwerp, Hof van Liere, Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerpen.

Registration and Contact: Institute of Jewish Studies (UA), Attention of Jan Morrens: ijs@ua.ac.be / http://www.ua.ac.be/ijs .

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Promotiezaal, Universiteitshal

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