Ritual Dynamics and Ritual Agents: Looking Back and Looking Forward
Research Center “Dynamics of Jewish Ritual Practices in Pluralistic Contexts from Antiquity to the Present,” Max-Weber-Kolleg, Universität Erfurt
February 19-21, 2020
Bildungshaus St. Ursula and Augustinerkloster
19.02.2020 Bildungshaus St. Ursula
02:00 pm – Welcome | Benedikt Kranemann, Speaker of theResearch Centre
02:15 pm – The Ritual of the Jerusalem Temple: Religion, Politics, Vision, and Memory | Tessa Rajak (Reading/Oxford)
03:00 pm – The Rituals of the Ancestors | Michael Satlow (Providence)
04:30 pm – The Missing Jewel: Jewish Women’s Adornment in Medieval Society | Merav Schnitzer (Tel Aviv)
19.02.2020 Augustinerkloster (room Staupitz/Lang)
06:00 pm – Lecture/Concert »King David’s Lyre« | Jascha Nemtsov and Julia Rebekka Brembeck-Adler
20.02.2020 Bildungshaus St. Ursula
10:00 am – Ritual and Ambiguity | Adam Seligman (Boston)
10:45 am – Aspects of Contemporary Historiography of Western Liturgies | Benedikt Kranemann (Erfurt)
11:30 am – Reforming Rituals in Orthodox Christianity Historiographical Perspectives | Vasilios N. Makrides (Erfurt)
02:00 pm – The Religious and Religious-Like Rituals of the Israeli National Holidays | Adi Sherzer-Druckman (Beer Sheva)
02:30 pm – Transforming Religion and Agency. Historiography and Late-Modern Rituals | Mirella Klomp (Amsterdam)
03:45 pm – Inventing the Day of Judaism after WW II | Peter Ebenbauer(Graz)
04:15 pm – Beyond Binary Liturgical Language: Inclusive and Expansive Language | Stephanie Budwey (Nashville)
06:00 pm – The Research Centre ‘Dynamics of Jewish Ritual Practices’: Looking Back and Forward | Claudia D. Bergmann (Erfurt/Bochum), Claudia Zech
21.02.2020 Bildungshaus St. Ursula
10:00 am – The Ritual Leader as Portrayed in the GeonicLiterature | Rebecca Ullrich (Erfurt)
10:30 am – Musical Demarcation and Border Crossing in Jewish Art Music (20th Cent.) | Jasmin Kutzner (Erfurt)
11:00 am – Transformation of Liturgical Leadership: The Case Study of Dresden-Meißen | Dominik Abel (Erfurt)
11:30 am – Ritual Agency as a Correlative Practice | Jutta Vinzent (Erfurt/Birmingham)
12:00 noon – Relational Qualities of Rituals | Jörg Rüpke (Erfurt)
12:30 pm – Questions in the Study of Rituals: Round Table Discussion
Registration: claudia.bergmann@uni-erfurt.de
Conference Fee: 30 Euro (incl. concert and meals)