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• 13 sep 2013

  14 sep 2013

  15 jui 2013

  Ghent

  Conference, symposium - Religion

  The Christian mystery

  Ancient christianity and cults around pagan mysteries in the work of Franz Cumont (1868-1947) and in research history

  Ce colloque, qui aura lieu du 13 au 15 septembre à Gand, est centré sur la manière dont l'historien des religions belge Franz Cumont et ses contemporains ont conçu la relation entre le christianisme ancien et les cultes à mystères païens. Il s’agira d’une étude large du thème historiographique, incluant aussi ses prédécesseurs et les recherches récentes. Le colloque s’adresse aux spécialistes d’historiographie des religions antiques des XIX^e et XX^e siècles. Il sera l’occasion de discuter amplement des idées avancées par les diverses traditions historiographiques, méthodologiquement et géographiquement déterminées. 

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• 11 avr 2013

  12 avr 2013

  Ghent

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  Immanence and Transcendence in Deleuzean metaphysics

  Deleuze’s project is usually presented as developing a radical immanentism. It wants to get rid of the classical distinction between two orders of being - the order of the essences and the order of the things in which these essences are incarnated - and it is very critical towards any attempt to re-introduce a (hidden) transcendent element into the immanent order. The "virtual" can be considered Deleuze's answer to the question how to conceive of a ground or foundation that does not break the immanent ontology. Deleuze describes the virtual as that which is not actual although it is real, as something that does not belong to the domain of the possible, as complication, etc. One could ask oneself if these descriptions are not philosophical constructions, that is, rather forced attempts to stay within the immanent order of being. How can we think the non-actuality of the virtual? Is not the virtual transcendent in some sense? Does it make sense to speak of an immanent transcendence in Deleuze’s philosophy, and if so, of what would it consist? Explorations of the historical roots of this topic in Deleuze (Spinoza, Leibniz, etc.) are also welcome.

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• 31 mar 2013

  Ghent

  Call for papers - Science studies

  The Christian Mystery

  Early Christianity and the pagan mystery cults in the work of Franz Cumont (1868-1947) and in the history of scholarship

  Cumont was a pioneer of the scientific study of the oriental religions. Many of his publications (e.g. The Mysteries of Mithras, 1900) fuelled the early 20th century debates about Christianity’s dependence on the pagan cults through the similarities they suggested between these religious traditions. Cumont expressed his opinion only indirectly and ambiguously, but other scholars have been more explicit in demonstrating or denying such influences.The theme of this international conference, hosted by Franz Cumont’s alma mater Ghent University, is the way Cumont and his contemporaries conceived the relationship of Early Christianity to the pagan mystery cults. We will also include predecessors and more recent scholarship on this topic.

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• 10 jan 2013

  Ghent

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Doctoral grant in medieval history

  God's Peace as an instrument of social competition: towards a non-homeostatic interpretation of political relations in the Middle Ages (late 10th-12 centuries)

  L’Institut Henri Pirenne pour la recherche en histoire médiévale (Université de Gand) recrute un chercheur prédoctoral m/f (bourse de doctorat, mandat à temps plein). Titre du projet : La Paix de Dieu comme instrument de compétition sociale : vers une interprétation non-homéostatique des relations politiques au haut Moyen Âge (fin Xe-début XIIe siècle)

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