At the End of the World: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Apocalyptic Imaginary in the Past and Present

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Symposium: "Att skapa Hopp" | Lena Liepe · Max Liljefors ·  Jayne Svenungsson 

20 november 2024 bjuder Lunds domkyrka in till ett symposium kring det nya konstglasfönstret Hopp och boken som dokumenterar och analyserar detta unika verk. Om boken: År 2023 firade Lunds domkyrka sitt 900-årsjubileum, och ett nytt konstglasfönster, Hopp, av Erika Lagerbielke installerades i kryptan – den första permanenta konstnärliga installationen där sedan 1500-talet. Boken undersöker den konstnärliga processen, glasmåleriets historia, ljusets teologi och rummets fenomenologi.

Program:

13.30: Samtal vid konstglasfönstret Hopp mellan Erika Lagerbielke och Lena Sjöstrand i kryptan. Därefter inlägg och samtal med författarna, modererat av Martin Garwicz, professor i neurofysiologi, i Domkyrkoforum.

17.00: Mingel i Domkyrkoforum.

Medverkande:

  • Erika Lagerbielke – Glaskonstnär och professor, Linnéuniversitetet
  • Lena Liepe – Professor i konst- och bildvetenskap, Linnéuniversitetet
  • Max Liljefors – Professor i konsthistoria och visuella studier, Lunds universitet
  • Lena Sjöstrand – Präst och teol.dr., lång erfarenhet av konstprojekt i Domkyrkan
  • Jayne Svenungsson – Professor i systematisk teologi, Lunds universitet 
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Seminar: "Post-Apocalyptic Space Imaginaries" with Johan Lagerkvist, Erik Persson & Sandra Siljeström

26 November 16:15–19:00, 2024, LUX-building room C126, Lund. Invited speakers Johan Lagerkvist (Stockholm University), Erik Persson (Lund University) & Sandra Siljeström(RISE Research Institute of Sweden). Chair: David Dunér.

"There are advanced, concrete plans to establish space stations on the Moon and Mars, and to set up mining industries on asteroids and other celestial bodies. Countries new to the space race, as well as private industry, are now competing to achieve these goals. Meantime, deadly asteroids travel at high speed straight towards Earth, and an accelerating climate and ecological crisis might soon make Earth uninhabitable. The dream of future human life on other planets clearly connects to apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic traditions. If life on Earth perishes in a global cataclysm, humanity could survive, one hopes, in a post-apocalyptic civilization on another planet."

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Book launch: Hannah Strømmen–The Bibles of the Far Right

9 December 2024, 17:00-18:30: in LUX C214, at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University: Book launch for Hannah M. Strømmen, The Bibles of the Far Right (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). Followed by a reception.

Speakers:

  • James Crossley, Professor in Bible, Society and Politics (MF School of Theology, Oslo, Norway)
  • Holly Morse, Senior Lecturer in Bible, Gender and Culture (University of Manchester, UK)
  • Anders Berg-Sørensen, Associate Professor in Political Theory (Copenhagen University, Denmark)

Everyone is welcome!

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New Article from Jayne Svenungsson: "The End of Law and Other Miracles"

Read Jayne Svenungsson's latest article, “The end of law and other miracles: on the limitations of apocalyptic political theologies” from the latest edition of Studia Theologica here: “This article explores various attempts to critique law with reference to an authority or idea that isseen as transcending law in its existing forms. As heuristic tools, I use a distinction betweenprophetic and apocalyptic discourses, the former referring to discourses that remain sceptical tothe possibility of suspending law in any absolute sense; the latter describing discourses thatarticulate a belief in or commitment to a radical break with the law, envisioning a coming law-free age.”

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New Article by Mårten Björk: "Becoming What We Know"

In a recent article "Becoming What We Know: Franz von Baader on Cognition and Revelation" with the journal Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, Björk explores "the Bavarian physician, mining engineer, and Catholic romantic philosopher Franz von Baader's (1765-1841) enigmatic claim that we think because we are thought with the help of the moral theologian Servain Pinckaers OP (1925-2008) and the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934-2021)." The article is open access and can be found here

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New Article by Cecilia Wassén: “Halakhah at the End of Days: A Comparison between Jesus’s Teaching and the Dead Sea Scrolls"

Read Cecilia Wassén's recent book chapter  “Halakhah at the End of Days: A Comparison between Jesus’s Teaching and the Dead Sea Scrolls” from the Qumran and the New Testament here.

“Jesus took part in debates about the observance of Torah laws, in particular concerning the Sabbath laws when he was criticized for performing work on the Sabbath. Nevertheless, his teaching focused on the imminence of the kingdom of God, the repentance necessary in preparation for it, and righteous living, seemingly without much emphasis on the observance of specific, ritual laws. The key questions in this paper are: What role did the laws of the Torah play in Jesus’s teaching on the kingdom? To what extent was his teaching on halakhic issues driven by the study of the Torah?”

Image Credits

John Martin. The Great Day of His Wrath. Painting (oil on canvas), c. 1851.

Dasha Urvachova. Kid's shoe at kindergarden in Chernobyl. Photograph, 2020.

Unknown artist. The Celestial Jerusalem, detail. Tapestry from Château d'Angers, 14th century.