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April 2024
Conference "Dark Green Religion in Europe"The Conference seeks to convene scholars interested in the emergence, spread, dangers and future prospects of green spiritualities in Euopean societies since the 18th century.
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Dark Green Museums? How curators fuse art, science, and nature spirituality in the cause of conservation
Prof. Dr. Bron Taylor, University of FloridaThe lecture takes place within the workshop "Dark Green Religion in Europe: History and Impacts, Dangers and Prospects" (April, 25–27, 2024). -
“Hallowed Efforts? Work and the Sacred, c. 1350–c. 1815”
Workshop at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz, Germany
Contact: harrer@ieg-mainz.de
November 14 & 15, 2024
Is work sacred? Does it promise redemption? Who can be sacrificed at the altar of work? Long before the “God of labor” was exalted by nineteenth-century writers, the issue of work had been intimately tied to salvation, damnation, and religious hierarchies. To shed light on this deeper history, the workshop aims to merge the thriving study of late medieval and early modern work with enquiries into sacred ideas and institutions. -
Book series now complete: "Ein Europa der Differenzen"
In October, the last volume of the IEG's four-part book series "A Europe of Differences" was published.The series presents new results and groundbreaking perspectives of the IEG research program on dealing with difference in modern Europe. -
IEG digital
IEG digital combines the digital offers of the IEG, which includes studies and analyses, editions and source collections as well as maps and teaching material. Most of them are published in Open Access and in German and/or English.
IEG digital