Comparative Religion and Indo-European Studies

Rock wall with sketched drawings of human figures and chariot

 

Thursday 16 May 2024, 10am - 5pm

Radcliffe Humanities Building and Online

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Comparative Religion and Indo-European Studies is a small workshop held in cooperation between the Uppsala Network for Indo-European Culture, Languages, and Traditions (UNI-CULT), Uppsala University Sweden, and The Ancient Anatolian Network, Oxford. Comparative studies of religion and Indo-European Studies share a long history back to the writings of Fredrich Max Müller, and this workshop aims to bring together new ways of approaching studies on religion in Indo-European-speaking cultures and discuss new possibilities and challenges. This workshop is the first cooperation between CIRCUS - The Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Society at Uppsala University and TORCH - The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities at Oxford. The workshop is free and open to everyone, but registration is required.

 

Speakers:

Lisa Bukhave (University of Uppsala)

Prof. Almut Hintze (SOAS)

Prof. Ian Rutherford (University of Reading)

Dr. Bjarne Wernicke Olesen (University of Oxford)

 

Programme

10.00 Tea/coffee and pastries

10.30 Opening remarks

10.45 The Study of Religion and Indo-European Studies  – a journey (Lisa Bukhave)

11.15 Coffee break

11.40 Orders of Discourses and Levels of Phenomenology in the Study of Religions (Bjarne Wernicke Olesen)

12.30 Lunch break

2.30 Indo-Iranian and Avestan ritual: sources and performance (Almut Hintze)

3.30 Indo-European religion: perspectives from Greece, Anatolia and elsewhere (Ian Rutherford)

4.30 Closing remarks and tea

 

Organisers: 

Lisa Bukhave, Terje Østigård, Michele Bianconi


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