Jörg Rüpke has been appointed to the Academic Programme Committee for the XXIII World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religion

The programme committee of the XXIII World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religion, to which Jörg Rüpke, Co-Director of the Max-Weber-Kolleg, has now been appointed, is examining the incoming proposals for sections and lectures for their methodological viability and originality. The theme of the conference, which will be hosted by the University of Krakow in 2025, is "Out of Europe: Studying religion(s) in interconnected worlds" and aims to analyse religious changes in terms of how they are formed primarily in movements of people and ideas. Europe will be focussed on as a space that takes rather than gives.

The last congress of the World Association for the Study of Religion took place at the University of Erfurt in 2015 with around 1,400 participants; the congress planned for 2020 in New Zealand had to be cancelled due to the pandemic. The Max-Weber-Kolleg, for which Dr. Elisabeth Begemann coordinated the congress organisation, is pleased to have been able to pass on some of its experience in organising a world congress to the new hosts.

Rüpke hopes that the congress will also become a space where the numerous religious history projects and international collaborations at the University of Erfurt can enter into dialogue beyond the borders of Europe. Further sections and individual lectures can be proposed from February.

Link to the website of the XXIII World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religion