Eschatology in Eastern and Western Europe
Online-Workshop (Zoom)
05.03.2021 – 06.03.2021
March 5, 2021
I Welcome and Keynote
14:15-14:30 Julia Herzberg (LMU Munich) & David Khunchukashvili (LMU Munich)
Welcoming Address
14:30-15:00 Nicolas Pissis (FU Berlin)
Eschatology and Knowledge Transfer in the Early Modern Period
II Eschatology in Eastern Europe
Chair: Julia Herzberg
15:00-16:00 Uladzimir Kananovich (Kletsk)
Doctor Francis Skaryna: In the Signs of the End Times
16:00-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-17:15 Liliya Berezhnaya (WWU Muenster)
An Orthodox Purgatory? “The Otherworldly Third Place” in Early Modern
Ruthenian: Religious Polemics and on the Last Judgment Icons.
17:15-18:15 Petr Stefanovich (HSE Moscow)
Eschatology and Russian Identity in the Works of Old-Believers of the
Late 17th Early 18th Centuries
18:15-18:45 Virtual get-together
March 6, 2021
III Political Eschatology
Chair: Damien Tricoire
13:00-14:00 Petra Waffner (FernUniversität in Hagen)
Political Prophecy as Strategy in Late Medieval Reform Texts
14:00-15:00 David Khunchukashvili (LMU München)
Judicial Astrology and Political Eschatology in Eastern and Western Europe
15:00-15:15 Coffee break
15:15-16:15 András Kraft (Princeton University)
The Byzantine Apocalyptic Tradition after Byzantium
IV Eschatology between Time and Eternity
Chair: Natalia Sinkevych
16:15-17:15 Benedikt Brunner (IEG Mainz)
“…from our spiritual rebirth to the hope of a future life.” Funeral Sermons
as European Means for Conveying Eschatological Imaginary Worlds
17:15-17:30 Coffee break
17:30-18:30 Joseph S. Freedman (Alabama State University)
Eschatology in the Context of Time, Duration, Eternity, and the Present
with a Primary Focus on Academic Philosophical Writings Published
in Central Europe during the Late 16th and Early 17th Centuries
18:30-19:00 Concluding Discussion
Anmeldung für den Workshop bei David Khunchukashvili:
D.khunchukashvili@campus.lmu.de