Programme of the 15. International conference


Wednesday, August 28

Starting from 3 pm       Arrival

5pm-6pm                         Meeting of the contact women with the secretaries of the international board (ESWTR)

6pm                                    Dinner

7pm                                    Welcome address and official greetings

                                             Opening lecture

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Auga , Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Resistance and Visions – New Perspectives. Introduction to the Issues of the Conference and Connection to the Eastern European Dissidence of the Peaceful Revolution of 1989

Afterwards                      Meeting in country groups possible

 

Thursday, August 29 «Postcolonialism»

8:30am                              Ritual

9am - 11am                       Plenary panel with discussions

Prof. Dr. Musa Dube , University of Botswana

Boundaries and Bridges: Journeys of Postcolonial Feminist Biblical Interpretations

Prof. Dr. Mayra Rivera Rivera , Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge MA

A Labyrinth of Incarnations: Body and Society in the 21st Century

11am – 11:30am             Break

11:30am – 1:15pm        Parallel panels

                                              Panel 1 New Forms of Resistance – and Society

                                              Panel 2 New Forms of Resistance – and Biopower

                                              Panel 3 New Forms of Resistance – and Politics

                                              Panel 4 Resistances and Ethical Discourses

1:15pm – 3pm                 Lunch break

3pm – 6pm                     City tours (peaceful revolution; Jewish Dresden; the new town of Dresden from Maria to Mary; the old downtown of Dresden) in English or German

7:30pm                              Public lecture

Prof. Dr. Kwok Pui Lan , Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge MA

Prof. Dr. Jörg Rieger , Perkins School of Theology, Dallas

 

 

Occupy Heaven: Are God, Religion, and Politics beyond rescue?

Location: Dreikönigskirche


Friday, August 30 «(Post)Secularism»

8:30am                                Ritual

9:00am – 10:00am        Plenary panel with discussion

Prof. Dr. Anne-Marie Korte , Universität Utrecht

Pussy Riot's Punk Prayer as a Case of / for Feminist Public Theology

10:00am – 10:15am       Break

10:15am – 11:45 am       Panel discussion with contemporary witnesses

                                                Prof. Dr. Angelika Engelmann , Dresden, Deutschland

                                                Dr. Marie Anne Subklew-Jeutner , Potsdam, Deutschland

                                                Freya Klier , Berlin, Deutschland

                                                PhD Márta Bodó , Cluj, Rumänien

                                                Dr. Jadranka Sr. Rebeka Anić , Split, Kroatien

11:45am-12:00                 Break

12:00 – 1:15pm                Preparations for the general assembly (ESWTR)

1:15pm – 3:00pm            Lunch break

3:00pm – 5:00pm           General assembly of the ESWTR (part 1)

5:00pm – 5:30pm            Break

5:30pm – 6:30pm            Subject groups

6:30pm – 7:30pm           Dinner

Starting from 8pm           Film screening: "Octoberfilm” by R. Kukula, presented by "Sächsische  Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung” (Saxon Agency for Civic Education)

10pm                                     Ritual


Saturday, August 31 «(Queer) Visions»

8:30am                                Ritual

9am – 11am                       Plenary panel with discussions

Sr. Dr. Dr. Teresa Forcades i Vila , Barcelona

Las falsas democracias y las consecuencias políticas de la noción cristiana de ‘persona’
(Fake democracies and the political consequences of the Christian notion of ‘person’)

Prof. Dr. Janet Jakobsen , Barnard Center for Research on Women, Columbia University, New York

Visions of Justice: New Economies and Solidarities

11am-11:30am                   Break

11:30am – 1:15pm           Parallel panels

                                                 Panel 5 Queer Visions and Biopower

                                                 Panel 6 Visions and Interreligious Discourses

                                                 Panel 7 Visions, Arts and Aesthetics

                                                 Panel 8 Visions and Translations

1:15pm – 3pm                    Lunch break

3pm – 4pm                          General assembly of the ESWTR (part 2)

4pm – 5pm                          Workshop Discussions Resistance and visions in practice: ESWTR members  in action

5pm – 5:30pm                   Break

5:30pm – 6:30pm            Subject groups

6:30pm – 7:30pm            Break

Starting from 7:30pm     Dinner and Artistic Night "Resistance and Visions – New Horizons in Music and Dance" in cooperation with the "FrauenBildungsHaus Dresden e.V."

 

 

Sunday, September 1

9am – 10am                         Workshop Discussions Resistance and visions in practice: ESWTR members in action

10am – 10:15am                Break

10:15am – 11:45am          Podium: Knowledge, Criticism, Religion – Risking Visions

11:45am-12:00                   Break

12:00 – 1pm                         Conclusion and Closing Ritual

Starting from 1pm              Lunch

Afterwards                            Departure