Art of the Sacred: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Religious and Spiritual Artistic Activity
The Central European Symposium for the Academic Study of Religion’s 2026 conference in May featured 40 papers from young and established scholars including our students:
Karsten J. Schuil presented on "Biblical Jerusalem in Late Medieval Rome: Sacred Objects, Storytelling, and the Pilgrim Writer-Traveler" in a session chaired by Carsten Wilke, the director of the Center for Religious Studies.
Another PhD student of ours, Gunhyuk Lee, gave a paper on "Two Liturgical Objects with Donor Inscriptions: Donation and the Materialization of Sanctity in Late Antique Egypt."
We congratulate all the presenters for contributing to a growing discussion on how artistic practices have already, can now, or shall approach, interpret, embody, and transform humanity’s understanding of the sacred in the future.