Past Summer Schools | Center for Religious Studies

July 8–12, 2024
Magic and Witchcraft: Belief and Persecution in Global Perspective

Directors:
Fabrizio Conti, Department of History and Humanities, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy
Gabor Klaniczay, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Vienna, Austria

July 20–29, 2023
Magic and Witchcraft: History, Interdisciplinarity, Global Perspectives

Directors:
Fabrizio Conti, Department of History and Humanities, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy
Gabor Klaniczay, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

July 3–7, 2023
Thinking with Islamicate Manuscripts: Critical Approaches to Historical Methodology, History of Collections, and Digital Tools In Islamic Studies

Directors:
Tijana Krstic, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Vienna, Austria
Bruno De Nicola, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

July 21–30, 2022
Late Antique Political Theology from the Early Church to the Byzantine Era

Director:
György Geréby, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Vienna, Austria/Budapest, Hungary

July 24–29, 2022
Magic and Witchcraft: Antique and Medieval Roots, Early-Modern Outcomes

Directors:
Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Vienna, Austria/Budapest, Hungary
Fabrizio Conti, Department of History and Humanities, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy

July 19-26, 2021
Political Theology of the Early Church from its Formation to Justinian (online course)

The course addresses an important topic in the history of Late Antiquity and Early Christianity: the theories of legitimacies, namely that of the Empire and the Church, and their struggle over the first six hundred years (from the first century to Justinian). What were the reasons for the conflict and how did it play out in Late Antiquity?

Director:

Gyorgy Gereby, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University

Faculty:
Mark Edwards, Christ Church, University of Oxford
Paweł Figurski, Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences
Michael Hollerich, College of Arts and Science, Theology Department, University of Saint Thomas
Andra Juganaru, Department of Theology and Christian Culture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Ecaterina Lung, Department of Ancient History, Archaeology and Art History, University of Bucharest
Volker Menze, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University
Claudia Rapp, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna
Marco Rizzi, Department of Religious Studies, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

20-5 July, 2021
Witchcraft Across Classical, Medieval, and Early-Modern Cultures in Europe: Researching and Teaching a Long-Term Historical Issue (online course)

Beliefs in witchcraft are widely distributed both geographically and chronologically. At the European level, the accusations were put together within a coherent intellectual framework of reference. This is indeed part of a wider process of formation of scapegoat images on social targets such as the leper, the Jew, and the heretic, before getting to witches.

Directors:
Fabrizio Conti, Department of History and Humanities, John Cabot University
Gabor Klaniczay, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University

Faculty:
Michael Bailey, Department of History, Ames, Iowa State University
Marina Montesano, Department of Ancient and Modern Civilizations, Università di Messina
Teo Ruiz, Department of History, UCLA, Los Angeles
Rita Voltmer, Department of History, Universität Trier

June 24–29, 2018
The Dignity of Man in Western Intellectual History, Esoterism and Art

Directors:
György Endre Szönyi, University of Szeged/Department of History and Medieval Studies
Carsten Wilke, Department of History, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

July 10–21, 2017
Jews and Christians between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean: Co-existence and Conflict

Directors:
Alexandra Cuffel, Centre for Religious Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Istvan Perczel, Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

July 4–15, 2016
What Makes us Human? Philosophical and Religious Perspectives in China and the West

Directors:
Curie Virag, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
Gabor Betegh, Faculty of Classics, Christ’s College, Cambridge University, UK

July 20–29, 2015
Religion and Violence in Global Perspective

Directors:
Matthias Riedl, Central European University, Department of History, Budapest, Hungary
Brett Wilson, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

July 15–26, 2013
Religion and Realism in Political Thought - Historical Perspectives and Recent Developments

Directors:
Matthias Riedl, Central European University, Department of History, Budapest, Hungary
Hans Jörg-Segwart, Institute of Political Science, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
(In co-operation with the Department of Political Science, Duke University, and the Institute of Political Science, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg)

July 9–20, 2012
Polemos/Pulmus: Ways of Confrontation in Judaism, Paganism, and Christianity in Late Antiquity

Directors:
Gabor Buzasi, Assyrology and Hebrew, Eötvös Loránd University/Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Gyorgy Gereby, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Tamas Turan, Center of Jewish Studies, Institute for Ethnic and National Minority Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Faculty:
Daniel Boyarin, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Shaye J. D. Cohen, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
John M. Dillon, Department of Classics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Mark Edwards
Christ Church, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Guy G. Stroumsa, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, UK/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

July 5–16, 2010
Messianism - Jewish and Christian Perspectives

Directors:
Michael L. Miller, Central European University, Nationalisms Studies Program/Jewish Studies, Budapest, Hungary
Matthias Riedl, Central European University, Department of History, Budapest, Hungary

July 14–25, 2008
Religion and Politics: The Presence of the Sacred and Secular Traditions in Europe and the Middle East

Directors:
Matthias Riedl, History Department, Central European University, Budapest
Jürgen Gebhardt, Political Science Department, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bavarian-American Academy, Munich

July 4–15, 2005
Bookish Traditions: Authority and the Book in Scripturalist Religion

Directors:
Aziz Al-Azmeh, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

July 12–23, 2004
Jews and Muslims in the Middle Ages

Director:
Mark Cohen, Princeton University, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton, USA

July 5–16, 2004
Reconsidering Islamic Reformism - Comparative Perspectives

Directors:
Aziz Al-Azmeh, Central European University, Budapest
Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Central European University, Budapest

July 14–25, 2003
Islam and the West

Director:
Ihsan Dagi, Middle East Technical University, International Relations, Ankara, Turkey

Faculty:
Sadik Al-Azm, University of Damascus, Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic
John Calabrese, American University, The Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C., USA
Anoush Ehteshami, University of Durham, Institute for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, Durham, NC, UK
Plamen Makariev, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Philosophy, Sofia, Bulgaria
Hakan Yavuz, University of Utah, Department of Political Science, Salt Lake City, USA