NEC International Fellowships Programme

The conference aims to explore original perspectives on theological-related subjects in the German Enlightenment up to Kant, with particular focus on the Late Enlightenment. Over the last few decades, the relevance of the theology of the Enlightenment has gained unprecedented momentum among scholars of the eighteenth century, going well beyond its traditional boundaries and arenas. The rapidly growing interest in the topic is reflected in an intense editorial activity that brought attention to lesser known texts. Key issues such as secularization and re-sacralization have raised questions that touch upon a range of disciplines. It is now clear that particularly during the second half of the eighteenth century metaphysics, aesthetics, epistemology, politics, ethnology, and the arts benefitted from fruitful exchanges with theology, resulting in a range of new approaches to the relation between the human and the divine.

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Paola Basso (Bucharest)
Stefanie Bucheanu (Paris)
Gideon Stiening (Munich)
Lloyd Strickland (Manchester)
Endre Szécsényi (Aberdeen/Budapest)

We welcome proposals for 30-minute papers on topics including, but not limited to:

 the relation between natural theology and revealed theology
 natural theology and physico-theology
 the relation between natural theology and other metaphysical disciplines, such as ontology, cosmology, and psychology
 the role played by theology at large in the development of the philosophical disciplines, with particular regard to aesthetics and ethics  the relevance of the theological reflection at the Berlin Academy
 the role of feelings and emotions in revealed theology
 the significance of homiletics and theological hermeneutics in the intellectual debate
 Catholic and Lutheran perspectives on faith
 secularization and re-sacralization
 connections between religion and the idea of Enlightenment
 exchanges and transfers between German Enlightenment and the European Enlightenment

23-24 May 2019
Research Institute of the University of Bucharest, Humanities division

Organisers: Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (University of Bucharest) and Alessandro Nannini (University of Bucharest/New Europe College)

Deadline for submitting the abstracts: 6 April 2019

The conference aims to explore original perspectives on theological-related subjects in the German Enlightenment up to Kant, with particular focus on the Late Enlightenment. Over the last few decades, the relevance of the theology of the Enlightenment has gained unprecedented momentum among scholars of the eighteenth century, going well beyond its traditional boundaries and arenas. The rapidly growing interest in the topic is reflected in an intense editorial activity that brought attention to lesser known texts. Key issues such as secularization and re-sacralization have raised questions that touch upon a range of disciplines. It is now clear that particularly during the second half of the eighteenth century metaphysics, aesthetics, epistemology, politics, ethnology, and the arts benefitted from fruitful exchanges with theology, resulting in a range of new approaches to the relation between the human and the divine.

Confirmed invited speakers:
Paola Basso (Bucharest)
Stefanie Buchenau (Paris)
Paola Rumore (Turin)
Gideon Stiening (Munich)
Lloyd Strickland (Manchester)
Endre Szécsényi (Aberdeen/Budapest)