May 18, 2022
“Trustful Faith in God – An Example of ‘Religious Emotion’?”
Theology & Rationality-workshop:
The Concept and Forms of Religious Emotion in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Goethe-University Frankfurt & Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad Homburg, Germany
May 6, 2022
Teologisk epistemologi som dialogisk livsorientering“
Claudia Welz’ inaugural lecture
at Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, Denmark.
March 23, 2022
“Ansvar som etisk responsivitet”
Discussion of Ulrik Nissen’s new book
Kærlighedens ansvar: Grundlag og områder for kristen etik,
Department of Theology, Aarhus University, Denmark
February 16, 2022
“Vertrauen, Glaube und Zweifel”
Discussion of Claudia Welz’ monograph Vertrauen und Versuchung
Seminar at Faculty of Theology,
Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany
November 9, 2021
“Eksistentiel orientering i livskriser:
Sorgbearbejdelse i ’dialog’ med Gud?”
Teologisk Forening, Aarhus University, Denmark.
October 29, 2021
“Sjælesorg – at lytte livsmodet frem”
Sjælesorg i bevægelse:
En introduktion til hovedspor i sjælesorgens teologi og praksis i Danmark
(book launch)
Folkekirkens uddannelses- og videnscenter/Pastoralseminar Aarhus, Denmark.
October 12, 2021
“’Skulle han, som plantede øret, ikke høre’?
Bønnens teologi og fænomenologi“
Lecture at Lutheran School of Theology in Aarhus, Denmark.
September 22, 2021
“Schöpfung und Wiedererschaffung – im Dialog mit Amanda Gormans Gedicht The Hill We Climb”
Konstruierte Schöpfung? Tagung der AG katholische Dogmatik und Fundamentaltheologie
Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart in Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Germany.
September 3, 2021
“Between You and Me: Listening, Love of Neighbor, and Second-Personal Poetics” (keynote lecture)
Neighbor-Love: Poetics of Love and Agape,
Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquity, Stockholm, Sweden.
July 19, 2021
Lecture: “Religionsdialog og religionskonflikt”
Kristendommen i verden.
Sommerstævne I anledning af Løgumkloster Refugiums 60-års jubilæum, Løgumkloster, Denmark.
lecture on May 31, 2021:
“Hören und Erhört-Werden: ‘Der das Ohr gepflanzt hat, sollte der nicht hören’?” Download
“Kierkegaard – A Transcendental Phenomenologist?”
- When: December 8, 2020, 17:00-20:00
- Where: Zoom – Virtual session of the American Kierkegaard Society, American Academy of Religion, USA
- Title of lecture: “Kierkegaard – A Transcendental Phenomenologist? Response to Merold Westphal”
- For more information, see https://kierkegaardsocietyusa.com
“How to Speak of That Which Transcends Language? Skepticism and Its Refutation in Levinas’s Philosophy”
- When: November 24, 2020, 16:30-18:30
- Where: Zoom – Virtual reading evening at Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, Hamburg University, Germany
- Title of lecture: “How to Speak of That Which Transcends Language? Skepticism and Its Refutation in Levinas’s Philosophy”
- For more information, see https://www.maimonides-centre.uni-hamburg.de/fellows/projects/2020-2021/welz.html
Tillich lecture (Livestream/Webinar): Gott ‘und’ das Böse denken – ein Missverständnis?
- When: June 23, 2020, 19:00-20:30
- Where: Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt & Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
- Title of lecture: “Gott ‚und‘ das Böse – Paul Tillich, Franz Rosenzweig und Abraham Joshua Heschel”
- For more information, see https://www.evangelische-akademie.de/kalender/gott-und-das-boese-denken/ and https://youtu.be/7aCy51BSDmI
Contribution to Ringvorlesung at the University of Berne: Theologie des Hörens
- When: March 16, 2020 (NB: postponed until spring 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
- Where: Theologische Fakultät, Universität Bern
- Title of lecture: “Hören und Erhört-Werden: ‘Der das Ohr gepflanzt hat, sollte der nicht hören?'”
- For more information, see https://www.theol.unibe.ch/unibe/portal/fak_theologie/content/e17260/e17261/e311552/pane895957/e895960/2020_Ringvorlesung_theologie_des_hoerens_ger.pdf
Lecture at the University of Siegen: Living as Learning-to-Die
- When: January 29, 2020, 12:00-14:00
- Where: Universität Siegen, Philosophisches Seminar
- Title of lecture: “Leben als Sterbenlernen: Von Heidegger und Levinas zu Hannah Arendt und Simone Weil”
- For more information, see https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/philosophie/philosophie_am_mittag/
Fellow Colloquium in Bad Homburg: Religious Orientation
- When: December 5, 2019, 11:00-13:00
- Where: Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad Homburg, Germany
- Title of lecture: “Religious positioning in Judaism and Christianity – considering the 1916 correspondence between Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy”
- For more information, see http://www.forschungskolleg-humanwissenschaften.de/index.php/fellows/present/195?view=item
Contribution to International Conference at the University of Eichstätt: Freedom and Sin
- When: November 22-23, 2019
- Where: Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany
- Title of lecture: “Freiheit und Sünde bei Kierkegaard, Rosenzweig, Ricœur und Heschel”
- For more information, see https://www.ku.de/fileadmin/11/Downloads/IntTagungIhnen__00000004_.pdf
Launch of the “Hodges Foundation for Philosophical Orientation” in Nashville, USA
- When: October 25, 2019, 18:00
- Where: The Parthenon at Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Speeches by the founder, Mike Hodges (My Philosophy, My Foundation) as well as by Werner Stegmaier, who developed the philosophy of orientation (Orient yourself! Living a Philosophy), by Claudia Welz (From Confusion to Clarity: Paradoxes of Orientation as Courageous Beginnings), and Reinhard G. Müller (The Aims and Plans of the Hodges Foundation for Philosophical Orientation)
- For more information, see https://hfpo.com/launch/
Book launch at the University of Copenhagen: “SinnSang: Poesie und Theologie”
- When: September 20, 2019, 14:00-15:00
- Where: Academic Books, University of Copenhagen, South Campus, KUA 2, Building 14, Karen Blixens Plads 8
DK – 2300 Copenhagen S
Claudia Welz – Elazar Benyoëtz
SinnSang: Poesie und Theologie
Aphorismen – Essays – Briefe
Umschlagmalerei: Miniatur »Improvisation 7« von Métavel
188 Seiten, 2019, Paperback, EUR 15.00
ISBN 978-3-943940-57-2
See http://www.nordpark-verlag.de/Benyoetz-Welz-SinnSang.html
- Book launch in Danish, introduction by Claudia Welz
- Comments by Søren Holst, Christine Svinth-Værge Põder, and Ettore Rocca
Followed by farewell reception for Claudia Welz
at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, see https://teol.ku.dk/ast/arrangementer/2019/afskedsreception-for-claudia-welz/