Contribution to (or hosting of) public events and lectures (selection)

Civil Rights Collection at the National Library in Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Host & convenor: Claudia Welz
Host & moderator: Claudia Welz

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

Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften,
Bad Homburg;
Photo by Claudia Welz

   

 May 6, 2022

At høre det uhørte:

Teologisk epistemologi som dialogisk livsorientering

Claudia Welz’ inaugural lecture

at Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Department of Theology and Religious Studies,
Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University
Photo by Marianne Christiansen (May 6, 2022)

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.

Aarhus

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.

Skt. Markus Kirkeplads, Aarhus

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.

Søren Kierkegaard Society USA

“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
Schlüterstraße 51
Photo: UHH

“How to Speak of That Which Transcends Language? Skepticism and Its Refutation in Levinas’s Philosophy”

Tillich lecture (Livestream/Webinar): Gott ‘und’ das Böse denken – ein Missverständnis?

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Berne – photo by Claudia Welz

Contribution to Ringvorlesung at the University of Berne: Theologie des Hörens

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Lecture at the University of Siegen: Living as Learning-to-Die

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Fellow Colloquium in Bad Homburg: Religious Orientation

Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad Homburg, Germany

Contribution to International Conference at the University of Eichstätt: Freedom and Sin


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/