Monday Meeting

Next Steps: Preparation for the Second Funding Phase

19 Jan. 2026, 02:30 p.m. – 04:00 p.m.
CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)

Metaphor Talk

“And down they went into the house of Hades”: Metaphors of Death and Mythology in Early Greek Epic

19 Jan. 2026, 06:00 p.m. – 07:30 p.m.
CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)

Metaphor Talk by Dr. Fabian Horn (LMU Munich) In cognitive linguistic metaphor theory, the traditional trope of metaphor was reexamined …

PhD Defence

Iranian Manichaean and Zoroastrian Cosmos in Inter-Religious Discourse. Formation, Development, and Exchange

21 Jan. 2026, 04:00 p.m. – 06:30 p.m.
CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)

PhD Defence by Floriana Marra.  Iranian Manichaean and Zoroastrian Cosmos in Inter-Religious Discourse. Formation, Development, and Exchange The present thesis …

Course

Religious Studies & Career Perspectives, Part 3: Wissenschaftliche Forschung innerhalb und außerhalb der Universität

22 Jan. 2026, 03:45 p.m. – 06:15 p.m.
CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)

Monday Meeting

Looking Ahead: Preparation for the Second Funding Phase

26 Jan. 2026, 02:30 p.m. – 07:00 p.m.
CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)

Meeting

SFB Vor-Ort-Begutachtung

Dates

• 29 Jan. 2026, 08:00 a.m. – 30 Jan. 2026, 06:00 p.m.
  CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
• 29 Jan. 2026, 08:00 a.m. – 30 Jan. 2026, 06:00 p.m.
  CERES Palais, room "Lalibela" (3.11)

Research Colloquium

CERES Research Colloquium

02 Feb. 2026, 04:15 p.m. – 05:15 p.m.
CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)

Engaging the Secular: Conceptions of the Future in Modern Chinese Buddhism (Ming-Feng Wu) This study explores how modern Chinese Buddhism …

Workshop

Freundeskreis des Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museums zu Gast am CERES

04 Feb. 2026, 11:00 a.m. – 01:00 p.m.
CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)

Interne Veranstaltung.

Workshop

Seeing the Light: Zoroastrians in the Islamic World

12 Feb. 2026, 09:00 a.m. – 13 Feb. 2026, 04:00 p.m.
External venue

The project ‘Arcs of Time: Zoroastrian Philosophical Anthropology’ project (AOT) has two goals: the first is to critically analyze how …