Events Archive

25 September 2024

Seminar: Pentecostalism, demonization and politics

24 September 2024

Inaugural lecture for the academic year 2024/25, Birgit Meyer: Mobilizing Knowledge: Thinking the World from the In-Between

10 September 2024

Keynote Birgit Meyer: Missionary Collections as Laboratories for Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue: Problems and Possibilities

29 - 31 August 2024

Panel Colonial Collections: New Research Collaborations as Generators of Critical Insights

17 May 2024

Lucien van Liere on Objects of Conflict: Exploring the Interplay between Materiality, Religion, and Violent Conflict

14 May 2024

Lezing Birgit Meyer – Imaginaries of Forces in Colonial and Postcolonial Interfaces: the Legba-Dzoka Collection in the Übersee-Museum Bremen

7 May 2024

“Undoing Fetishism: Fresh perspectives from West African Religion, Art and Anthropology”, Talk by Sela Adjei and Marleen de Witte

23 April 2024

Lectures exploring Colonial Legacies: The Ewe Artifact Collection

12 April 2024

Margreet van Es over omvolking bij SPUI25

22 March 2024

Wilfried Claus presenteert over de Bahá’i pelgrimsreis

3 March 2024

Birgit Meyer bij de Balie over de consumptiemaatschappij

28 February 2024 - 1 March 2024

Workshop: Missionary Material Assemblages and the Mission of Museums

20 November 2023

Seminar with Ana Lúcia Araújo

1 November 2023

Obedience and the Devil: Colonialism and Religion in Africa | Lectures and conversation by scholars of religion Birgit Meyer and Erik Meinema and theologian François Manga

1 - 3 November 2023

Symposium: Religion in Motion: Between Borders and Belonging

1 - 3 November 2023

Conference: Religion in Motion – Between Borders and Belonging

20 October 2023

CANCELED Conference: Humanities and Social Sciences in Times of Crises: Back to Provincialism?

22 September 2023

Symposium “Tussen erfgoed en eredienst. Meervoudig gebruik van vier monumentale stadskerken” met Elza Kuyk

7 - 8 September 2023

Conference University of Cambridge: Materiality and The Future of Inter-Religious Encounters

21 - 23 June 2023

Workshop Material Secularities

27 April 2023

Roundtable at University Zürich with Christoph Uehlinger, Thomas Krüger and Birgit Meyer

27 April 2023

Lecture Birgit Meyer University Zürich: “‘Götzen’ im Museum: die Hinterlassenschaft missionarischer Bilderstürmer unter den Ewe in Ghana und Togo.”

13 March 2023

Lecture Birgit Meyer: Legacies of missionary iconoclasm.

2 March 2023

Presentatie Afstudeeronderzoek Veerle Dijkstra: Going Digital

21 February 2023

The Legba-dzoka Project: Unpacking a Colonial Missionary Collection

21 February 2023

Lezing Joël Valk: Religieuze Afbeelding in de les. Gevaarlijk Spel?

14 February 2023

Islam and Contemporary Visual Culture

3 February 2023

Seminar St Paul’s University in Limuru

1 February 2023

Seminar Pwani University in Kilifi

9 December 2022

(GEANNULEERD) Going Digital: Corona as a Lens onto the Dynamics of Religious Mediation in Four Christian Church (Symposium)

2 December 2022

Sensing the Postcolonial Migrant Body (International Workshop)

29 - 30 November 2022

Alimentary Entanglements: Food, Materiality, and Religion (International Workshop)

28 September 2022

Promotie Elza Kuyk – “Tussen erfgoed en eredienst: Meervoudig gebruik van vier monumentale stadskerken”

19 - 21 September 2022

Conference on “Unpacking Missionary Collections”

9 - 10 June 2022

Annual Conference of the Bangladesh Studies Network

8 June 2022

“Utopias in Times of Dystopia. Keeping Up Hope!”

8 - 10 June 2022

What is ‘Moroccan Islam’? (International Symposium)

26 April 2022

“Containing the Past: How to Unpack Missionary Colonial Collections” (Lecture by Birgit Meyer)

13 April 2022

Wat geloven we in de toekomst? (Birgit Meyer bij de Futuristen)

31 March 2022

Mixed Signals: The Challenges of Measuring Changes in The Global Religious Landscape

24 January 2022

Online Panel on “Religion as situated knowledge in processes of social transformation and decolonization”

19 January 2022

Religion and/as Cultural Heritage. Dealing with sacred waste in Ghana and the Netherlands (Lecture by Birgit Meyer)

25 November 2021

Gastro-Politics & Gastro-Ethics of Diversity: Negotiating Islam in an Entangled World: lecture by Manpreet K. Janeja

25 - 26 November 2021

Symposium on the exhibition “Rethinking Kirchner & Nolde: Expressionism. Colonialism”.

12 November 2021

Religion and Materiality: Re-thinking a Complex Relation from the Angle of Food (lecture by Birgit Meyer)

3 - 5 November 2021

NGG Conference on ”Religion and Heritage: Futures for Religious Pasts”

29 - 30 October 2021

Annual conference of the Bangladesh Studies Network

27 - 29 October 2021

Workshop & keynote lecture: “The Material Dimension of Cultural and Religious Contact Studied on the Basis of Selected Missionary Collections in Germany and Poland”

26 October 2021

Future Food Conversation Series: talk by Cristina Grasseni with a response by Manpreet K. Janeja

18 October 2021

Berliner Religionsgespräche: Mission

14 October 2021

Valedictory symposium in honour of Jo Spaans

16 September 2021

Online symposium on Brill’s Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism [BEGP]

7 - 8 September 2021

Guest lecture and masterclass with Alcinda Honwana

23 - 27 August 2021

Summer school on Religious Heritage in Amsterdam and Groningen today

16 - 18 June 2021

KHK conference: “Step Back and Look Beyond: Studying Religion after 2020”

15 June 2021

PhD Defence Erik Meinema about Religious Coexistence in Coastal Kenya

10 June 2021

Book launch “Religion and its history: a critical inquiry” by Jörg Rüpke

1 June 2021

Colloquium Birgit Meyer & Silke Seybold on a missionary collection of objects from the Ewe

17 - 19 May 2021

Keynote Birgit Meyer on ”Heritage out of control”

4 May 2021

“Religion, Material Cuture and the Question of the Fetish”: Online Lecture by Birgit Meyer

30 April 2021

Online discussion on ”Refugees and Religion” (Spui 25)

21 April 2021

Online workshop on ”Refugees and Religious Tolerance in Europe”

12 March 2021

NGG Spring Meeting on ”Religion and Environment”

24 February 2021

”Religion and the Pandemic”: talk by Birgit Meyer

23 February 2021

Book launch and panel discussion on ”Emotional practices of convictions in Modern Germany”

17 February 2021

Utrecht Religie Forum: lezing Erik Meinema

20 January 2021

Utrecht Religie Forum: lezing Lieke Schrijvers

9 December 2020

Utrecht Religie Forum: Wat gebeurt er met kerkelijk interieur als een kerk sluit? (nieuwe datum)

23 September 2020

Museum talk with Birgit Meyer at MARKK, Hamburg

4 September 2020

Online KNAW webinar over religie, wetenschap en politiek in tijden van Corona

28 February 2020

Symposium on the occasion of Hanna Nieber’s PhD-defense

18 February 2020

Book Presentation: Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism (Tariq Modood)

10 February 2020

Science café Religie met Birgit Meyer, Katja Rakow en Joas Wagemakers

30 January 2020

Keynote Birgit Meyer at conference ”Africa, 60 years of independence”

10 December 2019

Utrecht Religie Forum: ”Verlangen naar een Islamitisch thuis”, door Nina ter Laan

28 - 29 November 2019

Seminar: The Things Of Conflict; A Religious Studies Perspective

13 - 14 November 2019

Conference and conference program: Gastro-Politics and Gastro-Ethics of the Sacred and the Secular in Contemporary Plural Societies

30 October 2019 - 1 November 2019

Religion and the Production of Difference: 2019 Conference of the Dutch Association for the Study of Religion (NGG)

26 October 2019

Lecture and Interview Kwame Anthony Appiah

2 October 2019

Book Presentation ”Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen” and Guest Lecture by Birgit Meyer

4 September 2019

Keynote Lecture by Birgit Meyer: Sacred Exchange in the Study of Religion from Africa

17 June 2019

Conference on ‘Religion and Nationalism’ at Utrecht University

20 - 27 May 2019

Masterclass Religion and the Image Question with Birgit Meyer

9 May 2019

Roundtable Debate: The Religiosity of Food in Plural Societies

8 - 10 May 2019

Workshop Religious Matters: Food and Eating in Plural Environments

29 March 2019

NGG Spring Meeting 2019

22 March 2019

Studying Muslim Social Formations: The Importance of the Islamicate

21 February 2019

Religious Matters in Public Spaces – with Birgit Meyer

7 February 2019

Synergy Conference

25 November 2018

Spinoza Day: Spinoza/Stranger

8 - 9 November 2018

Symposium: Popularized Culture, Ritual and the Making of Heritage

1 November 2018

KNAW Discussion meeting: Plan S, the Fast Track to Open Access

29 - 31 October 2018

2018 annual NGG conference: Interpreting Rituals: Historiographical Perspectives and Pluralist Contexts

26 October 2018

Heritage and the Cultural Construction the Real

24 - 25 October 2018

Wetenschappelijke afsluiting NWO-programma ‘Religie in de Moderne Samenleving’

27 - 28 September 2018

Conference: Refugees and Religion

27 June 2018

Spui 25: What Makes a Picture Offensive? On Religion, Art and Visual Culture

20 - 22 June 2018

Urban Matters: Material Engagements with Communities and Borders in Times of Movement

14 - 15 June 2018

Seminar: Religion and Light

18 May 2018

Annual NGG Spring Meeting (2018)

28 March 2018

Studying Modalities of Co-Existence in Madina and Beyond

8 March 2018

Book Launch & Mini-Symposium: Religion, Ethics, Failure

1 March 2018

Lecture Daan Beekers: Converted Churches

5 February 2018

Symposium ‘Digital Media and Chinese aspirations in Global Capitalism’

24 January 2018

Seminar ‘Discussing Ethics and Integrity: Anthropological Dilemma’s’

15 January 2018

Symposium: Clashing Expectations: Imaginaries of Evil and the Fault Line of Change

14 - 15 December 2017

Workshop Refugees and Religion at Utrecht University

12 December 2017

PhD-thesis defence Francis Fogue Kuate on media, politics and religion in Northern Cameroon

29 November 2017

Workshop: Heritage, Religion, Authenticity and Difference

9 November 2017

Nina ter Laan lectures at NYU about ‘Dissonant Voices: Islam-inspired Music in Morocco and the Politics of Religious Sentiments’

30 October 2017

Inter-and Intra-Religious Encounters and Entaglements of Christians, Muslims and Traditionalists in Urban Africa

18 - 20 October 2017

NGG Conference: Dynamics of Religious Diversity (2017)

11 - 13 October 2017

Conference: Self-Representations of Religious Minorities

16 June 2017

Evenement: ”Gods huis: Religieuze gebouwen in ontwikkeling”

2 June 2017

Symposium: ‘Christian-Muslim Encounters: Perspectives on Modalities of Interreligious co-existence from Asia, Africa and Europe’

10 May 2017

Symposium: Islam as an ethical and material practice

26 April 2017

Lezing: afbeeldingen van de profeet Mohammed

19 April 2017

Symposium: Expanding the Secular: From Diffusion to Multiplicity?

19 April 2017

PhD-thesis defence Stefan Binder: social activism in the atheist movement in South India

3 - 5 April 2017

Modalities of Co-Existence: Conviviality, Collaboration and Conflict Among Muslims and Christians in Diverse Urban Settings

22 - 24 March 2017