Canon Law and Comparative Law and Religion will be well represented at the annual meeting of the European Academy of Religion. If you are in Rome, join us at the following panels:
- Tuesday, 30 June, 14:30-17:30, Religion and Power Inequality: Bottom-Up Perspectives, Prof. Hahn will give a paper on "The Role of the Law in the Creation and Maintenance of Asymmetrical Power Structures in Church"
- Wednesday, 1 July, 09:00-12:20, (Un)Equal Comparisons: Moving Beyond Simplistic Comparisons and Western Hegemony in Comparative Law, Religion, and Theology, this year’s comparative law and religion panel with a focus on hermeneutics and methodologies of doing comparative law and religion research
- Wednesday, 1 July, 18:30-19:30, Book Launch: The Cultures of Canon Law: Global Catholicism, Glocal Legislation, and the Local Churches, with contributions by Bryan T. Froehle, Judith Hahn, Kim Mendoza and Peter C. Phan
- Thursday, 2 July, 09:00-12:20, Synodality, Renewal, and Transformation in the Catholic Church: Theological Reflections on Their Meaning and Impact, organised and chaired by CLnR Fellow, Dr. Van Rompaey, with a paper by Dr. Bobrowicz “Quo Vadis? The Council of Constance, the Risks of Synodality, and the Limits of Discernment”
- Thursday, 2 July, 15:00-17:10, Jewish Theology as a Science? Public Universities as Democratic Agents in Systems of Public Knowledge – The University of Potsdam's School of Jewish Theology, Prof. Hahn will give a paper on “The Legal Context of Confessional Theologies in Germany”
- Thursday, 2 July, 17:20-19:30, Beyond Innocence: Theology, Vulnerance, and the Struggle for Equality, organised by CLnR Fellow, Prof. Gruber, and chaired by Dr. Bobrowicz