SuHRF guest lecture: Curating Theology’s Afterlife: Theology as Museology

The lecture will be given in English in lecture hall B24 and via Zoom.

Brief description of the content:

'My research explores different ways to practice theology in a post-Christian, post-secular and perhaps even post-theological cultural context, a context that is nevertheless saturated with theological images of martyrdom, salvation, redemption, atonement, sacrifice, judgment, grace, mercy, forgiveness, etc. I take seriously the question that Jewish theologian Martin Buber once asked Christian theologian Dorothee Soelle: “theology—how do you do that?” My work consists of a series of curated experiments, drawn primarily from 20th century avant-garde artistic practices, museum studies, and curatorial theory. In some of these experiments I approach theology as a creative and imaginative practice. In others I approach it in conversation with curatorial theory and practice. And in still other situations, I consider it in through the framework of cultural heritage, preservation, and sustainability studies. A consistent through line in these three types of experiments is that I treat theology—its images and concepts—as material artifacts. In this lecture I explore how cultural heritage studies and its adjacent discourses might have important things to say about the survival of theology in this precarious world.'

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