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Center for Religious Studies

The Center for Religious Studies (CRS) is a cross-departmental unit whose mission to initiate and to coordinate research, academic events, and publications that address religion-related questions in critical ways. CRS collaborates its teaching activities with ten partner departments and academic units at CEU.

Dec
The Metaphysics of Teleology

The Architectonic Model of Natural Generation

Devin Henry
Dec
The Metaphysics of Teleology

Political Teleology: The Teleological Nature of Governmental Systems in Aristotle' Politics

Péter Lautner
Dec
Was There an Enlightenment in 18th-century Syria?

CRS Faculty Seminar with Nikola Pantić (CEU): Was There an Enlightenment in 18th-century Syria? A Discussion of the Sources

Nikola Pantić
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | QS D-107
Nov
Center for Religious Studies

Deconstructing the Category of Religion?

Chiara Di Serio
Nov
The Metaphysics of Teleology

Hegel’s Dialectic of Teleology

Willem deVries
Nov
The Metaphysics of Teleology

Health, Harm, and Potential

David Hershenov
Nov
The Metaphysics of Teleology

Agency within and without organisms

Gergely Kertész
Nov
Bergson Portrait by JEBlanche

CRS Faculty Seminar: Jean-Louis Fabiani on Bergson and Religion

Jean-Louis Fabiani
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | QS D-107
Oct
The Metaphysics of Teleology

The Embarrassing Relative: Causal Powers, Teleology, and the Problem of Fit

Zita Toth
Oct
Azneh seminar

Research Seminar: Ex Oriente Lux

Aziz Al-Azmeh
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A 415
Oct
Center for Religious Studies

CRS Faculty Seminar: The ACRS PhD Program at CEU

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | QS B-421
Sep
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SOLIDARITY IN CRISIS – PERSPECTIVES FROM THE MIDDLE EAST

Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Aziz Alazmeh, Valentina Zagaria, Harout Akdedian, Haian Dukhan
Jun
The Virgin Spanking the Christ Child before Three Witnesses: Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, and the Painter by Max Ernst (1926)

Whither Blasphemy: On Resilience of an Idea, Past and Present

Aziz Al-Azmeh, David Nash
May
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Field-notes from the Neighbourhood:​ Gender and Transformation in Libya and Syria

Charlotte Al-Khalili, Valentina Zagaria, Randi Deguilhem
May
Ifra Asad (Minority Right's Group Europe)

Otherworldly Factors: Real-Life Challenges Human Rights NGOs Face Today in Relation to Religion, Religious Minorities, and Freedom of Religion

Ifra Asad
May
Teleology and Goal-Directedness in a Systems Theoretical Approach_Kertesz

Teleology and Goal-Directedness in a Systems Theoretical Approach

Gergely Kertész
May
Reading Group on Mossio & Bich and what makes biological organization teleological

Reading Group on Mossio & Bich and what makes biological organization teleological

Daniel Kodaj
Apr
The Organism in Bioethics: Scientific and philosophical considerations_Nemes

The Organism in Bioethics: Scientific and philosophical considerations

László Nemes
Apr
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The Role of Religion in the Political Future of Syria

Prof. Dr. Jocelyne Cesari, Dr. Harout Akdedian
Apr
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Religious Minorities, Sacred Space and Heritage in Transition in the Middle East

Apr
The right to believe in the teleology of man_Laszlo Bernath

The Right to Believe in the Teleology of Man

László Bernáth
Mar
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Striking from the Margins II - Monthly Webinar: A post-soviet perspective on the Middle East

Prof. Dr. Andreas Heinemann-Grüder, PD Dr. Zaur Gasimov
Mar
José Casanova (Georgetown)

Doctoral Research Seminar: Religious Transformations in CEE

José Casanova
Mar
José Casanova (Georgetown)

Global Religious and Secular Dynamics

José Casanova
Mar
The Metaphysics of Teleology

Who's Afraid of Teleology?

Daniel Kodaj