Date: 27-29.09.2023
Venue: Vienna Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Boerhaavegasse 25, 1030 Vienna)
Language: English
Attendance: Free of charge
New Uses, Old Places is an international workshop that aims to discuss and advance the understanding of a broad range of topics concerning the change, reuse, and adaptation of religious buildings in contemporary Europe from social science perspectives. The workshop is sponsored by the International Society for the Sociology of Religion in collaboration with the Polish Academy of Sciences at Vienna and Warsaw, the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan and the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague. The Project developed out of a collaboration of three social scientists who in 2020 began sharing their interests in exploring the social role and impact of the material and symbolic re-adaptation of historical religious buildings:
- Agnieszka Halemba (social anthropologist) is professor in the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland.
- Carlo Nardella (sociologist) is tenured assistant professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan, Italy.
- Barbora Spalová (social anthropologist) is researcher and teacher at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.
The workshop schedule can be found under the following link.
