20th May 2019

9:30 – Introductory comments

10:00-12:00 – Panel 1

• Rik Sowden (University of Birmingham): Religion and rebellion in Nottingham during the British Civil wars
• Márton Zászkaliczky (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Literary Studies, Budapest): Calvinist Political Theology in the Bocskai Rebellion (1604-1606)
• Emad Afkham (University of Alberta): Popular Resistance beyond the Religious Affiliations

12:00-13:00 – Lunch

13:00-14:20 – Panel 2

• Behrang Pourhosseini (University Paris 8): From Christian Victimary Politics to Shi’ite Messianism : A Debate around the Iranian Revolution
• Giacomo Maria Arrigo (KU Leuwen/University of Calabria): Gnosticism and Revolution: Towards an Explanatory Pattern

14:20-14:40 – Coffee break

14:40-16:00 – Panel 3

• Anastasia Papushina (CEU, Budapest): Martyrs and heroes: revisiting religious patterns in revolutionary times
• Daniel García Augusto Porras (Universitat Ramon Llull (Barcelona)/Universidad Pontificia Comillas ):  Revolution as political religion in Russia: Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor and its interpreters in Russian religious thought

16:00-16:20 – Coffee break

16:30-18:00 – Keynote 1

• Matthias Riedl (CEU, Budapest): Apocalyptic Platonism: The Thought of Thomas Müntzer
  

21st May 2019 

10:00-11:20 – Panel 4

• Mathias Sonnleithner (MLU, Halle-Wittenberg) : Robespierre’s Belief to Be God’s Chosen – A Key Element of the Political Theology of the Terror
• Amirpash Tavakkoli (EHESS, Paris) : French revolution, a Christian reading

11:20-11:50 – coffee break

11:50-13:10 – Panel 5

• Sam Gilchrist Hall (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest): Müntzer, Shakespeare, Bloch: Theologians of Revolution?
• Luke Collison (Kingston University London): Hobbes and ‘Religion’ on the Threshold of Modernity

13:10-14:30 – Lunch

14:30-16:30 – Panel 6

• Pavlína Cermanová (CMS, Prague): The Theology of Hussite Innocence
• Martin Pjecha (CEU, Budapest/CEFRES, Prague): Political Theology of the Taborite revolution (1419/1420)
• Benjamin Heidenreich (University of Würzburg): Huldrich Zwingli´s influence on the “Peasants´ War” of 1525

16:30-16:50 – Coffee break

17:30-19:00 – Keynote 2

• Phillip Haberkern (Boston University): When did Christians Become Revolutionary? A Reflection on Hannah Arendt
  FF UK, salle 104 (náměstí Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1)

19:00 – Closing remarks