OPEN LECTURE BY CLAUDIA WELZ

Warmly welcome to the open lecture by Professor Claudia Welz (Aarhus University, Denmark) on

Listening to the Voice Crying out from the Wound: Holocaust Testimonies and Trauma Studies

on Thursday January 9, 2025, at 17.00 in Runda rummet, Theologicum, Biskopsgatan 16, Åbo/Turku. The lecture is hybrid and can be followed via Zoom https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/69004912681 (Meeting ID: 690 0491 2681).

Bio

Claudia Welz (b. 1974) has studied Theology and Philosophy in Tübingen, Jerusalem, Heidelberg and München. She was a PhD student at the Institute for Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion, University of Zürich (2003-2006), a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Subjectivity Research (2006-2010), and a professor with special responsibilities in Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Copenhagen (2010-2018), where she in 2014 founded the interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Jewish Thought in Modern Culture. 

In 2019-20, she was a senior research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Bad Homburg & Goethe-University Frankfurt contributing to the LOEWE project Religious Positioning: Modalities and Constellations in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Contexts, visiting researcher at Agder University, Kristiansand/Norway, and visiting professor (Vertretungsprofessorin) at University of Duisburg-Essen.

Since September 2020, she is Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at the School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University.