Transcultural Networks.

Potentials of Global Learning in Religious Networks

PhD Autumn School 2022

October 5-15, 2022 in Bochum, Germany

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About Autumn School 2022

What we are up to

Transcultural networks result from permanent contacts between different cultural contexts, reinforced by globalization, intercultural relations and worldwide migration. These encounters enable new transcultural connections and transformations that form a basis for future-oriented global cooperation.
The network of Christian churches in the present is shaped by missionary history, colonialism and globalization in the 19th and 20th centuries, but also by experiences of living and celebrating together, and tends to develop into multidirectional transcultural networks. Education is an important part of this network. Transcultural networks of churches therefore represent outstanding potential for promoting education, academic freedom and social responsibility.

Who we are

The PhD Autumn School 2022 is organized by Prof. Claudia Jahnel (Chair for Intercultural Theology and the Body, Ruhr University Bochum), in cooperation with Prof. Annette Scheunpflug (Chair for Foundations in Education, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg), Prof. Wolfgang Jütte (Chair for Educational Science, University of Bielefeld) and United Evangelical Mission (Dr. Andar Parlindungan, Angelika Veddeler, Wuppertal)

The Lecturers

Prof. Dr. Dieter Haller (Anthropology and Ethnology)

Prof. Dr. Dieter Haller holds the Chair of Ethnology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Ruhr University in Bochum. In addition to numerous teaching assignments and guest professorships at various universities in Germany and Europe, he was Adjunct Associate Professor for Cultural Anthropology at the Department of Germanic Studies and at the European Studies Center at the University of Texas/Austin from 2003 to 2005. He has been a professor in Bochum since 2005 and a founding member and board member of the Center for Mediterranean Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum since 2010. Prof. Haller's research focus results from his field research in Seville, Gibraltar and Tangier and the associated topics: gender, borders, port cultures, possession cults and Brexit. In addition to the regional focus in the Mediterranean region and North Africa, Prof. Dr. Haller also responded to regional studies by his employees.

Prof. Dr. Traugott Jähnichen (Protestant Social Ethics)

Prof. Dr. Since 1998, Traugott Jähnichen has held the chair for Christian social studies at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the Ruhr University in Bochum. He is co-editor of the journal for evangelical ethics and the yearbook of social protestantism. He is also a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Westphalia, Deputy Chairman of the "Chamber for Social Order" of the EKD, Member of the "Standing Committee for World Mission, Ecumenism and Church World Responsibility" of the State Synod of the EKvW, Chairman of the Evangelical City Academy Bochum, Board member of the Association for Research into Church and Religious History in the Ruhr Area e.V. and liaison lecturer of the Hans Böckler and Friedrich Ebert Foundations. His research areas include (currently): basic questions of ethics and social ethics, business ethics, religion and society.
Claudia Jahnel

Prof. Dr. Claudia Jahnel (Intercultural Theology and Physicality)

Prof. Dr. Claudia Jahnel has been a professor of intercultural theology and physicality at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum since 2017. After studying Protestant theology, she worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Religious Studies and Missiology at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 2008 she then took over the management of the theological education and policy department Mission Intercultural at the Center Mission Eine Welt of the ELKB in Neuendettelsau, until she accepted the professorship. Prof. Dr. Jahnel is a member of the EKD Chamber for Worldwide Ecumenism, the Academic Network for Migration Churches, the African Theology Network, the Working Group of Churches in Bavaria and the Ecumenical Committee of the ELKB. Her main areas of focus in intercultural theology are (among others): physicality – interdisciplinary, intercultural, interreligious, intercultural childhood, global Christianity with a focus on Christianity in Africa and Latin America, globalization, contextual theologies: esp. postcolonial theology and liberation theology.
Wolfgang Juette

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Jütte (Erziehungswissenschaft mit Schwerpunkt Weiterbildung)

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Jütte ist seit 2009 Professor für Erziehungswissenschaften mit dem Schwerpunkt Weiterbildung an der Universität Bielefeld. Zuvor war er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning und wissenschaftlicher Assistent am Internationalen Institut für Management an der Universität Flensburg. Mit dem Erhalt des venia legendi lehrte er im Fachbereich der Erwachsenenbildung/Weiterbildung. Er war Professor für Weiterbildungsforschung an der Universität für Weiterbildung (Donau-Universität) in Krems (Österreich), bis er die Professur in Bielefeld antrat. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind: internationale Erwachsenenbildung und Weiterbildung, Organisationsentwicklung und Management, Professionsforschung in der Weiterbildung, Kooperationsund Netzwerkforschung und Netzwerktheorie.
Isolde Karle

Prof. Dr. Isolde Karle

Isolde Karle has been Professor of Practical Theology at the Ruhr University since November 2001. She has been university pastor since 2003 and was Dean of the Faculty of Protestant Theology from 2009 to 2011. Since 2015, she has been director of the newly founded Institute for Religion and Society, and she was Ruhr University’s appointments commissioner until 2021. Since 2017, Isolde Karle has been a member of the Standing Conference for Pastoral Care in the Evangelical Church of Germany; from 2017 to 2021 she was spokesperson for the professors’ representation in the the Ruhr University Senate. On 1 November 2021, Isolde Karle became Vice-Rector for Diversity, Inclusion and Talent Development at RUB.

Dr. Claudia Rammelt (Intercultural Theology and Church History)

Dr. Claudia Rammelt is a research associate at the Chair for Church and Christian History (Old Church/Middle Ages) at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum and at the Chair for Intercultural Theology and Physicality. dr Rammelt studied Protestant theology with study visits to the University of Thessaloniki (Orthodox theology) and to the Near East School of Theology in Beirut (diversity of Middle Eastern Christianity, Christian-Muslim dialogue). As a former assistant at the Chair for Non-European Christian History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and as a deputy chair at the Chair for Ecumenical Theology and Oriental Church and Mission History at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, she has specialized in the history of non-European Christianity, in particular of the oriental churches, and also specialized here in the current field of migration churches (oriental churches in Germany). In addition, she is a member of the Executive Committee of the study program "Study in the Middle East" (SiMO), the Chamber for Worldwide Ecumenism of the EKD, the Dialogue Commission with the Orientals of the EKD and the Association for Schneller Schools (Lebanon). Her main research areas, which are profitable for the summer school, include: non-European history of Christianity, church history and Protestant missionary history of the Middle East, Protestant missionary history, Orthodox theology, interreligious dialogue, migrant churches.
Anette Scheunpflug

Prof. Dr. Annette Scheunpflug (General Pedagogy and Educational Science)

Since 2013 Prof. Dr. Annette Scheunpflug holds the chair for general education at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg. She was previously a professor of general education at the University of Bamberg. She has lectureships and guest professorships at numerous universities abroad (e.g. University of Education Maputo, Mozambique; Université Evangelique de Cameroun Baffoussam, Cameroon; University of Hiroshima, Japan; Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences, Kigali and Butare, Rwanda; Université Libre des Pays des Grands Lacs, Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo). In addition, Prof. Scheunpflug is a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the German Research Foundation’s Educational Science Board, the Education Committee of the German Commission for UNESCO and spokeswoman for the doctoral college “Education as Landscape – on the Relationship between Formal and Informal Learning”. Of Prof. Scheunpflug's main research areas, the following are particularly beneficial for the summer school: quality of education, education and religion, cosmopolitan education.

Prof. Dr. Dennis Solon

Since 2017 Prof. Dr. Dennis Solon Visiting professor at the Institute for Diaconal Studies and Diaconal Management (IDM) at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal/Bethel. Before that, after studying theology and earning his doctorate in Heidelberg, Solon worked under the supervision of Prof. em. dr dr h.c. multi. Gerd Theißen initially worked as coordinator of the International Center for Mission Studies in Asia and from 2007 as assistant professor for biblical studies at Silliman University in the Philippines. His research focuses on ethical and socio-political aspects of New Testament literature and their connection with early Christian diakonia.
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