They are now an integral part of the “Spiritual Opening” – the opening week of the Salzburg Festival: The “Disputationes”, a three-day symposium in which a scientific, interdisciplinary examination of the respective topic of the “Ouverture Spiritualuelle” is carried out. This year’s overtures and disputations are titled “Ex aeterna lux”. The three-day symposium (July 24 to 26) will deal with this topic in the programmatic three steps “Eternity” (July 24), “Beyond” (July 25) and “Light” (July 26). Top-class speakers from science, art and culture will first give keynote speeches before going into more depth on the topics together in a panel discussion.
“Since it was founded in 2012, the ‘Disputationes’ have become an integral part of the Salzburg Festival season. At the same time, they make an intellectual contribution to the dialogue between science, art and culture. And the high level of public interest proves us and the ‘Disputationes’ right,” emphasized the heads of the “Disputationes”, Claudia Schmidt-Hahn and Prof. Dietmar Winkler, in a statement to Kathpress. Efforts are currently being made to increase the proportion of young visitors with grants, among other things.
But the encouragement of the speakers also confirms the path, according to Winkler: “Year after year, the challenge stimulates our speakers anew, into an interdisciplinary discourse about the effect of culture and religion on people, about spiritual moments in art, how also to think about the great questions of mankind about origin and finiteness.”
The disputations will be opened on July 24 at 3 p.m. by Archbishop Franz Lackner and the director of the Salzburg Festival, Markus Hinterhäuser. In terms of content, lectures and discussions on the subject of “eternity” follow – from a theological, medical and literary point of view. The theologian Martin Dürnberger, the doctor and writer Günther Loewit and the writer Robert Schneider will give lectures on this.
On the second day, the question of ideas about the afterlife will be pursued. The theologian Jan Rohls, the philosopher Ariadne von Schirach and the Buddhist monk Seelawansa Wijayarajapura will give lectures and discuss this – and this should be quite exciting, says Dietmar Winkler: “Christian faith – in the sense of a rather linear understanding of time – sometimes makes do with projection of justice after the resurrection, to which everything aims. Buddhism, which does not have an almighty God at the center of its belief, probably designs a different approach in the sense of a cyclical understanding of time or an ongoing cycle of life, death, birth, becoming and passing away. Finally philosophy may once again bring in an external perspective that does not come from a religious system.”
The concluding third day entitled “Light” offers lectures by the pianist and conductor Walter Gutdeutsch, the astrophysicist Franz Kerschbaum and the sociologist Ina Schmied-Knittel. Winkler: “While musicology may deal with the sound of light, the perspective of the astrophysicist is different, in which light has to do with the cosmos and infinity at the same time. This day will probably also be exciting thanks to the combination of an expert from sociology and psychology , which deals with near-death experiences.” (Info: www.disputationes.at)
Those: kathpress
2023-07-19 12:32:28
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