International Meeting on Comparative Theology 2026

Wednesday, June 17

10.30  Arrival and coffee

11.00  Conference Introduction


Panel 1 – Moderation: Sarah Lebock

11.15  Myriam-Sonja Hantke (Düsseldorf, Germany)
The Philosophy of Absolute Reconciliation based on Nāgārjuna and G.W.F. Hegel
12.00  Kamil Öktem (Vienna, Austria)
Reconciliation as a Hermeneutical Act: The Issue of Ambiguity,
Skepticism, and Textual Authority

12.45  Lunch Break


Panel 2 – Moderation: Tarik Eroglu

14.00  Seyed Hossein Morakabi (Bonn, Germany)
                   „We Are All in Paradise“: Reconciliation and Truth in Early                      Alid Memory
14.45  Fatimeh Hajiakbari (Bojnord, Iran)
                   Prophet David as a Bridge to Divine Reconciliation: Psalms                     and Islamic Traditions

15.30  Coffee Break


Panel 3 – Moderation: Leonhard Banowski

16.00  Mate Saralishvili (Bonn, Germany)
                   „Theology of Beauty and Reconciliation at the Peace             
                   Cathedral of Georgia
16.45  Samuel Ramapuram (Frankfurt, Germany)
                   Interreligious Singing as a Ritual Theology of         
                   Reconciliation in Israel and Palestine: Psalms, Piyyutim,
                   and Sacred Laments

17.30  Break

18.00    Keynote: Prof. Martin Leiner (Jena, Germany)
                    From Tolstoi to Hölderlin – An Introduction to
                    Reconciliation Studies


19.15  Dinner (La Petite Galerie)


Thursday, June 18

Panel 4 – Moderation: Laura E. Hennecke

9.00  Jad Mouffarej (Lyon, France)
Reconciliation as a Spiritual, Anthropological, and Political Concept in Contemporary Iranian Shiʿi Thought: A Comparative Study with Contemporary Christian Political Theology
9.45  Vahid Sattarzadeh Lari (Bonn, Germany)
Official Interpretation of Religion as an Obstacle to Religious Reconciliation: A Study of official Interpretation of Shiism after the Islamic Revolution 

10.30  Coffee Break


Panel 5 – Moderation: Gülbahar Erdem

11.45  Mirian Cerveira (Porto Alegre, Brazil
Theologies of Reconciliation: Memory, Justice for Peace, and Social Transformation in Contemporary Theology
11.30  Yohanes Krismantyo Susanta (Tana Toraja,
Indonesia)
Eating Peace: Vernacular Eucharistic Reconciliation in the Patita Tradition of Post-Conflict Ambon 

12.15  Lunch


Panel 6 – Moderation: Tarik Eroglu

13.30  Kerollos Lamey Shehata
Care, Reconciliation, and Moral Responsibility: A Comparative Theological Perspective

14.15  Break


14.30  Final Discussion

Moderation: Leonhard Banowski