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Biographical note:
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 (see https://relpos.de/), 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.
Publications:
Claudia Welz is the author of the research monographs Love’s Transcendence and the Problem of Theodicy (Mohr Siebeck, 2008), Vertrauen und Versuchung (Mohr Siebeck, 2010), Humanity in God’s Image: An Interdisciplinary Exploration (Oxford University Press, 2016), the essay collection SinnSang: Theologie und Poesie (Nordpark-Verlag, 2019) about the work of the poet Elazar Benyoëtz, including an exchange of letters, and Gehör für das Unsichtbare: Die Stimme der Stille und die Sprache des Gebets (Königshausen & Neumann, 2025).
She co-authored and (co-)edited the anthologies Despite Oneself: Subjectivity and Its Secret in Kierkegaard and Levinas (2008); Trust, Sociality, Selfhood (2010); Ethics of In-Visibility: Imago Dei, Memory, and Human Dignity in Jewish and Christian Thought (2015); Hermeneutics and Negativism: Ambiguities of Self-Understanding (2018); BUCHSTABIL: Von Büchen und Menschen. Elazar Benyoëtz zum 85. Geburtstag (2022) and, in addition,
served as (co-)editor of the following special issues of journals: Passions in Context: International Journal for the History and Theory of Emotions, 2 (2011): Atrocities – Emotion – Self; Scandinavian Jewish Studies 28:1 (2017): Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Memory; Scandinavian Jewish Studies 29:1 (2018): The Problem of Evil and Images of (In)Humanity; Judaica: Neue digitale Folge 3 (2022): https://doi.org/10.36950/jndf.2022.10; Religions 14: 354 (2023): Ethical and Epistemological Aspects of 'Dialogue': Exploring the Potential of the Second-Person Perspective. A Festschrift in honor of Paul Mendes-Flohr on the occasion of his eightieth birthday; a topical issue of the open-access journal Open Philosophy 7 (2024): Dialogical Approaches to the Sphere ‘in-between’ Self and Other: The Methodological Meaning of Listening, and a special issue of New Journal of Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion 1 (2025): Dialogue and Relational Ontology: Rethinking the Significance of the Second-Person Perspective.
Research interests:
- Ethics and philosophy of religion
- Systematic theology (in particular theology of the Reformation, modern and post-Holocaust theology, theological anthropology) in an interreligious context
- 19th and 20th century Jewish thought
- Continental philosophy (in particular German idealism, existential philosophy, hermeneutics, phenomenology, and philosophy of dialogue)
- Kierkegaard studies
- Environmental ethics
- Hospitality, dialogue, and listening
- Modern Jewish thought and German-Jewish literature
- Theories of subjectivity, self-understanding, and personhood
- Philosophy of language and of emotion
- Philosophy of psychology and psychiatry including trauma and memory studies
- Arts-based research including poetry, visual art, and music
Research leadership/management:
Claudia Welz is heading the collective interdisciplinary research project “Epistemological Aspects of ‘Dialogue’: Exploring the Potential of the Second-Person Perspective” (2021-2024, funded by a Starting Grant from Aarhus University Research Foundation).
Since 2021, she is the co-founder and co-director of the Research Unit for Kierkegaard Studies at Aarhus University, see https://cas.au.dk/en/research-unit-for-kierkegaard-studies.
Relevant websites:
- https://www.academia-net.org/profil/prof-dr-claudia-welz/1196672
- claudiawelz.com/
- https://projects.au.dk/dialogue/research-team-and-sub-projects/
Fingeraftryk
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Samarbejde og topforskningsområder i de sidste fem år
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Research Unit for Kierkegaard Studies / Forskningsenhed for Kierkegaardstudier
Welz, C. (PI)
01/09/2021 → …
Projekter: Projekt › Forskning
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Forskningsenhed for Teologisk Etik
Nissen, U. (PI), Andersen, S. (Deltager), Becker, E.-M. (Deltager), Dietrich, J. (Deltager), Holm, B. K. (Deltager), Jacobsen, A.-C. (Deltager), Lodberg, P. (Deltager), Nissen, J. (Deltager), Pedersen, E. M. W. (Deltager), Rabjerg, B. (Deltager), Schmidt, U. (Deltager), Mathiasen Stopa, S. E. (Deltager), Welz, C. (Deltager) & Balle, S. (Deltager)
01/01/2016 → …
Projekter: Projekt › Forskning
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1-month senior fellowship at Polin Institute, Åbo Akademi University: "Traumatized Memory and Hopeful Imagination: Ethics, Theology, and Arts-Based Research" (1 week in Oct., 3 in Jan.)
Welz, C. (PI)
23/10/2024 → 30/01/2025
Projekter: Projekt › Forskning
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5-month senior Fellowship at Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, Universität Hamburg: “God’s ’Word’ and the ’Call‘ of Conscience – Reliable Sources of Knowledge?" (research stay reduced to 2 weeks due to the pandemic and teaching responsibilities in Aarhus)
Welz, C. (PI)
01/10/2021 → 28/02/2022
Projekter: Projekt › Forskning
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PI of collective research project: “Epistemological Aspects of ‘Dialogue’: Exploring the Potential of the Second-Person Perspective” (2021-2024, Starting Grant by AUFF: Aarhus University Research Foundation)
Welz, C. (PI)
01/01/2021 → 31/12/2024
Projekter: Projekt › Forskning
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At lytte til hinanden og lære af hinanden – religionsdialog i anledning af en luthersk-muslimsk vielse i folkekirken
Welz, C., 2025, (Accepteret/In press) En verden til forskel. Religionsteologi til folkekirken i et mangfoldigt samfund. Brandt, A. K. & la Cour Sonne, S. (red.). Frederiksberg: Eksistensen Akademisk, s. 101-124Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport/proceeding › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning
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Dialogue and Relational Ontology: Rethinking the Significance of the Second-Person Perspective
Welz, C. (Redaktør) & Mathiasen Stopa, S. E. (Redaktør), jan. 2025, (E-pub / Early view) I: Neue Zeitschrift fuer Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie. 1Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift/Konferencebidrag i tidsskrift /Bidrag til avis › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
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Editorial to special issue of New Journal of Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion: "Dialogue and Relational Ontology: Rethinking the Significance of the Second-Person Perspective”
Welz, C., 22 jan. 2025, I: Neue Zeitschrift fuer Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie. 1, s. 1-7Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift/Konferencebidrag i tidsskrift /Bidrag til avis › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning
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Everything Starts with Listening: Theological Epistemology and Dialogical Life Orientation
Welz, C., 2025, (Accepteret/In press) Starting Points: Theology, Hermeneutics, Politics. Bloomsbury: Bloomsbury T&T ClarkPublikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport/proceeding › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › peer review
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Gehör für das Unsichtbare: Die Stimme der Stille und die Sprache des Gebets
Welz, C., jan. 2025, (Accepteret/In press) Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapport › Bog › Forskning
Aktiviteter
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"How to Bear the Unbearable? A Dialogical Approach to Trauma" Polin Institute, Theologicum at Åbo Akademi in Turku, Finland.
Welz, C. (Foredragsholder)
15 jan. 2025Aktivitet: Præsentationer, medlemskaber, ejerskab og andre aktiviteter › Foredrag og mundtlige bidrag
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"Listening to the Voice Crying out from the Wound: Holocaust Testimonies and Trauma Studies" Open lecture at Polin Institute, Institutum Iudaicum and Åbo Akademi in Turku, Finland.
Welz, C. (Foredragsholder)
9 jan. 2025Aktivitet: Præsentationer, medlemskaber, ejerskab og andre aktiviteter › Foredrag og mundtlige bidrag
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Polin Institute
Welz, C. (Gæsteforsker)
7 jan. 2025 → 30 jan. 2025Aktivitet: Besøg på en ekstern institution - typer › Besøg ved en ekstern, akademisk institution
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Beskikkelse som teologisk sagkyndig i domstolsbehandling af gejstlige læresager efter indstilling af By-, Land- og Kirkeministerie (2025-2028)
Welz, C. (Medlem)
2025 → 2028Aktivitet: Præsentationer, medlemskaber, ejerskab og andre aktiviteter › Medlem af udvalg, råd og nævn
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"Auf-hören! Wider den Ein-Fall des Antisemitismus. Theologie in Verantwortung gegenüber dem Judentum" Theologie als Einfall: Alterität in theologischer Reflexion. Symposion anlässlich der Emeritierung von Magdalene L. Frettlöh, Universität Bern, Switzerland.
Welz, C. (Foredragsholder)
7 dec. 2024Aktivitet: Præsentationer, medlemskaber, ejerskab og andre aktiviteter › Foredrag og mundtlige bidrag
Priser
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10-month senior research fellowship 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' (https://relpos.de/)
Welz, C. (Modtager), okt. 2019
Pris: Priser, stipendier, udnævnelser
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1-month fellowship at Polin Institute, Åbo Akademi University, Finland (1 week in October 2024 + 3 weeks in January 2025)
Welz, C. (Modtager), 2024
Pris: Priser, stipendier, udnævnelser
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2-month AUFF Sabbatical Stipend affiliated with Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, Sweden
Welz, C. (Modtager), 2025
Pris: Priser, stipendier, udnævnelser
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2-week stipend for writing retreat in San Cataldo, Italy
Welz, C. (Modtager), nov. 2024
Pris: Priser, stipendier, udnævnelser
Presse/medier
Kurser
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BA course: “Studium generale for teologer [Introduction into the History of Ideas and Theory of Science]”
Welz, C. 01/02/2021 → 30/06/2021
Kursus: Undervisning
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Conference, PhD and postdoctoral course: “‘Dialogue’ – A Trans-Disciplinary Concept and Bridge-Building Practice” (Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University)
Welz, C. 13/12/2023 → 14/12/2023
Kursus: Undervisning