6 March 2025, 6-8pm: Book presentation with two featured talks on Theology and Literature

Together with the Embassy of Malta and the Poetikdozentur Literatur und Religion, we are pleased to invite you to an exciting evening: On the occasion of the publication of the Master's thesis of VDTR-Fellow Jean Claude Attard entitled "Dun Karm's Beyond Self as a Theology from the Mediterranean", the VDTR invites you to an evening exploring the intersections between theology and literature. After a short presentation of the book and a reading of a poem by the Maltese national poet Dun Karm in English and Maltese, we look forward to two lectures dedicated to the interface of theology and literature from a literary and theological perspective respectively. 

Program Highlights:

• Words of Welcome: VDTR Director Prof. Christian Danz
• Book Presentation: Jean Claude Attard (VDTR Fellow)
• Poetry Reading: Reading of Dun Karm’s Poetry in Maltese and English
• Featured Talks:
• Woman as Prophet, Mother as Theologian by Prof. Immanuel Mifsud (University of Malta)
• Songs and Psalms, Priests and Poets by Prof. Jakob Deibl (University of Vienna)
• Message of greeting from the Ambassador of the Republic of Malta to Austria: Natasha Meli Daudey
  

After the event, we invite you to a get-together.

Location: Dekanatssitzungssaal der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät (Staircase 8, 2nd Floor),
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien.