Upcoming Lectures

by Prof. Dr. Anne Käfer

  • Advanced training in animal ethics with references to learning areas 13.1 and 13.2 of the Protestant Religious Education curriculum at secondary school

9th to 11th July 2025, Religionspädagogisches Zentrum, Heilsbronn

FORMER LECTURES (selection)

  • German-Nordic Research Colloquium. Lectio Difficilior: Martin Luther, On the Bondage of the Will/De servo arbitrio (1525) (8th to 10th May 2025, Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, Greifswald)

  • Hello Nature. In Dialogue: Fellow Creatures or the Last of Their Kind? (10th January 2025, talk with Dr. Dag Encke in the Friday Evening Talks series, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg)

  • Gottes Werk und Fleisches Lust (12th December 2024, Online-Ringvorlesung „Mensch-Tier-Beziehung“, University Witten-Herdecke)

  • Perspectives on dealing with nature from the view of creation faith (25nd November 2023, lecture at the autumn congress of the Reformed Conference, Nordhorn)

  • Conversation of (Dis)Belief (1st of December 2023, St. Matthäus-Church in Berlin)

  • Panel Discussion on Education for Sustainability (13th October 2023, Campus Earth 2023 – 2nd Sustainability Day at the University of Münster)

  • Friedrich Schleiermacher's Doctrine of Faith as Doctrine of the Church (2nd of June 2023, Kirchenlehrer und Kirchenlehrerinnen – Entstehung, Wandel, Bedeutung, Interdisciplinary Symposium at the University of Freiburg (Switzerland))

  • From Remorse to Blessedness. Religious Feelings in Schleiermacher’s Theology (29th March 2023, Lecture at the 2nd meeting of the DFG-Network "Religion and the Emotions", HU Berlin)

  • Baptism and Church Fellowship from an Protestant Perspective (18th November 2022, Lecture at Dies Academicus 2022 “Baptism – Church – Recognition. Inner Church and Ecumenical Perspectives on the Occasion of 50 years of SELK and 15 years of the Magdeburg Declaration”, Oberursel Lutheran University of Theology)

  • Do Christians have to be Vegetarians? (7th July 2022, Lecture at the Long Night of Theology "Theology of Animals – Co-Created, Co-Caught?", University of Erlangen)

  • Of Arrogant Devils and Vanity Fools. Or how Sin is just Ignorance (17th June 2022, Lecture at the Conference "Albrecht Ritschl – On the Topicality of his Theology Program. Scientific Conference on the Occasion of the 200th Birthday of Albrecht Ritschl", University of Göttingen)

  • Faith of Creation and its Deeds. Christian Action in Times of Destruction of Nature (9th June 2022, Lecture at the Reformed Summer University 2022, Universiteit Apeldoorn, The Netherlands)

  • He has not seen. New Clarity in Caravaggio's "The Conversion of Saint Paul" (11th February 2022, University of Marburg)

  • Anthropocentric Principles and AI (3rd February 2022, WWU Münster)

  • More Flesh than Spirit? Animals in the World of Humans and in God's Creation (28th January 2022, University of Munich)
  • How Intelligent is Artificial Intelligence? Discussion with Prof. Dr. Michael Heghmanns and Prof. Dr. Benjamin Risse (7th June 2021, WWU Münster)
  • Animal Bites, Colloquium on “a Good Life for Everyone” (1st July 2021, WWU Münster)
  • Text and Revelation. Hermeneutics from a Theological Perspective (23rd march 2021, WWU Münster)
  • Thinking Faith. Interdisciplinary & International Online-Consultation of the Collegium Emmaus "Towards A Renewed Theological Culture" (30th January 2021, University of Fribourg)
  • Ethics of Production Animals (21st January 2021, WWU Münster)
  • Systematic-theological Perspectives on the Exegetic Lectures of Friedrich Schleiermacher (13th March 2020, CAU Kiel)
  • Systematic-theological Subsumption of VELKD-Agenda (15th February 2020, Augustana Neuendettelsau)
  • „Have you had Animal today?“ Ethical Consideration on Human Handling of Animals from a Christian Perspective. (15th January 2020, Münster)
  • Truth Commitment as the Task of Christians and its Realisation in the Barmen Declaration (15th November 2019, Wuppertal)
  • Myth and Demythologization. The Concepts of Bultmann und Cullmann (13th September 2019)
  • Truth Commitment as a Responsibility. A Protestant Perspective on the Democratic State (30th April 2019, WWU Münster)
  • Certainty, Conscience, Contiousness? Looking for Matter-of-Fact Criteria for Conversion (5th April 2019, Greifswald)
  • Omnipotence, Love and Predetermination. An Appraisal of Schleiermacher’s Theology on the 250th Anniversary of his Birth (21st November 2018, University of Cambridge)
  • A Fair Life as a Challenge of Theology (5th July 2017, inaugural lecture WWU Münster)