ORCID: 0000-0002-6682-9722
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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), and the essay collection SinnSang: Theologie und Poesie (Nordpark-Verlag, 2019) about the work of the poet Elazar Benyoëtz, including an exchange of letters.
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,
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: Dialogical Approaches to the Sphere ‘in-between’ Self and Other: The Methodological Meaning of Listening (2024).
Research interests:
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.
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