Just published: A volume on “Professions as Religious Metaphors” in our @sfb1475 Metaphor Papers series that I had the pleasure to edit. It’s a nice collection of short case studies on a wide arrange of professions that are used as metaphors of the divine. (My internal working title for it was […]
This week was packed with #metaphor related events. Three days of the #MetaphorsOfReligion conference of @sfb1475, then two very promising meetings with other metaphor projects – #CRC1646 and #MetaNet – about future collaboration, and finally the initial publication of our dataset of metaphor […]
SESSION 4: Digital and Computational Approaches to Metaphor Analysis Chair: Tatjana Scheffler The Venom of Heresy: A Computational Approach to Tracking the Development of Anti-Heretical Hate Propaganda Metaphors in Western Christendom, 1000-1150 David Zbiral Counterfactual Metaphor Markus Egg Religious Metaphors at Scale: Digital and Computational Approaches to Metaphor Identification and Analysis Frederik Elwert, Sebastian Reimann & Lina Rodenhausen
This morning, the #MetaphorsOfReligion conference starts with the panel on “Digital and Computational Approaches to Metaphor Analysis,” including our own presentation “Religious Metaphors at Scale.” I am looking forward to the discussion!
Eve Sweetser sitting in front of her title slide “Embodied Religious Metaphors”
Now: invited talk by Eve Sweetser 🤩 #metaphorsOfReligion @sfb1475
Today starts our international conference "Metaphors of Religion: Comparative Perspectives, Theoretical Potential, and Methodic Innovation" at the Convention Center of Ruhr University Bochum. Participants are invited to share their impressions. #MoReConf2025
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A photo of a conference setting with a speaker at a desk and a slide with a welcome to the conference.
Just starting: The conference #MetaphorsOfReligion, marking the highlight of the first phase of @sfb1475. I look forward to the next three days, including the keynote presentations by Eve Sweetser and Gerard Steen! #Metaphor
Entwicklung neuer Forschungsfragen bei herrlichem Wetter auf dem Wanderweg in Much bei der vierten SFB-Jahrestagung. ☀️
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Foto von Frederik Elwert (links) und Tim Karis (rechts) im Aufnahmestudio. Sie sitzen sich an einem Tisch gegenüber, jeder hat ein Mikrofon vor sich, Tim Karis trägt Kopfhörer.
Die neue Folge unseres Podcasts DIE ÜBERTRAGUNG ist online: Moderator Tim Karis im Gespräch mit dem Religionswissenschaftler und Experten für Digital Humanities Frederik Elwert. Jetzt reinhören. 🎧👉
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