Dr. Matthias Riedl
Associate Professor of History
Chair of Comparative Religious Studies
Director, Center for Religious Studies
Central European University / Department of History
H-1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 9.
Tel: (36-1) 327-3000 / 2307
Fax: (36-1) 327-3191
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Curriculum Vitae
spring 2013
Table of contents
Education 2
Academic employments and fellowships 2
Other professional experience and positions 3
Publications 3
Selected conferences papers, lectures, roundtables 10
Courses taught at CEU (selection) 17
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science (summa cum laude)
2003 received from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. 2003. Title of thesis: "The perfection of mankind: The political thought of Joachim of Fiore”
Master of Arts in Political Science
1998 received from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Grade: fist-class honours (1,16). Title of thesis: “The doctrine of grace in Augustine’s political philosophy”
Academic employments and fellowships
1999 –2006 Full-time lecturer/instructor (“Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter”) in Political Science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg/Germany.
2003 Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Duke University, Durham, NC/USA.
Since 2006 Associate Professor of History and Chair of Comparative Religious Studies at Central European University, Budapest/Hungary.
Since 2011: Director of the Center for Religious Studies, Central European University, Budapest/Hungary
2012: Research Fellow at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Other professional experience and positions
1998 –1999: Research Executive and Administrator at the memorial site of the former Concentration Camp Flossenbürg. Established the Research and Documentation Centre under the supervision of the Bavarian Ministry of Education and Culture (in co-operation with the Cultural Scientist Jörg Skriebeleit).
Since 2000 Organizer (with Tilo Schabert) of the interdisciplinary and intercivilizational Eranos-conferences in Ascona/Switzerland.
2008 Director of the International Summer University Course Religion and Politics: The Presence of Sacred and Secular Traditions in Europe and the Middle East, CEU, Budapest, July 2008.
2010 Director (with Michael L. Miller) of the International Summer University Course Messianism – Jewish and Christian Perspectives, CEU Budapest (in cooperation with Duke University, North Carolina). CEU Budapest, July 2010.
2013 Director (with Hans-Jörg Sigwart) of the International Summer University Course Religion and Realism in Political Thought- Historical Perspectives and Recent Developments, CEU Budapest, July 2013.
Publications
a) Monograph
Joachim von Fiore - Denker der vollendeten Menschheit. (Joachim of Fiore - Thinking the perfection of mankind). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2004.
Online access: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/101873927/Riedl_Joachim%20von%20Fiore_2004_editedv2.pdf
b) Monographs in progress
Vivere nel futuro – Il fenomeno delle communità prolettiche (collana «Lo Scudo d’Achille»), Milan: Edizione Unicopli.
The Charisma of the Sword – Apocalyptic Violence and Revolutionary Action. Publisher not yet determined.
c) Edited volumes:
Tilo Schabert/Matthias Riedl (eds.): Das Ordnen der Zeit. Eranos - Neue Folge Nr. 10. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2003.
Elisabetta Barone/Matthias Riedl/Alexandra Tischel (eds.): Pioniere, Poeten, Professoren. Eranos und der Monte Verità in der Zivilisationsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eranos - Neue Folge Nr. 11. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2003. (Essays in English, German, Italian)
Elisabetta Barone/Matthias Riedl/Alexandra Tischel (eds.): Eranos - Monte Verità - Ascona. Edizione italiana a cura di Elisabetta Barone/Adriano Fabris/Flavia Monceri. Pisa (ETS) 2003.
Clemens Kauffmann/Helmut Klumpjan/Matthias Riedl/Hans-Jörg Sigwart (eds.): Politik - Hermeneutik - Humanität. Gesammelte Aufsätze von Jürgen Gebhardt. Beiträge zur Politischen Wissenschaft, 134. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2004.
Matthias Riedl/Tilo Schabert (eds.): Propheten und Prophezeiungen / Prophets and Prophecies. Eranos - Neue Folge Nr. 12. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2005. (Essays in English, French, German, Italian).
Tilo Schabert/Matthias Riedl (eds.): Die Menschen im Krieg, im Frieden mit der Natur / Humans at War, in Peace with Nature. Eranos - Neue Folge Nr. 13. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2006. (Essays in English, French, German, Italian).
Matthias Riedl/Tilo Schabert (eds.): Religionen – Die religiöse Erfahrung / Religions – The Religious Experience. Eranos - Neue Folge Nr. 14. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2008. (Essays in English, French, German, Italian).
Matthias Riedl/Karl-Heinz Nusser/Theresia Ritter (eds.): Politikos – Vom Element des Persönlichen in der Politik. Festschrift für Tilo Schabert zum 65. Geburtstag. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2008. (Essays in English, French, German, Italian).
Tilo Schabert/Matthias Riedl (eds.): Gott oder Götter? / God or Gods? Eranos - Neue Folge Nr. 15. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2009. (Essays in English, French, German, Italian)
Matthias Riedl/Tilo Schabert (eds.): Die Stadt: Achse und Zentrum der Welt / The City: Axis and Centre of the World. Eranos - Neue Folge Nr. 16. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2011. (Essays in English, French, German, Italian)
Editions in progress
Matthias Riedl/Julia Eva Wannenmacher (eds.): The Companion to Joachim of Fiore. Leiden: Brill (forthcoming 2012).
Nadia Al-Bagdadi/David Marno/Matthias Riedl (eds.): The Apocalyptic Complex. Budapest: CEU Press (forthcoming 2012).
d) Articles
„Die KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg.“ (The Concentration Camp Memorial Site at Flossenbürg). In: Der Staatsbürger 2000/9.
„Säkularisierung als Heilsgeschehen: Gianni Vattimos postmoderne Eschatologie.“ (Secularization and salvation: Gianni Vattimo's postmodern eschatology). In: Mathias Hildebrandt et al. (ed.): Säkularisierung und Resakralisierung in westlichen Gesellschaften. Ideengeschichtliche und theoretische Perspektiven. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2001, pp. 171-184.
„Adolf Portmann - Ein Skeptiker auf der Suche“. (Adolf Portmann - A sceptic and a searcher). In: Eranos - Neue Folge 11 (2003), pp. 115-126.
„Adolf Portmann - uno scettico in cerca.” In: Elisabetta Barone/Matthias Riedl/Alexandra Tischel (eds.): Eranos - Monte Verità - Ascona. Edizione italiana a cura di Elisabetta Barone/Adriano Fabris/Flavia Monceri. Pisa: Edizione ETS, 2003, pp. 201-217. (Italian version of the former article).
„Joachim von Fiore.” In: Politikon, edited by Wolfgang Leidhold and Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, http://www.politikon.org, 2004. (= Online teaching unit).
“Zu Jürgen Gebhardts Konzeption der Politischen Wissenschaft” (Jürgen Gebhardt’s conception of political science), co-authored with Clemens Kauffmann, Helmut Klumpjan, and Hans-Jörg Sigwart). In: Jürgen Gebhardt. Politik, Hermeneutik, Humanität. Gesammelte Aufsätze. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2004, pp. ix-xiv.
„Avanguardia e Apocalisse: il regno spirituale negli scritti di Wassily Kandinsky.” (Avantgarde and Apocalypse: the spiritual realm in the writings of Wassily Kandinsky). In: Davar 2 (2005), pp. 46-63.
„Christian Mysticism.” In: Maryanne Cline Horowitz (editor in chief): New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005, vol. 4, pp. 1546-1549.
„Eschatology.” In: Maryanne Cline Horowitz (editor in chief): New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005, vol. 2, pp.708-710.
„Einleitung: Prophetie als interzivilisatorisches Phänomen.” (Introduction: Prophecy as an intercivilizational phenomenon). In: Eranos - Neue Folge, vol. 12 (2005), pp. 9-16.
„Gioacchino da Fiore padre della modernità. Le tesi di Eric Voegelin.” (Joachim of Fiore as father of modernity. The theses of Eric Voegelin). In: Gian Luca Potestà (ed.): Gioacchino da Fiore nella cultura dell '800 e del '900. Atti del 6° Congresso internazionale di studi gioachimiti. Rome: Viella, 2005, pp. 219-236.
„Natur und Sünde – Augustinus über den Anfang der Politik.“ (Nature and Sin - Augustine on the origin of politics). In: Eranos - Neue Folge, vol. 13 (2006), pp. 115-130.
„Weltfriede und ‚Clash of Civilizations’“. (Universal peace and ‘Clash of Civilizations’). In: Handbuch Friedenserziehung: interreligiös - interkulturell – interkonfessionell. Herausgegeben von Werner Haußmann, Hansjörg Biener, Klaus Hock, Reinhold Mokrosch. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2006, pp.66-72.
„Der Erfahrungsbegriff in den politischen Philosophien von Michael Oakeshott und Eric Voegelin.“ (The concept of experience in the political philosophies of Michael Oakeshott and Eric Voegelin). In: André Brodocz (ed.): Erfahrung als Argument. Zur Relevanz von Erfahrungen für die politische Theorie, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2007, pp.105-119.
Online access: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/101873927/Erfahrungsbegriff.pdf
„Dante and the Politics of Universal Mankind.“ In: Petra Huse/Ingmar Dette (eds.) Abenteuer des Geistes – Dimensionen des Politischen. Festschrift für Walter Rotholz. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2008, pp.75-84.
„Einleitung: Religiöse Erfahrung als wissenschaftliches Problem.“ (Introduction: Religious experience as a research problem). In: Eranos - Neue Folge, vol. 14 (2008), pp. 9-14.
“Marcus Atilius Regulus – Die Bürgertugend in Person.” (Marcus Atilius Regulus – The personified civic virtue). In: Matthias Riedl/Karl-Heinz Nusser/Theresia Ritter (eds.) Politikos – Vom Element des Persönlichen in der Politik. Festschrift für Tilo Schabert zum 65. Geburtstag. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2008, pp. 327-350.
„Vera religio – Ein Schlüsselbegriff im politischen Denken des spätantiken Christentums.“ (Vera religio – A key concept in the political thought of late antique Christianity). In: Armin Adam/Manfred Brocker/Matthias Hildebrandt (eds.): Der Begriff der Religion. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2008, pp.33-57.
„Truth versus utility: The debate on civil religion in the Roman Empire of the 3rd and 4th century“. In: John von Heyking/Ronald Weed (eds.): Civil Religion in Political Thought. Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2010, pp.47-65.
“The Permanence of the Eschatological – Reflections on Gianni Vattimo’s Hermeneutic Age”, in: Aakash Singh & Péter Losonczi (eds.): Discoursing the Post-secular: Essays on the Habermasian Post-Secular Turn, Berlin: LIT, 2010, pp. 111-126.
“Living in the Future – Proleptic Existence in Religion, Politics, and Art”, in: International Political Anthropology 3/2 (2010), pp. 117-134.
“A modernség, mint az eszkaton immanentizációja – Eric Voegelin gnoszticizmus-tételének kritikai újraértékelése,” in Századvég 59/1 (2011), pp. 77-101.
“The City as Symbol – An Introduction”, in: Matthias Riedl/Tilo Schabert (eds.): Eranos - Neue Folge Nr. 16. (2011), pp. 9-14.
“The Secular Sphere in Western Theology – A Historical Reconsideration,” in Peter Losonczi, Mika Luoma-aho, Aakash Singh (eds.), The Future of Political Theology: Religious and Theological Perspectives, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011, pp. 11-22.
A Collective Messiah – Joachim of Fiore’s Constitution of Future Society” in Mirabilia 14 (2012), pp. 57-80. Online access: http://www.revistamirabilia.com/nova/images/numeros/2012_14/03.pdf
“Modernity as the Immanentization of the Eschaton – a critical re-evaluation of Eric Voegelin’s Gnosis-thesis”, in Revolutions: Finished and Unfinished, From Primal to Final, ed. Paul Caringella, Wayne Cristaudo and Glenn Hughes. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012, pp. 80-107.
“Život v budúcnosti – Proleptická existencie v náboženstve, politike a umení“, in Studia Philosophica 59,1 (2012), pp. 49-70.
“The Containment of Dionysos: Religion and Politics in the Bacchanalia Affair of 186 BCE”, in: International Political Anthropology Vol. 5/2 (2012), pp. 113-133.
“Introduction: The Resilience of the Apocalyptic” (mit David Marno), in: Nadia Al-Bagdadi/David Marno/Matthias Riedl (Hg.): The Apocalyptic Complex, Budapest: CEU Press, 2013 (im Druck).
„Joachim of Fiore as Political Thinker“, in: Julia Wannenmacher (Hg.): Joachim of Fiore and the Influence of Inspiration. Essays in Memory of Marjorie E. Reeves (19052003), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013.
“Longing for the Third Age: Revolutionary Joachism, Communism, National Socialism”, in: Matthias Riedl/Julia Eva Wannenmacher (Hg.): Companion to Joachim of Fiore. Leiden: Brill (forthcoming).
“Order,” a key entry for The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, ed. Michael T. Gibbons, Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley (forthcoming).
“Apocalyptic Violence and Revolutionary Action: Thomas Müntzer’s Sermon to the Princes,” in Michael A. Ryan, ed. A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Apocalyptic(Leiden: Brill, forthcoming)
Selected conferences papers, lectures, roundtables
2000
May 25 Invited guest lecture: “Avanguardia e apocalisse. La simbolica politica negli scritti di Wassily Kandinsky”, Unversità di Perugia, Italy
2001
Aug 31 Paper “The Political Thought of Joachim of Fiore”, Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, USA.
Sep 13 Invited Guest Lecture “Idee per il compiuto dell’umanità. Gioacchino da Fiore, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, George Sand, Immanuel Kant”. Istituto Italiano degli Studi Europei, Naples, Italy.
2003
Feb 5 Paper “The Break with Augustine: Joachim of Fiore’s Third Age of the Holy Spirit”. Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Aug 29 Paper “Some clarifications concerning the concept of Political Theology: Carl Schmitt and Augustine.” Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, USA.
Sep 26 Paper “A Somber View of the Human Situation: Michael Oakeshott and Saint Augustine”. Second Plenary Meeting of the Michael Oakeshott Association, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, USA.
Oct 18 Paper “Dante and the Emperor”. Inaugural Conference of the Association of Political Theory, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, USA.
Nov 7 Invited Guest Lecture “The Question of Political Averroism”. Department of Government, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
2004
July 13 Paper “The Apocalyptic Perception of Islam”. International Medieval Congress, Leeds, United Kingdom.
Oct 15 Paper “Experience and coherence – the political philosophy of Michael Oakeshott”. Conference of the Theory-Section of the German Association of Political Science, Dresden, Germany.
Sep 3 Paper “Joachim of Fiore as a father of modernity? The theses of Eric Voegelin”. International Congress of Joachimite Studies. San Giovanni in Fiore, Italy.
May 20-23 Participation in the Liberty Fund Colloquium “Individual and Political Liberty in Early Italian Humanism” at Lake Como in Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio, Italy.
July 22-25 Participation in the Liberty Fund Colloquium “Religious and Political Ideas of Liberty: The English Civil Wars” at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Sep 30–Oct 3 Participation in the Liberty Fund Colloquium “Evil and Responsibility” at Kastelyhotel Paradsasvar, Hungary
2005
Feb 17 Invited guests lecture “Augustine on War”. Department of Sociology, University College Cork, Ireland.
Mar 19 Paper “Reason, Politics, and the Study of History – A Comparison between Ibn Khaldun and Giovanni Battista Vico”. John L. Stanley Memorial Conference “Reason and Democracy in European, Middle Eastern, and Asian Political Thought in Comparative Historical Perspective”, California State University, San Marcos, USA.
July 31 Paper “The gods of the city and the City of God: Augustine, Machiavelli and Hobbes on civil religion.” Eranos Conference, Ascona, Switzerland.
Sep 2 Paper “Comparative Civilizations and the Quest for a New Science of Politics – From Ibn Khaldun to the Present”. Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., USA.
2006
Aug 8-16 Co-organizer (with Tilo Schabert) of the Eranos conference “The City – Axis and Centre of the World”, in Ascona, Switzerland
Aug 31-Sep 3 Co-organizer (with Jürgen Gebhardt) and panel chair “Imperial Politics and Empires Ancient and Modern”, at the Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia PA, USA
Sep 20-23 Paper “Of Bacchants and Christians” at 6th European Association of the Study of Religion (EASR) Special Conference, Bucharest, Romania.
2007