ICCJ: Conference News 2026

Source: ICCJ, Anette Adelmann ICCJ General Secretary

The countdown for ICCJ's 2026 conference in Hanover, Germany is running and the registration is still open for those who do not want to miss an exciting conference program.

Together with five plenary sessions, sightseeing program, music, a movie and more, there will be a total of 20 workshops in four workshop sessions, which will address a wide range of themes related to the conference theme, Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations, and interreligious dialogue in general.

Plenary speakers and workshop presenters will travel to Hanover from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Switzerland, UK, USA.

List of Workshops (current state of planning):

• A Communion of Others: Judaism & Orthodox Christianity — Building Bridges, Addressing Challenges
• Overcoming Speechlessness. The Emerge of Christian-Jewish Dialogue in Germany after the Shoah
• Building the Language of Dialogue
• Beyond the Fracture: Rebuilding Jewish-Christian-Muslim Dialogue after October 7th
• Ruptures and Pivots: Challenges to Interreligious Relations in an Illiberal Age
• Christian Zionism – An Introduction to a Widely Misunderstood Phenomenon
• Can even Devarim/Deuteronomy Serve the Repair Needed in Interfaith Dialogue?
• MIGO Writing Workshop - Writing Flash Fiction through Tight Orders, Based on Levinasian Perception of the Story
• Forgiveness and Jewish and Christian Representation in Pop Culture - Case Study: Dina in The Last of Us and Fr James in Calvary
• From Repentance to Reconciliation
• Who Speaks for Us? Navigating Internal Diversity and External Dialogue between Jews and Orthodox Christians
• “Your Kingdom Come” - A Discussion of the New Policy Paper of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands Regarding Relationships with Jews and Palestinians
• "In Your Shoes": Co-Creating Digital Dialogue in an Age of Polarization
• Deep Listening: Bridging the Distance between Us
• For the Sin of Ignorance: Repentance, Repair, Reconciliation through Religious Literacy
• Stress Test: Planning -- and Executing -- an Interreligious Study Tour (or Pilgrimage) to Israel/Palestine
• The Eisenach “Dejudaization Institute” 1939 – 1945: Silencing, Suppressing, Coming to Terms with the Past
• Repair in Practice: Confronting Antisemitism in Academic and Interreligious Campus Life
• Many Languages of Repentance: Scriptural Reasoning as a Trilateral Practice of Repair
• (How) are Repentance, Repair, and Reconciliation Relevant to the I-P Reality?