We are delighted to announce that two Open Panels, organized by Ass.-Prof. Dr. Tabea Ott and colleagues, have been officially accepted for the upcoming EUARE Conference 2026, which will take place in Rome 30 June - 3 July.

Call for Contributions

Researchers interested in participating in one of the panels are warmly invited to submit their applications.
The deadline for applications is 13 March.

We especially welcome submissions that engage critically with the panel themes and contribute fresh empirical or theoretical insights. Scholars at all career stages are encouraged to apply.

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• Open Panel: Equalities and Inequalities in Christian Bioethics Questions of equality and inequality have always been crucial to the moral life of communities, shaping how societies understand care, justice, and responsibility. Within the Christian tradition, theological and ethical reflection has profoundly influenced attitudes towards helping, healing, and defining the role of health care practitioners. From the early Church's ministry to the sick, to contemporary debates on global health and biotechnology, Christian values continue to inform and at time challenge prevailing assumptions in bioethics and medical ethics. The relationship between religion and bioethics therefore remains both endured and contested, and merits renewed discussion in light of this year's conference theme, Religions and (In)Equalities. This panel seeks to explore how Christian bioethics can illuminate and respond to issues of equality and inequality in healthcare and medicine. How can theology contribute to and shape the discourse on distributive justice in a world of limited medical resources, and on structural inequalities that affect access to care and health outcomes? What forms of moral responsibility arise for healthcare professionals, religious institutions, and communities of faith? Finally, what role does spiritual care play within healthcare? We invite contributions from dogmatic, ethical, historical, and exegetical perspectives that analyse how Christian bioethical thought engages questions of justice, equality, and inequality. Papers may address influential theological figures from the church fathers to contemporary theologians, or they may take a thematic approach to issues such as global health disparities, gender and disability, or the ethics of emerging biotechnologies. By bringing diverse perspectives together, the panel aims to clarify how Christian ethical resources can both expose and help redress inequalities in healthcare today.

• Open Panel: Theology of Attention: Practices, Ethics, and Transformations in Contemporay Contexts Our present age is characterized by a constant competition for our attention — shaped, fragmented, and directed by digital technologies, media environments, and social structures. This panel approaches the question of attention from a theological and religious studies perspectives: What constitutes attention, and to what extent can it be guided, cultivated, or controlled? Which religious practices attract or cultivate attention? How do the attention logics of algorithms reshape religious practices and experiences? What practices of attention can be identified within religious traditions — such as compassion, empathy, and (neighborly) love — and how might they offer alternative models of perceiving and responding to the world? What are the negative dimensions of attention — for example, phenomena such as attention fatigue in health care or exposure — and how do they challenge theological or ethical reflection? Finally, what role does attention play in reinforcing or challenging global inequalities? We welcome both theoretical contributions that examine attention on an abstract or analytical level and practical studies that address it in applied settings, for instance in spiritual counseling or pastoral care. We invite papers from all theological disciplines, ethics, religious studies, and related fields that investigate the relationship between religion and attention in a broad sense

We very much look forward to receiving your submissions and to stimulating discussions in Rome this summer.

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