The Erfurt theologian Thomas Sojer has been awarded third place in the „Salzburg University Weeks“ audience prize for his lecture „Mechanical or Organic Solidarity? An Appeal to Symbiotic Life“, the theologian from Erfurt was awarded third place in the Audience Prize at the „Salzburg University Weeks“.
The prize was awarded after a voting process that, due to Corona, had to take place as digitally as the Hochschulwochen – otherwise the largest summer academy in the German-speaking world with over 1,000 participants – itself. This year, the general theme was „What (still) keeps us together? On Commitment and Fragmentation“. The first prize was awarded to the young theologian Andree Burke from Hamburg, second place went to the theologian Maximilian Gigl from Munich.
Thomas Sojer studied Catholic theology in Graz, Innsbruck and London. He has been a research assistant at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Erfurt since 2021 and is also a doctoral student at the Max Weber College at the University of Erfurt.
The lectures of the „Salzburg University Weeks“ are still available for listening as a podcast.