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The upcoming workshop on Sacred Places. Changing Interconnections Between Religion and Politics (5-7 December, Leipzig University) is open to a limited number of listeners. Please register via multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de, subject line SACRED, by 28 November 2019 if you plan to attend. Please mention which sessions and/or evening events you would like to attend.

You can find a detailed schedule here.

The workshop is jointly organised by Nurit Stadler and Ahmet Kerim Gültekin and supported by the KFG. It will focus on the ethnic and territorial aspects of religion by studying sacred places that are located on borders between cities, states, and ethnic/religious regions, as well as in conflict zones and disputed territories. How are sacred sites becoming increasingly relevant in dictating, shaping, and negotiating geopolitical zones, ethnic identities, collective memory, and new political attitudes, as well as in reinventing cultural identities?

Karen Barkey will give a keynote titled When Myths and Stories Become Shared Sacred Narratives on Thursday evening, 5 December.