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Dear friends and colleagues,

This week we want to present to you our next Screening Religion movie as well as a job offer and a few events. Enjoy!

Screening Religion: Get – Der Prozess der Viviane Amsalem

The drama "Get – Der Prozess der Viviane Amsalem" tells the story of the fate of the Israeli Viviane Amsalem and her long, desperate struggle for a divorce from her husband Elisha in the Jewish Orthodox Rabbinical Court.

Directed by Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz (France, Israel, Germany 2014)
11 March 2020 | 7 p.m.
Cinémathèque Leipzig (Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 46)
Language: German

CfA: PhD Position on Romanization and Islamication

The DFG Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe RomanIslam at Hamburg University invites applications for a research associate (PhD Positon) for the project Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity - Transcultural Processes on the Iberian Peninsula and in North Africa starting 1 June 2020 (65% TV-L 13).

Deadline: 25 March 2030

Workshop on Digital Humanities and the Study of Religion

The German Society for the Study of Religion (Deutsche Vereinigung für Religionswissenschaft) and the working group Mittelbau und Nachwuchs will host a workshop on Digital Humanities and the Study of Religion. There are only a few free spots – be quick!

9 – 11 September 2020, Göttingen

CfP: Sociology of Religion at the DGS Congress

At this year’s congress of the German Society for Sociology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie), there will be two panels in the section for Sociology of Religion:

1. Religion in times of the climate crisis organised by Silke Gülker and Jens Köhrsen CALL

2. Religion and right wing extremism organised by Kornelia Sammet and Alexander Yendell CALL

14 – 18 September 2020, Berlin
Deadline: 16 March 2020

CfP: Workshop on Affect, Politics and Religion

The SFB Affective Societies at Freie Universität Berlin, the Musuem of Jón Sigurðsson and the Jón Sigurðsson Professorship at the University of Iceland will host a workshop for MA and PhD students in Island. The aim is to scrutinise current theoretical perspectives on affect with regard to inequalities, religion and the political, to understand how these intertwined concepts can be approached methodologically in empirical research and to guide participants in advancing their own knowledge and research of affect both theoretically and methodologically.

26 – 28 June 2020, The Westfjords of Island
Deadline: 29 March 2020