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Dear friends and colleagues, This week, we are happy to announce a KFG workshop and would like to draw your attention to its call for abstracts, as well as two new publications by KFG fellows. We would also like to point you to a news article on a controversial debate. Enjoy and have a good week! Anja & Lucy |
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KFG-Workshop and Call for Abstracts: “(Im)Materiality of the Secular City: Trials and Tribulations”, 23-24 June 2022We are happy to announce the KFG-Workshop on “(Im)Materiality of the Secular City: Trials and Tribulations“ in June 2022 and the respective Call for Abstracts. Our Senior Research Fellows Mariam Goshadze and Thomas Schmidt-Lux are organizing the workshop together with Margaux Myriam Fitoussi from Columbia University, with the goal to discuss the materiality of the secular and of processes of secularisation in urban spaces. Inspired by the British Israeli architect Eyal Wiezman’s contention that the materiality of the built world has a life of its own, the focus of this workshop will be to probe into the distinctive force of secular architecture and the processes of destruction and construction involved in its production. The workshop is planned to include the three thematic clusters erasing religious pasts, assembling secular futures and theoretical paradigms. If you wish to participate, please send your abstract via e-mail.
Notification of acceptance: 1 March Deadline for short papers (2000 words): 31 May Workshop: 23-24 June
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Findings: Amsterdam Synagogue Declares Spinoza Scholar “Persona Non Grata”Our Junior Research Fellow Elliot Lee points to a news article illustrating a contemporary controversial debate on Spinoza: Yitzhak Melamed, professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, has been declared a “persona non grata” by a rabbi of the Portuguese Jewish Synagogue of Amsterdam, following a request to record footage at the synagogue for a project on Baruch Spinoza.
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