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Lecture: “Partisans of a New World. The History of the Turkish Left”

Today, 15 November, the historian Nikolaus Brauns will present his new book “Partisanen einer neuen Welt. Geschichte der Linken in der Türkei”, which deals with leftist movements and rebellion in Turkey since the Ottoman Empire. There will be a discussion afterwards.

The lecture will be held in German.

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Venue: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Sachsen, Harkortstraße 10, 04107 Leipzig

Lecture: “BR Ambedkar: A progressive radical in the Gandhian Universe”

On 20 November Bidyut Chakrabarty (University of Delhi/Hamburg University) will give a talk on “BR Ambedkar: A progressive radical in the Gandhian Universe”, organised by the Institute for Indian and Central Asian Studies at Leipzig University.

Time: 5 p.m.

Venue: Schillerstr 6, room S 102

Federal funding: Social reasons and effects of Islamism in Germany and Europe

The funding aims to support research in the social sciences, humanities and cultural studies that can help politics and society in finding basic and practice-relevant answers on how to deal with radical Islam in Germany and Europe. Funding will be provided for individual and collaborative projects that investigate the social causes and effects of the rise of Islamism in its various manifestations in Germany and Europe empirically and systematically. Main topics should be either the social reasons for the rise of Islamism in Germany and Europe or the social effects of the Islamism in Germany and Europe.

Deadline for applications: 22 January 2019

Call for Papers: “Religiosity in East and West – Conceptual and Methodological Challenges”

The University of Munster is calling for papers for its conference on “Religiosity in East and West – Conceptual and Methodological Challenges”, 25-27 June 2019.

Starting from the question if contemporary conceptualisations and operationalisations of religiosity are too strongly oriented towards the idea of an enlightened and individualized belief, the Munster conference will discuss established concepts of religiosity and try to expand them by alternative concepts where appropriate. The conference wants to create an interdisciplinary academic forum with scholars from diverse religious and cultural contexts

Paper abstracts (250-300 words) can be submitted to Sarah Demmrich by 15 January, 2019.