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Dear friends and colleagues, as you have surely noticed, we now also wear masks and other nose and mouth covers in the corridors of our office. So we have drawn up several hygiene measures for our office, which we would like to introduce to you below. In addition, we have a webinar, an online lecture, a conference and a event recommendation for this evening for you. Enjoy and have a great week! |
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Hygiene measures to protect against COVID-19 infectionSince 9 October, a hygiene and infection protection concept for the containment of the corona virus has been in force at Leipzig University, which is also binding for the CASHSS "Multiple Secularities". Among other things, it includes basic rules on access to buildings, rules on social distancing, room use, events and (official) travel, as well as individual protection measures. In addition, the university has defined various action scenarios, which depend on the respective incidence of infection in Leipzig and are dis-played on the university's homepage with the help of a so-called “Corona-Ampel” (Coronavirus traffic light). We will continuously communicate the status of this traffic light and the associated restrictions by displaying a sign at our offices. The general regulations of Leipzig University result in the following regu-lations for work and office operations in the CASHSS "Multiple Secularities": General regulations
Regulations for offices/meeting rooms
Regulations for lounge and kitchen
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Webinar: Dipesh Chakrabarty on “The Planetary Age in Human History”Our senior researcher Yasemin Ural draws our attention to a webinar with the historian Dipesh Chakrabarty (Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago) organized by WiSER – the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of the Witwatersrand on “The Planetary Age in Human History”. Chakrabarty is one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change and the implications of the Anthropocene for the practice of knowledge and theoretical imagination. Climate change, he argues, upends longstanding ideas of capitalism, history and globalization. This talk will introduce and elucidate the notion of a new "planetary age" in human history and discuss some of the intellectual challenges it poses to scholarship in the humanities. 15 October 2020, 4 pm | Zoom
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Online Lecture Series: ReOrienting the Global Study of ReligionFitzroy Morrissey (University of Oxford) will be giving a lecture with the title “Ibn Khaldūn on Sufism: Mysticism through the Lens of History, Philosophy, and Law” within the online lecture series "ReOrienting the Global Study of Religion: History, Theory, and Society". The nature of Ibn Khaldun’s relationship to Sufism is a complex and much-debated issue. Through a close look at Khaldun’s discussion of Sufism in the Muqaddimah and other relevant sources, this talk aims to shed further light on the issue. Placing Ibn Khaldun’s treatment of Sufism in the context of his wider intellectual project, it shall be considered how his views on Sufism tie into his famous philosophy of history and other essential aspects of his thought. 28 October 2020, 7:30 pm | Zoom
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Conference: Female Visions. The Religious Visual Culture of Contemporary Female Islamic MysticismWe would like to draw your attention to the international conference Female Visions: The Religious Visual Culture of Contemporary Female Islamic Mysticism. which is being organised jointly by the Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, the Centre for Islamic Theology - University of Tübingen, and the Institut d'ethnologie méditerranéenne, européenne et comparative (IDEMEC), Aix-Marseille/CNRS. Drawing on recent research regarding the visual-material turn in the study of religion, this interdisciplinary conference will focus on the often-overlooked role of women in contemporary Islamic mysticism and in the socially-engaged dimension of Sufi belief and practice. 16–18 October 2020 | Stuttgart-Hohenheim and online (online participation is free of charge)
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Film screening: “Becoming Black”We also have a last minute event recommendation for you. Tonight you can watch the documentary "Becoming Black" (by Ines Johnson-Spain, Germany 2019) at the Cinématèque Leipzig at nato, our partners for our beloved film series Screeing Religion. Ines was born in the GDR in the early 1960s and grew up as a dark-skinned daughter in a white family. Her parents raised her claiming that her skin color was pure coincidence. In this very personal film, the filmmaker reconstructs her family history in original photos and conversations, and gives an insight into the experiences of People of Color in the GDR. Her search for answers leads her not least to Togo and breaks with systemic silence and repression. Since there are currently limited seating capacities, we recommend that you buy or reserve tickets online in advance. You can do that here. 14 October 2020, 10 pm (French and German with English subtitles) And if you can't make it tonight: The film is also available in the media library of ZDF.
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