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Dear friends and colleagues,

This week we would like to announce our upcoming colloquium with our guest Martín Andrade-Pérez and our Senior Research Fellow Todd Weir. We also want to draw your attention to a new KFG publication, two public lectures and a workshop.

And speaking of workshop: Next week, 23-24 June, our hybrid KFG-Workshop on "(Im)Materiality of the Secular City: Trials and Tribulations" will take place. You can find the programme here [X] and register via multiple-secularties@uni-leipzig.de.

Enjoy the read and have a great rest of the week!

Lucy

Next Week’s Colloquium: Martín Andrade-Pérez and Todd Weir on “Religious heritage and secularity: The politics of the Unesco List of Immaterial Cultural Heritage”, 22 June

At next week’s colloquium, our guest Martín Andrade-Pérez, PhD candidate at the University of Groningen and guest researcher at the Meertens Institute Amsterdam, and our Senior Research Fellow Todd Weir will give a presentation on “Religious heritage and secularity: The politics of the Unesco List of Immaterial Cultural Heritage”. The colloquium serves as the initial meeting to discuss the proposal that both speakers have made for a future workshop on the way Unesco world immaterial heritage status is caught up in the global trend towards the use of religious heritage to ground new politics of national identity that may undermine or reframe regimes of secularity.

Comments: Birgit Meyer, Aike Rots and Irene Stengs.

The colloquium will take place in a hybrid format (on-site and online). Please register for the colloquium via e-mail, if you would like to join in person. In the member area you find the relevant readings as well as the zoom connection data.

22 June | 9.15–11.45 a.m. (CET)

Strohsack, Room 4.55 and online via Zoom

Public Lecture: Katharina Wilkens on “Africanisation: An Example of Material Secularity”

As part of the seminar and lecture series “Material Secularities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”, our Senior Research Fellow Katharina Wilkens will speak about “Africanisation: An Example of Material Secularity” on 16 June.

The lecture series is offered this summer semester at Leipzig University, organised by our Senior Researchers Magnus Echtler and Yasemin Ural together with our Senior Research Fellow Katharina Wilkens. It is open to all interested parties.

16 June | 5–7 p.m. (CET)

Leipzig University | Seminar building, Room S 403 and online via zoom

Public lecture: Huang Ko-wu on “Chinese Intellectuals’ Rethinking of Science, Religion, and Superstition in the 20th Century: From Yan Fu, Liang Qichao to New Confucians”

As part of the lecture series 2021/2022 New Perspectives on Modernity in China, Huang Ko-wu 黃克武, Academician, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, will speak about Chinese Intellectuals’ Rethinking of Science, Religion, and Superstition in the 20th Century: From Yan Fu, Liang Qichao to New Confucians 二十世紀初期中國知識分子對科學、宗教與迷信的再思考：以嚴復與梁啟超為例”.

If you are interested, please register here.

17 June | 10 a.m. (CET)

Online via Zoom.

Workshop on "The Politics of Family and Youth in Contemporary Turkey", 17–18 June

Our Associate Member Markus Dreßler is organising a conference on "The Politics of Family and Youth in Contemporary Turkey" in Istanbul this Friday and Saturday.

Our colleague Tuğçe Özdemir will contribute to the conference with her talk on "Diverging Parenting Practices of Middle-Class Families in Turkey" and Aydın Özipek will speak on "Yurtdışı as a Common Aspirational Horizon among Young People in Turkey: Different Pathways, Orientations, Engagements". Markus Dressler will facilitate a roundtable on "Explaining AKP Politics: Economy, Geopolitics and Religion (?)".

17-18 June | Istanbul

If you have any content that you think suits the purpose of the weekly, please feel free to send it to us at multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de.