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Wednesday Weekly 16 October 2019
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Workshop with Rajeev Bhargava on “Secularism and Multiple Secularities in India”KFG “Multiple Secularities”
1-5 November 2019
At the beginning of November Rajeev Bhargava will be guest at the KFG and hold a workshop on „Secularism and Multiple Secularities in India" jointly with Monika Wohlrab-Sahr and Sushmita Nath.
On 1st and 4th of November we will have two Author Meets Critics sessions, discussing recent articles by Rajeev Bhargava on ancient Indian secularism as well as on modern European secularism. In 5th of November we will critically discuss the applicability of the Multiple Secularities approach to India.
In the afternoons of each day, there will be opportunity of one-on-one talks. |
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The workshop is open to all interested. Please register by 23 October by e-mail to: multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de
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Conference: “Things of Faith. Materialized Piety in the Premodern Age”Jena, 07– 09 November 2019
The 4th Annual Conference of the Working Group “Material Culture and Consumption in the Premodern Period” focuses on the handling of religious things in early modern times. With the study of the materiality of faith the organisers seek to offer a productive approach across denominations and religions in order to examine historically specific forms of piety and religious practice from a cultural studies perspective.
Applications for participation are possible until 24 October.
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Public lectures |
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Korshi Dosoo (University of Würzburg): The Powers Of Hell – The Pharaonic Landscape In Christian MagicLeipzig University, Lecture hall 8
17 October 2019: 6:15–7:15
In his lecture Dosoo discusses Christian Coptic magic in theory and practice by exploring the significance of ancient Egyptian magical practices in present day Christian Coptic magic. Egyptian and Coptic magical texts are compared to answer the following questions: How close are the religious ideas in Pharaonic and Christian Coptic magic to each other? Are there borders and if, (how) are these borders transgressed? |
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Leipzig University, Schillerstraße 6
22 October, 5:30 p.m. |
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Andrew Alter (Macquarie University, Sydney): Caste, Patronage and the Sacred Realm – Re-considering the Folkloric in Contemporary Music of UttarakhandThe Hindi/Sanskrit term “lok” is almost always translated into English as “folk”. Such an easy translation would suggest that the concept for folkloric practice in India is similar in many, if not most, respects to the concept in Europe/America. However, a more detailed etymological investigation of the term ‘lok’ as well as the dynamics of Hindu caste and religion shape the folk concept in ways that are unique to South Asia. This presentation examines musical practice in the North Indian state of Uttarakhand to provide examples of ways in which local concepts for folk music are unique, not only to the context of South Asia, but also to the Himalayan region of which Uttarakhand is a part. |
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Claudio Sopranzetti (University of Oxford): History Once More – The Rise of Authoritarianism in ThailandSince the end of the Cold War Thailand has been the poster child of democratisation processes in Southeast Asia. Students’ protests, farmers’ activisms, a thriving civil society and expanding middle classes seemed to make the country to a model of successful democratic transition. In the last decades, however, many of the forces that supported that process have turned sour toward electoral politics. This talk explores how that happened – In term of new class alliances, discourses of corruption and morality, and legalism – and casts Thailand as a space of experimentation for a new model of authoritarianism, inspired by Beijing and spreading throughout the region. |
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Film Festival: 10th Latin American DaysLeipzig/Halle, 17.–26. October
The Latin American Days Leipzig will take place for the 10th time this year. With its screenings, the film festival wants to inform about the political, economic and social situation in Latin America and bring its cultural diversity closer to the Leipzig public. This year, more than 40 feature films and short films will provide an insight into both the current cinema landscape and public discourse.
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