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Dear friends and colleagues, This week we would like to draw your attention to the new publication of our Senior Research Fellow Anindita Chakrabarti, announce the upcoming meetings of the KFG’s reading group and spread two urgent job announcements. Moreover, this year’s Leipzig Intercultural Weeks are going to start on Saturday with lots of interesting events and this week’s finding asks for your support of a special culinary crowdfunding project. Enjoy and have a good week! |
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Job announcement IWe are urgently looking for short-term support for research in the following archives in October and November:
Requirements: Driver's license, very good knowledge of German and English, experience in archive research, flexibility. We will pay for the work on a fee basis (20€/h) according to actual expenditure, necessary travel and accommodation costs and fees are covered. Please feel free to share this announcement. Those interested may contact Judith for further information.
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Job announcement IIWithin the DFG funded project “Piety and Secularity Contested: Family and Youth Politics in post-Kemalist ‘New Turkey’” a Postdoc Researcher position (TV-L 13), for three years starting April 1, 2020 is to be filled. In two interrelated subprojects, the research project examines the effects of current political transformations in Turkey on the domains of family and youth. Special attention will be paid to the changes in these domains as pushed forward under the government of the “Justice and Development Party” (AKP). The project will be headed by our former Senior Researcher and current Associate member Markus Dreßler and will closely cooperate with the KFG “Multiple Secularities”. Deadline for application: 10 October 2020.
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Reading groupThe KFG’s informal reading group continues its meetings. Today, 16 September, they will finish the reading of Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit’s “Occidentalism”. For the upcoming meeting on 23 September (4-6 p.m.) they agreed to read Aziz Al-Azmeh’s working paper on “Secularism and its Enemies”. The idea of this reading group is that people sharing an interest in a certain book or also an article are meeting to discuss it (not necessarily the whole book, but one or two chapters at a time), also occasional participation is possible. For more information on the current sessions, please get in touch with Johannes. |
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Leipzig Intercultural Weeks starting 19 SeptemberFrom 19 September until 4 October 2020, the Leipzig Intercultural Weeks will take place with a variety of events throughout the city. Intercultural associations, migrant organisations, youth and cultural institutions, religious communities and many more will be among the participants of the Leipzig Intercultural Weeks. This year's Intercultural Weeks have the motto "Living together, growing together".
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Findings: Call for Crowdfunding: AllerLEI – Leipzig Delight FactoryThis week, Judith calls our attention to a special crowdfunding project: AllerLEI – which literally means something like ‘All sorts of things’ but also refers to Leipzig in a word play – processes food from regional producers and preserves it: From October 2020, products such as tomato sugo, pumpkin soup or BBQ carrots will be available in little jars. Most of you know the team of AllerLEI, because it is a project of Daniel Jurisch and his team from PAN/Quagga, our favourite caterer and restaurant for the events of KFG in collaboration with a hand-picked selection of Leipzig chefs and regional food producers. With their ambition to process products from Leipzig and its surroundings sustainably, ecologically and in superior quality, they want to show how creative and important regional value chains can look like. Until 20 September you can support this culinary project via crowdfunding and thus help to realise it as quick as possible. If you want to try AllerLei's products in advance, you can do so every Tuesday and Friday at their stand at the Leipzig weekly market.
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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. |
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Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities" Nikolaistraße 8-10, 04109 Leipzig Mail: multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de |