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Wednesday Weekly 18 September 2019
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Working Papers #14 and #16 This week we want to announce the two latest publications in our Working Papers Series: In the Working Paper #14 Nader Sohrabi examines “Pathways, Contingencies, and the Secular in Iran’s First Revolution”. In #16, “Religion-based ‘Personal’ Law, Legal Pluralism and Secularity: A Field View of Adjudication of Muslim Personal Law in India”, Suchandra Ghosh and Anindita Chakrabarti aspire to shed light on how this plural legal landscape is negotiated by litigants, especially women, and thereby illustrate the procedural interplay between civil and religious courts through this adjudication process. |
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Workshop: Cosmopolitanism in Western and Islamic ThoughtThe Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities invites to their two-part workshop on “Cosmopolitanism in Western and Islamic Thought” from 25-26 September 2019, taking place at Freie Universität Berlin. This international workshop aims to explore the meaning of cosmopolitanism in Western and Islamic traditions and will provide a forum to investigate the mutual influences in the intellectual history of the concept in different cultural and intellectual traditions. The second part is held at Kuwait University from 9-10 December 2019.
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CfA: Phd Position at Emmy Noether Group on Early Modern Musar-LiteratureThe Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion of the University of Hamburg invites applications for a Research Associate for the Emmy Noether research project “Jewish Moralistic Writings (Musar) of the Early Modern Period: 1600-1800”. The term is fixed for a period of 12 months. Depending on approval of the project's second funding period, the contract may be renewed for an additional 24 months. The position commences on 01 January 2020. It is remunerated at the salary level TV-L 13 (75%).
Please send applications by 27 October 2019 to: patrick.benjamin.koch@uni-hamburg.de.
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Exhibition: Christian Nyampeta - A Flower GardenA Flower Garden of All Kinds of Loveliness Without Sorrow is the artist Christian Nyampeta’s first solo exhibition in Germany. Nyampeta’s A Flower Garden deals with the representational mechanisms of language and narrations, processes of translation, as well as cultural acts of violence. The exhibition presents a combination of works, including film and sculpture, which narrate histories and fictions from within the former European colonies Congo and Rwanda. The exhibition is shown at gfzk (gallery for temporary art) until 29 September, the film screening is on 25 September at 7 p.m.
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