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The KFG wishes a merry and peaceful  Christmas season and a happy and healthy New Year to all colleagues! We will be back in office around 2 January.

CfP: The Near Eastern Saddle Period

Our recent Senior Fellow Florian Zemmin calls for papers for an international conference on "The Near Eastern Saddle Period: The Formation of Modern Concepts in Arabic, Turkish, and Persian" (University of Bern, 12-14 June 2019). The conference aims at strengthening the integration of the field of conceptual history of Near Eastern languages by bringing together scholars – of all career stages – already working on conceptual history in Arabic, Turkish, and Persian. Please send your extensive abstract of 350–450 words and a short CV by February 15 to: florian.zemmin@islam.unibe.ch

More Holiday Greetings

Our former Senior Fellow Dagmar Schwerk, who is know the Khyentse Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Tibetan Buddhist Studies at the University of British Columbia, asked us to forward her holiday greetings to all colleagues of the KFG:

Dear former colleagues, 

Now with the year coming to a close I wish you all a well deserved break and Happy Holidays in winterly Leipzig. 

Working in the KFG-MS team in 2018 has been an honour, pleasure and very valuable experience for me, thanks for that!

I wish you a Merry Christmas with your family and friends and much success in the New Year. I am planning to visit Germany and most probably as well Leipzig in summer. 

Warmly, Dagmar

CfP: Religion in Western Balkan Societies

The Regional Conference on Religion in Western Balkan Societies, 11-12 June 2019 in Tirana, aims to explore threats and opportunities for the role of religion in Western Balkans societies and to contribute to enhancing societal and policy mechanisms to better respond to future challenges in this regard. Deadline for proposals is 20 January 2019, deadline for full papers is 25 March 2019.