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Dear friends and colleagues,

Next week in our colloquium we welcome our guest Jelle Creemers, before we enter our Quiet August and take a 5-week break from regular events. We also want to call your attention once again to our Screening Religion next week and a conference with the participation of a KFG associate.

Enjoy and have a good week!

Your KFG-Team

Next week’s Colloquium: Jelle Creemers on “When Privilege and Control Converge: Discursive Developments on Religion-State Relations in Belgium”, 26 July

Next Wednesday, our guest Jelle Creemers (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven) will give a presentation on “When Privilege and Control Converge: Discursive Developments on Religion-State Relations in Belgium” at our colloquium.

The colloquium will take place in a hybrid format (on-site and online). In the Member Area you will find more information including preparatory readings and the zoom connection data.

26 July | 9.15–11.45 am (CEST) Strohsack, Room 4.55 and online via zoom

Screening Religion 26 July: König hört auf

The long-time youth pastor Lothar König from Jena does not fit into any system. In the GDR he was shadowed by the Stasi, after reunification he was tirelessly active in the fight against right-wing radicalism, often in the front row. He was personally attacked and eventually put on trial. The cinematic portrait shot by his son, the Leipzig filmmaker Tilman König, is nevertheless not a glorifying homage, but a critical tribute to a feisty character who has to reinvent himself with retirement. A documentary about the question of what it means to act and live politically across generations.

The film will be followed by a discussion with the director Tilman König and sociologist Alexander Leistner.

26 July 2023, 7.30 p.m.
Cinémàtheque Leipzig at naTo
German with English subs
Free entry, donations welcome

DGSKA Conference 2023: „Contested Knowledge: Anthropological Perspectives“ | 25–28 July, LMU München

We would like to point you to the DGSKA (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie/German Association for Social and Cultural Anthropology) conference 2023 “Contested Knowledge: Anthropological Perspectives”. 

Our Senior Researcher Yasemin Ural is contributing to the workshop "Knowledge and Affect: Developing the concepts of ‘Stimmung’ and ‘Atmosphere’ for Sociocultural Analysis" with a presentation on "Decolonialism, Laïcité and affective knowledge production in French academia".

Our Associate Member Sana Chavoshian is organising the Panel of the regional group Middle East and North Africa entitled „From Metaphor to Proxy: Military Knowledge and Waring Epistemologies“. The panel will open with Nomi Stone’s (Texas University Dallas) keynote on “Contesting Knowledge in Mock Middle Eastern Villages” and will follow with two lectures by Georg Stauth (JGU Mainz) on “Orientalism and Surrealism” and Younes Saramifar (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) on “Dogs of War: Hysteric Piety in Shia Militia.” 

25–28 July 2023 | LMU München

„From Metaphor to Proxy: Military Knowledge and Waring Epistemologies“: 26 July, 4 p.m.

"Knowledge and Affect: Developing the concepts of ‘Stimmung’ and ‘Atmosphere’ for Sociocultural Analysis": 28 July, 9.30 a.m.

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