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Dear friends and colleagues,

Early summer is finally here and with it more liveliness around us. Our next Screening Religion film “Pfarrer” (”Priests”) will also be lively and the online screening in cooperation with Cinémathèque Leipzig will be on 9 June. Earlier the same day, we’ll have our colloquium – this time with our new Senior Research Fellow Giuseppe Tateo. Furthermore, we have several event announcements from our fellows for you including online lectures and a book launch.

We wish you a great week and hope to see some of you tomorrow and on Friday at our 2nd workshop on differentiation theory!

Anja & Lucy

​Fellows at KFG: Welcome and Farewell

We warmly welcome our new Senior Research Fellow Giuseppe Tateo to the KFG. He will be working on his project with the title “Church-building after socialism: an overview” and stay with us for the next 12 months. Before coming to Leipzig, he worked as a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Sociological Studies at Charles University Prague and as a lecturer at the Department of Communication Studies at Rīga Stradiņš University.

This month we also say farewell to our Senior Research Fellow Saïd Arjomand: From April to May, he contributed to our KFG with his research project on “Transcendence and Secularities in Ancient and Modern Religions of Iran”. We would like to thank him for his visit and the good collaboration.

Next week’s Colloquium: Giuseppe Tateo on "Church-building after socialism: an overview"

Our new Senior Research Fellow Giuseppe Tateo will make his debut at KFG with his presentation at next week’s colloquium on “Church-building after socialism: an overview”. Our Permanent Senior Research Fellow Wolfgang Höpken will comment on his talk.

In the member area, you find the outline of his project as well as an article draft giving an overview on the church-building industry in Romania after 1990. You also find the zoom connection data in the member area as the colloquium will take place as online event.

9 June | 9:15–11:45 a.m. (CET)

Online via zoom

Screening Religion: „Pfarrer” / “Priests”

Our Screening Religion series continues and up next we will show the film „Pfarrer” (“Priests”) on 9 June: Two atheist filmmakers accompany a group of young men and women in the final phase of their parish training in Wittenberg. While at the beginning it is mainly about learning the liturgical “craft”, in the course of time they are confronted with very fundamental human questions and the boundaries between faith and unbelief, comfort and despair become blurred.

The film will be shown in cooperation with Cinémathèque Leipzig in German language with English subtitles. There will be a discussion following the film. Registration is not necessary.

9 June | 7:00 p.m. (CET)

Online via livestream

Online Lecture and Book Presentation with Discussion by Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz

Our Permanent Senior Research Fellow Wolfgang Höpken draws our attention to two events organised by the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz in cooperation with Südosteuropa Gesellschaft. On 9 June, the political scientist and professor at the European University Institute in Florence Oliver Roy will give a presentation on “Laïcité in France: How the Fight Against ‘Islamist Separatism’ Contributes to the Dechristianizaiton of France”. The lecture is part of a series titled “Religion and Politics in Southeastern Europe”.

The next day, on 10 June, there will be a book launch of “Under the Banner of Islam? Turks, Kurds and the Limits of Religious Unity” by Gülay Türkmen, political sociologist at the University of Graz. Registration is not necessary.

Online lecture:    
9 June | 1:00–3:00 p.m. (CET)
Online via webex

Book launch:    
10 June | 6:00–7:30 p.m. (CET)
Online via zoom

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