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Dear friends and colleagues,

The next colloquium on 27 July with Rajeev Bhargava announced last week, unfortunately has to be cancelled. Thus, we are already in the summer break with our colloquia, which will of course be continued in September.

In today's Wednesday Weekly, we would like to present a new publication by KFG members, draw your attention to a workshop and a Call for Papers and say farewell to one of our Senior Research Fellows.

To round off this week, we would like to recommend to you a guitar concert at the Versöhnungskirche Leipzig-Gohlis on Sunday.

Have a good week!

Anja & Lucy

CANCELLED! – Next Week’s Colloquium with Rajeev Bhargava, 27 July

The colloquium with our Senior Research Fellow Rajeev Bhargava next Wednesday unfortunately has to be cancelled.

We will organize a new date for his presentation and let you know in due time.

CANCELLED! 27 July | 9.15–11.45 a.m.

Workshop (mostly in German) on „Globale Religionsgeschichte: Perspektiven für den Religionsvergleich“ (“Global History of Religions: Perspectives for the Comparison of Religions”), 28–29 July at University of Vienna

We would like to draw your attention to a two-day workshop on „Globale Religionsgeschichte: Perspektiven für den Religionsvergleich“ at the University of Vienna, to which several KFG members are contributing: From 28 to 29 July, the Department of Religious Studies in cooperation with the Research Centre Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society is organizing this workshop.

Our Associate Member Florian Zemmin will talk about “Sociological perspectives on religion in Arabic and their Islamic genealogy” and our Director Christoph Kleine will give a presentation on “Pre-colonial entanglements and comparisons as a motor and as a theme of a global history of religion: preliminary considerations using the example of Japan”. Moreover, our Senior Research Fellow Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz will speak about “Nga rang gi chos khyod rang gi chos: ‘my doctrine and your doctrine’, ‘my dharma and your dharma’, ‘my religion and your religion’? Comparison of Religions and Global History of Religions”, while our Senior Research Fellow Adrian Hermann will give a presentation on “Global Translations: Religion and Science in Thailand and the Philippines in the 19th and Early 20th Century”. You can find the abstracts here.

Free registration is possible until 25 July. For further information please send an e-mail or have a look at the workshop’s website.  

28–29 July

University of Vienna

Call for Papers: Conference on “Structuring Diversity – Structuring Religion. Religious Diversity and Human Heterogeneity in Society”, University of Lucerne & online, 30 March–1 April 2023

We would like to draw your attention to the Call for Papers for the international conference on “Structuring Diversity - Structuring Religion: Religious Diversity and Human Heterogeneity in Society”. The conference will take place from 30 March to 1 April 2023 at the University of Lucerne and online. It is organized by the Department for the Study of Religions at University of Lucerne, in cooperation with the Swiss Association for the Study of Religions, the department for cultural studies at the University of Lucerne, the department of History at the Federal University of Paraná (Brazil) and the Department for the Study of Religions at Philipps University Marburg.

The conference aims to investigate “diversity” as a term in the study of religions, and thus develop the field’s “critical diversity literacy” (Steyn and Dankwa 2021). That is, the study of religions’ capacity to analyze religious and social differences, and the relationships involved therein, by considering the asymmetries of power, and differences in scope of action, of various individuals and groups.

Proposals must be submitted electronically via this website. The conference language is English. For further information, please contact the conference organizers or visit the conference website.

Deadline for submitting title and abstract (max. 250 words): 31 August

Acceptance: 30 September

Conference date: 30 March–1 April 2023

Hybrid format | University of Lucerne and Online

Guitar Concert with “Hands On Strings”, 24 July

The church space as a concert experience – on Sunday this will be possible in the Versöhnungskirche (Church of Reconciliation) in Leipzig-Gohlis.

The musicians Thomas Fellow and Stephan Bormann, who together form the duo “Hands On Strings”, are well known in the international guitar scene and will give this concert on donation basis. They play with the intensity of a band and the timbres of an orchestra. The two guitarists completely forget stylistic boundaries as well as those of the instrument and conjure up music for all the senses.

The donations will be used to support the structural maintenance of the church.

24 July | 7 p.m. (CET)

Church of Reconciliation, Viertelsweg/Franz-Mehring-Straße, 04157 Leipzig

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.