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Dear friends and colleagues,

This week we are back with the announcement of the colloquium with our Senior Research Fellow Housameddem Darwish which will be the last colloquium before our summer break starts. We also have a recommendation for a Postdoc job opportunity for you and we would like to draw your attention to an event with the exciting and lively music of the Balkans. 

Enjoy and have a good week!

Anja & Lucy

Next week’s colloquium: Housamedden Darwish on “The (In)Compatibility of Islam with Modernity: (Mis)Understanding of Secularity/Secularism in the Arab and Islamicate Worlds”

Our Senior Research Fellow Housamedden Darwish will give a presentation on his research project on “The (In)Compatibility of Islam with Modernity: (Mis)Understanding of Secularity/Secularism in the Arab and Islamicate Worlds”. Our Associate Member Markus Dreßler will comment on his talk.

As usual, you find the relevant reading in the member area.

The colloquium will take place as a hybrid event. If you would like to attend in person, please register via e-mail. The number of physically present participants is again limited to 10 people. In the member area, you will also find the zoom connection data in case you plan to join the colloquium online.

28 July | 9.15–11.45 a.m. (CET)

Hybrid format | Strohsack, 4.55 and via zoom

Housam's presentation will be the last colloquium before our summer break: there will be no KFG events in August, which is why it is known as Quiet August among us. We will inform you in time about the resumption.

Job Opportunity: Postdoc Position in Social Anthropology

Our Junior Research Fellow Mascha Schulz, now working as a Research Fellow at the European Research Council (ERC) funded project “Religion and its Others in South Asia and the World (ROSA)” draws our attention to a job opportunity based at the University of Cambridge: The University’s Department of Social Anthropology invites applications for a full-time Research Associate position in the ethics of asylum and non-religion, to begin on 1 October 2021 for a period of 42 months. The successful applicant will join the multi-country research ROSA project, that uses an anthropological approach to investigate the forms in which individuals and communities raise, in the open or in more hidden transcripts, questions over the dominant religious norms in South Asia. The project is led by Jacob Copeman at the University of Santiago de Compostela/Spain, and includes a consortium of researchers based at Cambridge, Zurich, Lyon and Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.

Deadline: 8 August | Application submission online

Klezmer Summer Festival with Bassarabia Banda at Budde-Haus

Driving rhythms, rousing melodies and timbres from Europe and the Orient. Bassarabia Banda take their audience on a journey through the Balkans and its exciting and lively music. Just as the Balkans unite Europe and Asia, the music of the six musicians of the band, who come from Germany, Moldavia and Russia, unites them, too.

The event takes place in the beer garden of the Budde-Haus – a socio-cultural centre in the northern part of Leipzig. We recommend reserving a seat via e-mail or directly at the counter of the beer garden.

23 July | 7.00–10.00 p.m. (CET)

Budde-Haus (Beer garden), Lützowstraße 19, 04157 Leipzig

Doors open 6.00 p.m.

Free entrance | Donations welcome

Please pay attention to the admission rules on site (keeping the minimum distance, obligation to wear masks in areas where a minimum distance cannot be maintained, registration of contact details.

In case of very bad weather, the event will unfortunately have to be cancelled.

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.