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Dear friends and colleagues,

Today we have a new publication for you as well as a recommendation for a workshop with participation of KFG Fellows. Moreover, we want to share with you two Calls for Papers and two Calls for Applications, and finally, a short reminder about tonight’s Screening Religion of “Sacred Ground” at 7 pm at the Cinémathèque Leipzig at naTo.

Have a good start into spring and take care!

Anja & Lucy

REMINDER: Screening Religion: “Sacred Ground”, Tonight at naTo

Tonight we will show the film “Sacred Ground” at the Cinémathèque Leipzig at naTo as part of our Screening Religion series. The film tells the story of Torfyanka, a small park in the Northeast of Moscow, where contention between the believers and park defenders has turned into a severe struggle with night watches, physical fights and mutual offence.

The film will be shown in Russian language with English subs, and there will be a discussion afterwards.

Tonight | 7 pm (CET)

Cinémathèque Leipzig at naTo, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 46, 04275 Leipzig

Free entry, donations welcome

Workshop/Masterclass on “Unesco and the politics of religious heritage”, University of Groningen 25–26 May

Our Senior Research Fellow Todd Weir is co-hosting a workshop/masterclass for PhD and MA students on the topic of “Unesco and the politics of religious heritage” at the University of Groningen 25–26 May. This masterclass will focus on the politicization of religious heritage, taking as case studies religious practices and traditions that have been inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. For two days, the participants will analyze the power of religious heritage as a political tool that structures the relationship between the states and religion in new ways.

Speakers include, among others, Martín Andrade-Pérez, who was our guest at the KFG colloquium in June 2022 on this topic, as well as our Senior Research Fellow Marian Burchardt.

Students are invited to register by sending an e-mail.

25–26 May | University of Groningen. Online attendance is planned

Call for Papers I: Workshop on “Sensory Aspects of Muslim Preaching”, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, 25–27 October

The workshop on “Sensory Aspects of Muslim Preaching”, which will take place from 25–27 October at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, invites scholars of all qualification levels to share their research on the significance of sensory experiences in Muslim preaching practices and their reception. Proposals from scholars based in the Global South and early career researchers are particularly encouraged. Workshop papers will be published in either a special issue or edited volume.

Submission of abstracts (max. 500 words) + CV: 7 April

Submission of draft articles: 8 October

Conference dates: 25–27 October

Call for Papers II: “Religion in Motion: Between Borders and Belonging”, Biennial conference of the Dutch Association for the Study of Religion, Nijmegen, 1–3 November

Religiosity and mobility have been topics of research and debate for scholars working with different theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary approaches. The biennial conference of the Dutch Association for the Study of Religion on “Religion in Motion: Between Borders and Belonging” aims to explore how the study of religion might be transformed through a focus on mobility in its various forms. Bringing together scholars who work at the intersection of mobility and religion, this conference invites scholars of religion to converse with those working in anthropology and sociology; history, law, and political science; and the study of transnationalism, borders, migration, and refugees, to name just a few fields.

Submission of individual papers or panel proposals: 15 April

Registration deadline for accepted presenters: 15 August

Conference dates: 1–3 November

Job Opportunity I: Five doctoral positions at The Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt

The Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt invites applications for up to 5 doctoral positions for PhD projects in the fields of Music Didactics, Modern History, Early Christianity, Religious Studies and Sociology as well as related subjects within the framework of the International Graduate School (IGS) “Resonant Self–World Relations in Ancient and Modern Socio-Religious Practices” directed by Jörg Rüpke and Hartmut Rosa as well as Wolfgang Spickermann and Irmtraud Fischer. The positions are to be filled by 1 October for a period of 3 years.

Inquiries may be made to Elisabeth Begemann.

Application Deadline: 14 April

Job Opportunity II: PhD position at the Vienna Doctoral School of Theology and Research on Religion

The Vienna Doctoral School of Theology and Research on Religion VDTR, a structured PhD programme offered jointly by the Faculty of Protestant Theology, the Faculty of Catholic Theology and the Research Centre “Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society RaT”, is looking to fill one university assistant position (prae-doc) as of 1 June.

The VDTR combines a wide range of theological and non-theological disciplines, methods and approaches in research on religion within one doctoral school.

Application Deadline: 9 April

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