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Dear friends and colleagues,

For next week’s colloquium we are happy to welcome another guest: Timo Duile from the University of Bonn will present his research on Atheism in Indonesia. This week we also have a recommendation for a webinar and a book presentation for you and we would like to give you the latest update on Covid-19 health protection measures. And we are pleased to – finally again – be able to include a cultural highlight in our Wednesday Weekly.

Enjoy and have a good week!

Anja & Lucy

Next week’s Colloquium: Timo Duile on “Atheism in Indonesia. Ways of Life of non-religious individuals in the religious harmony state”

At next week’s colloquium we have the pleasure to welcome Timo Duile who will give a presentation on his research project “Atheism in Indonesia. Ways of Life of non-religious individuals in the religious harmony state”. Timo Duile is a researcher at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Bonn. His research focuses include indigenous identity, ecological conflicts as well as cultural and religious pluralism and Islam and secularism/atheism.

You find his article “Being Atheist in the Religious Harmony State of Indonesia” in the member area as preparation for the colloquium.

Again, we are offering the colloquium as a hybrid event. If you would like to attend in person, please register via e-mail. The number of physically present participants is limited to 10 people. In the member area, you also find the zoom connection data if you want to join the colloquium online. Timo Duile will participate virtually.

Please note that next week's colloquium will be held in room 5.55 (not 4.55), one floor up.

30 June | 9:15–11:45 a.m. (CET)

Hybrid format | Strohsack, 5.55 and via zoom

Webinar on “Religions in the time of Covid-19” with the participation of José Casanova and Book Presentation with Yahya Pallavicini

Our director Monika Wohlrab-Sahr draws our attention to an online event on 30 June: In collaboration between ICSOR – International Center for the Sociology of Religion and the Istituto Tevere in Rome, there will be an English-language webinar on “Religions in the time of Covid-19” with the participation of José Casanova, interviewed by Cenap Aydin, director of the Istituto Tevere.

Besides that, on 1 July ICSOR together with the Istituto Tevere organises another webinar – this time in Italian language – for the presentation of the book “CONTEMPLARE ALLÂH. Regole sulla Via interiore di maestri musulmani” by Yahya Pallavicini, president of COREIS, the Islamic Religious Community of Italy, one of the principal organisations of institutional representation of Islam in Italy. The author will be present.

WEBINAR WITH JOSÉ CASANOVA

30 June | 6 p.m. (CET)

Online via zoom

BOOK PRESENTATION WITH YAHYA PALLAVICINI

1 July | 6 p.m. (CET)

Online via zoom

Update on Covid-19 health protection measures

We all are happy that the number of coronavirus infections is steadily decreasing. You have also played your part in this – thank you! Leipzig University wants to gradually lift further restrictions, in a responsible manner. The University Hygiene and Infectious Disease Concept is currently being revised and a new version of it is due to come into force on 1 July 2021. We will, of course, keep you informed about this.

For the time being, the most important measures we have taken to control the pandemic continue to apply in the workplace, first and foremost keeping our distance and wearing medical face masks. At our offices, testing every two days will remain mandatory and we will continue to provide you with the rapid test kits.

We are very happy that many of you are now returning to their offices at KFG. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

„Paradiese” (“Paradises”) at Leipzig Opera

Leipzig Opera and its cultural offers are back on stage for you, and our director Monika Wohlrab-Sahr recommends the opera „Paradiese“ (“Paradises”) to us: In four acts it tells the initiation story of a young man named Albert, set against the backdrop of a divided Germany. The setting is the city of Berlin. We’re taken on a journey to West Berlin in the 1970s, to a mythological time on the No-man’s land of the Peacock Island, to the pre-unification theater scene in West Berlin, and to the years after the fall of the Wall. Four female figures represent these four different stages of our journey: Lise, a political science student; Friederike, a dental student; Marie, an actress; and Anna, a young woman from East Berlin. The opera’s language will be German with German supertitles.

Premiere: 9 July | 7:30 p.m. (CET) | Leipzig Opera House

Further dates: 10 July | 7 p.m. and 11 July | 6 p.m.

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.