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Wednesday Weekly 27 February 2019
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How Religious Freedom Makes Religion in Latin-America and Africa Together with Tisa Wenger (Yale Divinity School) our future Senior Research Fellow Adrian Hermann will host the panel How Religious Freedom Makes Religion II, especially focusing on areas in Latin-America and Africa, at the DVRW-Conference on Conceptualising Religion from 3-6 September 2019 at Hannover University. This panel begins with the assumption that religious freedom is historically contingent and always in process, shaped and reshaped by local and global relations of power. It will not primarily be interested in the question of what freedom should mean, or in judging its utility in the world. Rather, we will build on recent scholarship and ask how religious freedom talk has functioned (past and present) to shape the category of religion and to transform what counts as religious in the modern world. Please submit your proposal until 15 March.
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In memoriam Heinz Mürmel On 19 February 2019, Dr. Heinz Mürmel, one of the main protagonists of the re-establishment of Leipzig University's Institute for the Study of Religions in the early 90s, died after a serious illness shortly before reaching the age of 75. The members of the Institute, colleagues and students, mourn the loss of a friend and revered teacher. The Institute has published an obituary (German).
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Conference: Putting Human Rights to the TestThe study group for Human Rights in the 20th Century of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation will host a conference titled Putting Human Rights to the Test: Claims, Interventions and Contestations since 1990 on 15-16 May 2019 in Cologne. Our prospective Fellows Dan Diner and Gudrun Krämer will contribute to the conference. For more information, please contact Daniel Stahl.
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FarewellKyuhoon Cho, who has been with us as a Senior Research Fellow for the last two months has left the KFG last week. He will be back for another two months this summer. We wish you all the best and look forward to see you again this summer!
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