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Reminder: Office Hours

Due to the high workload at the moment, we would like to remind you of the coordination team’s daily consultation time of 1-2 p.m. Only during this time, we will be available for consultations without appointments as well as for shorter questions and smaller concerns. We kindly ask you to respect this regulation – even if the door is open – so that the coordination team has sufficient time to reliably and carefully take care of your interests and those of the research group. Appointments for more in-depth talks can of course be arranged at any time and at short notice by e-mail. Thank you!

Workshop Report

On 25 June 2019, the Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe “Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities” conducted the workshop “Religion, Civil Society and Personal (Family) Law Reform in Post-Colonial Nation-States: Interrogating Secularity in India and Beyond”. The workshop traced the changing frames of secularity in the context of governance of personal law in post-colonial nation-states and focused on unpacking some of the recent as well as historical dynamics of judicial reform of personal law in India and other post-colonial countries to think through how the principle of secularity has been intertwined with the questions of authority, authenticity and governance. The report by Mujeebu Rahman K.C. can be found in our bulletin.