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Dear friends and colleagues,

our new Senior Research Fellow Menachem Lorberbaum will give a presentation at next week’s colloquium. He is one of the two Senior Research Fellows who we will welcome to our KFG in July. We also have to say farewell to our Senior Research Fellow Birgit Meyer.

Furthermore, we would like to draw your attention to a conference and a lecture this week.

Enjoy reading and have a good week!

Lucy & Foteine

Next week’s Colloquium: Menachem Lorberbaum on “Imaging Sovereignty in the 17th Century”, 5 July

Next Wednesday, our Senior Research Fellow Menachem Lorberbaum will give a presentation on his research project “Imaging Sovereignty in the 17th Century” at our colloquium.

The colloquium will take place in a hybrid format (on-site and online). In the Member Area you will find more information including preparatory readings and the zoom connection data.

5 July | 9.15–11.45 am (CEST)
Strohsack, Room 4.55 and online via zoom

Fellows at the KFG: Welcome and Farewell

This July, we would like to welcome our new Senior Research Fellow Menachem Lorberbaum to our KFG. Menachem is a Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University. During his three-month stay in Leipzig he will work on his project on “In Search of the Sovereign”. Menachem, we are very happy to have you with us and warmly welcome you to our team!

We are also pleased to welcome Farhat Hasan as a Senior Fellow in July. Farhat is Professor of Early Modern South Asian History at the University of Delhi. He will work on his project on "Rational Religion and Secularities in Early Modern South Asia" and will also stay with us in Leipzig for three months.

We would also like to say farewell and thank you to our Senior Research Fellow Birgit Meyer. Birgit, the Professor of Religious Studies at the Department of Religious Studies and Theology at Utrecht University, stayed at our KFG the last three months, working on her project “Across the religion-secularity boundary: Unpacking a colonial missionary collection”. She also organised the successful workshop on "Material Secularities" with us. Birgit, we would like to thank you deeply for your contributions and the good cooperation. You have been a great enrichment for the project!

Conference: “Conceptualizing from the South: Media, Minorities, and Marxism in Pakistan” | 30 June – 1 July, Berlin

We would like to point you to the conference "Conceptualizing from the South: Media, Minorities, and Marxism in Pakistan" in Berlin from 30 June – 1 July. 

On the first day, the focus will be on religious minorities, such as Pakistani Jewish communities, the history of Christianity in the Islamic Republic, and the link between digitalization and Pentecostal movements. 

Date: 30 June – 1 July
Venue: Harnack-Haus, conference venue of the Max Planck Society, Berlin

Lecture: Jeny Kreinath on “Mimetic Synesthesia and the Aesthetics of Interrituality” | 4 July, Erfurt

The Department of Religious Studies at the University of Erfurt is hosting a guest lecture by Jens Kreinath, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Wichita State University, entitled “Mimetic Synesthesia and the Aesthetics of Interrituality: Saint Veneration Rituals at Shared Sacred Sites among Arab Alawites and Orthodox Christians in Hatay.”

This lecture aims to capture the dynamics of interreligious relations among Christians and Muslims in the southernmost Turkish province of Hatay through the lens of ritual as aesthetics. By focusing on the aesthetic features of saint veneration rituals at shared sacred sites, the key element consists in an analysis of interconnected rituals and the role they play in the configuration of social relationships among the Arab Alawite and Orthodox Christian communities.

Date: 4 July, 6 p.m. (CEST)
Venue: Internationales  Begegnungszentrum (IBZ), Michaelisstraße 38, 99084 Erfurt and online livestream

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.