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Wednesday Weekly 28 November 2018
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Panel Discussion with Markus Dreßler
Our Senior Researcher Markus Dreßler will join a public panel discussion with Ceren Lord, Ertuğ Tombuş and Ayşegül Kars Kaynar (Chair) on The Sacred and the State in Turkey on 10 December 2018 at Humbold University Berlin (6 p.m., Senate Hall in the Main Building, Unter den Linden 6). The panel seeks to address the questions of how certain practices, discourses, and institutions (re)produce sacredness around the state and in politics.
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Casanova on the Globalisation of SecularityAn article from José Casanova on “Locating Religion and Secularity in East Asia Through Global Processes: Early Modern Jesuit Religious Encounters” has been published recently (Religions 9 (11)). The article elaborates on the same topic as Casanova's keynote at our October conference. The paper is available open access, but also in our member area.
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CfP: The Politics of Religion and SpiritualityThe International Society for the Sociology of Religion is calling for papers for a conference on “The Politics of Religion and Spirituality”. The conference will be held from 9-12 July 2019 at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona . There will be a few sessions concerning secularism and secularity, such as “Secularism as a social movement”, “Redefining ‘secularism’: European states and the regulation of (minority) religions” and “Right and secularism: exploring a new political pairing.”
The deadline for submitting paper proposals is 16 December 2018.
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CfA: Workshop FundsThe Forum for the Study of the Global Condition is calling for applications for the funding of workshops held in 2019. Anyone from the Universities in Leipzig, Erfurt, Halle and Jena can apply for funds up to 5.000€. The workshops should have an explorative character and should be dedicated to individual dimensions of research into globalization. Proposals should encourage cooperation and can be directed at institutional as well as individual collaborations with domestic and foreign researchers or institutions. The deadline for submitting proposals is 31 December 2018. Please send them to info@forum-global-condition.de.
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