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Dear friends and colleagues,

This week we present you two job offerings and a PhD scholarship as well as a call for paper for a conference and an online concert series. Enjoy and take care!

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.

CfA: Two Research Positions in Jewish and Islamic Studies

The newly founded centre for Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses (Bayerisches Forschungszentrum für Interreligiöse Diskurse) at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg has currently a PostDoc position (100%) in Jewish Studies as well as a position for a Research Assistant (65%) in Islamic Studies to fill, both starting 1 October. 

Deadline: 31 May

CfA: PhD Scholarship in Christianity and the History of Ideas

The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Groningen offers a four-year scholarship (2.181 €/month) to complete a PhD in Theology and Religious Studies, preferably starting 1 September. 

The PhD student will be enrolled in the Graduate School. The proposed dissertation project should fit with the profile of the department of Christianity and the History of Ideas, where academic staff are engaged in the study of the history of Christianity from the Middle Ages to the present, the philosophy of religion, religious heritage, religion in law and international relations, religion and popular culture, as well as secularism in history, culture and governance.

Deadline: 17 May

CfP: Conference on Sacred Architecture

The international and interdisciplinary conference focuses on the interplay of sacred architecture, rite and music for the first time in a comparative perspective between Byzantium and the West from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages and examines transfer processes between the Byzantine Empire and the European Mediterranean region. The conference is organised by the research project CANTORIA – Music and Sacred Architecture in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus Byzantium between Orient and Occident (Mainz/Frankfurt) and the Leibniz Institute of European History.

21–23 January 2021, Mainz 
Deadline: 15 May

Online Concert Series by the Gewandhaus Leipzig

The Gewandhaus Leipzig has launched an online concert series in order to bring classical music to its audience despite the current circumstances. Every Thursday and Friday from 12 p.m. the Gewandhaus presents recordings of past concerts. They are online for 48 hours. Enjoy!