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Dear friends and colleagues,

Next week our guest Karina Jarzyńska will be presenting at our Colloquium. And while we are delighted to welcome two new Fellows in October, we also have to say goodbye to two Fellows who have contributed to our team over the past few months. Moreover, after much planning and anticipation, it's time for our final conference next week, from 12-14 October. So we have an exciting week ahead of us!

Take care and we look forward to seeing you at the final conference!

Your KFG Team

Final KFG Conference | 12–14 October

We look forward to welcoming many guests and seeing old and new friends and colleagues at our final conference Eight Years Multiple Secularities: Outcome and Prospects through the Eyes of our Interlocutors.

Please register for the conference via multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de. Most sessions will take place in a hybrid format, on-site and via zoom, please indicate whether you will be attending on-site or online.

Date: 12–14 October
Leipzig University, Beethovenstr. 6 & 15, 04107 Leipzig

Next Week’s Colloquium: Karina Jarzyńska on “Translating Gods and Heroes: Culturalisation of the Sacred Text in XXth Century Poland” | 11 October

Next Wednesday, our guest Karina Jarzyńska, researcher at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, will give a presentation on Translating Gods and Heroes: Culturalisation of the Sacred Text in XXth Century Poland in our colloquium.

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

11 October | 9.15–11.45 am (CET)
Strohsack, Room 4.55 and online via zoom

Fellows at the KFG: Welcome and Farewell

This month we want to welcome two Senior Research Fellows. David Koussens, Professor of Law, Religion and Secularism at the Université de Sherbrooke, will be staying with us until December to work on his research project on Religions of Secularism as a New Religion? Historical and Sociological Trajectories of the Centre d’Action laïque in Belgium.

We are also pleased to welcome Nurit Stadler as a Senior Fellow. Nurit is a professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She will be working on her project on Religion, Secularities, and Cosmologies in Israel/Palestine and will be staying with us in Leipzig until February 2024.

Furthermore, last week we had to say goodbye to our Senior Research Fellow Menachem Lorberbaum. Menachem, Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University, joined us in July to work on his Project In Search of the Sovereign.

We also bid farewell to our Senior Research Fellow Farhat Hasan. Farhat, Professor of Early Modern South Asian History at the University of Delhi, spent three months with us in Leipzig working on his project on Rational Religion and Secularities in Early Modern South Asia.

Dear Farhat and Menachem, thank you both for enriching our Centre with your contributions – academically and personally. We wish you all the best! 

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