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Dear friends and colleagues,

The new year has just begun and we wish you all a healthy and happy 2021.

In this first week of the year, we would like to warmly welcome two new fellows to our research group, draw your attention to a call for articles, a radio interview as well as a reminder for an upcoming conference. Finally, we would like to recommend to you a very special sound experience.

Enjoy, have a good week and a successful start into the new year!

A warm welcome to our new Fellows

We would like to welcome two new Fellows to our research group this week:

Mariam Goshadze will be working on her project with the title "The Noise Silence Makes. The Ghanaian State Negotiates Ritual Ban on Noise Making in Accra".

Ina Merdjanova will focus on processes of "neo-secularization" in Bulgaria and how the Orthodox Church is both implicated in and affected by those processes. Both Research Fellows will stay with us for the next 12 months.

We are very happy to have you with us and welcome you warmly to our team.

Interview with Markus Dreßler

Our Associate Member Markus Dressler has just given an interview to the radio station Deutschlandfunk where he talks about early attempts of reform in Turkey. Since the AKP has been in power, Turkey has become more Islamic – even though the constitution has emphasized the secular nature of the state since Kemal Atatürk. But already in the 19th century, the reform phase "Tanzimat" shaped the Ottoman Empire, as Dreßler explains in the radio discussion.

Reminder: Workshop "From Universalism to Ethnopathos: Religious Knowledge in the Colonial Encounter between India and Germany"

We would like to remind you of the digital conference "From Universalism to Ethnopathos: Religious Knowledge in the Colonial Encounter between India and Germany" organised by Isabella Schwaderer and hosted by the University of Erfurt. Among the participants of the event on 16 and 17 January 2021 are former and current CASHSS Research Fellows such as Rinku Lamba, Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav and Sushmita Nath. One panel on "Religion, Colonialism and Politics" will be chaired by our Junior Researcher Johannes Duschka. Registration is still possible.

16–17 January 2021 | Online

Registration: The conference will take place on Cisco Webex. To attend please send an e-mail to isabella.schwaderer@uni-erfurt.de

KlingKlang: Sounds from the History of Media. 31 video clips for listening and guessing

Under the heading "KlingKlang: Geräusche aus der Mediengeschichte/Sound from the History of Media", the German National Library is offering an unusual look at its collection at the beginning of the year opening up its treasure chambers to the ears. What normally stands mute in the magazine and exhibition is now being presented acoustically. Whether it's the quill scratching across parchment or the 3D printer, whether it's the phonograph, the cylinder printing press, the Gameboy, or the chirping of the inkjet printer. With 31 short video clips to listen to and guess, the series accompanies the month of January acoustically. The series will be shown on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

1–31 January 2021
On Instagram (@buchundschriftmuseum), Facebook (@DeutscheNationalbibliothek) and Twitter (@DNB_aktuelles)

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.