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Dear friends and colleagues, This week we would like to warmly welcome three new fellows to our research group, draw your attention to a Call for Review and recommend a transcultural music event to you. October 9 marks the beginning of the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR in Leipzig and we would like to point to the traditional Leipzig Festival of Light as well as another - on the contrary atrocious and hardly visible - facet of the history of reunification. Have a good week! |
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A warm welcome to our new FellowsWe would like to welcome three new Fellows to our research group this week: Jens Herzer (Leipzig University) will be working on his project with the title "Secular ethos and religious conviction. The encounter of early Christianity with Epicurean ethics and its conceptual transformation into a secular religion". Sebastian Rimestad (University of Erfurt) will work on his research project "Russian Orthodox Concepts of Secularity" this semester. Paul S. Landau (University of Maryland) will focus on his research project on “Moral Space and World Anti-Apartheid”. We are very happy to have you with us and welcome you warmly to our team. |
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Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft: Call for reviewThe Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft (ZfR, Journal of Religious Studies) is looking for Reviewers for recent published monographs. Here you can find a list of books for which ZfR is happy to receive reviews. There's something for everyone! If you would like to review a book from the list or have another review suggestion, please contact Rafael Walthert, the Book Review Editor of ZfR, at rafael.walthert@uzh.ch. For the sake of topicality it is desirable that a review is submitted no later than 6 months after receipt of the respective book. A review typically contains between 3500 and 7500 characters. For formatting, please refer to the ZfR style sheet.
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Event: Concert „Sounds aus der Türkei“Our former senior researcher and current associate member Markus Dressler points to an intercultural concert highlight organized by the Kültür Kollektiv Leipzig e.V. This organization promotes cultural and social exchange of people from Turkey and all persons interested in topics from Turkey in fields such as literature, film and music. The concert „Sounds aus der Türkei –Türkiye’den Müzik“ takes place on Friday, 9 October 2020 at 8 p.m. at WERK II (Kochstraße 132) and is part of the 2020 programme “Wir sind hier! - Buradayız!“. You will be presented traditional as well as modern sounds as an transcultural musical exchange between styles, genres and continents. Meet musicians of the Kültür Kollektiv Leipzig and Djane Umay Gül! It is not possible to register for this event, and due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of visitors is limited. So if you are interested, show up as early as 7 p.m. – The first 100 people are admitted access to the concert. |
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Leipzig Festival of LightWith the Leipzig Festival of Light and other events, the first large Monday demonstration in Leipzig, which is considered the beginning of the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR, is remembered annually on 9 October. Of course, this year the event cannot take place in the usual way with many thousands of visitors. Instead it will be broadcasted starting from 5 p.m. live from Leipzig television and can be followed also via Livestream.
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Findings...We would like to take this as an opportunity to point out two projects that deal with another, not at all peaceful, facet of the history of reunification, which in our view has received too little attention so far, namely the systematic violence from the right. On 2 and 3 October, 1990, millions of people in the FRG and GDR celebrated the unification of the two German states. In this "storm of unity", armed neo-Nazis set out on the evening of 2 October and attacked leftists and occupied houses as well as migrants and contract workers and their homes. The project zweiteroktober90 aims to create awareness and attention for this part of history and provides an overview of the attacks that took place on the night of 2 October as well as the historical context of racism and neo-Nazism in the GDR and the special situation in 1989/90. In addition, links from current publications on the topic are compiled. The second resource we would like to point out is the Tagesspiegel's interactive map on "Deaths due to right-wing violence in Germany since reunification". According to Tagesspiegel and Zeit online research, at least 187 people have been killed by extreme rightists since 1990. The interactive map shows and describes the cases. The documentation has started in 2010 as a joint long-term research by the Tagesspiegel and "Zeit Online". |
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