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Dear friends and colleagues, As every week, we would first like to draw your attention to our upcoming colloquium next week – this time with our guest Farah Hasan from Humboldt University Berlin. We have three new publications by KFG Fellows that we would like to announce, as well as two Lectures and a Call for Papers. Take care and have a good week! Anja & Lucy |
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Next Week’s Colloquium: Farah Hasan on “Integrative Secularism: Muslim judges in Germany”, 15 JuneNext Wednesday, we welcome a guest to our colloquium: Farah Hasan, PhD research fellow at the Protestant Theology Faculty of Humboldt University Berlin, will give a presentation on “Integrative Secularism: Muslim judges in Germany”. Her project investigates contemporary Muslim identity in Germany. It specifically analyses judicial state representatives with a Muslim background (judges and state prosecutors). This research employs post-modern theoretical approaches to analyse the religious identity. It aims to assess the meaning of “Islam” for such actors, focusing on how their self-understanding is influenced by debates on post-secularism, professionalism and state neutrality. Following biographical methodological approaches, it will examine how the self-understanding of these actors evolves when they undergo a professional socialisation process. The colloquium will take place in a hybrid format (on-site and online). Please register for the colloquium via e-mail, if you would like to join in person. In the member area you find more information on the topic as well as the zoom connection data.
Strohsack, Room 4.55 and online via Zoom |
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Public Lecture: Mascha Schulz on “Performing the Secular: Street Theatre and Songs as ‘Secular Media’ in Bangladesh and West Bengal”, 9 JuneThe lecture series as part of the seminar “Material Secularities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives” continues – this Thursday our Junior Research Fellow Mascha Schulz will speak about “Performing the Secular: Street Theatre and Songs as ‘Secular Media’ in Bangladesh and West Bengal”. Her lecture explores why performances such as street theatre, musical performances or the celebration of Bengali script are privileged media for secularist activism in Bangladesh. What does the performative articulation of secularism entail? Which kind of cultural genres are evoked and why? What kinds of secular publics are created thereby? The lecture series is open to everyone who is interested. If you would like to attend the event in person, please register with our Senior Researcher Magnus Echtler or our Senior Research Fellow Katharina Wilkens, who are organizing this seminar at Leipzig University.
9 June | 5–7 p.m. (CET) Leipzig University | Seminar building, Room S 403 and online via zoom
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Lecture: Todd Weir on “Apologetics and the Historical Development of Worldview: Learning from the Truths of the Enemy”, 16 JuneWe would like to draw your attention to a conference on “Are religious worldviews still relevant to democracy today? Anglo-American, Dutch, and German perspectives”, taking place at the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge on 16–17 June, where our Senior Research Fellow Todd Weir will be holding the opening lecture on “Apologetics and the Historical Development of Worldview: Learning from the Truths of the Enemy”.
Lecture Todd Weir: 16 June | 10–12 a.m. (CET) Venue: Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
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Call for Papers: Conference on “Photographic Practices and the Making of Religion” at Leipzig University, 25–26 NovemberThe Institute for Art History at Leipzig University invites researchers, archivists, and doctoral students from the fields of photography studies, art history, postcolonial studies, anthropology, religious studies, and other disciplines to submit a paper to the conference on “Photographic Practices and the Making of Religion” this November. The two-day event seeks to clarify the role of photography in the making of religion from the 19th to the 21st century. For further information and submission of abstracts, please send an e-mail.
Conference Dates: 25–26 November
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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. |
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Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities" Nikolaistraße 8-10, 04109 Leipzig Mail: multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de |