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Wednesday Weekly 9 November 2022
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Dear friends and colleagues,
At the very beginning of today's Wednesday Weekly, we would like to remind you of two special events this week: Tomorrow we will have Brian Catlos as our guest and on Friday Nilüfer Göle will hold an internal workshop. We kindly ask you to register in time.
We would also like to introduce three new publications by KFG members. We welcome a Fellow back to our KFG and have a recommendation for a lecture, a presentation, a conference and a call for papers for you.
Finally, an organisational note for next week:
Wednesday 16 November is the Day of Repentance and Prayer and a public holiday in Saxony (and only there). This means that we will not be in the office and shops will be closed. Of course, you can use your own offices also on that day. Next week’s Wednesday Weekly will be published – one day later than usual – on Thursday.
Enjoy and have a good week!
Anja & Lucy
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REMINDER: Presentation with Brian Catlos on “Dynamics of Convenience in the Age of Convergence: Muslim-Christian-Jewish Relations in the Pre-Modern West”, 10 NovemberWe would like to remind you of tomorrow’s presentation by our guest Brian Catlos, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and Research Associate in Humanities at the University of California Santa Cruz. Brian will speak about the “Dynamics of Convenience in the Age of Convergence: Muslim-Christian-Jewish Relations in the Pre-Modern West”.
The presentation will take place in a hybrid format (on-site and online). If you would like to join in person, please register via e-mail. In the Member Area you will find the relevant readings as well as information on the zoom connection data.
10 November | 9.15–11.45 am (CET)
Strohsack, Room 4.55 AND online via zoom
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REMINDER: Workshop with Nilüfer Göle, 11 NovemberThis Friday, we are welcoming Nilüfer Göle, Professor of Sociology at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) to our KFG for an internal workshop. In a morning session, we will discuss Nilüfer’s work and in the afternoon, we will turn to the programmatic works of the Multiple Secularities group.
The workshop will take place in a hybrid format. For participation on-site, please register via e-mail (as soon as possible as seats are limited due to the capacities of the room. In the Member Area you will find the relevant readings as well as information on the zoom connection data for the workshop.
11 November | 10 am–4 pm (CET)
Strohsack, Room 4.55 AND online via zoom
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New Publication I: Giuseppe Tateo on “When Conspiracy Meets Faith: Making Sense of Tragic Events in Bucharest, Romania”Our Senior Research Fellow Giuseppe Tateo has published an article on “When Conspiracy Meets Faith: Making Sense of Tragic Events in Bucharest, Romania” as part of the book “Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories: Comparing and Connecting Old and New Trends”. The publication contributes to the study of conspiracy culture by analyzing the religious and esoteric dimensions of conspiracy theories. It examines both historical and contemporary examples to explore transnational and transhistorical continuities between religious doctrines, eschatologies, and conspiracy theories. It draws on a broad range of disciplinary insights from historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and religious studies scholars. The book has a global focus and features case studies from North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.
Tateo, Giuseppe. “When Conspiracy Meets Faith: Making Sense of Tragic Events in Bucharest, Romania.” In Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories: Comparing and Connecting Old and New Trends, edited by Francesco Piraino, Marco Pasi, and Egil Asprem. London: Routledge, 2022.
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New Publication II (in Arabic): Housamedden Darwish on “From Peaceful Civil Movement to Civil War and Sectarian Polarization: A Critical Review of Kevin Mazur’s Revolution in Syria: Identity, Networks, and Repression” We would also like to draw your attention to the latest publication (in Arabic) by our Associate Senior Researcher Housamedden Darwish. His article “From Peaceful Civil Movement to Civil War and Sectarian Polarization: A Critical Review of Kevin Mazur’s Revolution in Syria: Identity, Networks, and Repression” has just been published in the journal Rowaq Maysaloon.
Darwish, Housamedden. “From Peaceful Civil Movement to Civil War and Sectarian Polarization: A Critical Review of Kevin Mazur’s Revolution in Syria: Identity, Networks, and Repression,” Rowaq Maysaloon 7-8 (2022): 425-41.
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Call for Papers: Conference “Research on Religion and Spirituality by Scholars at Risk”, 1–3 DecemberOur Associate Member Markus Dreßler draws our attention to a conference on “Research on Religion and Spirituality by Scholars at Risk”, organized by the Faculty of Theology at the University of Zurich. It aims at scholars at risk from all disciplines who conduct research on religion or spirituality, and at all those who are interested in the research in war zones, in situations of oppression or discrimination and the experiences of these researchers. The conference will provide a platform to network and exchange experiences as well as to present research projects and results.
Submission of abstracts: 13 November
Conference Dates: 1–3 December
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Conference (in German) on “‘Feuer und Wasser‘? Religion und Sozialismus“, 11–12 NovemberWe would like to point to a conference on the topic of Religion and Socialism with the contribution of our Associate Member Horst Junginger. The conference of the Berlin Institute for Comparative Church-State Research addresses the connection between religion and socialism in the GDR and other countries of the former Eastern Bloc. Horst Junginger will speak on “Atheist and Religious Socialism: A Contradiction in Terms?” and will give closing remarks on Saturday.
11 November | 4–7 pm (CET)
12 November | 10 am–2 pm (CET)
Evangelisches Kirchenforum Berlin-Mitte, Klosterstraße 66, 10179 Berlin
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Invitation to 2nd „Bazaar of Methods” of Digital Lab at Leipzig University, 15 NovemberWe also have a recommendation for the 2nd “Bazaar of Methods” of the Digital Lab at Leipzig University for you. In this format, digital methods and tools of the Digital Humanities will be presented and discussed. The method presentation is aimed at all interested parties who would like to get to know such tools and methods or integrate them into their research. Thorben Pelzer from the SFB 1199 at Leipzig University will speak on the topic of “Database Creation in the Humanities with the Software Heurist”. The SFB 1199 as part of the Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe) is a collaborative research centre that examines modern history up to the present day, with a focus on the role of new spatializations in shaping social interactions and social change.
15 November | 10–11 am (CET)
Leipzig University, Paulinum, Room P612 AND online via Zoom
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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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