Bulletin

CfP: Conceptualising Religion

The German Association for the Study of Religion (DVRW) and the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) are calling for papers for a conference on "Conceptualising Religion". The conference is held from 3-6 September 2019 at Leibniz University Hannover. Contributions can be submitted online starting 1 December 2018.

Statement against Right Wing Radicalism

The KFG "Multiple Secularities" strongly supports the statement of the Rector's Conference of the Saxonian Universities against the recent outbursts of right wing radicalism and its political downplay in Saxony.

KFG Multiple Secularities at the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology

Said Arjomand, Marian Burchardt, Anindita Chakrabarti, Mirjam Künkler and Armando Salvatore will participate in the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology from 15-20 July in Toronto.

WOCMES 2018: Panel on The Arabic press in the 19th century by Mohammad Magout

Our Senior Researcher Mohammad Magout will chair a panel he organised at the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Seville, 16-20 July.

Worldviews in World View: Particularizing Secularism, Secularity and Nonreligion

Mohammad Magout, Florian Zemmin, and Sushmita Nath will present papers at the Conference on Worldviews in World View: Particularizing Secularism, Secularity and Nonreligion on 5 and 6 July 2018 at King's College in London.

Guest Lecture

Our new Senior Research Fellow Christian Mauder will give a guest lecture on "Book Culture as Means to Legitimize Rulership" at the Leipzig Institute of Oriental Studies (Schillerstr. 6, Room S 202) on 13 June, 6:15 p.m.

Ceremonial Lecture on Secularity in Bosnia

In celebration of the hand over of the Jena branch of the Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft​ (Southeast Europe Association) on 12 June 2018, 6 p.m., our Senior Research Fellow Wolfgang Höpken​ will deliver the ceremonial lecture on "Secularity as Challenge: Religion, Nation and Modernity in Bosnian Islam (Säkularität als Herausforderung: Religion, Nation, Moderne im Bosnischen Islam)".

Keynote: Sites of Secularity in Early 20th Century Iran

Nahid Mozaffari will deliver the keynote lecture on "Sites of Secularity in Early 20th Century Iran - Major Shifts: Converting from the Religious to the Secular" at the Research Workshop" Conversions – Changing Sides: The Propagated, Visible, and Tacit in Society, Religion, and Discourses" at LMU Munich 12 June 2018.

Leibniz Professor İştar Gözaydın inaugurated at Leipzig University

On Tuesday, 15 May, the Turkish Professor of Law and Politics İştar Gözaydın has held her inaugural lecture The Desire Was There as a Leibniz Professor at Leipzig University. For the first time a Leibniz Professor was not able to be present in person for her inaugural lecture, but was forced to give it via video conference. “It is a sad premiere,” said the director of Leipzig University’s Leibniz Programme Monika Wohlrab-Sahr in her laudatory speech, “that an invited scholar, the Leibniz Professor, cannot be present to give her inaugural lecture. Not because she decided to remain absent, but because she is not allowed to leave the country.”

Festschrift for Reinhard Schulze

Florian Zemmin and others edited a Festschrift on the occasion of Reinhard Schulze's 65th birthday. It was recently published by Brill.

Public Lecture

Our Senior Research Fellow Dagmar Schwerk will give a public guest lecture titled "A Timely Message from the Cave: Mahāmudrā in the ’Brug-pa-bka’-brgyud School and the Sixty-Ninth rJe-mkhan-po of Bhutan, dGe-bshesdGe-’dun-rin-chen’s (1926–1997) Life and Thought" at the Institute for Indology and Central Asian Studies of Leipzig University on 24 April 2018, 5 p.m. at Schillerstr. 6, Room S-02.

Justine Ellis and Marek Sullivan organise a graduate symposium on Senses of the Secular at the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford. Abstracts of papers addressing questions related to the debates around (post-)secularity or the (post-)secular are invited to be submitted by 23 April. The call is open to non-Oxford students.