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Dear friends and colleagues,

Today our second funding period officially starts and we want to take this opportunity to thank you all for the last four years, your great cooperation and contributions. Thank you! We are looking forward to the next four years.
Starting this new chapter, we want to announce some changes regarding our staff and fellows. Further, we selected some calls for papers and a call for application that might interest you as well as a recommendation for your evenings at home.

We hope you are and stay healthy!

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.

Staff

As of today, Johannes Duschka is no longer part of the coordination team, but a Junior Researcher in the KFG and will be working on a dissertation project. Marie-Luise Frank is the new Adiministrative Coordinator. She and Foteine König will help you with all your administrative concerns.

Welcome & Farewell

The KFG welcomes several new Senior Research Fellows this week: Haraldur Hreinsson (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) will be working on „The Secularisation of a Book Nation“. Roberto Blancarte (El Colegio de México) will focus his research on "Populism, Religion And Secularity". Jens Köhrsen (University of Basel) will be working on „Transnational Negotiations on Secularity: Development Cooperation between Latin American Pentecostal Churches and German Development Agencies“ and Jennifer Cash (School of Humanities Nanyang Technological University, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) will focus on her project with the titel „Bread and Wine: Labor, Respect, and Poverty in Moldova“.

The KFG Senior Research Fellows Gudrun Krämer, Hans-Georg Ebert and Gert Pickel have left the KFG by the end of March. We wish you all the best and hope to see you again!

CfA: (Re-)Translating Scripture in Early American Protestantism

Prof. Dr. Jan Stievermann (History of Christianity in the US, HCA) at the Faculty of Theology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, invites applications for a Ph.D. Position (TV L 13, 65%) in a DFG-Funded Research Group on "(Re-)Translating Scripture in Early American Protestantism: Cotton Mather’s “Biblia Americana“, starting 1 January 2021 for a period of 3 years.

Deadline: 1 May 2020

Recommendation: Series "Unorthodox"

Since we cannot go to the movies right now, we have a Netflix tip for you: The series "Unorthodox" tells the story of a young woman from a strictly Jewish community in New York and her new beginning in Berlin. The series is based on Deborah Feldman's autobiographical novel with the same title.