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Wednesday Weekly 03 July 2019
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Companion Entry on Spatial Media of SecularityAdrian Hermann's entry to the Companion to the Study of Secularity on Spatial Media of Secularity is now online. He describes how "scientific media of space” (maps, globes, compasses, and astronomical models) played an important role in transformations of the cosmo-geographical imagination in 19th-century Theravada-Buddhist Modernism. The mobilisation of science in attempts at conversion to Christianity, though often unsuccessful, hints at the ways in which ‘religious’ actors contributed to conceptual distinctions in regard to “Western science” and paved the way for later differentiations and the emergence of a religio-secular episteme.
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Farewell and WelcomeThis week we say goodbye to Anindita Chakrabarti (IIT Kanpur) and Suchandra Ghosh (Jhargram Raj College) who have been with us for the past weeks. We wish you all the best and hope to see you again soon!
We also want to welcome Michael Stanley-Baker (Nanyang Technological University), Kyuhoon Cho (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) and Sushmita Nath (Ashoka University) back at the KFG. Michael joins the KFG for July and Kyuhoon will stay until the end of August. Sushmita has received a fellowship from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and will stay in Leipzig for two years. |
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CfP Muslim Life in the New German StatesOn 17 and 18 April 2020, the Oriental Institute of Leipzig University will host a research workshop on Muslim life in the new German states. The Call for Papers aims at students and PhD candidates who will present their latest research on thos topic. Following the workshop, a joint publication is planned. Please submit a title with abstract and a short biography (together max. 1 page, PDF) by 01 October 2019 to leonie.stenske@uni-leipzig.de.
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CfP Feminism and SecularismThe German journal Feministische Studien (Feminist Studies) calls for papers for a special issue on feminism, secularism and religion – a complex, but scarcely discussed topic. In order to get to the bottom of the interdependencies and tensions between religious and non-religious worldviews, the special issue invites contributions that shed light on the problem from different contexts and theoretical perspectives. Submit your abstracts (300 – 500 words) by 15 October 2019 to manuskripte@ feministische-studien.de, heidemarie.winkel@uni-bielefeld.de and angelika.poferl@tu-dortmund.de.
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CfA Scholarships for Transnational Access The Research Infrastructure on Religious Studies (ReIReS) offers international scholarships for sholars from Europe and from countries associated to H2020. Scholars from any academic discipline are invited to apply for a scholarship to spend two weeks in one of 14 outstanding European research centres (libraries and archives) in Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, and Italy to carry out their research project in historical religious studies. Deadline is 4 August 2019.
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Public Lecture on Foucault and ChristianityOn Monday, 8 July, Ulrich Johannes Schneider (Leipzig University, director of Bibliotheca Albertina) will talk about Foucault's examination of Christianity (“Sind wir Mönche oder Revolutionäre? Foucaults Auseinandersetzung mit dem Christentum”). The lecture is part of the lecture series “Critique of Religion in Past and Present (Religionskritik in Geschichte und Gegenwart)”, organised by Horst Junginger.
The lecture will start at 3.15 p.m. in lecture hall 6 on the main campus of Leipzig University, it will be held in German. |
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