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Wednesday Weekly 03 May 2017

Colloquia

Next Wednesday, 10 May, we will continue our colloquium with a presentation by our new Senior Research Fellow Said Arjomand. Furthermore we have completed a preliminary schedule of our upcoming colloquia for you:

10 May 2017: Said Arjomand
17 May 2017: Monika Wohlrab-Sahr & Christoph Kleine
24 May 2017: No Colloquium
31 May 2017: Anindita Chakrabarti
07 June 2017: Katja Triplett
14 June 2017: Julia Heilen
21 June 2017: No Colloquium
28 June 2017: Silke Gülker
05 July 2017: Iva Lucic
12 May 2017: Marian Burchardt

For updates on the schedule or more detailed information on the presentations you can check our Multiple Secularities calendar or visit the "Events" section on our homepage. Judith Zimmermann will also send invitations for each colloquium in the week before.

Events

Monday Coffee Break

We will also continue our weekly "Monday Coffee Break" on 8 May, 3 p.m. Everyone who is present at that time is invited to join the colleagues for conversation and coffee (or tea) in our lounge.

10 Years Religious Studies in Zurich: Honorary Doctorate for Hubert Seiwert and Anniversary Conference

The Department of Religious Studies of the University of Zurich celebrates its 10th anniversary this week. On this occasion our Permanent Senior Research Fellow Hubert Seiwert has been awarded the honorary doctorate of the University of Zurich for his merits. He and our director Christoph Kleine will also contribute to the 10th anniversary conference of the Department (4-5 May 2017) titled "Reflexive Religionswissenschaft (Reflexive Religious Studies)".

Colloquium on East and Southeast European History

The Chair for East and Southeast European History (Wolfgang Höpken) organises a public colloquium in the summer semester 2017. The next presentation will take place on 9 May, 5.15 p.m., GWZ, Beethovenstr. 15, room 3.215. Mattheus Wehowski (Tübingen) will give a talk titled "Mit Kreuz und Fahne. Religiöse Massenevents und die Frage der Nation im östlichen Europa in der Zwischenkriegszeit."

Programme

Postdoctoral Fellowships: Europe in the Middle East

The Berlin-based "Forum Transregionale Studien" invites scholars to apply for up to six postdoctoral fellowships for the research program "Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME)". The application should be received by May 15, 2017.

Conference: Going Native or Remaining Foreign? Catholic Missionaries as Local Agents in Asia (17th to 18th Centuries)

This conference (30 May - 1 June) attempts to compare missionaries' roles as local agents in different social environments across the Asian continent. The aim is to test the hypothesis that, no matter whether in the Middle East or South Asia, missionaries' options for action in localities under non-Christian authorities were strongly defined by the respective communicative setting. The workshop is jointly organized by Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom, École Française de Rome, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Abteilung für Neuere Geschichte des Historischen Instituts der Universität Bern. At the DHI Rome registration online is necessary: http://dhi-roma.it/tagungen.html

Programme

Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities"
Nikolaistraße 8-10, 04109 Leipzig
Mail: multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de

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