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Dear friends and colleagues,

This week we would like to draw your attention to the publication of the latest contribution to our Working Paper Series. We also have a call for papers and some recommendations for events for you.

Enjoy and have a good week!

CfP: Conference on Radical Religious Communities in Premodern Societies

The Centre for Medieval Studies Prague, the Institute of Philosophy and the Hussite Museum of Tabor will host a conference on Radical Religious Communities in Premodern Societies. Speakers are invited to explore the social dimension of radical religion in the medieval and early modern periods. Instead of social-economical determinism, the focus shall be on local networks, interpersonal bonds, and communal dynamisms.

9 – 11 July 2021, Tábor (Czech Repulic) 

Deadline: 31 July 2020

Movie Screening: In the Name of….

We want to recommend to you the Polish movie „In the Name of…“ (2013) by Małgorzata Szumowska, screening at our partner, the Cinémathèque: Adam is a Catholic priest who discovered his calling as a servant of God at the relatively late age of 21. He now lives in a village in rural Poland where he works with teenagers with behavioural problems. Yet, Adam bears a secret: He knows that he desires men and that his embrace of the priesthood has been a flight from his own sexuality. When he meets Łukasz, his self-imposed abstinence becomes a heavy burden.

Screenings: 13, 14 and 17 July, 8 p.m. (Polish with German subtitles)

Venue: Cinémathèque Leipzig at naTo, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 46

Recommendation for events: The Leipzig Summer of Radio Plays

The Leipzig Summer of Radio Plays (Leipziger Hörspielsommer) is an annual open air event, during which various radio play programmes run all day on the idyllic Richard-Wagner-Hain. The family programme starts at 2 p.m. on weekends and 4 p.m. during the week, before the evening programme takes over from 6 p.m. onwards. Enjoy the unique atmosphere and be enchanted by great stories while sitting in your (self-brought) deckchairs, enjoying refreshing drinks or delicious food in the summer bar or your self-brought picnic.

This Friday, 10 July at 8pm there will also be an English language programme, the 18th International Audio Drama Competition.

Findings: Our song of the week

Welcome to our new weekly category: Findings! To keep our spirits up, we thought we would add a nice little category on the side to our Weekly. From now on we will share fabulous things we found on the internet here. Recommendations from you are always welcome. For now we start with some tunes:

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.