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Dear friends and colleagues,

We are taking a three-week break from our colloquium and will be back with the next one on 22 February. Today’s Wednesday Weekly has a new publication for you, several job opportunities as well as recommendations for a number of events.

We would also like to draw your attention again to the annual Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe) conference in April and its Call for Panels, which is still open.

Enjoy and have a good week!

Anja & Lucy

REMINDER: Call for Panels: “Global Crises and Epistemic Fragmentation”, ReCentGlobe Annual Conference, 20–21 April at Leipzig University

On 20 and 21 April, the annual conference of the Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe) at Leipzig University will take place, and we would like to remind you of the Call for Panels: The beginning of 2023 is again marked by political, ecological, social, and economic crises of global dimensions. The conference will focus on the interactions between such crises and epistemic fragmentations, i.e. the fundamental contestation of established worldviews, knowledge and value systems.

Panels will last two hours and should therefore include 3 to max 4 contributions and possibly a comment. The composition of panels should respect as much as possible the various aspects of diversity in terms of gender, disciplinary backgrounds, perspectives.

Please send your panel proposals via e-mail.

Submission of panels: 10 February

Conference date: 20–21 April

Graduate Colloquium on the Cultural History of Orthodox Christianity with Sebastian Rimestad on “Russian Secularity – the Evolution of Delineating ‘Religion’ in Russia”, 4 February

In this winter semester 2022/23, the University of Erfurt offers a Graduate Colloquium on the Cultural History of Orthodox Christianity. Our Senior Research Fellow Sebastian Rimestad will give the opening lecture and present his reflections on “Russian Secularity – the Evolution of Delineating ‘Religion’ in Russia”.

The event will take place online, and you are very welcome to attend.

4 February | 10.30 am (CET)

Online via Cisco Webex Meeting

ZeFKo Forum Launch “Decolonize yourselves! Critical reflections of peace and conflict research”, 2 February

We would like to draw your attention to an event hosted by the Institute for Political Science at Leipzig University: On 2 February, the launch of the ZeFKo (Journal for Peace and Conflict Studies) forum entitled “Decolonize yourselves! Critical reflections on peace and conflict research” will take place. The panel discussion will feature high-ranking participants and will welcome, among others, the ZeFKo forum editors Susanne Buckley-Zistel from the Centre for Conflict Research at Philipps University Marburg and Teresa Koloma Beck from the Institute for Sociology at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg.

The discussion will not only address new decolonial academic approaches, but also Germany's role in confronting its colonial past. It will take place as a hybrid event.

2 February | 3.15–4.45 pm (CET)

Hybrid Format: Leipzig University, New Seminar Building S015 AND online

Job opportunities I and II: Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Assistant Professor of Religious Heritage and Interdisciplinarity at Utrecht University

The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University is looking for two new (tenured) colleagues: An Assistant Professor of Religious Studies as well as an Assistant Professor of Religious Heritage and Interdisciplinarity.

The subject area Religious Studies, to which both positions are attached, offers a dynamic, research-oriented environment with a strong commitment to excellence in teaching and research. The group has broad interests in material and corporal dimensions of religion, issues related to religious diversity, politics and ethics of religion, media and religion, and religious texts and ideas. It integrates a wide range of (inter)disciplinary perspectives.

For additional information, please contact Birgit Meyer via e-mail.

Application deadline: 26 February

Job opportunity III: Assistant Professor in Religious Studies and Cultural Heritage at the University of Amsterdam

Also the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies currently has a vacant Assistant Professor position as part of the research theme Cultural Heritage and Identity. The focus is on material and immaterial heritage, including digital Humanities, and on cultural heritage and societal changes. Amsterdam School of Historical Studies is one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research.

Application deadline: 12 March

International Workshop “Plural Protestantisms. Religious group formations in the 17th and 18th centuries”, 17–18 February at Freie Universität Berlin

The diversity of Protestantisms in the post-Reformation centuries is still largely reflected in problematic attributions that often have their origin in theological-polemical contexts of the time itself, including e.g. orthodoxy, pietism, syncretism, separatism.

This workshop aims to open up a new perspective on the processes and practices of religious communication and group formation within German-speaking and European Protestantism in the 17th and 18th centuries. What practices and mechanisms were used to mark differences and create affiliations? What social relationships can be identified between different actors from supposedly divergent groups, even beyond theological-dogmatic classifications? How can the phenomena of a compulsion to standardize beliefs on the one hand and the ambiguity of communicative, social and religious practices in everyday life on the other be thought together?

Registration is requested by 10 February via e-mail.

17–18 February

Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstr. 23-25 (Holzlaube), Room 2.2058

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.