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Dear friends and colleagues,

we have created a digital space for future virtual joint coffee breaks so that we can continue to meet informally as well. We also want to inform you about a new publication, an online lecture and a call for book proposals. We have also found a solution how to make our film series Screening Religion take place next week despite the closing of all cinemas.

Enjoy and have a wonderful week!

Virtual Coffee Break

We want to continue to give you the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas in an informal atmosphere. Since our weekly coffee break cannot take place in the usual form at the moment and for an indefinite period of time, we want to give you the infrastructure for a virtual coffee break. Under the link we can meet as usual on Tuesdays at 3 p.m. via zoom for a virtual version of our joint coffee break. And of course we also invite former Fellows and Fellows who are currently not in Leipzig to drop by.

Every Tuesday | 3 p.m. (CET)
Online via Zoom

Another way to socialise in these physically distant times is to login to zoom about 15 minutes before our official meetings like colloquia start.

Latest publication

We would like to draw your attention to the latest publication of our director Monika Wohlrab-Sahr: Her afterword "Apologetics as a Seismograph of Social Change and an Arena of Secular-Religious Conflicts" concludes the volume "Defending the Faith: Global Histories of Apologetics and Politics in the Twentieth Century" edited by Todd Weir and Hugh McLeod that explores the many ways in which conflicts between secular worldviews and religions shaped the history of the twentieth century introducing the notion of "apologetics" to highlight a common feature of these conflicts.

Wohlrab-Sahr, Monika. “Afterword: Apologetics as a Seismograph of Social Change and an Arena of Secular-Religious Conflicts.” In Defending the Faith: Global Histories of Apologetics and Politics in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Hugh McLeod and Todd Weir, 292–98. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Online lecture by Florian Zemmin

Our Senior Researcher Florian Zemmin will give an online lecture: Together with discussant Sari Hanafi from the American University of Beirut, he will address the topic of “The Secular in Middle East and Islamicate History”. His lecture is part of the online lecture series “ReOrienting the Global Study of Religion", organized by Armando Salvatore, former Senior Research Fellow at KFG and now Professor of Global Religious Studies at the School of Religious Studies at the McGill University in Montréal/Canada and his university colleague from the Institute of Islamic Studies Robert Wisnovsky.

26 November | 7:30 p.m. (CET)
Online via Zoom | Passcode: 870227

Screening Religion: "Virgin Tales" via online streaming

We have found a way to let our film series continue this month despite the current and temporary closure of the Cinémathèque Leipzig due to corona protection measures. There will be an exclusive online screening of the film. Next week we will be screening the documentary film "Virgin Tales" (2012) by Mirjam von Arx. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Bernadett Bigalke and Sebastian Schüler, both scholars of religion from Leipzig University.

Please register until 17 November via multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de to take part and receive the link to the screening.

18 November | 7 p.m. (CET)
Online via Zoom | Registration is required

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