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Dear friends and colleagues,

We are very pleased to announce that the highly anticipated final KFG conference will take place this week! We start tomorrow, 12 October, at 7 pm with a keynote by Reinhard Schulze on "The Normative Status of Secularity and Islamic Genealogies of Worldliness" in the lecture hall of the Bibliotheca Albertina. On Friday and Saturday we will have nine panels on a wide variety of topics that we and our fellows have encountered over the last eight years. We look forward to seeing you there!

On the occasion of the conference, our director Christoph Kleine did an interview with our university's media service. Information on this and next week's colloquium with David Jeffery-Schwikkard can be found below in the Weekly.

Enjoy and take care!

Foteine & Lucy

Christoph Kleine on Eight Years CASHSS "Multiple Secularities", his Research Focus and Future Projects

On the occasion of our final conference and his involvement in the draft proposal for the planned research cluster on New Global Dynamics, our director Christoph Kleine spoke to our university's media service about the achievements of the CASHSS "Multiple Secularities", his personal research focus and future projects.

Read the complete interview here.

If you want to join the conference last minute, please register via multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de. Most sessions will take place in a hybrid format, on-site and via zoom, please indicate whether you will be attending on-site or online. You can find the programme here.

Next week’s Colloquium: David Jeffery-Schwikkard on “Secular imaginaries in the African National Congress” | 18 October

Next Wednesday, our guest David Jeffery-Schwikkard from King’s College London will give a presentation on “Secular imaginaries in the African National Congress”.

The colloquium will take place in a hybrid format (on-site and online). In the Member Area you will find the relevant readings as well as information on the zoom connection data.

18 October | 9.15–11.45 am (CET)
Strohsack, Room 3.29 (!) and online via zoom

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.