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Wednesday Weekly 11 September 2019
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André Laliberté on the crisis in Hong KongKFG Senior Fellow André Laliberté (University of Ottawa) and Yann Roche (University of Québec) gave an interview to Radio Canada about the ongoing crisis in Hong Kong and how it affects the Turkish-speaking and Sunni Muslims living in the autonomous Uighur region of Xinjiang (formerly East Turkestan) in China and Central Asia.
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DVRW Workshop: Religious utopias and practices of social transformationThe working group “Africa” within the German Association for the Study of Religion (DVRW) invites to its workshop on „Religious utopias and practices of social transformation”, taking place 10-11 October 2019 at the University of Bayreuth.
If you want to take part, please write to Eva Spies (Eva.Spies@uni.bayreuth.de) by 15 September.
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CfA: Research Position “Religion and healing” at Leipzig UniversityThe Institute for the Study of Religions at Leipzig University is looking for a PhD researcher working on religion and healing. Within the project "When Healing Fails: Cognitive Dissonance and Factors of Resilience in Failed Religious Healings. A comparative study of three local Christianities", a position as a research assistant/PhD position (75%, TV-L 13) is to be filled from 1 February 2020 on and will be funded for the years by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Please submit your application with the usual documents, a letter of motivation (1 page) and a maximum three-page outline of your planned PhD project by 30 September.
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globaLE Film Festival On 18 September, the highly acclaimed movie “Waltz with Bashir” will be shown in the scope of the globaLE film festival at 8 p.m. at UT Connewitz.
The globaLE is a political festival initiated by attac Leipzig, which uses film as a medium to document the worldwide connections and effects of capitalist economics and to critically shed light on exploitation and exclusion. Screenings take place at different places all over Leipzig until 8 November and are in German or with German subtitles, all events are free. The film programme is framed with public lectures and discussions.
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