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Dear friends and colleagues,

Next week, there will be no colloquium. On 20 and 21 April, the annual conference of the ReCentGlobe will take place, dedicated to the topic “Global Crises and Epistemic Fragmentation” with numerous panels and talks, some of which with KFG participation.

Today's Wednesday Weekly also includes announcements of a lecture series, a workshop and an interview, and we have a Call for Papers for you.

Enjoy and have a good week!

Anja & Lucy

ReCentGlobe Annual Conference: “Global Crises and Epistemic Fragmentation”, 20–21 April

Next week, the annual conference of the ReCentGlobe will take place focusing on the interactions between political, ecological, social, and economic crises of global dimensions and epistemic fragmentations. Our KFG and its members will contribute within the framework of different panels and sessions:

The Keynote Lecture on 20 April will be held by Philip Gorski from Yale University, invited by our KFG, on “Disenchantment of the World or Fragmentation of the Sacred? An alternative narrative of Western modernity”.

On 21 April, our Associate Member Dagmar Schwerk will chair the Panel on “Epistemes of Nature, Environment, and the Climate Crisis”, while the panel on “Christian Orthodoxy as an Epistemic milieu and a response to the Global Crises” will include contributions by our Senior Research Fellows Sebastian Rimestad and Klaus Buchenau.

Here you can register for participation on-site or online.

20–21 April | Leipzig University AND Online

Highlights:

20 April, 7–8 p.m. (CET): Keynote Lecture by Philip Gorski: “Disenchantment of the World or Fragmentation of the Sacred? An alternative narrative of Western modernity”

21 April, 9.30–11.30 a.m. (CET): Panel on Epistemes of Nature, Environment, and the Climate Crisis. Chair: Dagmar Schwerk

21 April, 1–3 p.m. (CET): Panel “Christian Orthodoxy as an Epistemic milieu and a response to the Global Crises”. With Sebastian Rimestad and Klaus Buchenau

Interview (in German) with Katharina Neef: “’When talking about religion, it gets scarily inaccurate’: Religious Education in Saxon and German Schools”

We would like to draw your attention to an interview with our colleague Katharina Neef from the Institute for the Study of Religions at Leipzig University. In an article published in the Leipziger Zeitung, she talks about religious education at Saxon and German schools and the sometimes significant differences that exist.

Her findings refer to a study she has done in cooperation with our Associate Member Horst Junginger et al. and published in the “Handbook of Religious Education in Germany”. This book looks at non-denominational religion-related instruction in schools from the view of religious studies. The situation of religious education in Germany is analyzed in systematic-comparative, historical and state-specific chapters with a view to the changing contexts and dynamics of the state’s claim to neutrality, religious freedom, legislation and social developments.

Call for Papers: Conference on “Religion in movement: New perspectives in the study of religious history”, 13–15 November in Zaragoza/Spain

The Spanish Association of Contemporary Religious History (AEHRC) organizes its first conference and invites researchers to join it in the prospect of advancing the state of the art in this research field by evaluating current and new perspectives in the study of contemporary religious history and, in particular, by reassessing the processes of secularization and religious reconfiguration that have shaped the Spanish and Hispanic cases.

The Conference will be composed of four main thematic panels: Femininities and masculinities, Identities in movement, Religions in conflict and dialogue and Material-immaterial religious cultures. It will also include two roundtables on historiography, the first one dealing with various international perspectives to the study of religious history, and the second one approaching the topic of archives.

Submission of abstracts: 1 June

Conference Dates: 13–15 November

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.