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CfA: Student Assistant

We are looking for a student assistant to support the coordinators of the KFG "Multiple Secularities" as soon as possible for 10h/week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Applicants should send their application (cover letter, CV, relevant certificates) in one pdf-file of max. 5MB to multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de  by 01 January 2019.

Christmas Market

Like every year, we would like to spend the the last coffee break before the holidays at the Christmas Market. Everyone is invited to join us at the KFG around 3 p.m. next Tuesday (18 December) to go for "Glühwein" and other treats. The more the merrier!

CfP: Actors of Secularism

At the upcoming conference “The Politics of Religion and Spirituality” of the International Society for the Sociology of Religions in Barcelona (9-12 July 2019) Jean-François Laniel (University of Michigan), David Koussens (Université de Sherbrooke) and Philippe Portier (EPHE-GSRL) will organise a panel titled "Actors of Secularism/Les acteurs de la laïcité". The deadline for submitting paper proposals is 16 December 2018.

Funds for Threatened Scholars

The Philipp Schwartz Initiative of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation provides universities and research institutions in Germany with the means to host threatened foreign researchers for a period of 24 months on a fully funded research fellowship. An extension is possible under a co-financing model. Applications in the 5th call of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative can be submitted until 8 March 2019.