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Dear friends and colleagues,

Our administrative staff is out of office this week and we can only provide you with a rather rudimentary Weekly. 

Renny Thomas from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) will visit us to give a presentation in the next Colloquium, the next Screening Religion casts its shadows ahead and we would like to remind you to save the date for our final conference in the fall.

Enjoy and have a good week!

Your KFG Team

Next week’s Colloquium: Renny Thomas on "Culture, ‘Cultural’, and Religious: An Anthropology of Science and Religion in India", 19 July

Next Wednesday, Renny Thomas from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) will give a presentation on "Culture, ‘Cultural’, and Religious: An Anthropology of Science and Religion in India."

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

19 July | 9.15–11.45 am (CEST)

Strohsack, Room 4.55 and online via zoom

Screening Religion 26 July: König hört auf

26 July 2023, 7.30 p.m.
Cinémàtheque Leipzig at naTo Free entry, donations welcome

The long-time youth pastor Lothar König from Jena does not fit into any system. In the GDR he was shadowed by the Stasi, after reunification he was tirelessly active in the fight against right-wing radicalism, often in the front row. He was personally attacked and eventually put on trial. The cinematic portrait shot by his son, the Leipzig filmmaker Tilman König, is nevertheless not a glorifying homage, but a critical tribute to a feisty character who has to reinvent himself with retirement. A documentary about the question of what it means to act and live politically across generations.

The film will be followed by a discussion with the director Tilman König and sociologist Alexander Leistner.

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In our series Screening Religion we show documentaries and movies rarely seen in German cinemas. Religion features in every film, be it as a catalyst for negotiation processes or a source of conflict, a marker of identity or a constitutive element of social background. Thus, we seek to screen films on religion whilst simultaneously screening for “religion” as a cinematic object.

Reminder: KFG Final Conference

Multiple Secularities Final Conference

12-14 October 2023
Leipzig University

We want to get together once again with our previous fellows and discuss what has been achieved, to celebrate the encounters made here, and the community that this project has enabled with colleagues worldwide.

Stay tuned for more information!

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.