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Dear friends and colleagues,

There will be no colloquium next week, and the week after we will hold the last colloquium before the summer break on 27 July. In today’s Weekly, we say goodbye to a Fellow, we have two new publications by KFG members for you and a note about a conference.

We would also like to remind you of our cinema evening tonight – we will be showing the film "Dealing with Death” as part of our “Screening Religion” series at 7 p.m. at Cinémathèque Leipzig at naTo.

Last but not least, we would like to draw your attention to the classical open-air event Klassik airleben with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, which after a two-year break finally returns to Leipzig's Rosental this weekend.

Enjoy and have a good week!

Anja

Reminder: Screening Religion: “Dealing with Death”, Tonight at naTo

Tonight at 7 p.m. our film series continues with “Dealing with Death”, set in the many cultures of Bijlmer, a suburb in the southeast of Amsterdam, all having their own rituals around bidding farewell to the dead. The film follows funeral director Anita’s yet uncertain mission of finding out what the community would want in a new multicultural funeral home.

The film will be shown at Cinémathèque Leipzig at naTo in Dutch, English, Sranantongo and Twi with English subs. Afterwards there will be a discussion with our Senior Research Fellow Todd Weir. 

We recommend ticket reservation as there is still limited seating. Please wear a FFP2-mask upon entering the building and while walking around. The mask can be taken off while seated. Contact tracing is still available via app.

13 July | 7 p.m. (CET)

Cinémathèque Leipzig at naTo, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 46, 04275 Leipzig

Free entry, donations welcome

New Publication II: Dagmar Schwerk’s Book Review of “Secularizing Buddhism: New Perspectives on a Dynamic Tradition” by Richard K. Payne

We would also like to draw your attention to the latest article by our Senior Research Fellow Dagmar Schwerk – a book review of Richard K. Payne’s “Secularizing Buddhism: New Perspectives on a Dynamic Tradition”, published in the latest edition of the Journal of Global Buddhism.
 

Schwerk, Dagmar. "Book Review: 'Secularizing Buddhism: New Perspectives on a Dynamic Tradition. Edited by Richard K. Payne." Journal of Global Buddhism 23, no. 1 (2022): 87-94.

Conference on „Beyond Cultural Identities - The Jew of Polyphony, Relationality and Translation in Muslim Contexts” in Halle, 18–20 July

This conference on “Beyond Cultural Identities - The Jew of Polyphony, Relationality and Translation in Muslim Contexts” aims at exploring perspectives that dispense with the modern notion of monolithically constructed “cultures”. It suggests to replace it by a concept like thinking in polyphonic translations within a multicollective environment. How can be reconstructed in this way consistent arguments of the Sephardi/Mizrachi/Mustarabi Jews towards the Muslim Nahda, towards modernity, even towards a possible "Jewish Enlightenment" in the South?

The 3-day event will be held on 18-20 July and is organized by the Department of Jewish Studies at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.  

18–20 July

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg | Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies (IZEA), Thomasius-Room, Franckeplatz 1, House 54

Event: “Klassik airleben” (Open-air event “Enjoy classical music”) at Leipzig’s Rosental, 15–16 July

After a two-year break due to the pandemic, the open-air concerts Klassik airleben will return to Leipzig's Rosental on 15 and 16 July and the Gewandhaus Orchestra will once again attract visitors to spend lively summer evenings with a picnic and good music.

Susanna Mälkki will conduct the open-air concerts. She and the Gewandhaus Orchestra will be joined on the first evening by pianist Igor Levit as soloist in Beethoven's 3rd Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. On the second evening, Andrei Ionita will play Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations for Violoncello and Orchestra.  

15 and 16 July | 8.30 p.m. (CET), Rosental

Free Entry

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