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Dear friends and colleagues,

This week we want to draw your attention to our workshop next week. We also have a call for applications, a call for papers and a cultural recommendation for you. Enjoy!

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.

New Online Formats of the KFG

This morning we had had our first virtual colloquium. Despite minor technical difficulties, it went very well. This kind of video conferencing is a useful tool to get back into a more direct exchange and we are happy that so many of you have taken part.

As soon as we have the technical equipment that allows us to combine physical presence (of some) and online participation (of others) in a satisfying way, we will try to realize that step by step. For the moment, however, we will be holding the colloquia and workshops online.

A positive side effect is that now also Fellows and interested people can participate in the colloquia, who are not or cannot be physically in Leipzig anyway. You are of course all welcome to join in. The dates and topics will be available as usual on our homepage soon. If you have any technical questions, please contact Marie-Luise Frank. 

Virtual Workshop with Philip Gorski

Next Tuesday, on 19 May, we will have our first online workshop. We welcome Philip Gorski from Yale University in our virtual conference room. In two parts we will exchange current research and discuss selected papers. If you are interested in participating, please register by email to Marie-Luise Frank by 17 May.

Registration until 17 May
Date: 19 May, 9:15–12:45

CfA: Research Associate Islamic Studies

The DFG Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "RomanIslam" (Humanities, Asia-Africa-Institute, Islamic Studies) at University of Hamburg invites applications for a Research Associate for the project “Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity - Transcultural Processes on the Iberian Peninsula and in North Africa” (65 %, 13 TV-L), starting 1 October.

Deadline: 30 May

CfP: Conference on Catholic Studies

The annual conference of the working group for Catholic Studies and the Catholic Academy Schwerte will focus this year on translation and mediation processes in the Catholicisms of the 19th and 20th centuries. Missionary work and how this affected Christianity in Europe as well as the 20th century as the “secular age” (Taylor) will be discussed.

20 – 22 November, Schwerte
Deadline: 30 June

Leipzig University Music: Organ Livestream

Leipzig University Music would like to invite you to a live stream concert from the Paulinum on 14 May at 7:30 pm. University Music Director David Timm, who is known for his jazz arrangements of a wide variety of compositions, will improvise on the Jehmlich Organ on themes sent in by the audience.

Date: 14 May, 7:30 pm