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Dear friends and colleagues, 

Once again, we open our Wednesday Weekly with information on next week's colloquium. In addition, we have some event announcements from our members for you. And finally, you get an update on how to use the university library at the moment.

And don't forget our Screening Religion: Tonight at 7 p.m. we will show "The Wound / Inxeba" by director John Trengove as online livestream in cooperation with Cinémathèque Leipzig. The film’s languages are Xhosa and English (with German subtitles), followed by a discussion with our Senior Researcher Magnus Echtler. Registration is not required.

Enjoy and have a good week!

Anja & Lucy

KFG Colloquium: Katharina Wilkens on “Ancestor Spirits in Secular Society – Negotiating Agency, Space and Heritage in Africa and Beyond”

Next Wednesday, our Senior Research Fellow Katharina Wilkens will present her research project on “Ancestor Spirits in Secular Society – Negotiating Agency, Space and Heritage in Africa and Beyond”. Her research focuses on the possibilities and the limits of imagined spaces and factual materiality, in discourses of ancestral identities in mobile urban communities of the 21st century.

In the KFG member area, you find the outline of her research project as well as some additional reading. The colloquium will take place in a hybrid format (face-to-face/online). Please register for the colloquium via e-mail, if you would like to join in person (8 people max). All present participants will have to show a negative COVID-19 rapid test on the morning of the colloquium. We have test kits available at the KFG – please be here already at 8:15 a.m. if you prefer to take the test here.

21 April | 9:15–11:45 a.m. (CET)

Hybrid format | Strohsack, room 4.55 and online via zoom

Leipzig University Library during Covid-19 pandemic

As some of you have asked us how Leipzig University libraries can be used at the moment, we would like to give you a little update on that:

The library locations are generally open, the current opening hours can be found on the locations’ websites.

• It is possible to have a short stay for literature supply in the open access areas and in the open stacks (limited to 1 hour, check-in on site is necessary)
• The number of users in the buildings will continue to be limited depending on the size of the site.
• The check-in can be done digitally or analogously and requires that you provide your contact information.
• You can borrow from the reference collection up to 5 books for one week.
• Scanning, printing and copying is possible at all library locations.
• Borrowed books can be returned by post
• The issue of interlibrary loans is possible at Bibliotheca Albertina on Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Currently, there are also limitations to the library's service:

• The use of the research and workstations at the library is not possible at the moment – so please research the online catalogue from home.
• Delivery of literature orders directly to users is not offered.
• You cannot order media for use in the reading rooms as they are still closed.
• As soon as reading on site and the use of the workstations is possible again, we will inform you.

Finding: Four-part Documentary „Juden & Muslime. So nah. Und doch so fern!“ / „Jews & Muslims. So close. And yet so far!”

In this week’s finding, our Senior Researcher Yasemin Ural refers to a documentary on Jewish-Muslim history in four chapters. The episodes are entitled „Founding & beginning“, „Living together“, „Separating & burning” and “Remembering, arguing, fighting” and cover 1,400 years of Jewish-Muslim relations.

ARTE media library

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.