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Dear friends and colleagues,

Today's Wednesday Weekly has recommendations for a public audition lecture, latest job opportunities as well as two calls for papers.

Moreover, we have an invitation for you to a “special edition” of our coffee break: a joint visit to Leipzig's Christmas market.

Warm greetings in these cold winter temperatures & have a good week!

Anja & Lucy

Public audition lecture for W2–professorship in Tibetan Studies with Dagmar Schwerk, 16 December

The Faculty of History, Art and Area Studies at Leipzig University invites to the public audition lectures as part of the call for applications for the W2 professorship in Tibetan Studies.

There, our Associate Member Dagmar Schwerk will speak on “Buddhist Doctrine, Politics, and Traveling Scholars: Identity and Nation-Building in Eighteenth-Century Bhutan”.

16 December | 12.30 pm (CET)

Leipzig University, Schillerstr. 6, Room S 202

Job Opportunities: PhD position (100%) & PostDoc position (50%) at the Institute for the Science of Religion, University of Bern

We would like to draw your attention to two job opportunities. The Institute for the Science of Religion at the University of Bern is looking for a PostDoc researcher and a PhD student for the SNF (Swiss National Science Foundation) research project “How Worldviews Shape Social Responsibility: Religious and Secular Narratives of the Body, the Virus, and the State in the Covid-19 Crisis”. The project is part of the National Research Programme (NRP) “Covid-19 in Society”.

Both the PhD position (full-time) and the PostDoc position (50%) cover 3 years each. Interested applicants can send their documents (letter of motivation, CV, certificates) via e-mail by 23 December 2022.

Call for Papers: 20th EASR Conference 2023 on “Religions and Technologies”, 4–8 September 2023 in Vilnius

In October, we announced the Call for Panel Proposals for the 2023 European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) Conference. Central theme will be “Religions and Technologies” and the conference will focus on how technology and religion have co-evolved in the past, consider which are the critical engagements of religion with technology today, and imagine how they could develop in the future.

Now, the Call for Individual Papers has been announced. You are welcome to submit a paper for an accepted Open Panel or submit one to Sui Generis panel. The call closes on 31 January 2023.

The event is organized by the Lithuanian Society for the Study of Religions and will take place from 4–8 September 2023 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Also, as of this week, the option to register for the conference is open.

   
Submission of Individual Papers: 31 January 2023

Notification of Acceptance: 28 February 2023

Early bird registration: 31 May 2023

Standard registration: 30 June 2023

Late registration: from 1 July 2023

Call for Papers: Conference on “Religion and Spirituality as Sites of Learning”, Turku/Finland, 15-17 May 2023

We also have another Call for Papers for you for the conference on “Religion and Spirituality as Sites of Learning” taking place in Åbo/Turku, Finland from 15–17 May 2023.

Learning has always been a central aspect in religion and spirituality. Besides providing primary socialization for children and youth, many communities encourage their adult adherents to continuously deepen their religious knowledge and engagement. Especially in pluralistic societies, religion-related learning activities may also involve previously unfamiliar traditions, and the adoption of a decidedly nonreligious identity or lifestyle can also involve complex processes of learning and unlearning. The multidisciplinary conference invites scholars to investigate the variety of past and present dynamics of learning, religion and spirituality in the lives of individuals and communities.

The conference is organized by the Donner Institute for Research into Religion and Culture and the LeNeRe research project (Learning from new religion and spirituality).

Submission of abstracts: 3 January 2023

Notification of accepted abstracts: 3 February 2023

Registration open: 4 February–3 April 2023

Conference dates: 15–17 May 2023

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.