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Dear friends and colleagues,

Next week for our colloquium, we are pleased to welcome our guest Ahmet T. Kuru from San Diego State University.

First of all we would like to point out that the Call for Panels for the ReCentGlobe Annual Conference in April has been extended to 21 February. Moreover, today’s Wednesday Weekly has contributions from KFG Fellows for you, an interview as well as a Call for Abstracts for a Panel. And we would like to share with you a current job opportunity.  

Lastly, a small event recommendation: If you are in the mood for fine arts this weekend, this year's round tour at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig could be of interest for you.

Enjoy and have a good week!

Anja & Lucy

Next week’s Colloquium: Ahmet T. Kuru on “Secularism and Islam: A Complex Relationship from History to the Present”, 22 February

Next Wednesday, we are welcoming our guest Ahmet T. Kuru from San Diego State University to our colloquium. He will give a presentation on “Secularism and Islam: A Complex Relationship from History to the Present“. In his talk, he will primarily refer to his book on “Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment. A Global and Historical Comparison“.

Our Associate Senior Researcher Housamedden Darwish will comment on the presentation.

The colloquium will take place in a hybrid format (on-site and online). If you would like to join in person, please register for the colloquium via e-mail. In the Member Area you will find the relevant readings as well as information on the zoom connection data.

22 February | 9.15–11.45 am (CET)

Strohsack, Room 4.55 and online via zoom

EXTENDED DEADLINE for Call for Panels: “Global Crises and Epistemic Fragmentation”, ReCentGlobe Annual Conference, 20–21 April at Leipzig University

In January, we announced the Annual Conference of the Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe) which will take place on 20 and 21 April at Leipzig University. The deadline for the submission of abstracts has now been extended to 21 February.

The conference will focus on the interactions between political, ecological, social, and economic crises of global dimensions and epistemic fragmentations, i.e. the fundamental contestation of established worldviews, knowledge and value systems. Panels will last two hours and should therefore include 3 to max 4 contributions and possibly a comment. Please send your panel proposals via e-mail.

Extended deadline for submission of panels: 21 February

Conference dates: 20–21 April

Call for Abstracts for Panel: “Nation Building across Religious and Continental Boundaries. (Counter-)Islamic References in Print, Diasporic Networks, and Communal Formations” for 29th International DAVO-Congress, 21–23 September at University of Vienna

The 29th International Congress of DAVO will take place in cooperation with the “Turkologentag 2023 – Fourth European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies“ at the University of Vienna on 21–23 September. Our Junior Research Fellow Elliot Lee together with Tsz Kit Chan and Katrin Köster from Leipzig University, is organizing a panel on “Nation Building across Religious and Continental Boundaries. (Counter-)Islamic References in Print, Diasporic Networks, and Communal Formations” and looking for contributions.

The panel interrogates how dialectical processes of intergroup contacts and boundary making were re-produced and fostered in print media with religious (Islamic) and/or national references. The focus will be on diasporic Muslim minorities from the Middle East and non-Muslim diasporas in Muslim majority regions from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

Submission of abstracts: 25 February

Notification of acceptance: 7 April

Conference Dates: 21–23 September

Job opportunity: Research Associate “Ignaz Goldziher Program for Jewish-Muslim Studies” (100% full time equivalent) at Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow in Leipzig

We would like to share with you this job opportunity at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow (DI) in Leipzig, an internationally oriented research institution dedicated to scholarly research on Jewish life worlds, especially in Central and Eastern Europe, from early modernity through to the present. The “Ignaz Goldziher Program for Jewish-Muslim Studies” based at the DI, offers scholars from Muslim contexts an opportunity to spend twelve months at the institute to work on or complete a research project on the mutual experiences of Jews and Muslims in modernity and related questions of reform, confessionalization, secularization, and pluralism, or to develop a new project in this field and, with the help of the institute, to develop it to a level suitable for funding applications.

It invites scholars to apply who hold PhDs or are in the final stages of a doctoral program in a field especially relevant to the DI, including modern and contemporary history, Eastern European history, Islamic studies, Oriental studies, Judaism and/or Jewish studies, and cultural studies.

Please send your application by mail or electronically.

Deadline for applications: 7 March

Event: Exhibition/Round tour at the Academy of Fine Arts (HGB) Leipzig, 16–19 February

HGB faculty, students and staff are once again looking forward to four days from 16–19 February when traditionally the entire university building will be transformed into a unique exhibition space, open to the public. Students from all disciplines will present current work results from the past year at the end of the winter semester.

Alongside the tour, the HGB Circle of Friends and Sparkasse Leipzig 2022/23 Study Prize will be awarded and the exhibition of the prize winners will open in the HGB Gallery.

Opening hours: Thursday, 7–12 pm | Friday and Saturday 2–9 pm | Sunday 12–6 pm (CET)

Venue: Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Wächterstraße 11, 04107 Leipzig

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.