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Dear friends and colleagues, 

This week we would like to draw you attention to a workshop announcement, a call for papers, a recent article as well as an online research seminar. Finally, we would like to recommend to you a digital version of a very special Christmas Market.

And a friendly reminder about our Screening Religion event tonight: At 7 p.m., together with the Cinémathèque Leipzig, we will be showing the two-part documentary “Emperor Haile Selassie I. His burial and the Rastafarians in Shashamane” followed by a Q&A with director Verena Böll. The link to the film can be found here.

Enjoy, have a good week and take good care of yourselves and each other!

Save the date: Workshop "From Universalism to Ethnopathos: Religious Knowledge in the Colonial Encounter between India and Germany"

We would like to draw your attention to a digital conference with a strong presence of former and present CASHSS Research Fellows: The workshop "From Universalism to Ethnopathos: Religious Knowledge in the Colonial Encounter between India and Germany" organised by Isabella Schwaderer and hosted by the University of Erfurt. Among the participants of the event on 16 and 17 Januar 2021 are our Senior Research Fellows Rinku Lamba, Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav and Sushmita Nath. One panel on "Religion, Colonialism and Politics" will be chaired by our Junior Researcher Johannes Duschka. The announcement and further details regarding the conference you will find in our Bulletin

Date: 16–17 January 2021

Registration: The conference will take place on Cisco Webex. To attend kindly send an e-mail to isabella.schwaderer@uni-erfurt.de

Call for Papers: "Realising Understanding Language in Cross-cultural Migration/Integration and Secular–Religious Contexts"

Our Senior Research Fellow Housamedden Darwish wants to draw you attention to a workshop in 2021 jointly organized by him together with Jan-Christoph Heilinger, a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer in Philosophy at RWTH Aachen – both active in the network "Academics in Solidarity", which is a peer-mentoring program that connects exiled researchers and established scholars in Germany, Lebanon and Jordan. The workshop will discuss the use of language in multi- and cross-cultural contexts shaped by different linguistic and cultural backgrounds of the communicating parties and analyze (mis-) understandings in the context of migration and integration with the intention to identify factors that can support genuine understanding. It will be a full-day event and will take place at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The exact date is to be announced. The organization team welcomes submissions from different disciplines (abstracts, 200–300 words).

Deadline: 15 January 2021
For further information please contact Housamedden Darwish

Article "Revisited: Why do evangelicals vote for Trump?" by Philip S. Gorski

We would like to draw your attention to an article recommended by our Senior Researcher Yasemin Ural: In The Immanent Frame, which publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere, our dear colleague Philip S. Gorski has published an article on Trumpism and the historical entanglements of religion and race and asks the question "Why do evangelicals vote for Trump?".

Online Research Seminar: "Working Class Politics and Jewish–Muslim Relations in Colonial Algeria, 1889–1926" with Dr. Yuval Tal

We would also like to point to an online research seminar taking place right at the beginning of the new year: Yuval Tal, Post-Doc Research Fellow at Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will present his work on "Working class politics and Jewish-Muslim relations in Colonial Algeria". His chair and respondent during the evening will be Prof. Haim Saadoun from the Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies at the Open University and Director of the Documentation Centre of North African Jewry at Ben-Zvi Institute. You can join the event by following the Zoom link below.

4 January 2021 | 5 p.m. (CET)
Online via Zoom

Weihnachten am Kreuz digital ("Christmas at the Crossroads" digitally)

This year, many things are different - including the Advent season. Where Christmas markets usually dominate the cityscape with their lights and typical scents, it is now quiet and almost deserted. The alternative Christmas market "Christmas at the Crossroads" (Christmas Market at Connewitz Kreuz, a crossroads in the Southern district Connewitz) with many local artists, actors and businesses will still take place digitally. You will find great deals on fashion, jewellery, ceramics, culinary as well as printed products to buy online. An unusual but great way to give a special Christmas present and at the same time support Leipzig's entrepreneurial culture at these difficult times.

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