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Public Lecture: "Bureaucratic Islam Contested: examples from Indonesian online/offline realms"

On 19 October, the MPI Halle organises an Emmy Noether Guest Lecture on 'Bureaucratic Islam Contested: examples from Indonesian online/offline realms' by Martin Slama (Austrian Academy of Sciences) it  will take place at the MPI's Seminar Room (New Building), 2-4 p.m.

Witteveen Memorial Fellowship (Tilburg)

The fellowship aims to enable a junior scholar (PhD or postdoc level) to develop her or his research in the field of law and humanities during a visit to Tilburg. The fellowship seeks to promote research on the relations between law and language, rhetoric, narrative, image, sound, and/or culture. During the period of the fellowship the scholar will be present at Tilburg Law School, participate in the academic life of both Tilburg Law School and the Tilburg School of Humanities, and deliver a guest lecture to students. Scholars who are currently working on a PhD dissertation (at least in the third year of their PhD trajectory) or who obtained their PhD within the last five years are eligible. The program offers reimbursement of travel expenses and accommodation expenses (max. 5,250 Euro). Tilburg Law School will not pay salary and will not make social insurance contributions or contributions to pension or unemployment insurance. Fellows will need to find their own accommodation. In principle, the Witteveen Memorial Fellow in Law and Humanities will be at Tilburg Law School for the duration of three months in the spring following the application deadline. Candidates are welcome to propose a different period.

Public Lecture: "Decolonizing the History of Philosophy"

The MPI Halle and the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology of Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg organise a public lecture with Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia University, New York) on "Decolonizing the History of Philosophy" on 26 October 2017:

"In order to decolonize the history of philosophy against the fabrication of translatio studiorum as the unilinear path connecting Greek thought and sciences to medieval European Christianity, we need to pluralize that history. And to manifest in our textbooks that translatio studiorum is not just Jerusalem-Athens-Rome-Paris or London or Heidelberg … but, as well: Athens-Nishapur-Bagdad-Cordoba-Fez-Timbuktu …. To decolonize the history of philosophy is also to take into account the plurality of languages, in order to consider the perspectives introduced by tongues other than European, and thus undo the “ontological nationalism” upon which rests the assumption that philosophical exercise is intrinsically tied to certain (European) languages."

The lecture will take place at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Hörsaal XX, Melanchthonianum, Universitätsplatz 9.

Conference Report: "Religion and Translation in the Early Modern Period"

An English report on the conference "Translating Babel: Religion and Translation in the Early Modern Period" (20-22 July 2017) was published on H/SOZ/KULT by Helene Jung (Gotha Research Centre, University of Erfurt).