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Dear friends and colleagues,

Tomorrow and on Friday the ReCentGlobe Annual Conference on “Global Crises and Epistemic Fragmentation” will take place with numerous panels and talks, some of which with KFG participation. You are very welcome to join the event.

Today's Wednesday Weekly includes a new publication in our Working Paper Series and we have three Calls for Applications for you.

Next week, Leipzig’s Book Fair will finally be back after a three-year break and we would like to recommend a visit to the fair and the accompanying reading festival “Leipzig liest” to you already today.

Enjoy and have a good week!

Anja & Lucy

REMINDER: ReCentGlobe Annual Conference: “Global Crises and Epistemic Fragmentation”, 20–21 April

Tomorrow, the annual conference of the ReCentGlobe will start with a focus on the interactions between political, ecological, social, and economic crises of global dimensions and epistemic fragmentations. We would like to remind you that our KFG and its members will contribute within the framework of different panels and sessions.

Here you can register for participation on-site or online.

20 – 21 April | Leipzig University, Nikolaistr. 8–10, Strohsack, 7^th floor AND Online  

Highlights:

20 April, 7–8 p.m. (CET): Keynote Lecture by Philip Gorski: “Disenchantment of the World or Fragmentation of the Sacred? An alternative narrative of Western modernity”

21 April, 9.30–11.30 a.m. (CET): Panel on “Epistemes of Nature, Environment, and the Climate Crisis”. Chair: Dagmar Schwerk

21 April, 1–3 p.m. (CET): Panel on “Christian Orthodoxy as an Epistemic milieu and a response to the Global Crises” with Sebastian Rimestad and Klaus Buchenau

Job Opportunities

PhD Position, Junior Professorship of Jewish Studies at Leipzig University, starting 1 July

At Leipzig University, the Faculty of Theology, Junior Professorship of Jewish Studies, there is a vacancy for a PhD position (50%) starting 1 July. The position addresses candidates who will do research in the field of modern Jewish history, philosophy or theology.

Application deadline: 5 May

PostDoc Position for the Project “Zen Buddhist Genealogical Diagrams in Early Modern Japan” at University of Hamburg, starting 1 August

The Department of Japanese Language and Culture at the Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg, offers a PostDoc position in the DFG-funded project “Zen Buddhist Genealogical Diagrams in Early Modern Japan: Representations of Religious Authority, Implementations in Social Practice, and Transmissions of Knowledge”. This fixed-term part-time position (50%) is advertised for a three-year term, starting 1 August.

Application deadline: 4 May

3 PhD Positions in Theology and Religious Studies, University of Tartu/Estonia, starting 1 September

Three full-time four-year PhD positions are available for theology and religious studies at the School of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Tartu. All three are open positions for specializing in Theology or in Religious Studies with no predetermined research topic or focus. Research at the School is particularly active in the areas of Ancient Near East studies, Biblical Studies, Orthodox Christianity, Secularization and Non-religion, Contemporary Religious Developments, Dialogue of Science and Religion, Religious Education, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion and the History of Christianity in Estonia, but is not limited to these. One can propose a topic from some other research area as well.

Application deadline: 15 May

Leipzig Book Fair 2023 “Literally surprising”, 27–30 April

After a three-year break, the Leipzig Book Fair will take place again from 27–30 April. With more than 2,500 exhibitors from 46 countries, the fair presents a broad, multi-faceted range of literature and media, delighting 286,000 visitors to the fairgrounds and throughout the city at the last event. Leipzig University will be represented with its own booth. The Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe) will contribute with numerous researchers and several discussions about new global dynamics and regional transformations.

Leipzig Book Fair is the most important get-together in the spring for the book and media industry, connecting readers with authors, publishers and media companies from Germany and around the world. The fair is held in conjunction with the “Leipzig liest” (“Leipzig reads”) reading festival that brings literature to numerous reading venues throughout the city.

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.