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Dear friends and colleagues,

In our next colloquium, we welcome our guest Hansjörg Dilger from Freie Universität Berlin. On 3 and 4 November we will hold the next KFG workshop on “Religion and Secularism as Problem Space in Postcolonial Occidentalist Discourses within the MENA Region”, convened by Housamedden Darwish and Markus Dreßler, and you are welcome to register for participation.

Furthermore, we have a recommendation for a conference for you and there are new announcements for the DVRW Annual Conference 2023. Our Wednesday Weekly concludes with a recommendation for the Leipzig Jazz Days 2022.

Enjoy and have a good week!

Anja & Lucy

Next week’s Colloquium: Hansjörg Dilger on “Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania”, 26 October

Next Wednesday, our guest Hansjörg Dilger from Freie Universität Berlin will present his book “Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania”. These schools combine secular education with the moral (self-)formation of young people, triggering new realignments of the fields of education with interreligious co-existence and class formation in the country's urban centres. In his book, Hansjörg Dilger explores the emerging entanglements of faith, morality, and the educational market in Dar es Salaam, thereby shedding light on processes of religious institutionalization and their individual and collective embodiment.

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. 

26 October | 9.15–11.45 am (CET)

Strohsack, Room 4.55 and online via zoom

KFG-Workshop “Religion and Secularism as Problem Space in Postcolonial Occidentalist Discourses within the MENA Region”, 3–4 November

In two weeks we will be hosting the KFG-workshop on “Religion and Secularism as Problem Space in Postcolonial Occidentalist Discourses within the MENA Region”. Convened by Housamedden Darwish and Markus Dreßler, the two-day event aims to discuss the question of religion and secularity/secularism in (postcolonial) Occidentalist discourses and their critiques in the MENA region. The programme is now online.

The workshop will take place as a hybrid event. You are very welcome to register for participation: If you wish to attend, please send us a short inquiry. If you wish to attend in person, we ask you to additionally name the panels you wish to attend on site, as space and seating is limited.

Workshop Dates:

3 November | 9.00 am–6.00 pm (CET)

4 November | 9.00 am–1.30 pm (CET)

Hybrid Format: Leipzig University and Online via zoom

Conferene on “Christianity and Crisis in European Contexts”, 28–29 October, Lund/Sweden

Our Senior Research Fellow Giuseppe Tateo draws our attention to an upcoming conference on “Christianity and Crisis in European Contexts” taking place in Lund from 28–29 October, where he will contribute with a presentation.

This conference aims to investigate the place of Christianity – historically, theoretically, and practically – in Europe’s (and individual European countries’) ongoing challenges. Do these challenges constitute a crisis? If so, what kind of crisis does Europe face? What is the role of Christianity (actual, or possible) in exacerbating the challenges Europe faces, or in resolving them? Keynote speakers will be José Casanova, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University, Cyril Hovorun, Professor of Ecclesiology, International Relations and Ecumenism at Saint Ignatios College in Stockholm, Valentina Napolitano, Professor of Anthropology at University of Toronto and Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Professor of Political Science and Religious Studies, Northwestern University.

Conference Dates: 28–29 October

Venue: Helgonavägen 3 (LUX building), University of Lund/Sweden

XXXV. DVRW Annual Conference 2023 “Under construction – Religion as Practice and Process”: List of Open Panels

Three weeks ago, we announced the Call for Open Panels for the XXXV. DVRW Annual Conference 2023 “Under construction – Religion as Practice and Process” in Bayreuth. Now, the list of Open Panels is completed and the organizers would like to invite you to submit papers for the open panels as well as closed panels, roundtables and panel discussions. More information is available on the conference website. If you have any questions, you can also contact the conference’s organizers via e-mail.  

Submission of Closed Panels and Round-tables/discussion panels by 15 March 2023

Confirmation by 31 March 2023

Conference Dates: 25–28 September 2023

Leipzig Jazz Days (Leipziger Jazztage) 2022

Our director Monika Wohlrab-Sahr is recommending a closer look at The Leipzig Jazz Days (Leipziger Jazztage) 2022, which will take place from 22 to 29 October at a variety of venues throughout the city of Leipzig. With the overarching theme “Talkin ’bout my generation”, the 46^th edition of the renowned festival will once again take place on numerous stages.

As every autumn, the Jazzclub Leipzig presents over 100 musicians from the local Leipzig, German and international jazz scene. Big names in jazz, but also innovative newcomers, play in the venerable opera house and theatre, in churches, but also in trendy clubs and off-locations in 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.