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Dear friends and colleagues, We have an eventful week ahead of us at our KFG, with one event following the next. On Tuesday evening we invite you to a special Eranos dinner and book presentation with Tani and Rajeev Bhargava. On Wednesday, Rajeev will be presenting in the colloquium. Thursday morning we are looking forward to our guest Brian Catlos and on Friday we welcome Nilüfer Göle for a workshop in Leipzig. Tomorrow, the KFG workshop “Religion and Secularism as Problem Space in Postcolonial Occidentalist Discourses within the MENA Region” starts and you can still register for participation on-site or online. Besides that, this Wednesday Weekly has two more recommendations, one for a seminar and another one for a public event. We hope to see you at the events! Enjoy and have a good week! Anja & Lucy |
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Reminder: KFG-Workshop “Religion and Secularism as Problem Space in Postcolonial Occidentalist Discourses within the MENA Region”, 3–4 NovemberTomorrow, the two-day KFG-workshop on “Religion and Secularism as Problem Space in Postcolonial Occidentalist Discourses within the MENA Region” will start and you can still register for participation. If you wish to attend, please send a short inquiry to Housamedden Darwish. Please note that the programme has been modified. Here you will find the latest schedule of the workshop.
4 November | 10 am–12.30 pm (CET) Leipzig University, Strohsack, Room 4.55 AND online via zoom |
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Next week’s Colloquium: Rajeev Bhargava on “Pre-modern and Modern Forms of Religious Coexistence in India”, 9 NovemberNext Wednesday, our Senior Research Fellow Rajeev Bhargava will give a presentation on his research project “Pre-modern and Modern Forms of Religious Coexistence in India”. 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 reading as well as information on the zoom connection data.
Strohsack, Room 4.55 and online via zoom |
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Online Seminar on “Performing the Sanctity. The Sacred and the Profane in Croatian National Football Culture” with Dario Brentin, 3 NovemberAt this week’s colloquium, our Senior Research Fellow Hugh McLeod spoke on the question of whether sport is something fundamentally religious, secular, both or neither. This online event, organised by the University of Rijeka/Croatia, takes up the topic again with a presentation on “Performing the Sanctity: The Sacred and the Profane in Croatian National Football Culture” by Dario Brentin from the University of Applied Sciences in Vienna.
Online via zoom
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Event: „Gut Schabbes? Chag Sameach! – Religious freedom and respect for rest from work on Shabbat and Jewish holidays”, 6 NovemberTime and again conflicts arise in the everyday lives of Jews in Germany between religious life and secular demands and state regulations. Jewish students, for example, report that they have to choose between completing their studies quickly and their faith, as examination dates are set for Friday afternoons, i.e. Shabbat, or for high Jewish holidays – without any alternative dates. But refusing alternative examination dates and time off from work or school for religious practice violates religious freedom and is an impermissible discrimination. The event “Gut Schabbes? Chag Sameach! Religious freedom and respect for rest on Shabbat and Jewish holidays” is dedicated to this topic. It is organized jointly by the Expert Initiative Religious Policy (EIR), the Jewish Student Union Germany and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Tikvah Institute.
Akademie der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Tiergartenstr. 35, 10785 Berlin
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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. |
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