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Dear friends and colleagues,

There will be no colloquium next week. But we have welcomed a new Associate Member and would like to draw your attention to a book presentation and a conference this week. And of course, we would like to remind you of our Screening Religion event tonight: At 7 o’clock, we will be showing the film "Kongo" at the Cinémathèque Leipzig at naTo.

Also, the Leipzig Intercultural Weeks 2022 have been running for two days and will continue until 2 October and you will find out more about them in our event announcement.

Enjoy and have a good week!

Anja & Lucy

Reminder: Tonight Screening Religion with “Kongo” at naTo

Tonight we will be showing the film “Kongo” at Cinémathèque Leipzig at naTo as part of our Screening Religion Series. Enchantment and magic and their significance in Africa are at the focus of the film, shown in original languages (Lari and French) with English subs. After the film, there will be a discussion with our Senior Researcher Magnus Echtler and Senior Research Fellow Asonzeh Ukah.

Free entrance, donations are welcome.

Please wear a FFP2-mask upon entering the building and while walking around. The mask can be taken off while seated. Contact tracing is still available via app.

21 September | 7 p.m. (CET)

Cinémathèque Leipzig at naTo, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 46, 04275 Leipzig

Book Launch: “Memory and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective”, edited by Zuzanna Bogumił and Yuliya Yurchuk, 29 September

Our Senior Research Fellow Sebastian Rimestad points to a publication event of the book “Memory and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective”, edited by Zuzanna Bogumił from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and Yuliya Yurchuk from Södertörn University in Sweden.     

The editors call for a postsecular turn in memory studies to provide a more reflective and meaningful approach to the constant interplay between the religious and the secular. This opens up new perspectives on the intersection of memory and religion and helps memory scholars become more aware of the religious roots of the language they are using in their studies of memory. By drawing on examples from different parts of the world, the contributors to this volume explain how the interactions between the religious and the secular produce new memory forms and content in the heterogenous societies of the present-day world.

No registration necessary.

29 September | 7.00–8.15 p.m. (CET)

Online via zoom

Conference (in German): „Urbane Sozialformen des Religiösen zwischen Pluralisierung und Regulierung“, 21–23 September in Hamburg

We would like to draw your attention to a conference on „Urbane Sozialformen des Religiösen zwischen Pluralisierung und Regulierung“ (“Urban social forms of the religious between pluralisation and regulation”).

Against the backdrop of diverse forms of a new urban religious diversity and its regulation, this workshop addresses urban social forms of the religious in recent decades under the perspectives of pluralization, globalization, and regulation.

21–23 September

Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg (FZH)

Leipzig Intercultural Weeks 2022, 19 September – 2 October

The Leipzig Intercultural Weeks are taking place again – as in the previous year, the motto is "#offengeht". The Leipzig programme includes around 100 events with 70 organising organizations including intercultural associations, socio-cultural centres, migrant organizations, religious communities, and environmental organizations.

This year, the focus will be on the theme “Thinking Sustainably – Understanding Globally – Acting Locally”. Around ten percent of the events illustrate the joint commitment of Leipzig citizens with and without a migration history in various neighbourhood gardens and other environmental projects 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.