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Dear friends and colleagues, As usual, we would first like to draw your attention to the upcoming colloquium next week, this time with our Senior Research Fellow Sita Steckel. We also want to announce the next lecture of the Lecture Series on “Material Secularities” and a Call for Applications. Furthermore, we want to give you a note about maintenance work in the office. And lastly, we would like to draw your attention to an invitation from our university rector Eva Inés Obergfell on the occasion of her inauguration. From tomorrow until Friday, our hybrid KFG-Workshop on “(Im)Materiality of the Secular City: Trials and Tribulations” will take place. You can still register via multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de and you will find the programme and the zoom link here [ ].
Enjoy and have a great week! Anja & Lucy |
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Next Week’s Colloquium: Sita Steckel on “Beyond church and state. Re-assessing the emergence of secularities in the European Middle Ages”, 29 JuneAt next week’s colloquium, our Senior Research Fellow Sita Steckel will give a presentation on her research project “Beyond church and state. Re-assessing the emergence of secularities in the European Middle Ages”. A key aim of her work is to revisit narratives and historical processes of a separation of ‘church’ and ‘state’. Given the continuing prevalence of master narratives of an early emergence of secularity in Europe, particularly in the form of a narrative of separation of church and state, Sita engages in a detailed critical analysis and historicization of late nineteenth-century and twentieth-century historiography of medieval secularities (often: secularisation theories), including current debates as far as they touch on the European Middle Ages. Our director Christoph Kleine will comment on Sita's presentation. The colloquium will take place in a hybrid format (on-site and online). Please register for the colloquium via e-mail, if you would like to join in person. In the member area you find the relevant reading as well as the zoom connection data.
Strohsack, Room 4.55 and online via Zoom |
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Maintenance work on windows at our offices, 27 June–1 JulyWe would like to inform you that next week, between 27 June and 1 July, maintenance work on windows in our office building will be carried out. For this, the maintenance company will have access to our rooms. Please make sure that the windows are freely accessible. Without wanting to insinuate anything, it might be better not to leave any valuables lying around in the open during this period. There is a lockable cabinet in each office that you can use. If you don't come to the office during this period and still have valuables lying around that you would like to put away, please let us know; we would then put them away/lock them up. |
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Public Lecture: Karsten Lichau on “Secular Emotions without a Secular Body? What we can learn from the History of the Minute’s Silence”, 23 JuneAs part of the seminar and lecture series “Material Secularities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”, Karsten Lichau will give a talk on “Secular Emotions without a Secular Body? What we can learn from the history of the minute’s silence” on 23 June. Karsten Lichau is researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, and in his work he focuses on historical anthropology of the body and the senses, sound history, history of emotions and religion and the secular.
Leipzig University | Seminar building, Room S 403 and online via zoom
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Call for Applications: Research Fellowships (3–6 months) at KFG “Religion and Urbanity” at Max Weber Centre at the University of Erfurt, 2023/24We would like to draw your attention to a Call for Applications by the University of Erfurt: The Max Weber Centre currently invites applications for the research group “Religion and Urbanity“, for research fellowships (3–6 months) within the period of 1 April 2023 and 30 September 2024. The research group “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations” investigates the co-constitution and co-evolution of religion and the urban. This includes the reciprocal processes deriving from, but also impacting on objects, architecture, and texts as well as narratives, imaginaries and aspirations. Fellowships are awarded to scholars working in the Humanities, especially in the fields of History, History of Religion or in the fields of Sociology and Urban Studies with a focus on historical and religious developments in the pre-modern era especially. During the second funding phase, the group will focus on processes of ‘group formation and segmentation’, ‘mercantilisation’ and ‘boundary demarcation’.
Fellowship period: 1 April 2023–30 September 2024
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Leipzig University’s Rector Eva Inés Obergfell invites to investiture livestream and lunchtime concert, 23 and 24 JuneSince 1 April, Professor Eva Inés Obergfell has been Rector of Leipzig University. On 23 June, it will be time for her official inauguration, the so-called investiture, a ceremony where she will be presented with the chain of office. As there is limited space for guests from Leipzig University and representatives from the worlds of politics, business and civil society inside the Paulinum – Assembly Hall and University Church of St. Paul, everyone else is welcome to watch the livestream of the investiture ceremony, which will start on 23 June at 1 p.m. Furthermore, our Rector cordially invites all students and university employees to a lunchtime concert on 24 June to celebrate the investiture. From 12 noon until 1 p.m., the Unibigband, conducted by Reiko Brockelt, will play works by musicians including Ellington, Mingus and Kern, in the courtyard on the Augustusplatz campus (Leibniz Forum). 23 June | 1 p.m. (CET)
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