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Wednesday Weekly 23 January 2019

Publication: Kurdish Alevis and the Case of Dersim

Our associate member and Philipp Schwartz Fellow Ahmet Kerim Gültekin co-edited and contributed an article to a recently published volume on Kurdish Alevis and the Case of Dersim. Historical and Contemporary Insights. Who are the Kurdish Alevis? What are the particular conditions for its association with the Kurdish identity, Alevi religion, and the history of Turkey? What has been the role of Dersim within Kurdish Alevism? The main purpose of this edited volume, the first of its kind, is to contribute to the understanding of these and other questions.

The Governance of Islam in Two Secular Polities: Turkey’s Diyanet and Indonesia’s Ministry of Religious Affairs

The recent issue of the european journal of turkish studies contains an article on "The Governance of Islam in Two Secular Polities: Turkey’s Diyanet and Indonesia’s Ministry of Religious Affairs" by Martin van Bruinessen which might be of interest to scholars of the KFG.

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Special Issue: Understanding and Explaining Islamophobia in Eastern Europe

The Leipzig based e-journal Connections recently published a Special Issue of the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Eastern Europe – Global Area” (EEGA) on ”Understanding and Explaining Islamophobia in Eastern Europe”. The articles will be published consecutively in the following weeks and offer theoretical, cross-national and comparative perspectives as well as case-specific views.

The following papers are already online:

Alexander Yendell (Leipzig University): Understanding and Explaining Islamophobia in Eastern Europe

Ivan Kalmar (University of Toronto): Islamophobia, Antisemitism, and Populism: Not Only in Eastern Europe

Farid Hafez (University of Salzburg): Reading Islamophobia Through the Lens of James Baldwin

Documentary Screening "DOKversity"

The Equality Office of Leipzig University organises a documentary movie series about racism and discrimination based on ethnic-religious attributes in cooperation with DOK Leipzig. On 29 January they show Burka Songs 2.0 (Sweden 2017, trailer) and Black Sheep (Great Britain 2015, trailer) at 5 p.m. in Lecture Hall 8 (Campus Augustusplatz). Both movies are in English.

Workshop Report: Colonial Knowledge Production

The workshop ‘Internationalization of Colonial Knowledge Production’, held at Leipzig University (20-21 September 2018), dealt with three key processes of the 19th and 20th century: internationalization, knowledge production and colonialism. The aim was to bring together current trends in historiography, addressing the transnational workings of knowledge production, with a focus on the production of colonial knowledge / the colonial production of knowledge.

Workshop Report

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