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Dear friends and colleagues, Today’s Wednesday Weekly offers you a conference report, two calls for applications and two job opportunities. We also would like to share an art project about Ukraine with you. Have a good week and take good care of yourselves! Anja & Lucy |
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ADİP Conference Proceedings: Conversions of Spaces and Places in Anatolia, 10–11 April 2021In April 2021, the international conference “The Conversion of Spaces and Places of Worship in Anatolia” took place. This conference, organized by the Anatolian Religions and Beliefs Platform and supported by the Etkiniz EU Programme and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, aimed to function as a platform for the discussion of the conversion of religious spaces and places of worship from the multi-disciplinary approaches of law, history, politics, anthropology, architecture as well as heritage and urban studies. Our Associate Member Markus Dreßler contributed to the conference with his talk on “The Reconversion of the Hagia Sophia: Interpretations and Silences”. The proceedings of the conference are now available, including, of course, Markus' contribution.
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Call for Applications I: Student Workshop on “Affect, Politics and Religion”, 28–30 July in Hrafnseyri, IcelandReligious difference evokes heated debates in secular public spheres, challenges not only ideas and practices of solidarity, but also of tolerance and identity. This workshop postulates the idea that we can only understand these phenomena if we take the affective and emotional dimensions of these social processes seriously. Applicants should be advanced MA or PhD students in the field of humanities, law or social sciences. Throughout the workshop, up to 12 participants will read, discuss and reflect on different theoretical and methodological perspectives from cultural studies to social sciences to ask how a social relational account of affect can inform our own research projects. The workshop is organized by the Museum of Jón Sigurðsson at Hrafnseyri, Iceland and Jón Sigurðsson Professorship at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík, together with the CRC “Affectives Societies” at Freie Universität Berlin. For application submission or further questions please contact Valdimar J. Halldórsson. Submission of applications: 1 May
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Call for Applications II: Summer Course in Zoroastrian Studies, June 2022, Norwegian Institute RomeOnce again, the University of Bergen and the Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies at SOAS University of London offer a summer course in Zoroastrianism in Rome for BA and MA students. Zoroastrianism is a living religious tradition with historical roots in ancient Iran and Central Asia. Once the dominant religion in pre-Islamic Iran, the main contemporary Zoroastrian communities can be found in India, Iran, and a range of other countries such as Britain, Canada, the US and Sweden. The topic of this year’s course will be “Zoroastrianism as a religious minority in modern and contemporary Iran”. The course will be held at the Norwegian Institute in Rome. Submission of applications: 27 March
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Job Opportunity I: Research Assistant at Faculty of Theology at the University of RostockAt the University of Rostock, the Chair of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology is recruiting for the position of a Research Assistant. Work tasks will include research as well as teaching with a focus on the field of religious studies and research-based communication of expert knowledge and skills to students. The position is scheduled for a three-year term and is to be filled at the earliest possible date. Application Deadline: 24 March
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Job Opportunity II: Assistant Professor in Religious Studies at The Chinese University of Hong KongThe Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong invites applications for an Assistant Professorship in Religious Studies. Welcome are applicants with academic interests in religion and society (broadly defined), including, but not exclusive to, sociology of religion, psychology of religion, as well as religion and environment. This position of offered for a three-year term initially commencing in September 2022. Application Deadline: 10 April
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Finding: Ruslan Hrushchak's Book "The Road Beyond"There are many ways to show your solidarity with the people being harmed through the Russian aggression against Ukraine. One is the latest work of Ruslan Hrushchak, art photographer and computer science alumnus of Leipzig University: “The Road Beyond the Horizon” is a collection of landscape photographs and award-winning reportage photos from Ukraine that he has taken in 2016–2017 during travelling through his homeland. Whereas every day the images of the war are omnipresent, Hrushchak’s book shows another Ukrainian reality – peace, family, vitality, protection, love. The book is published in English and Ukrainian and available at Kominek Publishing House. A fifth of every book sold will go to Ukraine as a donation.
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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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