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Wednesday Weekly 23 May 2018
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Reminder IThis is a reminder to register for our conference on Critique of Modernity (14-15 June 2018) as soon as possible if you plan to attend. Registration is open until 3 June 2018, please send an email to multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de and use the subject MODERNITY.
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CFP: The Place of Religion in the EnlightenmentThe Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies (Halle/Saale) calls for papers for a conference on The Place of Religion in the Enlightenment. Please send paper proposals of no more than 200 words along with a short (2 page) curriculum vitae to izea@izea.uni-halle.de before 30 June 2018. The program committee will communicate its decisions by 20 July 2018. The conference will take place 5-7 June 2019.
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Public Lecture by Dipesh ChakrabartyAs part of the Halle Lectures 2018 on global thinking Dipesh Chakrabarty holds a lecture on The Difficulty of Being Modern: Thoughts on Global and Planetary Histories. The lecture tracks some of the ethical difficulties of being modern at a time when collective human aspirations carry planetary implications. In the process, the lecture brings into conversation some post-human and post-colonial perspectives on modernity. The talk takes place at Universitätsring, Aula im Löwengebäude (Universitätsplatz 10, Halle/Saale) on 25 June 2018, 6 p.m.
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