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Dear friends and colleagues,

This week we would like to announce three publications and draw your attention to a call for presentations and two lecture series.

And of course, a friendly reminder about tonight’s public lecture by Donovan Schaefer from the University of Pennsylvania on "Feeling Faithless: Making the Affective Turn in Secularism Studies".

Enjoy!

Tonight: Public Online Lecture with Donovan Schaefer

We would like to remind you of the public lecture and discussion with Donovan Schaefer, Assistant Professor at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, on "Feeling Faithless: Making the Affective Turn in Secularism Studies" taking place tonight at 6:15 p.m (CET). We are happy that our Senior Researcher Yasemin Ural will present the event which includes a comment of Schaefer’s presentation by Monique Scheer, Professor of Historical and Cultural Anthropology at University Tübingen.

Publications: Dagmar Schwerk | Patrice Ladwig | Dietrich Jung

Call for Presentations: Online Conference of Research Network "Dynamics of religious things in museums" (REDIM) on Religious Materials – Emic Perspectives – Etic Constructions – Museum Classifications

Our Senior Research Fellow Edith Franke draws our attention to a call for presentations for the online conference of the research network "Dynamics of religious things in museums". The organization team headed by Edith Franke and Ramona Jelinek-Menke welcomes contributions on the topic "Religious Materials – Emic Perspectives – Etic Constructions – Museum Classifications" from various disciplines and with different methodological approaches. It is intended that the contributions will be produced in audiovisual form prior to the conference, and made available to the participants. During the conference, the contributions will be discussed in panels. There is the possibility of publishing contributions in an audiovisual conference volume.

Submission of Paper Proposals (Abstract of max. 200 words): 7 March

Submission of audiovisual Contributions: 1 May

Conference Date: 3–6 June

International Seminar Series "Religion, Crisis and Disaster"

Our Senior Research Fellow Carlos Nazario Mora Duro recommends to us a seminar series already starting today. The series, whose convenors are Richard Vokes, Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Western Australia, and Cristina Rocha, Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Director of the Religion and Society Research Cluster at the Western Sydney University, takes a global and multidisciplinary perspective on the issue of "Religion, Crisis and Disaster" including the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Wednesdays, 24 February – 28 April | 9 a.m. (CET)

Online via Zoom (Password: Arsenal)

Lecture Series "Folgen der Corona-Pandemie für Religion, Religiosität und Religionsgemeinschaften" ("Consequences of the Corona Pandemic for Religion, Religiosity and Religious Communities")

Our Senior Research Fellow Jens Köhrsen points to another lecture series that deals with the field of religion and global crises: Organised by the Sociology of Religion Section of the German Sociological Association, the series on "Consequences of the Corona Pandemic for Religion, Religiosity and Religious Communities" looks at how the pandemic and the associated contact restrictions have affected religious communities, diverse religious organisations and groups. There will be four sessions during February and March, which will be held in German.

If you are interested, please register via e-mail by latest Sunday evening before the respective date.

Tuesdays, 23 February – 23 March | 6 p.m. (CET)

Online | Access data after Registration

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