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Dear friends and colleagues,

While both our colloquium and the lecture series “Material Secularities” are taking a break next week, we once again would like to invite you to our KFG-workshop “Multiple Secularities in Africa and the Diaspora”, which is taking place next week from 1 to 3 June.

We also welcome a new Fellow to KFG and have recommendations for a Studies Seminar and an Online Lecture for you. Our Finding invites you to watch films in their original language at Leipzig cinemas. And last but not least, we want to provide you with information on the so-called 9 Euros Ticket, which will be available between June and August and valid for local and regional transport throughout Germany.

Take care and have a good week!

Anja & Lucy

Reminder: KFG-Workshop “Multiple Secularities in Africa and the Diaspora”, 1–3 June

Next week we will be hosting the KFG-workshop on “Multiple Secularities in Africa and the Diaspora”. Convened by Marian Burchardt, Magnus Echtler and Katharina Wilkens, the three-day event will focus on Africa in the field of secularity studies.

The workshop will take place as a hybrid event. You are welcome to register for participation: If you wish to attend, please send us a short inquiry. If you wish to attend in person, we ask you to additionally name the panels you wish to attend on site, as space and seating are limited.

Workshop Dates:

1 June | 2.00–7.00 p.m. (CET)

2 June | 9.00 a.m.–6.30 p.m. (CET)

3 June | 9.00 a.m.–12.30 p.m. (CET)

Hybrid Format: Leipzig University and Online via zoom

Modern Turkish Studies Seminar, Public Lecture: “When the Homeland Calls: Turkey's New Diaspora-Making Policy and Alevis in Europe” with Besim Can Zırh, 2 June

Our Associate Member Markus Dreßler invites to a Public Lecture on “When the Homeland Calls: Turkey's New Diaspora-Making Policy and Alevis in Europe” with Besim Can Zırh, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara.

The Seminar is organized by the Institute for the Study of Religion at Leipzig University.

2 June | 5.15 p.m. (CET)

Leipzig University, Schillerstraße 6, Room S 202

Online Lecture: Abou Farman on “Future Inevitable: The Secular Tense of Technoscience at the End of the World”

Our Senior Researcher Nur Yasemin Ural draws our attention to an online lecture: Abou Farman, Associate Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research in New York, will give a talk on “Future Inevitable: The Secular Tense of Technoscience at the End of the World”. His Respondent will be Mamadou Diallo, Doctoral Student in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, New York.

The lecture is part of the serie “STS, Political Order and Maintaining Planetary Life”, convened by Richard Rottenburg, Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research (WiSER) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

1 June | 4–5.30 p.m. (CET)

Online via Zoom | Please register

Finding: “Movie Showtimes” – Films in their Original Language

Our Senior Research Fellow Tom White points us to a very useful website for the Leipzig cinema programme, which lists films being shown in their original language versions. The film data base is part of the blog “The Leipzig Glocal” based in Leipzig and written for a local as well as an international audience, featuring arts & culture, lifestyle, entertainment, politics, social issues and more.

The blog’s team is committed to delivering information they find interesting and which readers may not have access to because they are new to or outside the area, or don’t speak German. So have fun exploring the website’s recommendations!

Special Offer for Public Transportation: 9 Euros Ticket

This summer, there is a special and unique offer all over Germany: For only 9 euros per month, you can take a local transport trip throughout the country in June, July and August, whether by bus, train or tram. Maybe this can be an incentive to visit friends or get to know new places in Germany. The ticket is available now online but also at all ticket machines of Deutsche Bahn, the Deutsche Bahn App and local transport associations.

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.