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Wednesday Weekly 26 February 2020

Dear friends and colleagues,

This week we want to say goodbye to one of our fellows, present to you our next Screening Religion movie as well as two new Working Papers. We also want to direct your attention to a job offer and some conferences. Enjoy!

Farewell Jason Storm

Jason Storm, who has been a Senior Research Fellow in the KFG since October 2019, will return to Williamstown this week. Dear Jason, thank you very much for your cooperation and contribution to our project. We wish you good luck and hope to see you soon!

Screening Religion: Get – Der Prozess der Viviane Amsalem

The drama "Get – Der Prozess der Viviane Amsalem" tells the story of the fate of the Israeli Viviane Amsalem and her long, desperate struggle for a divorce from her husband Elisha in the Jewish Orthodox Rabbinical Court.

Directed by Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz (France, Israel, Germany 2014)
11 March 2020 | 7 p.m.
Cinémathèque Leipzig (Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 46)
Language: German

Trailer

New Working Papers

We want to announce the two latest publications in our Working Papers Series:

#17 Heiner Roetz “On Subjectivity and Secularity in Axial Age China”

#20 Nadja-Christina Schneider on “Tea for Interreligious Harmony? Cause Marketing as a New Field of Experimentation with Visual Secularity in India”

Working Paper Series

CfA: University Lecturer in the Cultural History of Christianity

The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR) is advertising for a University Lecturer in the Cultural History of Christianity. Welcome are applications by scholars of religion with the ability to position Christianity in historical perspective, with sensitivity to socio-cultural context and local-global configurations, as well as an interest in linking the historical study of Christianity to contemporary, comparative, and theoretical issues in the study of religion.

Deadline: 07 March 2020

Call

CfP: Realising Understanding

The workshop Realising Understanding. Language in Cross-cultural Migration/Integration and Secular–Religious Contexts will discuss the use of language in multi- and cross-cultural contexts shaped by different linguistic and cultural backgrounds of the communicating parties analyze (mis-) understandings in the context of migration and integration with the intention to identify factors that can support genuine understanding.

13 May 2020 at LMU Munich
Deadline: 31 March 2020
Organised by KFG Researcher Housamedden Darwish and Jan-Christoph Heilinger

Call

CfP: Philosophy and Religion in Ancient Times

The third meeting of the working group Philosophy and Religion of the Society for Ancient Philosophy focuses on Plutarch’s analytical writing on Isis, Osiris and Egyptian religion. The relation between the different steps of Plutarch’s argumentation and the numerous digressions, and which aspects of his Middle Platonism are included in his analysis are only some of the open questions that will be discussed in the workshop.

16 – 20 June 2020 at Marburg Philipps University
Deadline: 15 March 2020

Call (in German)

Conference on Christian Migration and Diaspora

The case studies discussed at the conference Migration and Diaspora as Topics of the Global History of Christianity aim to cover different periods in the history of Christianity. Focussing on aspects such as the spread, the transformation or the globality of Christianity, the conference seeks at the same time to shed light at often overlooked facets of this world religion and to insert them into the overall picture of church history.

25 – 26 March 2020 at LMU Munich
Organised by Ciprian Burlacioiu (Faculty of Protestant Theology)

More Information (in German)

Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities"
Nikolaistraße 8-10, 04109 Leipzig
Mail: multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de

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