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Dear friends and colleagues,

In today's Wednesday Weekly we would like to announce our next colloquium as well as draw your attention to two upcoming lectures by KFG members. We would also like to invite you to the kick-off workshop of the new Working Group on Secular Worldviews.

Enjoy and have a good week!

Your KFG-Team

Next week’s Colloquium: David Koussens | 6 December

Next Wednesday, our Senior Research Fellow David Koussens will give a presentation on his research project at our colloquium.

The colloquium will take place in a hybrid format (on-site and online). In the Member Area you will find more information and the zoom connection data at the beginning of next week.

6 December | 9.15–11.45 a.m. (CET)
Strohsack, Room 4.55 and online via zoom

Lecture: Hubert Seiwert on “Die Institutionalisierung der Religionswissenschaft an der Universität Leipzig“ | Leipzig University, 4 December

Our Permanent Senior Researcher Hubert Seiwert will give a public lecture entitled "Die Institutionalisierung der Religionswissenschaft an der Universität Leipzig" ("The Institutionalization of Religious Studies at Leipzig University"). The lecture discusses the development of the Institute of Religious Studies from an analytical and a narrative perspective. It will analyse the conditions of the institutionalization of religious studies at Leipzig University, which led to the founding of the Institute in 1993 and influenced its development. The analysis is supplemented by the narrative of subjective experiences and evaluations that Hubert associates with the history of this institute.

4 Dezember | 5–6 p.m. (CET)
Schillerstr. 6, 04109 Leipzig, Room S 102

Lecture: Jason Josephson Storm on “Through a Dark Prism: Astral Armies, Psychic Surveillance, and the History of Military Occult Research” | Erlangen/online, 6 December

Our Senior Research Fellow Jason Josephson Storm will give a lecture on “Through a Dark Prism: Astral Armies, Psychic Surveillance, and The History of Military Occult Research” at the CAS-E Centre for Advanced Studies “Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective” on 6 December.

6 Dezember | 11.15 a.m.–12.45 p.m. (CET)
CAS-E Centre for Advanced Studies “Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective”, Hartmannstr. 14, Building D1, Room 000.235, Erlangen and online via ZOOM https://fau.zoom.us/j/63672581746

Kick-off Workshop: Arbeitskreises säkulare Weltanschauungen "Nichtreligion = nicht Religion?" | Leipzig University, 7–8 December

Our Associate Member Lena Dreier pointed us to the kick-off workshop of the Arbeitskreis säkulare Weltanschauungen (AKsäk, “Working Group on Secular Worldviews”) and extended an open invitation to all anyone interested. The aim of the working group is to connect scholars who deal with the diverse forms of secularity and non-religion (worldviews, practices, communities, artifacts, etc.). It encompasses the German-speaking world, different disciplinary approaches, is theoretically diverse and methodologically open to qualitative and quantitative research. The researchers of the AKsäk work with different conceptualizations of secularity and non-religion, which is seen as an opportunity for productive discussion. At their first meeting in Leipzig, the aim is, on the one hand, to facilitate an exchange on the content of current research on non-religion and secularity in German-speaking countries and, on the other hand, to provide a forum to establish the working group in a larger group and to plan the various ideas and needs of the members as well as possible future activities.

7–8 December
Strohsack, Room 4.55

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.