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Colloquia

Please note that we will have two colloquia on 14 June.

From 9:15 - 11:45 a.m. we will have a joint colloquium with the Class "Religion, Secularity and Cultural Dynamics" (Research Academy of Leipzig University). Dr. Alexander van der Haven (Israel) will present on: "Secular as Religion: Making Religion in Darwin's Century".

Julia Heilen will present her fellowship project from 2:15 - 3:45 p.m., same day, same place.

Lectures

The Emmy Noether Group "The Bureaucratization of Islam and its Socio Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle) organises a series of public guest lectures in June:

01 June, 2 - 4 p.m.
"Ritual or Manual? Past, present and future of Zakat management in Malaysia"
Kerstin Steiner (La Trobe University, Melbourne) 
Seminar Room (New Building)

02 June, 2 - 4 p.m.
"Islam, Law and the State in the Philippines: the regulatory framework"
Kerstin Steiner (La Trobe University, Melbourne)
Seminar Room (New Building)

09 June, 2 - 4 p.m.
"Power Writ Large. Bureaucratic literacy, networking, and dis/connection"
Thomas Kirsch (Universität Konstanz)
Seminar Room (New Building) 

12 June, 2 - 4 p.m.
"Muslim Women's Rights Activists and the Introduction of the Islamic Criminal Law Code (Qanun Jinayat) in Aceh, Indonesia"
Kristina Grossmann (Universität Passau)
Seminar Room (New Building)

22 June, 2 - 4 p.m.
"The Bangsamoro Collective Memory and its Traction among Non-elite Moro Islamic Liberation Front Adherents in the Southern Philippines"
Rosa Cordillera Castillo (FU Berlin/Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies)
Seminar Room (New Building)

30 June, 2 - 4 p.m.
"Vocabulary Battles in Indonesian Islamic Social Media: hardliners vs. moderates"Antonius Ario Seto Hardjana (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Univeritas Indonesia, Jakarta)
Seminar Room (New Building)