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Dear friends and colleagues,

At next week’s colloquium we will have our Senior Research Fellow Gökçen Beyinli-Dinç presenting her research project. Also next week on 9 and 10 June, the workshop “Muslim Minorities and Questions of Secularity in China and Beyond” will take place, convened by our KFG Members Yee Lak Elliot Lee, Markus Dreßler and Hubert Seiwert together with James D. Frankel from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. You are very welcome to participate as a listener on-site or online.

Moreover, we would like to share with you a note about a lecture series at Leipzig University as well as recommendations for an event and a publication.

Enjoy and have a sunny week!

Anja & Lucy

Next week’s Colloquium: Gökçen Beyinli-Dinç on “The Battle of Superstition: Alevis and the Construction of Islamic Orthodoxy in Secular Turkey”, 7 June

Next Wednesday, our Senior Research Fellow Gökçen Beyinli-Dinç will give a presentation on her research project “The Battle of Superstition: Alevis and the Construction of Islamic Orthodoxy in Secular Turkey” at our colloquium.

Our Senior Research Fellow Birgit Meyer will comment on Gökçen's presentation.

The colloquium will take place in a hybrid format (on-site and online). In the Member Area you will find more information including preparatory readings and the zoom connection data.

7 June | 9.15–11.45 am (CEST)

Strohsack, Room 4.55 and online via zoom

Workshop on “Muslim Minorities and Questions of Secularity in China and Beyond”, 9–10 June at Leipzig University

Next week, the workshop “Muslim Minorities and Questions of Secularity in China and Beyond” will take place from 9 to 10 June. Convened by KFG Members Yee Lak Elliot Lee, Markus Dreßler, Hubert Seiwert as well as James D. Frankel from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the two-day interdisciplinary workshop investigates the role of secularity in the formation and normalization of Muslim minorities, with a focus on China.

The workshop will be held in a hybrid format. You are welcome to register as a listener by sending us an e-mail indicating the type of participation (on-site or online). We will then send you the zoom connection data in good time prior to the event.      

9–10 June

Strohsack, Room 4.55 and online via zoom

Lecture Series on the Critique of Religion at Leipzig University: Yemima Hadad on “Women of the Wall (WOW): The Feminist Critique of State and Patriarchal Religion in Israel”, 5 June

The lecture series on Feminist Critique of Religion at the Institute for the Study of Religions at Leipzig University this summer semester is dedicated to the various forms of male dominance in the field of religion. In addition, feminist critique of religion in its opposition to androcentrism will be systematically examined. On June 5, our colleague Yamima Hadad will speak on “Women of the Wall (WOW): The Feminist Critique of State and Patriarchal Religion in Israel”.

5 June | 3.15–5.45 pm (CEST)

Leipzig University, Universitätsstraße 3, Auditorium 7

Event: “Gezi: 10 Years After” with Exhibitions “Library of Resistance” and “Divergent Roads of History: The Authoritarian Decade of Turkey” curated by Nil Mutluer and Murat Özbank, 26 May–25 June in Berlin

Based on what happened in Gezi and its aftermath in Turkey, the “Library of Resistance” and “Diverging Roads of History” exhibitions, the installation “Sounds of Gezi” and “living book” and panel discussion events, all to be organized within the framework of GEZI: 10 YEARS AFTER at Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, are currently inviting participants to read, listen, talk, discuss and think about the future of democracy and authoritarianism in Turkey and the world.

Our colleague Nil Mutluer from the Institute for the Study of Religions at Leipzig University has co-curated the exhibitions “Library of Resistance”, a collection of over 200 printed works that should be required reading for those who want to understand Gezi and Turkey's authoritarian decade after Gezi and “Divergent Roads of History”, a visual and thematic chronology that will take visitors to a circular journey in time starting and ending at the Gezi Library, in other words, at the juncture where the divergent roads of history meet—and diverge again.

Exhibition from 26 May–25 June

2 June: Panel “Diverging Roads of History: The Authoritarian Decade of Turkey after Gezi” with Zeynep Gambetti, Nil Mutluer, Murat Özbank

Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin

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