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Wednesday Weekly 4 January 2023

Dear friends and colleagues,

The New Year is still young, and we wish you all the best for 2023! May it be a peaceful and healthy one for all of us! We look forward to a continued lively and fruitful exchange and cooperation with you.

Today, we are happy to invite you to our first colloquium of the year with our Senior Research Fellow Klaus Buchenau. Furthermore, we would like to draw your attention to a Call for Papers, a Book Presentation and Lecture as well as a Call for Applications.

Enjoy and have a successful start into the year!

Anja & Lucy

Next week’s Colloquium: Klaus Buchenau on “Russian secularities through the lens of Christian-Muslim relations, 16th to 21st centuries”, 11 January

Next Wednesday, we will hold our first colloquium of the new year: Our Senior Research Fellow Klaus Buchenau will give a presentation on his research project on “Russian secularities through the lens of Christian-Muslim relations, 16th to 21st centuries”. Russia’s history of Christian-Muslim coexistence goes back to the middle ages. In his talk, Klaus will try to put this experience into a relationship with the concept of secularity, beginning with the 16th century and ending with the 21st. Examples will be taken mainly from the Volga Region, but also from the Northern Caucasus and Central Asia.

Our Permanent Senior Research Fellow Wolfgang Höpken will comment on the presentation.

The colloquium will take place in a hybrid format (on-site and online). If you would like to join in person, please register for the colloquium via e-mail. In the Member Area you will find more detailed information including the zoom connection data.

11 January | 9.15–11.45 am (CET)

Strohsack, Room 4.55 and online via zoom

Lecture and Book Presentation: Sighard Neckel on „Die Kragenlinie der Currywurst“ (“The Collar Line of the Currywurst”), 19 January

August 2022 saw the publication of the anthology „Verstehen als Zugang zur Welt. Soziologische Perspektiven“ (“Understanding as Access to the World. Sociological Perspectives”) by our Senior Research Fellows Uta Karstein, Marian Burchardt and Thomas Schmidt-Lux – dedicated to our director Monika Wohlrab-Sahr. It collects some of the manifold traces and influences of Monika’s work on the field of sociology. Among the authors of the book is Sighard Neckel from the University of Hamburg, who contributed with his text „Die Kragenlinie der Currywurst“ (“The Collar Line of the Currywurst”).

For 19 January, the Institute for Cultural Studies at Leipzig University invites to a presentation of this book, at which Sighard Neckel will give a talk and, of course, Monika will also say a few words.

19 January | 5.15 pm (CET)

Leipzig University, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Beethovenstr. 15, Room 5.116

More Information

Job Opportunity: Scientific Coordinator for the project “Cultural and Religious Diversity under State Law across Europe” at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale

The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology as one of the leading centres for research in social anthropology is currently offering a position of a Scientific Coordinator for the project “Cultural and Religious Diversity under State Law across Europe” (CUREDI) at the department “Law & Anthropology”. CUREDI is a digital repository of cases – with a focus on case law analysis – that have to do with cultural and religious diversity and that show if, how, and to what extent diversity is granted legal recognition within the domestic legal systems of member states of the EU, UK, and Switzerland.

The position is preferably to start no later than 1 April. It is time-limited and will initially run until 30 June 2024. Employment will be on a full-time contractual basis. If you are interested, please submit your application by 31 January using this link. Further questions regarding the application procedure may be directed to Carolin Klevenow.

Call for Applications

Call for Workshop Papers: “New Uses, Old Places: The Transformations of Religious Buildings in Contemporary Europe”, 27–30 September at Vienna Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences

We would like to draw your attention to a Call for Papers, recommended by our Senior Research Fellow Giuseppe Tateo: “New Uses, Old Places: The Transformations of Religious Buildings in Contemporary Europe” is an international workshop that aims to discuss and advance the understanding of a broad range of topics concerning the change, reuse and adaptation of religious buildings in contemporary Europe from social science perspectives.

The Call for Papers is open now and abstracts (max. 300 words) can be submitted by 2 March via e-mail to the workshop organizers Agnieszka Halemba, Carlo Nardella, and Barbora Spalová . The workshop is funded by the International Society for the Sociology of Religion in collaboration with the Polish Academy of Sciences, University of Milan and Charles University in Prague.

Submission of abstracts: 2 March

Notification of acceptance: 3 April

Workshop dates: 27–30 September

Venue: Vienna Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Vienna/Austria

Call for Papers

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