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Dear friends and colleagues,

We hope you also had a few relaxing days over Easter and are starting April with renewed vigour. This time, as in the future, we will open the weekly with a contribution on next week's colloquium. We would also like to remind you of our Screening Religion on 14 April with "The Wound". In addition, we also have some event and publication announcements from our members that we do not want to withhold from you.

Enjoy and have a good week!

Anja and Lucy

KFG Colloquium: Sebastian Rimestad on “Russian Orthodox Concepts of Secularity”

Next Wednesday, our Senior Research Fellow Sebastian Rimestad will present the preliminary results of his research project on ‘‘Russian Orthodox Concepts of Secularity’’. His project investigates the way Russian thinkers of the 18th and early 19th centuries conceptualised and evaluated the concept of ‘the secular’. Thus, it aims to trace how the Western concept of ‘the secular’ was appropriated in the Russian Orthodox ecclesiastical context and attached to pre-existing concepts of the non-religious.

Again, the colloquium will take place in a hybrid format (face-to-face/online). Please register for the colloquium via e-mail, if you would like to join in person (8 people max). All present participants will have to show a negative COVID-19 rapid test on the morning of the colloquium. We have test kits available at the KFG – please be here already at 8:15 a.m. if you prefer to take the test here.

14 April | 9:15–11:45 a.m.

Hybrid format | Strohsack, room 4.55 and via zoom

Screening Religion: “The Wound / Inxeba”

We are happy to present the next film in our Screening Religion series as online livestream in cooperation with Cinémathèque Leipzig: On 14 April we invite you to watch the film “The Wound / Inxeba”, directed by John Trengove. The film portrays Xolani, a lonely factory worker, who joins the men of his community in the mountains of the Eastern Cape to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood. When a defiant initiate from the city discovers his best kept secret, Xolani’s entire existence begins to unravel. The film will be shown in Xhosa and English (with German subtitles only), and followed by a discussion with Magnus Echtler. Registration will not be necessary.

14 April | 7:00 p.m.

Online via Livestream

Public Lectures on Religion and Climate Change

Jens Köhrsen, former Senior Research Fellow from Basel University, announces two public lectures dealing with religion and climate change, organised by the Centre for Religion, Economy, and Politics, a joint institution of various Swiss universities. On 8 April, Bron Taylor will give a talk on “Environmental Behavior and Climate Change: Analyzing Green and Dark Green Religion”. Katharina Glaab will present her research on “Religion in International Climate Negotiations” on 22 April.

If you would like to register for the lectures, please email Anabel Da Pra from the University of Basel, with the subject “registration for lectures on religion and climate change”. You will then receive a zoom-Link for the lectures.

Thursday 8 April and 22 April | 4:15–6:00 p.m. (CET)

Online via zoom

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.