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Dear friends and colleagues,

The colloquium is taking a two-week break before we will be back at the end of July. In the meantime, we would like to draw your attention to the numerous events of the GLOBE21 science festival, organised by the Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe). True to the festival’s motto BorderCrossingSolidarities, researchers from all over the world will meet at panel discussions, lectures, film evenings and talks, podcasts, city tours and exhibitions. We will contribute with our Screening Religion series and show two very touching films next Thursday.

Besides that, we have a new publication for you, a note about an online conference – and we warmly welcome back an old friend and colleague to the KFG team.

Enjoy and have a good week!

Anja

Screening Religion: Special Edition “Boarder Crossing Solidarities”

Our next Screening Religion event will feature two documentary films: “The Heart of Jenin”, directed by Markus Vetter und Leon Geller, tells the story of the Palestinian Ismael Khatib, whose 12-year-old son Ahmed is fatally shot in the head by bullets from Israeli soldiers while playing with friends. After the doctors at the hospital can only diagnose Ahmed's brain death, Ismael decides to donate his son's organs to Israeli children and thus to save their lives. Two years later, he embarks on a journey across Israel to visit these children.

The film “After the Silence”, directed by Stephanie Bürger, Jule Ott and Manal Abdallah, is an Israeli’s woman direct response to “The Heart of Jenin”. Her husband Doy Chernobroda and 14 other people died in Haifa when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in an Arab restaurant. Eight years later, his widow Yaël decides to visit the family of the assassin in the West Bank. Both films raise central questions: How do people live in this conflict? What does one know about the tragedies of the other? How can people listen to each other despite their own pain and continuing horror?

The screening is part of the GLOBE21 science festival BorderCrossingSolidarities. Here you can find more information about the screening. The films will be shown as online livestream in cooperation with Cinémathèque Leipzig. The films' languages are English, Hebrew and Arabic with English subs. Afterwards, there will be a discussion.

The complete GLOBE21 festival programme which includes events in German and English language, can be found here.

Thursday, 15 July | 7:00 and 8:40 p.m. (CET)

Online Screening via Livestream

Online Conference „Religionskritik nach ihrem Ende – Ansätze für eine neue Religionspolitik der Linken“ (“Religious Criticism after its End - Approaches for a New Religious Policy of the Left”)

We would like to draw your attention to an online conference, organised by the Institute for the Study of Religions at Leipzig University and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony. The first part of the conference on “Religious Criticism after its End - Approaches for a New Religious Policy of the Left” is a historical review of the context in which Marx' religious criticism emerged, whereas the second day will focus on current problems of religious policy. Following the insight that neither religion nor religious criticism are over, the conference wants to encourage reflection on how a left-wing religious policy can be theoretically justified and practically implemented.

Our Senior Researcher Nur Yasemin Ural will contribute to the event with her presentation on “Religious Criticism as Patriarchal Criticism in Turkey”. The conference will be held in German.

Date: 16 July, 3:00–8:00 p.m. (CET) | 17 July, 12:00–6:30 p.m. (CET)

Online via zoom (Registration)

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