Monday, June 27, 2016
01:00 p.m. – 01:45 p.m.

Christoph Kleine and Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (Leipzig University)
Opening Session: Research programme and structure of the HCAS

02:00 p.m. – 03:00 p.m.

Jason Ā. Josephson (Williams College)
New world orders: a transnational genealogy of secularism between Europe and East Asia

Prasenjit Duara (Duke University)
Asian secularities: China, Japan and India in the era of Abrahamic hegemony

03:00 p.m. – 03:30 p.m.

Coffee Break

03:30 p.m. – 05:00 p.m.

André Laliberté (University of Ottawa)
Multiple secularities in Chinese societies: religions in the shaping of welfare regimes

Hubert Seiwert (Leipzig University)
The classification of rituals in early modern China

Philip Clart (Leipzig University)
Religious museums in Taiwan

05:00 p.m. – 06:00 p.m.

Break

06:00 p.m.

Opening Ceremony

Andrew March (Yale University)
Keynote: What is the Civil State in Islam?

Tuesday, June 28, 2016
09:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Martin Ramstedt (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)Contested fault lines between “religion” and “the secular” in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia

Muchamad Ali Safa'at (Brawijaya University)
Secularisation of laws: a comparison of Indonesia and Germany

Anindita Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
Imam, Qazi and the judge: an ethnographic exploration of the‘Islamic’ and civil courts of Uttar Pradesh (India)

Hans-Georg Ebert (Leipzig University)
Religious-legal regulations and social challenges facing Islamic countries in land law: the waqf-lands in thereform process

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 a.m.

Coffee BreakMarkus Dreßler (Leipzig University)
The secular, secularity, and secularism in the late Ottoman period: a genealogical approach

Wolfgang Höpken (Leipzig University)„Negotiating secularity“ – Discourses on secularism among Bosnian Muslims 1878 – 2015

Gert Pickel (Leipzig University)
Secular autocracies, religious democracies?

12:30 a.m. – 01:30 p.m.

Lunch BreakTuesday, June 28, 2016
01:30 p.m. – 03:00 p.m.

Anna Mrozek (Leipzig University)
Secularities in complex correlation: the relationships between state, religion and individuals within the Indonesianconstitutional framework

Mirjam Künkler (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
The educational underpinnings of reformist Islamic thought in post-independence Indonesia

Robert Hefner (Boston University)
Muslim modernity and ethical plurality: a history of Muhammadiyah and ethico-legal reform in Indonesia,1920s to today

Edith Franke (Marburg University)
Discourses on secularity and religiosity among young Muslim intellectuals in Indonesia

03:00 p.m. – 03:30 p.m.
03:30 p.m. – 05:00 p.m.

Coffee Break

Christoph Kleine (Leipzig University)
Early approaches of secularity in mediaeval Japan

Hans-Martin Krämer (Heidelberg University)
Critics of secularism in early 20th-century JapanMark Mullins (University of Auckland)Competing notions of religion and secularity in occupied and post-war JapanUgo Dessì (University of Cape Town, Leipzig University)
The globalisation of religion and multiple secularities in Japan and beyond

Tuesday, June 28, 2016
05:00 p.m. – 05:30 p.m.

Coffee Break

05:30 p.m. – 07:00 p.m.

Armando Salvatore (McGill University, Australian National University)
Secularity, communitas, and immunitas in the Islamic ecumene and within interreligious dynamics

Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (Leipzig University)
Secularity as a challenge to the study of Islam: a sociology of science approach

Dan Diner (Hebrew University Jerusalem, Simon Dubnow Institute Leipzig)
Historical thought as a modality of secularity

07:30 p.m.

Common Dinner at Romanushof Leipzig

Wednesday, June 29, 2016
09:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Johannes Quack (University of Zurich)
Secularism and non-religion: ethnographic and biographic approaches

Rinku Lamba (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Bhakti and its influence on cultures of secularity and democratic social imaginaries in India

Katrin Killinger (Leipzig University)
Gender in the Compendium of Caraka: dynamics and conflicts of medical and religious knowledge in ancient India

Sven Bretfeld (Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim)
Responsible for religion and the world: a genealogy of the secularity discourse in Sri Lanka

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 a.m.

Coffee BreakGudrun Krämer (Freie Universität Berlin)
Islam, modernity, and secularity reconsidered: the case of Egypt

Daniel Kinitz (Leipzig University)
The pan-Islamic journal al-Manār (1898–1940) and the shift of Islamic semantics towards modernitySaïd Arjomand (Stony Brook University)
Multiple secularities and patterns of secularisation and oppositional contestation in Iran, Egypt, and Tunisia

12:30 a.m. – 01:30 p.m.

Lunch BreakWednesday, June 29, 2016
01:30 p.m. – 03:00 p.m.

Nahid Mozaffari (New York University)
A history of secularities in modern IranSana Chavoshian (Leipzig University)
The plight of secularity: reformulations of religious movements and institutions in a post-Islamist society

Verena Klemm (Leipzig University)
The Ismaili Centres and the Aga Khan Museum: the role of the religious and the secular in an Islamic diaspora
community through the focus of its representative buildings

03:00 p.m. – 03:30 p.m.
03:30 p.m. – 05:00 p.m.

Coffee Break

Christoph Kleine and Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (Leipzig University)
Closing Session: summary and future prospects

05:30 p.m. - 07:00 p.m.

Visiting of the HCAS‘s premises
Guided tour of Leipzig University´s Paulinum