Programme Overview

Thursday, 12 October 2023
Bibliotheca Albertina | Lecture Hall

7.00 p.m.				Keynote Lecture and Reception
Reinhard Schulze		

The Normative Status of Secularity and Islamic Genealogies of Worldliness		Friday, 13 October 2023

Bibliotheca Albertina | Lecture Hall & GWZ | Lecture Hall
9.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m.
Bibliotheca Albertina

Opening Panel

Christoph Kleine		
Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

Discussants: Farhat Hasan, Daniel Witte

11.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.		
Bibliotheca Albertina

Panel I Secularity and Modernity
Chair: Magnus Echtler

Neguin Yavari			Dietrich Jung			Secularities contra Positivism: A Scoreboard
Multiple Secularities and Pre-adaptive Advances to Modernity: A Perspective of Social Emergence11.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.		
GWZ			

Panel II Conceptual Explorations of the Multiple Secularities Framework
Chair: Daniel Witte		

Housamedden Darwish Multiple Secularities‘ Conceptual Framework and the Study of Islamic Secularities: Conceptual and Critical ConsiderationsPeter Kneitz 		
The Multiple Secularity Approach as a Middle-Range Cultural Theory: Interpreting the Secular State Project on Madagascar, and Beyond
Edgar Zavala-Pelayo
Using and Rethinking Multiple Secularities in Latin America: Analyzing and Historicizing the Secular Subject/s
1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m.
GWZ

Lunch

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Friday, 13 October 2023

Bibliotheca Albertina | Lecture Hall & GWZ | Lecture Hall
2.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.		
Bibliotheca Albertina

Panel III (Post-)Ottoman Secularities
Chair: Mohammad Magout

Markus Dreßler
Wolfgang Höpken		
Gökçen Beyinli-Dinç

The Religionization of Din in the Late Ottoman Period
Negotiating Secularity: Post-Ottoman Muslims in Bosnia 1878-2020
Rethinking the Religious History of Turkey and Alevis through the Concept of “Multiple Secularities“

2.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.		
GWZ			

Panel IV Multiple Trajectories
Chair: Johannes Duschka

Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav
Dagmar Schwerk		
Sven Bretfeld			

Multiple Secularisms in Colonial India
What Does “Religio-Political” Even Mean? The Diachronic Perspective on Bhutan as an Empirical and Theoretical Case Study
Secularization and Doubt in Buddhist Societies

4.30 p.m. – 6.30 p.m.		
Bibliotheca Albertina

Panel V Multiple Secularities and Global Histories						Chair: Elisabeth Marx

Adrian Hermann		Sushmita Nath			Todd Weir 			Multiple Secularities and „Global Religious History“: Recent Innovations in the German Study of ReligionMultiple Secularities, The Task of Comparative Political Theory and the Trend of Global History: A View from India
Conceptual History and Multiple Secularities: The Global Diffusion of Arguments from Epistemes/Ontologies/Worldviews

4.30 p.m. – 6.30 p.m.		
GWZ

Panel VI Secularities: Beyond Modernity?			
Chair: Katja Triplett

Michael Stanley-Baker
Rajeev Bhargava		
Roberto Blancarte		

Situating Medicine and Religion in Asia
History of Religious Coexistence in India
Signs of Secularity in Latin America

7:30 p.m. 				Alte Handelsbörse

Get-Together and Reception

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Saturday, 14 October 2023

Bibliotheca Albertina | Lecture Hall & GWZ | Lecture Hall
10.00 a.m. – 12.00 p.m.
Bibliotheca Albertina

Panel VII Modes of Secularity: Performativity, Materiality, Affectivity
Chair: Marian Burchardt

Augustine Agwuele 		Magnus Echtler
Birgit Meyer 			
Nur Yasemin Ural 		

From Gestural Communication of the Religious and Secular to Functional Amalgam of the Religious and Secular
How to make a Zulu King
Materiality and Secularity
An Affective Material Approach to Multiple Secularities

10.00 a.m. – 12.00 p.m.
GWZ

Panel VIII Thinking Beyond Multiple Secularities		
Chair: Yee Lak Elliot Lee

Juan Cruz Esquivel 		Beyond the Concept. Research Agenda Based on the Heuristic Potential of Multiple Secularities
André Laliberté 		
From Multiple Secularities to Social Welfare - Beyond the West, and Beyond Modernities
Jason Josephson Storm Possible Futures for Multiple Secularities Research
12.00 p.m. – 1.00 p.m.
GWZ

Lunch

1.00 p.m. – 3.00 p.m.
Bibliotheca Albertina		

Panel IX

Lori Beaman			Marian Burchardt		
Anindita Chakrabarti

Nonreligion in a Complex Future: Rethinking the Secular, Secularism and Secularity
Multiple Secularities, Secularism and the Specters of Race
Multiple Secularities, Post-Coloniality, and the Indian Conundrum

3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. 		
Bibliotheca Albertina

Panel Discussion: Contested Secularities - A Global Scenario

Secularity and Governance
Chair: Nur Yasemin Ural