Wednesday 24 October 2018

A conference is taking place at the Max Weber Kolleg on 'Religion and Urbanity: Theorising Mutual Formations'

                              Religion and Urbanity: Theorising Mutual Formations
                                   Erfurt, Augustinerkloster, 6 to 8 November 2018

Tuesday, 6th of November 2018
 14.00: Welcome and Introduction to the Conference by Susanne Rau, Rubina Raja and Jörg Rüpke

Panel 1 14.15-16.15
Chair: Rubina Raja
 14.15-14.30:
Susanne Rau: Urbanity
 14.30-14.45:
Jörg Rüpke: Religion and Urban Space
 14.45-15.00:
Anne Murphy: Which Urbanity? Secondary Urban Centres and their Attendant Religious Formations at the Border with the Rural
 15.00-15.15:
Respondent: Ulrike Freitag
15.15-16.15:
Joint Discussion
16.15-16.30: Coffee Break

Panel 2 16.30-17.50
Chair: Asuman Lätzer-Lasar
16.30-16.45:
Christopher Smith: What is Religious about Founding a City?
16.45-17.00:
Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli: Citification of Religion: What is it?
17.00-17.10:
Respondent: David Garbin
17.10-17.50
Joint Discussion
18.15: Dinner in the Council Chamber

Wednesday, 7th of November 2018

Panel 3 09.00-11.00
Chair: Martin Fuchs
09.00-09.15:
Mar Griera/ Marian Burchardt: Religious Events and the Politics of Space in the Mediterranean City
09.15-09.30:
Ranjeeta Dutta: Religious Interactions and Urban Configurations in a Temple Town of South India: the Case of Shrirangam in Tamil Nadu
09.30-09.45:
Paroma Chatterjee: Urbanity and Religion in the Chronicle of John Malalas (6th century): Coexistence and/or Conflict?
09.45-10.00:
Respondent: Harriet Rudolph
10.00-11.00:
Joint Discussion
11.00-11.30: Coffee Break

Panel 4 11.30-12.50
Chair: Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli
11.30-11.45:
Pralay Kanungo: Conceptualizing the Urban Religioscape
11.45-12.00:
Mariachiara Giorda: From Urban Geometry to Religious Urbanity
12.00-12.10:
Respondent: Martin Christ
12.10-12.50:
Joint Discussion
13.00-14.30: Lunch

Panel 5 14.30-16.30
Chair: Susanne Rau
14.30-14.45:
Rubina Raja: Religion and the Urban: Network Evolutions as a Lens
14.45-15.00:
Benno Werlen: The Constitution of Geographical and Urban Realities. An Interpretive Approach to Geographical Urban Research
15.00-15.10:
Respondent: Markus Vinzent
15.10-16.10:
Joint Discussion
16.10-16.30: Coffee Break

Panel 6 16.30-18.30
Chair: Jörg Rüpke
16.30-16.45:
Qudsiya Contractor: Between Community and Alienation? – Muslim Women and the Urban Experience of Religiosity in Mumbai
16.45-17.00:
Martin Fuchs: Precarious Belonging: Religious Options and Engagements with the World in a Metropolitan Context. The case of Dalits in Dharavi (Mumbai)
17.00-17.15:
Nora Lafi: Conceptualizing Urbanity, Practicing Coexistence: The Relationship between Religion and the Civic Sphere in Cities of the Middle East and North-Africa between the Middle Ages and Ottoman Times
17.15-17.30:
Respondent: Sunil Kumar
17.30-18.30:
Joint Discussion
19.00: Dinner

Thursday, 8th of November 2018

Panel 7 09.00-11.00
Chair: Beatrice Renzi
09.00-09.15:
Onno van Nijf / Chr. Williamson: Festivals and Urban Placemaking in the Greek city of the Hellenistic and Roman periods
09.15-09.30:
Cristiana Facchini: Seeing Cities in Travelogues and Missionary Texts in the Early Modern Period
09.30-09.45:
Supriya Chaudhuri: Spaces of the Sacred: Religious Practice in Urban Interstices
09.45-10.00:
Respondent: Asuman Lätzer-Lasar
10.00-11.00:
Joint Discussion
11.00-11.15: Coffee Break

Panel 8 11.15-13.15
Chair: Martin Christ
11.15-11.30:
Miri Rubin: Difference and Urbanity in the Age of Religion
11.30-11.45:
Rana P. Behal: Religion, Religiosity and the Urban World: Everyday Lives of People in Amritsar City, Punjab, India
11.45-12.00:
Beatrice Renzi: Religion at the crossroads of rural-urban life-worlds: Systems of relatedness in transition
12.00-12.15:
Respondent: Zoe Opacic
12.15-13.15:
Joint Discussion
13.15-14.00: Lunch
Final discussion 14.00-15.00
Guided tour of Erfurt 15.15-17.00
Departure


https://www.uni-erfurt.de/fileadmin/public-docs/Max-Weber-Kolleg/6_PDFs/Tagungen/2018/UR_Preliminary_Programme_Nov18.pdf

If you are interested and would like to attend, please send an email to asuman.laetzer-lasar@uni-erfurt.de

More information:https://www.uni-erfurt.de/max-weber-kolleg/veranstaltungen/tagungenworkshops/

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