Christmas in the Multicultural City: Public and Private Rituals between Culture, Religion and Consumption. A workshop of the Religion and Public Memory in Multicultural Societies Project

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Christmas in the Multicultural City: Public and Private Rituals between Culture, Religion and Consumption. A workshop of the Religion and Public Memory in Multicultural Societies Project

Veranstalter
Prof. Dr. Monique Scheer, University of Tübingen, Ludwig Uhland Institute for Historical and Cultural Anthropology; Prof. Dr. Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto; supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Veranstaltungsort
Neue Aula, Kleiner Senat & Raum 236
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Tübingen
Land
Deutschland
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10.12.2015 -
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Prof. Dr. Monique Scheer, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Ludwig-Uhland-Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft

Christmas is a not a holiday just for Christians anymore, if it ever was. Embedded in calendars around the world and long a lucrative merchandising opportunity, the festive season of Christmas enters multicultural, multi-religious public spaces through decorative displays, ritual activities and collective gatherings. The presence of Christmas in the public sphere also affects what goes on in private homes: many non-Christians get caught up in the celebration of Christmas, adapting and transforming it, adding new layers of meaning to it. In the process, Christmas becomes a contested political object, particularly when various social players begin to articulate their claims to Christmas: Is it a religious holiday, as the churches would have it – and should it therefore be ‘secularized’ in the public sphere, as the secularist view would have it? Or is it ‘cultural’ – as many different groups argue – and what does this claim entail? This workshop takes a comparative historical and ethnographic perspective on the affective and political significance of Christmas in the multicultural city. Based on a workshop model with pre-circulated papers, the two-day gathering will include scholars working on diverse regions who have considered the ways that Christmas has served as a catalyst of conflict and compromise in the “secular” yet religiously diverse city.

Programm

Thursday, 10 December

14:00 – 14:15
Official welcome (Pamela Klassen, Monique Scheer)

14:15 – 15:15 Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto // Monique Scheer, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen:
Religion and Public Memory in Multicultural Societies

15:15 – 16:00 Isaac Weiner, Ohio State University:
‘And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the Noise! Noise! Noise! Noise!’: Listening to Christmas in the Multicultural City"

COFFEE BREAK (30 minutes)

16:30 – 17:15 Juliane Brauer, Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung Berlin:
Christmas Songs and Christmas Feelings – Music, Emotion and Remembrance

17:15 – 18:00 Andreas Bandak, University of Copenhagen:
The Nativity Crib and the Scenery of Good Tidings; or on Celebrating Christmas Damascus' Style

DINNER

Friday, 11 December

9:00 – 9:45
Yaniv Feller, Jüdisches Museum Berlin:
“O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum”: The Role of a Christmas Tree in a Jewish Museum

9:45 – 10:30 Helen Mo, University of Toronto:
The Christmas Crisis: Lessons from a Canadian Public School's Seasonal Skirmish

COFFEE BREAK (30 minutes)

11:00 – 11:45 Christian Marchetti, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen:
German Volkskunde, Christmas and Southeastern Europe

11:45 – 12:30 Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto:
‘The First White Christmas’: Settler Odes and Nisga’a Hospitality on the Nass River

LUNCH BREAK (1h 30 minutes)

14:00 – 14:45 Amy Fisher, University of Toronto:
Sleeping Rough and Feeling Stuffed: A “Homeless” Christmas in Toronto

14:45 – 15:30 Sophie Reimers, Viadrina University, Frankfurt/Oder:
“What Exactly Do You Celebrate on Christmas?": Different Perceptions of Christmas Among German-Turkish Families in Berlin
COFFEE BREAK (30 minutes)

16:00 – 16:45 Simon Coleman, University of Toronto:
The Walsingham Cathedral

16:45 – 17:30 Katja Rakow, Utrecht University:
Christmas on Orchard Road in Singapore: Celebrating the Gift of Jesus Christ among Gucci and Tiffany’s stores

17:30 – 18:00 FINAL DISCUSSION

WEIHNACHTSMARKT TÜBINGEN & DINNER

Saturday, 12 December
FIELD TRIP TO NÜRNBERG

Kontakt

Helen Ahner

Ludwig-Uhland-Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft, Burggasse 11, 72070 Tübingen

helen-sophie.ahner@student.uni-tuebingen.de

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