Wednesday, 27 October 2021

14:30–15:00: Welcoming
Christoph Kleine (Leipzig University) and Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (Leipzig University)
Opening Remarks
Marian Burchardt (Leipzig University) and Nur Yasemin Ural (Leipzig University)

15:00–17:00: Panel 1: Heritage and ‘Emplacement‘
Katelyn Williams (Brandenburg University of Technology) and Franziska Singer (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
“Architecture of Mosque-(re)construction in Bosnia-Herzegovina as a Contested Field: Funding Streams and Popular Perception”
Annegret Roelcke (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient)
“Turkish, French, Kurdish or Islamic Heritage? Contesting the Name of Pierre Loti Hill in Istanbul”
Simon Coleman and Evgenia Mesaritou (University of Toronto)
“Possessing and Being Possessed by the Past: On the Ambiguities of ‘Secular’ Heritage“
Giuseppe Tateo (Leipzig University)
“The Monumentalization of the Cross in Postsocialist Bucharest“

17:30–19:00: Keynote Lecture
Aike Rots (University of Oslo)
“When ‘Religion’ becomes ‘Heritage’: Category Formation, Nationalism, and the Question of Ownership”

Thursday, 28 October 2021

10:00–12:00: Panel 2: Affectivity of Inheritance
Çiçek İlengiz (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity)
“Heritigizing Love: Inheriting the Energies of Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi (1207-1273)”
Sana Chavoshian (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient) “War Heritage as ‘the Sacred Defence’: Religious Affects and Secular Resentments in Iran-Iraq Former Warzones”
Jerrold Cuperus (University of Queensland/Utrecht University) “The Question I didn’t Ask: Creating and Sustaining Value in Networks of Heritage Collection.”

13:30–15:00: Panel 3: Heritagization and the Legal Frameworks
Anindita Chakrabarti and Shriram Venkataraman (Indian Institute of Technology) “God’s Gold, Legal Frames and the Question of Material and non-material Heritage: the
Case of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala, India”
Pooyan Tamimi Arab (Utrecht University) “Lockean Neutrality or How Sheep Are Ritually Slaughtered”
Amal Sachedina (American University, Washington D.C.)
“Transforming Religious Authority through Memorializing the Material Past in the Sultanate of Oman”

15:30–17:00: Panel 4: Heritage as Cultural/Religious Collective Identity
Julia Martinez-Arino (University of Groningen) “The Politics of Bottom-Up Jewish Heritagization in Barcelona: External (Mis-)Recognition and Internal Competition”
Daan Beekers (University of Edinburgh) “Who Gets Excluded from ‘Christian Culture’? On Culturalised Religion, Islam and Confessional Christianity”
Martijn Oosterbaan (Utrecht University) “Religion, Secularism and Cultural Heritage in Brazilian Carnival”

17:30–19:00: Keynote Lecture
Regina Bendix (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) “A Rose by Any Other Name? Assessing the Parsing Reach of Heritage-Making”

Friday, 29 October 2021
10:00–12:00: Panel 5: Heritage as Material/Embodied Practice and Memory
Mariam Goshadze (University of Bayreuth)
“Culturalized Religion: A Cross-Continental Perspective”
Paulina Kolata (Lund University) “Technologies of Salvation: Cloned Afterlives of Buddhist Heritage in Contemporary Japan”
Avi Astor (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) “‘Artification‘ and the Secularization of Religious Symbols and Traditions: The Reconfiguration of Nativity Scenes as Works of Art in Barcelona”
Yunus Telliel (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) “Ottoman Turkish as Religious Heritage: Secularism and the Politics of Language”

12:00–13:30
Closing Remarks

If you wish to attend the workshop, please send a short inquiry to multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de.