Embracing Faith and Desire. Autumn School on the Anthropology of Gender, Sexuality and Religion

Embracing Faith and Desire:

Autumn School on the Anthropology of Gender, Sexuality and Religion

26–29 September 2023 | SDAC | FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

PUBLIC EVENTS

In many contemporary societies across the globe these intersections have been both enacted as sites of volatile contestation and creative transformation. Gender, sexuality and religion are about personal identity, embodied subjectivities and affective sensibilities on the one hand. On the other hand, they are also about social organisations, power structures and material entanglements. These manifold dimensions will be explored in this Autumn School.

Keynote Lecture 1:
Women and Non-Binary Matter: New Pathways through Islamic Ethics, Authority and Traditions
by: Prof. Dr. amina wadud
Visiting Professor to the National Islamic University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and founder of QIST (Queer Islamic Studies and Theology)

Tuesday 26.09.2023, 4:15 pm- 5:45 pm
At Wassersaal Orangerie, Wasserturmstraße 3, 91054 Erlangen

Keynote Lecture 2:

Ecstatic Method: Notes Toward the Sexy Study of Religion.
By: Prof. Dr. Melissa M. Wilcox

University of California, Riverside, USA

Wednesday 27.09.2023, 5 pm- 6:30 pm
At Wassersaal Orangerie, Wasserturmstraße 3, 91054 Erlangen

Activist Panel:
Interfaith forum on bridging the gaps between gender, sexuality, and religion

Speakers:
Eden Kosman
Keshet Deutschland – Die jüdische LGBTQI*-Community in Deutschland

Marco Linguri
Liberal-Islamischer Bund (LIB) e.V.

(tbc)
#OutInChurch – Für eine Kirche ohne Angst

Thursday 28.09.2023, 5 pm- 6:30 pm
At Hörsaal C, Faculty of Philosophy, Humanities, Social Sciences and Theology Building Complex, Kochstraße 4, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen

All events will take place in person and in English language.
To attend, please register by emailing the following address: bhagya.wickramawardhana@fau.de

Autumn School Conveners:
PD Dr. Viola Thimm
Elite Graduate Program “Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures” (SDAC), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

Dr. Ferdiansyah Thajib
Elite Graduate Program “Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures” (SDAC), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

This Autumn School is funded by the programme “Realisierung der Chancengleichheit für Frauen in Forschung und Lehre (FFL)”, the “Visiting Professor Programme” and the “Ad-hoc Fond des Vizepräsidiums Education” of FAU.

Link to more details:
https://www.sdac.studium.fau.de/2023/07/sdac-autumn-school-public-events/

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