Events

Interested in the connections between religion, culture, and society?

This calendar lists dates and events from the CRCS network that take place at the University of Tübingen or are organized with the involvement of Tübingen researchers.

If you would like to have events from the field of religion, culture, and society included in the calendar, simply send us the information to be published via email at crcs@uni-tuebingen.de.

Winter term 2025/2026

Friday Working Group

every Friday this winter semester, 9:00 - 18:00, in Room 3.08 (3rd floor) at the Institut für Religionswissenschaft, Nauklerstraße 35 72074 Tübingen

A quiet, collegial space to help us stay accountable and make steady progress on our own academic texts (articles, chapters, proposals, dissertations). We’ll work independently, motivate each other and find writing buddies. You may “hop on” or “hop off” at any time.

Poster

Tübingen Byzantine and Near Eastern Seminar

Thursdays, 2:15 p.m., Münzgasse 11, Room 008 (except Special Talks and Events)

Convened by the Research Group ‘Religious Conflict and Mobility, 700-900,’ in collaboration with the Institute of Ancient History

Program

Past events in the Winter term 2025/2026

Populism and Islamization in Postcolonial Pakistan: The Struggle for National Identity

Lecture by Nehal Khan (Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University)

Thursday, October 30, 2025, 2:15 p.m. in the Neue Aula, Großer Senat

as part of Doshisha Week 2025

Program

Advisory Board Meeting and General Assembly

Monday, November 3, 2025, 4:30 p.m.

Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board and annual CRCS General Assembly

Out of Africa, Back to Africa!: African Religions at the intersection of mobilities, encounters, and entanglements

Keynote by Prof. Dr. Afe Adogame (Princeton Theological Seminary)

Thursday, November 13, 2025, 9:30–10:30 a.m., Brechtbau, Room 215

Followed by a roundtable discussion on Africa in research and teaching at the University of Tübingen.

Part of the workshop Religions in Africa: Relations and Entanglements

Poster

Workshop Website

Religion in Africa: Relations and Entanglements

Workshop on November 13 and 14, 2025, starting at 9 a.m.

Jointly organized by: The “Africa” working group of the German Association for Religious Studies (DVRW), the Center for Religion, Culture and Society (CRCS), the Institute for Religious Studies and African Studies, and African Studies and Cultural Studies

Call for Participation

More Information

Property as Territory: Land, Politics and Religion in Kashmir

Lunch talk at the College of Fellows with Dr. Iymon Majid (Global Encounters Fellow)

on Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12 p.m. in the Villa Köstlin (seminar room)

Abstract:

In this talk, I examine the relationship between land, politics, and religion through the case of Kashmir. In August 2019, the Indian state abrogated Articles 370 and 35A of its constitution, dismantling constitutional provisions that had granted partial autonomy and protected land rights in Kashmir. Subsequent laws removed further safeguards on land ownership. The new legislation was especially directed against the land reforms of 1948 in Kashmir. While these recent laws have been widely interpreted through the logic of settler colonialism, earlier land lands have been framed within the discourse of developmental modernity. Rather than viewing the two as distinct strategies, I argue both reveal a continuous logic: the juridical reconfiguration of property as the means through which the Indian state secures territory and forecloses sovereignty.