Current Activities Prof. Dr. Robert Langer
Prof. Dr. Robert Langer participated in a panel discussion with the title "What are the Characteristics of Alevi Life in Germany and what is the Importance of its Development for its Country of Origin?" on 3 October 2024. The panel was part of the program during the open doors' day of the Alevi Community Stuttgart on occasion of its 35 years' anniversary and the German National Holiday celebration (Flyer, Photo).
New publication:
Robert Langer 2023 “Anatolische Aleviten”, in: Islam. Vol. I: Entstehung, Konfessionen, Dynastien, ed. Georges Tamer, 1. Aufl. (Die Religionen der Menschheit, 25.1; Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer), 255–274. Flyer
07.-08. Juli 2023: Workshop in Bamberg: The Supernatural, Healing and Mental Health in Contemporary Middle East
Online participation can be requested from Prof. Dr. Eszter Spät (spateszter@yahoo.com).
Moderation of a panel on the topic "1700 Years of Jewish Life in Germany" and the tasks of the Jewish military chaplaincy in the German Federal Armed Forces with the president of the Jewish Congregation of Munich and Upper Bavaria Dr Charlotte Knobloch and the Jewish Federal Military Chaplain Zsolt Balla.
https://www.unibw.de/home/news/diskussion-ueber-1-700-jahre-juedisches-leben-in-deutschland
New publication:
2022 “Innerislamische und aus islamischen Kontexten hervorgegangene religiöse Minderheiten”. Islam. Vol. III: Vom 19. Jahrhundert bis heute. Ed. Peter Antes. 1. Aufl. (Die Religionen der Menschheit, 25.3). Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 236–278.
https://shop.kohlhammer.de/islam-iii-34026.html#147=22
On 12 and 13 November 2021 the Orient-Institut Istanbul (Max Weber Foundation) is organising a public online film forum "Iran at the Crossways". It is part of the science communication program of the research project "Performance of Culture, Religion, and Body as Strategies of Self-Empowerment in the Islamic Republic Iran" (International Standing Working Group Iran and Beyond – Breaking the Ground for Sustainable Scholarly Collaboration (IRSSC)) for which Prof. Dr. Robert Langer is serving as one of the principal investigators. The program and the possibility to access the event can be found here: https://www.filmforum-iran.org/
Interdisclipinary Symposium "Musik und Lyrik im Alevitentum" (Pädagogische Hochschule Weingarten, Alevitisches Bildungswerk "Şah İbrahim Veli" e. V., 15–16. Oktober 2021), moderation of the panel discussion "Alevitisches Leben in Deutschland zwischen Politik, Religion und Kultur" and lecture "Geschichtliche und gesellschaftliche Grundlagen für die Bedeutung von Dichtung und Musik im Alevitentum". Symposium. Agenda.
Lecture 11.04.2021 (Invited Keynote Speaker): “The Conversion of Spaces and Places of Worship in Anatolia, and Beyond: Concluding Keynote”. The Conversion of Spaces and Places of Worship in Anatolia: International Conference = Anadolu’da İnanç Mekânlarında Dönüştürmeler Uluslararası Konferansı. Istanbul: ADIP Anatolian Beliefs and Religions Platform, https://youtu.be/OEq8GoscAeA?t=32746.
Since January 2021, Prof. Dr. Robert Langer is member of the Münchner Mittelost-Mittelmeer-Mittelasien-Zentrum (MMMMZ) at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München. https://www.naher-osten.uni-muenchen.de/mmmmz/index.html
A radio interview of November 25, 2020, with Professor Dr. Robert Langer on funerals in accordance with Islamic rites in Germany can be downloaded from the audio library of Deutschlandfunk: Tag für Tag | Islamische Beerdigungen - Ende der Sargpflicht in Bayern? (Islamic funerals – Are coffins no longer compulsory in Bavaria?).