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Guest Lecture (Zoom)Sacred Spaces: Churches and Mosques within the SocietyWed. June 16, 2021

16 June 2021

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We cordially invite you to our interdisciplinary guest lecture "Sacred Spaces: Churches and Mosques within the Society" on Wed. June 16, 2021, 5 -7 pm (German time) on Zoom. For registration please contact romanislam@uni-hamburg.de(Katharina.Mewes"AT"uni-hamburg.de)

The format comprises the lectures "Blocked Passageways: An Exploration of Somatic Time in 'Converted' Buildings" by Ann Marie Yasin (University of Southern California) and "The Past as Presence: Christians, Muslims, and the Generation of Sacred Topography in Medieval Syria" by Stephennie Mulder (The University of Texas at Austin).

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