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Katrine Baunkjær, "Everyday life, crisis, and sectarianism in Lebanon."

This PhD project examines how ordinary people in Lebanon experience and navigate the ongoing political, economic, and security instability in the country. It examines how sectarian, neoliberal and clientelist structures shape how the situation impacts and is perceived across different socioeconomic, geographic, and sectarian positions. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in selected local communities, the project studies political subjectivities among ordinary people, and how these shape understandings of threats, responsibilities and solidarities in the current context. It also examines everyday forms of agency through community spaces and local initiatives and how these can create alternative forms of power, solidarities and political imaginaries.

Romal Ashrafi, "Reconceptualizing Religion in the Workplace."

Despite long-standing claims within secularization theory that religion would gradually disappear from public life, religion has, over the past decades, re-emerged as a visible and contested dimension of Western societies. This post-secular shift is closely linked to migration, refugee movements, and globalization, which have contributed to increasing cultural and religious diversity in Denmark. These transformations are also reflected in contemporary workplaces. While Danish organizations increasingly engage with diversity management and DEI agendas, religion has largely remained marginal within these frameworks. Muslims constitute a significant part of the Danish workforce, and for many, religious identity, beliefs, and practices cannot simply be left outside the workplace but are carried into everyday working life. Drawing on critical diversity studies, organizational theory, and perspectives on lived religion, this project investigates how Muslim employees’ religious practices are relationally negotiated and processually shaped in interaction with colleagues, managers, and organizational norms, and how these practices become visible, constrained, or silenced in workplace contexts.