Urban Studies Seminar
Urban Studies Seminar
The (Ottoman) Urban Studies Seminar is a joint activity of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) and Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME). It focusses on the discussion of ongoing research on cities around the Mediterranean, and in regions with Muslim societies in Africa, Asia and the Middle East with a special concern for questions of cosmopolitanism, civil society, conviviality and socio-cultural, ethnic, and religious differences. The seminar is part of EUME’s research field »Cities Compared: Urban Change in the Mediterranean and Adjacent Regions« and directed by Ulrike Freitag and Nora Lafi (both Zentrum Moderner Orient). Since 2006 it convenes at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient and is organized in cooperation with EUME. Please find here the programs of the past academic years:
2018-19: The Urban Spatialities of Religion in the Middle East, Africa and South-East Asia
2017-18: Urban Spaces of Leisure, Art and Sports
2014-15: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Marginality in Africa, the Middle East and Asia
2013-14: The City and its Margins
2012-13: Cities as Laboratories of Change
2008-09: Daily Life in Ottoman Towns