Thema: History, Memory, and Community

Ort:       Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Villa Jaffé, Wallotstr. 10
            17.00-19.00

 

Wednesday, April 16  | 'A Critique of 'Occidentalism'

Fawwaz Traboulsi (Lebanese American University, Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2007/08), The Production of Knowledge in the Arab World: Critical Remarks

Moderation: Sherif Younis (Helwan University, Fellow of EUME 2007/08)

 

Wednesday, April 30 | National Historiographies of an Empire

Gergana Georgieva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of EUME 2007/08), The Ways of Presentation and Interpretation of Ottoman History in National Bulgarian Historiography

Magdi Guirguis, (Cairo, Fellow of EUME 2007/08), Ottoman History in National Egyptian Historiography

Moderation: Gudrun Krämer (FU Berlin)

 

Wednesday, May 14 | Gendered Memory

Fatmeh Kassem (Ben-Gurion University, Fellow of EUME 2007/08), Counter-Narratives: Palestinian Women Narrating Historical Events

Moderation: Nashwa Moharram (Ain Shams University, Fellow of EUME 2007/08)

 

Wednesday, May 28 | Gender, Nationalism, Exclusion

Vahé Tachjian (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung), The Reintegration Process of Female Survivors of the Armenian Genocide

Moderation: Fatmeh Kassem (Ben Gurion University, Fellow of EUME 2007/08)

 

Wednesday, June 11  | Ifrang, Nasara, Kuffar

Mohammed Sabri ad-Dali (Helwan University, Fellow of EUME 2007/08), Descriptions of Europeans in Egyptian Sources During the Ottoman Occupation

Moderation: Dyala Hamza (Zentrum Moderner Orient)

 

Wednesday, June 25 | Recollections of a Fragmented Society ô17.00 – 20.00 ô
In cooperation with the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZFL)

Monique Bellan (FU Berlin), Body and Space in the Theatre of Lina Saneh

Lotte Fasshauer (FU Berlin) Transitions and Dramaturgy of Fracture in the Cinema of Ghassan Salhab

Sultan Acikgüloglu, (FU Berlin, ZFL) Truth, Fiction and Imagination in the Visual Histories of the Atlas Group

Comment: Fawwaz Traboulsi (Lebanese American University, Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2007/08)

Moderation: Martin Treml (ZFL)

Wednesday, July 9 | 'Hanna Arendt in Tehran'

Roxanne Varzi, (University of California Irvine, Fellow of EUME 2007/08), Performing the Middle East in Berlin

Moderation: Friederike Pannewick (Centrum für Nah- und Mitteloststudien, Universität Marburg)