Calendar
Calendar
Wed 08 May 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Is it Possible to Free Knowledge? Reflections on the Egyptian Knowledge Bank Experiment
Linda Hererra (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / EUME Fellow 2023/24), Chair: Mina Khanlarzadeh (EUME Fellow 2023/24)
Wed 15 May 2024 | 15:00–16:30
Cities of the Future in the Arab Literary Imagination
Teresa Pepe (University of Oslo), Chair: Rasha Chatta (Freie Universität Berlin / EUME Fellow 2017-21)
Wed 15 May 2024 – Thu 16 May 2024
Cities in the Arab Imagination: Fiction, Reality, and Futurescapes
Workshop convened by Teresa Pepe, and organized within the framework of MECAM's transregional workshop, in a collaboration of Europe in the Middle East – The …
Wed 15 May 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Erased City: Imagining a Future Without Ruins?
Ammar Azzouz (British Academy Research Fellow / University of Oxford), Chair: Anne-Marie McManus (SYRASP / Forum Transregionale Studien)
Wed 22 May 2024 | 17:00–18:30
From Socialist Foundation, Neglect and Ruination to a Declaration of Independence: An Egyptian Village between two Revolutions
Nada El-Kouny (EUME Fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation 2023/24), Chair: Rim Naguib (EUME Fellow 2019-24)
Wed 29 May 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Behind the Scenes: The Labor and Extramoral Politics of Egypt’s Media Production
Mariz Kelada (EUME Fellow 2023/24), Chair: Diana Abbani (MECAM / Forum Transregionale Studien)
Wed 05 Jun 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Not Just Arts: The Political Economies of Palestinian Cultural Productions in Haifa, Ramallah and Berlin
Hashem Abushama (Oxford University / EUME Fellow 2023-25), Chair: Himmat Zoubi (EUME Fellow 2019-24)
Wed 12 Jun 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Mimesis in Classical Arabic Literature
Lara Harb (CNMS-EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2023/24 / Princeton University), Chair: Beatrice Gründler (Freie Universität Berlin)
Tue 18 Jun 2024
Regimes and Trajectories of Migration, Displacement and Exile Between Europe and the Middle East
Organized by Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME) and Centre Marc Bloch
Wed 19 Jun 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Gendering Freedom in Iran: Literary Representations of the Female Body of a Revolutionary Nation in Times of Social Upheavals
Mina Khanlarzadeh (EUME Fellow 2023/24), Chair: Fatemeh Shams (University of Pennsylvania / EUME-CNMS Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2021-24)
Wed 26 Jun 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Editorial Politics and Choices: The Translation of Yakup Kadri’s novel Yaban (The Stranger) in Nazi-Fascist Europe
Lea Nocera (University of Naples L’Orientale / EUME-DAAD Fellow 2024), Chair: Çiçek İlengiz (BEYONDREST / Forum Transregionale Studien)
Wed 03 Jul 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Bridging and Branding the Holy Lands: Arabs from Palestine and Greater Syria in Europe (1900-1960)
Karène Sanchez Summerer (University of Groningen), Chair: Esther Möller (Centre Marc Bloch)
Thu 04 Jul 2024 – Fri 05 Jul 2024
Shadows, Ghosts and After-Lifes of Empire: Entanglements and Potentialities in the East of the Mediterranean
Convened by C. Ceyhun Arslan (Koç University / EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2023/24) and Galili Shahar (Marcel Reich-Ranicki Chair in …
Wed 10 Jul 2024 | 15:00–16:30
Women Publishers in Contemporary Iran: Gender, Publics and the State
Laetitia Nanquette (University of New South Wales, Sydney / EUME Fellow 2024), Chair: Mina Khanlarzadeh (EUME Fellow 2023/24)
Wed 10 Jul 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Becoming Mediterranean: Views from Arabic, French, and Ottoman Literatures
C. Ceyhun Arslan (Koç University / EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2023/24), Chair: Loaay Wattad (EUME Fellow 2023/24)