Calendar
Calendar
Wed 11 Oct 2023 | 17:00–18:30
Ordinary Lives and Extraordinary Upheavals
Asef Bayat (University of Illinois / HU Berlin), Chair: Alia Mossallam (EUME Fellow 2017-24)
Wed 18 Oct 2023 | 17:00–18:30
Archives, Heritage and Discontent: Who Owns Egypt’s Past?
Pascale Ghazaleh (American University Cairo / EUME Fellow 2017-19), Chair: Banu Karaca (PI ERC BEYONDREST)
Fri 20 Oct 2023 | 15:00–18:00
Humanities and Social Sciences in Times of Crises: Back to Provincialism?
Conference of the Forum Transregionale Studien in cooperation with the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Wed 25 Oct 2023 | 17:00–18:30
Inheriting Anatolia: Representation, Knowledge Production and Imagination
Çiçek İlengiz (Postdoctoral Researcher ERC BEYONDREST), Chair: Filiz Tütüncü Çağlar (EUME Fellow 2020-24 / Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin)
Wed 01 Nov 2023 | 17:00–18:30
Champollion, Appropriation and Repair: French Universalism and the Politics of Memory
Markus Messling (Universität des Saarlandes / ERC Minor Universality), Chair: Leyla Dakhli (CNRS / ERC DREAM)
Wed 08 Nov 2023 | 17:00–18:30
The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures
C. Ceyhun Arslan (Koç University / EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2023/24), Chair: Toygun Altıntaş (EUME Fellow 2020-24)
Wed 15 Nov 2023 | 17:00–18:30
On Endings: Temporalities of Exiled Arab Magazines in the 1980s/90s
Yvonne Albers (Freie Universität Berlin), Chair: Hanan Toukan (Bard College Berlin / EUME Fellow 2019-23)
Wed 22 Nov 2023 | 17:00–18:30
What is Left? Trajectories of Secular Politics in Post-2003 Iraq
Gennaro Gervasio (U Roma Tre / EUME Fellow 2022-23), Chair: Rashof Salih (Forum Transregionale Studien / Freie Universität Berlin)
Wed 29 Nov 2023 | 17:00–18:30
Affectueusement, Laila; Being a communist ‘foreign’ woman in post-colonial Egypt
Rim Naguib (EUME Fellow 2019-23), Chair: Mariz Kelada (EUME Fellow 2023/24)
Wed 13 Dec 2023 | 17:00–18:30
Who are the Hazaras of Afghanistan?
Zainab Qadiri (EUME Fellow 2022-24), Chair: Mina Khanlarzadeh (EUME Fellow 2023/24)
Wed 10 Jan 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Eco-Surrealism, Martyrdom, and the Future: Palestinian Magical Realism Meets Indigenous Climate Fiction
Sanabel Abdelrahman (EUME Fellow 2023/24), Chair: Yvonne Albers (Freie Universität Berlin)
Wed 17 Jan 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Russian Social Media at War: The Battle of Aleppo in the Eyes of Russian Military Correspondents, 2015-2017
Elise Daniaud Oudeh (LUISS University / EUME Fellow 2023/24), Chair: Eylaf Bader Eddin (Postdoctoral Researcher ERC SYRASP)
Wed 24 Jan 2024 | 17:00–18:30
The Palestinian Cultural-Artistic Scene: Fragments, Decoloniality and Hope
Himmat Zoubi (EUME Fellow 2018-24), Chair: Hanan Toukan (Bard College Berlin / EUME Fellow 2019-23)
Wed 31 Jan 2024 | 17:00–18:30
The Lost Branch of the Hanafi School of Law in North Africa
Mouez Khalfaoui (Universität Tübingen / EUME Fellow 2023/24), Chair: Joel Blecher (George Washington University / Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin …
Wed 07 Feb 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Subversive Mimicry: Translating Zionist Children’s Literature into Arabic
Loaay Wattad (EUME Fellow 2023/24), Chair: Galili Shahar (Marcel Reich-Ranicki Chair in German Literature, Tel Aviv University)