EUME Berliner Seminar
EUME Berliner Seminar
The Berliner Seminar serves as a bracket for all other activities of Europe in the Middle East — the Middle East in Europe and provides an interdisciplinary research environment, which is one of the strengths of any area-related form of academic communication. It is planned as a regular fortnightly event to give fellows and members of EUME, fellows of other programs at the Forum Transregionale Studien, fellows of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and scholars from Berlin’s universities and extra-university institutions an opportunity to meet and discuss their ongoing work.
On the basis of individual research cases, questions related to the common agenda of Europe in the Middle East — the Middle East in Europewill be debated. The Seminar facilitates the development of innovative ideas and research approaches in relation to key questions of the humanities and social sciences, which will have an impact on the ways research and teaching is undertaken. It also allows fellows of Europe in the Middle East — the Middle East in Europe a structured access to Berlin’s research environment and enables young scholars in Berlin to consider their work in a broader, interdisciplinary, and international context.
EUME Berliner Seminars
Wed 14 Jun 2023 | 17:00–18:30

Can the Colonial Archive be a Source of Anti-Colonial Struggle? Listening to Recorded Voices of North African Prisoners of War in the Berliner Lautarchiv
Alia Mossallam (EUME Fellow 2017-23) in conversation with Adam Benkato (UC Berkeley)
Wed 21 Jun 2023 | 17:00–18:30

Haifa 1948: The Unmaking of the Palestinian City and the Struggle for Democratic Urban Governance
Himmat Zoubi (EUME Fellow 2018-23), Chair: Hashem Abushama (University of Oxford / EUME Fellow 2023-25)
Wed 28 Jun 2023 | 17:00–18:30

On Endings: Temporalities of Exiled Arab Magazines in the 1980s/90s
Yvonne Albers (Freie Universität Berlin / EUME Fellow 2021-23), Chair: Amir Moosavi (Rutgers University—Newark / EUME Fellow 2016/17)
Wed 05 Jul 2023 | 17:00–18:30

Poetics and Politics of Jina Amini Revoutionary Uprising in Iran
Fatemeh Shams (University of Pennsylvania / EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2021-23), Chair: Anne-Marie McManus (SYRASP / EUME Fellow)
Wed 12 Jul 2023 | 17:00–18:30

Political Imagination and the Postcolonial in Contemporary Egypt
Fouad Halbouni (EUME Fellow 2021-23) in conversation with Ismail Al-Bahar (Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm)