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.
Winter Term 2023/2024
EUME Berliner Seminars
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)