EUME Berliner Seminar
EUME Berliner Seminar
The Berliner Seminar serves as a bracket for the 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-studies form of academic exchange and work. The seminar program is developed in exchange with Fellows, alumni and members of EUME and is open to all interested scholars.
On the basis of individual research cases, broader questions of the common agenda of EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE EAST – THE MIDDLE EAST IN EUROPE are debated. The seminar facilitates the development of innovative approaches in relation to key questions of the humanities and social sciences. It also allows Fellows of EUME and other participants to think and rethink their research questions and preassumptions in exchange with colleagues from other disciplinary or geographical backgrounds. The Berliner Seminar has been established in 1997 in the framework of EUME’s predecessor program, the Working Group Modernity and Islam (AKMI), and since then has been convened during the summer and winter terms almost every Wednesday at 17.00.
EUME Berliner Seminars
Wed 18 Jun 2025 | 17:00–18:30

Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (UC, Santa Barbara / EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2025-26), Chair: Toygun Altıntaş (FU Berlin / EUME Fellow …
Wed 25 Jun 2025 | 16:00–17:30

When the Subaltern is Forced to Speak: Colonial Knowledge Production Projects, Their Afterlives and the Im/Possibility of Historical Justice. The Case of the Berlin Lautarchiv
Alia Mossallam (EUME Fellow 2017-25), Chair: Banu Karaca (BEYONDREST / Forum Transregionale Studien)
Wed 02 Jul 2025 | 17:00–18:30

Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War
Amir Moosavi (Rutgers University / EUME Fellow 2016/17), Chair: Anne-Marie McManus (SYRASP / Forum Transregionale Studien)
Wed 09 Jul 2025 | 17:00–18:30

Egyptian Europeans: The Politics of Home and Naturalization of European Immigrants and Refugees in Egypt (1929-1965)
Rim Naguib (EUME Fellow 2019-25), Chair: Esther Möller (Centre Marc Bloch)
Wed 16 Jul 2025 | 15:00–18:30

Whither Archaeology?
Talks by Nada El-Kouny (EUME Fellow 2023-25) and Ahmed Adam (EUME Fellow 2024-26), chaired by Wendy Doyon (EUME Fellow 2024/25)