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 07 Oct 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Feminist Comics in Arab and Latin American Protest Cultures
Rasha Chatta (FU Berlin / EUME Fellow 2017-21) and Jasmin Wrobel (Ruhr U Bochum), Chair: Rim Naguib (EUME Fellow 2019-27)
Tue 13 Oct 2026 | 17:00–18:30
The Shudder Remains: Voice, Body, and Affect in Contemporary Palestinian Poetry
Daniel Behar (Hebrew U of Jerusalem / EUME Fellow 2026/27), Chair: tba
Wed 21 Oct 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Protest in a Post-Gramscian Moment: From the Middle East to Liberal Democracies
Asef Bayat (U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Chair: Myriam Ahmed (INTERACT / FU Berlin)
Wed 28 Oct 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Memories of Violence: The Hama Massacre (1982) in Syrian Literature
Anna Christina Scheiter (Albert-Ludwigs-U Freiburg), Chair: Rashof Saleh (MECAM / FTS)
Wed 11 Nov 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Heritage Beyond the National Frame
Pascale Ghazaleh (AUC / EUME Fellow 2017-19), Chair: Georges Khalil (EUME / Forum Transregionale Studien)
Wed 18 Nov 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Religion, Marxism, and Social Change: Emile Tuma’s Social Movements in Islam
Abed Kanaaneh (Tel Aviv U / EUME Fellow 2026/27), Chair: Florian Zemmin (FU Berlin)
Wed 25 Nov 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Amazigh Cultural Artifacts in German Museums: Recirculation and Fair Engagement
Valentina Schiattarella (MECAM), Chair: tba
Wed 16 Dec 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Ironic Uncanniness: Temporal Disorientations and Futures with no Telos in Post-2024 Syria
Saphe Shamoun (EUME Fellow 2026/27), Chair: tba
Wed 06 Jan 2027 | 17:00–18:30
The Politics of Intention in Palestine-Israel
Liron Mor (U of California, Irvine / EUME Fellow 2026/27), Chair: Anne-Marie McManus (SYRASP / Forum Transregionale Studien)
Wed 13 Jan 2027 | 17:00–18:30
Disposable no More: The Urgency of a New Palestinian Political Strategy
Bashir Abu-Manneh (U of Kent), Chair: Himmat Zoubi (Mada al-Carmel / EUME Fellow 2018-27)
Wed 20 Jan 2027 | 17:00–18:30
On the Beginnings of Palestinian Solidarity in the Mexican Mahjar
Francisco Reyes (LAI / FU Berlin), Chair: Shir Alon (U of Minnesota Twin Cities / EUME Fellow 2025/26)
Wed 27 Jan 2027 | 17:00–18:30
Crossing Borders, Rethinking Juridical Boundaries: The Israeli-Palestinian Case
Rawia Aburabia (Sapir Academic College School of Law / EUME Fellow 2026/27), Chair: Suhad Bishara (Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel …
Wed 10 Feb 2027 | 17:00–18:30
Between Turāth and Decolonial Discourse: The Crisis of Language after Gaza
Jad Kiadan (EUME Fellow 2026/27), Chair: tba