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 20 May 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Colonial Subjects to Surveilled Citizens: Depictions of the Regime Informant in the Cultural Memory of Baathist Syria and Iraq
Aya Labanieh (EUME Fellow 2025/26), Chair: Eli Osheroff (EUME Fellow 2025-27)
Wed 27 May 2026 | 17:20–18:30
State, Citizenship, and Law in Crisis
Roundtable discussion with Mohammed Bamyeh (University of Pittsburgh / EUME Fellow 2021), Eli Osheroff (EUME Fellow 2025-27), Nahid Siamdoust (EUME Fellow of …
Wed 03 Jun 2026 | 17:30–18:30
Indigenous Affinities: Toward Solidarity Across the Global South
Amal Eqeiq (Williams College / EUME Fellow 2019-21), Chair: Dalia Halabi (EUME Fellow 2025/26)
Wed 10 Jun 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Gaza’s Children Write Back: Child-Authored Writing, War, and Political Agency
Loaay Wattad (EUME Fellow 2023-26), Chair: Hanan Natour (FU Berlin / EUME Fellow 2024-26)
Wed 17 Jun 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Translate and Rule: Justice, Arabic Literature, and the Colonial Archive
Hannah Scott Deuchar (EUME Fellow of the AvH 2025-27), Chair: Valeska Huber (Universität Wien / Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2025/26)
Wed 24 Jun 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 Universität Bochum), Chair: Ammar Kandeel (EUME Fellow 2025/26)
Thu 25 Jun 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Bi-Nationalism and the Future of Israel
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben Gurion U / EUME), Chair: Himmat Zoubi (Mada al-Carmel / EUME Fellow 2018-26)
Wed 01 Jul 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Narratives of Female Criminality in Turkish Literature and the Press: A Comparative Analysis (1870-1935)
Gizem Sivri (Freie Universität Berlin), Chair: Nazan Maksudyan (Centre Marc Bloch / EUME Fellow 2009/10)
Thu 09 Jul 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Global Hijra: A Modern History of Muslim Refugee Migration
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (UC Santa Barbara / EUME Fellow of the AvH 2024-26), Chair: Claudia Derichs (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Wed 15 Jul 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Something is Passing in the Night: Iranian Hyphenates in the World
Armita Mirkarimi (Dartmouth College / EUME Fellow 2025/26), Chair: Zoya Masoud (BEYONDREST / Forum Transregionale Studien)