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.
Summer Term 2024
EUME Berliner Seminars
Wed 24 Apr 2024 | 17:00–18:30
!Seminar cancelled! Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature
Refqa Abu-Remaileh (Freie Universität Berlin / EUME Fellow 2018-23), Chair: Himmat Zoubi (EUME Fellow 2018-24)
Wed 08 May 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Is it Possible to Free Knowledge? Reflections on the Egyptian Knowledge Bank Experiment
Linda Hererra (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / EUME Fellow 2023/24), Chair: Mina Khanlarzadeh (EUME Fellow 2023/24)
Wed 15 May 2024 | 15:00–16:30
Cities of the Future in the Arab Literary Imagination
Teresa Pepe (University of Oslo), Chair: Rasha Chatta (Freie Universität Berlin / EUME Fellow 2017-21)
Wed 15 May 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Erased City: Imagining a Future Without Ruins?
Ammar Azzouz (British Academy Research Fellow / University of Oxford), Chair: Anne-Marie McManus (SYRASP / Forum Transregionale Studien)
Wed 22 May 2024 | 17:00–18:30
From Socialist Foundation, Neglect and Ruination to a Declaration of Independence: An Egyptian Village between two Revolutions
Nada El-Kouny (EUME Fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation 2023/24), Chair: Rim Naguib (EUME Fellow 2019-24)
Wed 29 May 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Behind the Scenes: The Labor and Extramoral Politics of Egypt’s Media Production
Mariz Kelada (EUME Fellow 2023/24), Chair: Diana Abbani (MECAM / Forum Transregionale Studien)
Wed 05 Jun 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Not Just Arts: The Political Economies of Palestinian Cultural Productions in Haifa, Ramallah and Berlin
Hashem Abushama (Oxford University / EUME Fellow 2023-25), Chair: Himmat Zoubi (EUME Fellow 2019-24)
Wed 12 Jun 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Mimesis in Classical Arabic Literature
Lara Harb (CNMS-EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2023/24 / Princeton University), Chair: Beatrice Gründler (Freie Universität Berlin)
Wed 19 Jun 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Gendering Freedom in Iran: Literary Representations of the Female Body of a Revolutionary Nation in Times of Social Upheavals
Mina Khanlarzadeh (EUME Fellow 2023/24), Chair: Fatemeh Shams (University of Pennsylvania / EUME-CNMS Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2021-24)
Wed 26 Jun 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Editorial Politics and Choices: The Translation of Yakup Kadri’s novel Yaban (The Stranger) in Nazi-Fascist Europe
Lea Nocera (University of Naples L’Orientale / EUME-DAAD Fellow 2024), Chair: Çiçek İlengiz (BEYONDREST / Forum Transregionale Studien)
Wed 03 Jul 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Bridging and Branding the Holy Lands: Arabs from Palestine and Greater Syria in Europe (1900-1960)
Karène Sanchez Summerer (University of Groningen), Chair: Esther Möller (Centre Marc Bloch)
Wed 10 Jul 2024 | 15:00–16:30
Women Publishers in Contemporary Iran: Gender, Publics and the State
Laetitia Nanquette (University of New South Wales, Sydney / EUME Fellow 2024), Chair: Mina Khanlarzadeh (EUME Fellow 2023/24)
Wed 10 Jul 2024 | 17:00–18:30
Becoming Mediterranean: Views from Arabic, French, and Ottoman Literatures
C. Ceyhun Arslan (Koç University / EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2023/24), Chair: Loaay Wattad (EUME Fellow 2023/24)