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 08 Apr 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Narrating Faith Across the Straits: Morisco Manuals of Faith in Tunis and the Early Modern Mediterranean
Susan Abraham (EUME Fellow 2025/26), Chair: Islam Dayeh (Ghent University)
Wed 15 Apr 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Friendship in Revolution: Politics of Life in Kurdish Mobilisation
Delal Aydın (Geneva Graduate Institute / EUME Fellow 2024-26), Chair: Zeynep Türkyılmaz (EUME Fellow 2020-26)
Wed 22 Apr 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Representation of Women Criminals in the Ottoman Literature and Press
Gizem Sivri (Freie Universität Berlin), Chair: Nazan Maksudyan (Centre Marc Bloch / EUME Fellow 2009/10)
Wed 29 Apr 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Cultural Capital of a Minoritized Elite: The Intersection of Class and Ethnonational Identities of the Emerging Palestinian Elite in Israel
Dalia Halabi (EUME Fellow 2025/26), Chair: Hania Sobhy (MPI-MMG / EUME Fellow 2012/13)
Tue 05 May 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Palestine in Berlin
Himmat Zoubi (Mada al-Carmel / EUME Fellow 2018-26), Chair: Hanan Toukan (Bard College Berlin / EUME Fellow 2019-23)
Wed 13 May 2026 | 17:00–18:30
“The Whole World Knows Our Struggle”: Music, Memory, and Palestinian Resistance in Berlin
Diana Abbani (MECAM / Forum Transregionale Studien), Chair: Loaay Wattad (EUME Fellow 2023-26)
Wed 20 May 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 27 May 2026 | 17:00–18:30
One Thousand and One Nightmares: Colonial Conspiracies and Their Afterlives in Modern Middle Eastern Media
Aya Labanieh (EUME Fellow 2025/26), Chair: Eli Osheroff (EUME Fellow 2025-27)
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 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 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)