Revisiting Paradigms of Culture and Society

Venue: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Villa Jaffé, Wallotstr. 10

13 Apr | 5.00–7.00 pm | Ifranji Commodities, Local Labor, and Oriental Authenticity
Toufoul Abou-Hodeib 
(EUME-Fellow 2010/11)
Domestic Consumption in Late Ottoman Beirut
Moderation: 
Birgit Meyer 
(VU University Amsterdam; Fellow of the Wissenschaftskollegs zu Berlin 2010/11) 

27 Apr | 5.00–7.00 pm | Anxieties of Conversion
Zeynep Türkyılmaz 
(EUME-Fellow 2010/11)
From Fellah to Alawi: Re-making of a Communal Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire
Moderation: 
Benno Gammerl 
(Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin) 

12 May | 6.00-9.00 pm | Approaches to World Literature
Venue: Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, Room J 32/102
Ayman El-Desouky 
(Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies, SOAS, London)
Questions of Critical Method and Agency of the Non-European
Comments:
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit 
(Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien, FU Berlin)
Sabine Schülting 
(Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien, FU Berlin)
Moderation: 
Samah Selim 
(Rutgers University, New Jersey; EUME member)
In cooperation with the Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien, FU Berlin

25 May | 5.00–7.00 pm | A Diva Caught in the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Hanan Hammad 
(EUME-Fellow 2010/11)
Layla Murad: On the Border of Egyptian-ness
Moderation: 
Gudrun Krämer 
(Freie Universität Berlin; EUME member) 

8 Jun | 5.00–7.00 pm | Theories of Tradition
Mohammed Bamyeh 
(University of Pittsburgh; Affiliated EUME-Fellow 2010/11) 
Intellectuals and Civil Society in the Middle East
Moderation: 
Fadi Bardawil 
(EUME-Fellow 2010/11) 

29 Jun | 5.00–7.00 pm | Writing History in Medieval Egypt
Tamer El-Leithy 
(NYU; EUME-Fellow 2010/11)
Al-Maqrizi's Copts: Egyptian Christianity, Mamluk Historiography
Adam Talib 
(Oxford University / Universität Münster)
Poetry and Society in the Mamluk Period
Moderation: 
Manan Ahmed 
(Freie Universität Berlin) 

6 Jul | 4.00–7.00 pm| Kafka in the Middle East
Jens Hanssen 
(Toronto University)
Kafka and Arabs
Atef Botros 
(Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Kafka and the Arab Revolutions
Galili Shahar 
(Tel Aviv University) 
Kafka's Nachlass and the Expected Reader
Moderation: 
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin 
(Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva; EUME member)