Culture, Society and Freedom

Location: Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstraße 14, 14193 Berlin
5 - 6.30 pm

13 Apr | Elizabeth M. Holt (Bard College / EUME Fellow 2015/16)
Palestine, Propaganda and Resistance Literature in the Cold War
Chair: Refqa Abu-Remaileh (EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation 2014-16)

27 Apr | Saima Akhtar (Irmgard Coninx Fellow of the Forum Transregionale Studien 2015/16)
The Automobile and American Commercialism in Early 20th Century Middle East
Chair: Elizabeth M. Holt (Bard College / EUME Fellow 2015/16)

11 May | Hassan Jabareen (Adalah, Jerusalem / Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2015/16) & Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / Member of EUME)
Visions for Democracy in Israel/Palestine
Chair: Roni Mann (Barenboim-Said Akademie)

25 May | Ela Gezen (University of Massachusetts Amherst / EUME Fellow 2015/16)
Didactic Realism: Aras Ören, Nazım Hikmet, and Bertolt Brecht
Chair: Banu Karaca (Art Histories Fellow 2015/16)

1 Jun | Maaike Voorhoeve (Amsterdam / EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation 2015-17)
The Production of Law in the Field of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Tunisia
Chair: Imen Gallala-Arndt (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg)

15 Jun | Mahnaz Zahirinejad (EUME-A.SK Fellow 2015/16 of the WZB Berlin)
The Middle Class and the Rentier State in a Changing Middle East: The Case of Iran
Chair: Nadine Abdalla (Cairo / EUME Fellow 2015/16)

22 Jun | Abdulrahman Helli (EUME Fellow of the Freie Universität Berlin 2014-16)
Freedom of Belief and the Qur'an: A New Approach
Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin / Zukunftsphilologie)

29 Jun | Nahrain Al-Mousawi (EUME Fellow 2015/16)
Utopia Undone: Counter-Nostalgia in Undocumented-Migrant Literature
Chair: Leyla Dakhli (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin)

13 Jul | 7.30 - 9 pm | At the ICI Berlin, Christinenstr. 18-19, Haus 8, 10119 Berlin
Nasser Rabbat (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Arab Cities, Modernity, and Heritage
Chair: Saima Akhtar (Irmgard Coninx Fellow of the Forum Transregionale Studien 2015/16)
In cooperation with the ICI Berlin and Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices