Concepts and Genealogies of Modernity

Venue: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Villa Jaffé, Wallotstr. 10
5.00 - 7.00 pm

17 Oct | Nation and State
Tamim Al-Barghouti
(Cairo; EUME-Fellow 2007/08)
The Umma, the Nation, the Dawla and the State. Synonymous Antonyms
Moderation: 
Ulrike Freitag 
(Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)

31 Oct | Secularism and Apocalypse
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin 
(Ben Gurion University, Ber-Sheeva)
Secularism and the Apocalypse. Some Reflections from the Study of Zionism
Moderation: 
Fawwaz Traboulsi 
(Lebanese American University, Beirut; Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg 2007/08)

14 Nov | Body and Soul
Mohammed Tabishat 
(United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain; EUME-Fellow 2007/08)
The Body in Europe and Islam
Moderation: 
Dhruv Raina 
(Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2007/08)

28 Nov | Civilization and Translation
Samah Selim 
(Marseille, Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2007/08) 
Translating Race: Gustave Le Bon, Ahmad Fathi Zaghloul and the Nahdah in Egypt
Moderation: 
Tamim Al-Barghouti 
(Cairo; EUME-Fellow 2007/08)

12 Dec | Liminality and Extremes
Salman Bashier 
(Haifa University, Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2007/08)
Beyond Postmodernism: An Islamic Liminal Conception of Religious and Philosophical Thought
Moderation: 
Nicolai Sinai 
(Corpus Coranicum, BBAW, Potsdam) 

9 Jan | Knowledge and Reform
Marc Aymes 
(Paris; EUME-Fellow 2007/08) 
Provincializing Empire: Discourses of Knowledge and Regimes of Knowability during the Ottoman 'Reorganizations' (Tanzimat)
Moderation: 
Margrit Pernau 
(Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)

23 Jan | Identity and Ideology
Sherif Younis 
(Helwan University, Cairo; EUME-Fellow 2007/08)
The Concept of Identity in Political Islamic Thought in Post-Colonial Egypt
Moderation: 
Gudrun Krämer 
(Freie Universität Berlin)

6 Feb | Dhimma and Minority
Magdi Guirguis 
(Cairo; EUME-Fellow 2007/08)
Non-Muslims in Muslim Societies. The Copts in Ottoman Egypt
Moderation: 
Gudrun Krämer 
(Freie Universität Berlin)