Winter Term 2008/09
Winter Term 2008/09
Winter Term 2008/09
Transactions
Venue: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Villa Jaffé, Wallotstr. 10
5.00 - 7.00 pm
22 Oct | The Bible in the Islamic Religious Imagination
Walid Saleh
(Toronto University; EUME-Fellow 2008/09)
The Availability of the Arabic Bible to Muslim Scholars: Remarks on Cultural Porosity
Moderation:
Angelika Neuwirth
(Freie Universität Berlin; EUME member)
5 Nov | Obscenity in the Canon
Sinan Antoon
(New York University; EUME-Fellow 2008/09)
The Poetics of the Obscene in PreModern Arabic Poetry: Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf
Moderation:
Samah Selim
(IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence; EUME member)
19 Nov | A Public Good in Palestine
Sherene Seikaly
(Georgetown University; EUME-Fellow 2008/09)
Business, Nation, and Economy in Palestine
Moderation:
Johann Büssow
(SFB 586 "Differenz und Integration", Halle/Leipzig)
3 Dec | Slavery and Abolition in Tunis
Ismael Montana
(Northern Illinois University; EUME-Fellow 2008/09)
Black Slavery, its Abolition and Demographics in Tunis: Imprints and Implications
Moderation:
Kai Kresse
(Zentrum Moderner Orient)
10 Dec | Literature and Urban Form in Iraq
Haytham Bahoora
(New York University)
Jabra's Baghdad: Colonial Modernism and Vernacular Spaces
Moderation:
Sinan Antoon
(New York University; EUME-Fellow 2008/09)
17 Dec | Enlightenment in the Islamic Republic
Roman Seidel
(Freie Universität Berlin)
On the Reception of Kant in Iran
Moderation:
Haggag Ali
(Cairo University; EUME-Fellow 2008/09)
7 Jan | (Re)Conquest of the Forest
Selçuk Dursun
(Istanbul; EUME-Fellow 2008/09)
Landholding and Politics of Forest Use in the Ottoman Empire 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Moderation:
Roger Chickering
(Georgetown University; Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2008/09)
21 Jan | Between the City and the Empire
Vangelis Kechriotis
(Bogaziçi University; EUME-Fellow 2008/09)
The Responses of Non-Muslims in the Port-cities of the Ottoman Empire to the Second Constitutional Period
Moderation:
Ulrike Freitag
(Zentrum Moderner Orient; EUME member)
4 Feb | Portraits in Ottoman Art
Aykut Gurçağlar
(Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Istanbul)
Dragoman Depictions in the Ottoman World: Portraits Commissioned by Dragomans as Patrons of the Art of Painting
Moderation:
Vera Beyer
(Freie Universität Berlin)