EUME Lectures
EUME Lectures
The EUME Lectures series invites fellows and scholars from the EUME network to present a major work they published as a result of their fellowship or to talk about their perspectives on a current political, cultural or social issue.
EUME Lectures
Mon 01 Sep 2014 | 14:00–15:30
Revolutionary Dynamics in Morocco: Youth and the Will of Secularization
Zakaria Rhani (Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat); in the context of the EUME summer academy in Rabat
Tue 26 Aug 2014 | 14:00–15:30
Re-Framing Orientalism: The Afterlife of Cinema in Colonial Algeria
Michael Allen (University of Oregon); in the context of the EUME summer academy in Rabat
Tue 15 Jul 2014 | 14:00–16:00
The Arab Revolutions and the Defeat of 1967: After Disillusionment
Samer Frangie (AUB Beirut / EUME Fellow 20113/14), Chair: Cilja Harders (FU Berlin / EUME)
Wed 19 Mar 2014 | 15:00–16:30
Translating Hannah Arendt: Notes on Modern Arab Intellectual History
Jens Hanssen (University of Toronto)
Thu 20 Feb 2014 | 14:00–16:00
Netanyahu's Challenge: Can the Palestinians Accept Israel as a Jewish State?
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben-Gurion-University of the Negev / EUME member), Introduction: Yuval Evri (Tel Aviv University / EUME Fellow 2013-14)
Wed 02 Oct 2013 | 16:00–18:00
Coexistence in an Age of Genocide: The Arab Renaissance in the Late Ottoman Empire
Ussama Makdisi (Rice University / Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2012/13)
Mon 01 Jul 2013 | 14:00–15:30
Wed 26 Jun 2013 | 16:00–18:00
The Spring and the Blood in Syria
Elias Khoury (NYU/Beirut), Introduction: Wolf Lepenies (Former Director & Permanent Fellow em., Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
Wed 22 May 2013 | 17:00–18:30
Thu 14 Feb 2013 | 14:00–16:00
Islam, Secularism and Intellectuals
Abdolkarim Soroush (Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research / Fellow des Wissenschaftskollegs zu Berlin 2004/05 & 2005/06)
Wed 13 Feb 2013 | 16:00–17:30
The Culture of Sectarianism Reconsidered: Religion, History, and Politics in the Arab World
Ussama Makdisi (Rice University / Fellow des Wissenschaftskollegs zu Berlin 2012/13)
Thu 18 Oct 2012 | 14:00–16:00
The Question of Israel in the New Arab World
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben-Gurion University of Negev / EUME)
Wed 17 Oct 2012 | 17:00–18:30
Society and Religion: Civil Society, the Arab Spring and the Return of Islam
Sadik Al-Azm (Damaskus / Fellow of the Wissenschaftskollegs zu Berlin 2012/13)
Tue 29 May 2012 | 17:00–19:00
Empire, Nation, and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt: Afterwords to the Revolutions of 1919/2011
Shaden M. Tageldin (University of Minnesota / EUME Fellow 2006/07), Welcome: Friederike Pannewick (Philipps-Universität Marburg / EUME member), Introduction: …
Wed 23 Nov 2011 | 17:00–18:30
Islam as a Template for Modern Judaism: Theology, and Politics in the European Jewish Imagination, 1833 to 1933
Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College / Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2011/12)