Sommersemester 2010

Sommersemester 2010

Sommersemester 2010

New Approaches to Language and Society

Ort: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Villa Jaffé, Wallotstr. 10
16.00 - 18.00 / 19.00 h 

24 Mär | Language and Economy
Nelly Hanna
(American University in Cairo)
Commercialization and the Spread of Colloquial Literature in Early Modern Egypt, 1600-1800
Moderation:
Georges Khalil
(EUME) 

28 Apr | Property, Government, and Sovereignty
Munir Fakher Eldin
(Majdal Shams, EUME-Fellow 2009/10)
The National Struggle for Land in Palestine Revisited, 1878-1948
Moderation:
Ulrike Freitag
(Zentrum Moderner Orient; EUME Mitglied) 

12 Mai | Culturing the Self
Sonali Pahwa
(EUME-Fellow 2009/10)
The Privatization of Personal Development in Neoliberal Egypt
Moderation:
Kirsten Scheid
(AUB, Beirut; EUME-Fellow 2009/10) 

26 Mai | Pluralism as an Ideology
Maya Mikdashi
(Columbia University)
Articulations of Tolerance, Secularism and Religious Conversion in Lebanon
Moderation:
Nadya Sbaiti
(EUME-Fellow 2009/10)

9 Jun | The Qur'an: One Text, Different Approaches
Readings of Surat al-Kahf (Q 18)
Nader Hammami
(Tunis University, EUME-Fellow 2009/10)
Hannelies Koloska
(Freie Universität Berlin)
Nicolai Sinai
(Corpus Coranicum, BBAW)
Moderation:
Michael Marx
(Corpus Coranicum, BBAW)

23 Jun | Exclusive Secularism
Ghada Al-Madbouh
(University of Maryland; EUME-Fellow 2009/10)
Opposition and Liberalism in the Middle East: A Case Study of the Palestinian Hamas (2005-2007)
Moderation:
Cilja Harders
(Freie Universität Berlin; EUME Mitglied)

7 Jul | From Revolution to Subversion
Moments of Politicized Individualism in Arabic Culture and Society
Haytham Bahoora

(University of Colorado; EUME-Fellow 2009/10)
Friederike Pannewick
(Philipps-Universität Marburg; EUME Mitglied)
Rachid Ouaissa
(Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Udo Steinbach
(Philipps-Universität Marburg)