Wintersemester 2013/14

Wintersemester 2013/14

Wintersemester 2013/14


Modernism, Historiography, and Politics

Ort: Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin
17:00 - 18:30 Uhr


16 Okt | Mohamed Elshahed (NYU, EUME Fellow 2013/14)
Towards a Polycentric Narrative: The Case of Egypt's Architectural Modernism
Moderation: Ulrike Freitag (Zentrum Moderner Orient / Mitglied von EUME)

30 Okt | Samer Frangie (American University Beirut / EUME Fellow 2013/14)
Yasin al-Hafiz’s Biographical Palimpsest: Critical Detachment, Historicism and the Transformation of Political Critique
Moderation: Walid el Houri (American University Beirut / EUME Fellow 2013/14)

13 Nov | Dina Ramadan (Bard College / EUME Fellow 2013/14)
"The Message of Art and Good Taste": Sawt el-Fannan and Art Criticism in 1950s Egypt
Moderation: Hanan Toukan (Zentrum Moderner Orient/EUME Fellow 2012-14)

27 Nov | Magdi Guirguis (Kafr El Shaikh University / EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung 2012-14)
Remapping Egyptian Rural Society: An Economic History of Coptic Monasteries in the 13-16th Centuries
Moderation: Haytham Bahoora (University of Colorado / Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices Fellow 2013/14)

11 Dez | Naomi Davidson (University of Ottawa / EUME Fellow 2013/14)
"Entirely Arab": Defining Muslim/Jewish Practices in the Space of Colonial Algeria
Moderation: Nora Lafi (Zentrum Moderner Orient / Mitglied von EUME)

+++ verschoben auf Sommersemester 2014 +++
18 Dez | Joseph Farag (EUME Fellow 2013/14)
Write of Return: The Palestinian Short Story in Exile
Moderation: Friederike Pannewick (Philipps Universität Marburg / Mitglied von EUME)

8 Jan | Basak Tug (Bilgi University, Istanbul / EUME Fellow 2013/14)
Reading Legal Discourse, Punitive Order and Gender through the Tanzimat in the Ottoman Empire
Moderation: Cilja Harders (FU Berlin / Mitglied von EUME)

22 Jan | Sarah Eltantawi (EUME Fellow 2013/14)
Receptions of Political Islam in Egypt and Nigeria: From the Shar'ia Re-Implementation in Nigeria in 1999 to the Ousting of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in 2013
Moderation: Gudrun Krämer (Freie Universität Berlin / Mitglied von EUME)

5 Feb | Marwa FekryAbdel Samei (Cairo University / Affiliated EUME Fellow 2013/14)
The European Union’s Public Diplomacy and the Arab Spring: The Case of Egypt
Moderation: Melanie Hanif (Forum Transregionale Studien)