The EUME Berliner Seminar, the Art Histories Seminar and the World Philologies Seminar of the research program Zukunftsphilologie will continue during the summer term 2016 both at the Forum and other venues.
EUME Berliner Seminar
5 – 6.30 p.m. (unless stated otherwise), Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin
Wednesday, 13 April
Palestine, Propaganda and Resistance Literature in the Cold War
Elizabeth M. Holt (Bard College / EUME Fellow 2015/16)
Chair: Refqa Abu-Remaileh (EUME Fellow Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung 2014-16)
Wednesday, 27 April
American Commercialism in the Middle East in the Early 20th Century
Saima Akhtar (Irmgard Coninx Fellow of the Forum Transregionale Studien 2015/16)
Chair: Elizabeth M. Holt (Bard College / EUME Fellow 2015/16)
Wednesday, 11 May
Visions for Democracy in Israel/Palestine:
The Idea of Statehood
Hassan Jabareen (Adalah, Jerusalem / Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2015/16)
Decolonization and the Rights of the Jews
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / Member of EUME)
Chair: Roni Mann (Barenboim-Said Akademie)
Wednesday, 25 May
Intersections of Culture and Politics in the Turkish Context: Brecht, Hikmet and the Turkish Left
Ela Gezen (University of Massachusetts Amherst / EUME Fellow 2015/16)
Chair: Banu Karaca (Art Histories Fellow 2015/16)
Wednesday, 1 June
The Production of Law in the Field of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Tunisia
Maaike Voorhoeve (Amsterdam / EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung 2015-17)
Chair: Imen Gallala-Arndt (Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, Hamburg)
Wednesday, 15 June
The Middle Class and the Rentier State in a Changing Middle East: The Case of Iran
Mahnaz Zahirinejad (EUME-A.SK Fellow 2015/16 of the WZB Berlin)
Chair: Nadine Abdalla (Cairo / EUME Fellow 2015/16)
Wednesday, 22 June
Freedom of Belief and the Qur'an: A New Approach
Abdulrahman Helli (EUME Fellow of the Freie Universität Berlin 2014-16)
Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin / Zukunftsphilologie)
(In Arabic with English translation)
Wednesday, 29 June
Clandestine Mediterranean: Afro-Arab Undocumented Literature
Nahrain Al-Mousawi (EUME Fellow 2015/16)
Chair: Leyla Dakhli (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin)
Wednesday, 13 July, 7.30 – 9 p.m., ICI Berlin, Christinenstr. 18-19, Haus 8, 10119 Berlin
Arab Cities, Modernity, and Heritage
Nasser Rabbat (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Chair: Saima Akhtar (Irmgard Coninx Fellow of the Forum Transregionale Studien 2015/2016)
In cooperation with the ICI Berlin and Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices
More information: www.eume-berlin.de
Art Histories Seminar
5 – 6.30 p.m. (unless stated otherwise), Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin
Monday, 11 April
Small Models of Large Buildings?: On the Miniature Temple in Medieval India
Subhashini Kaligotla (Art Histories Fellow 2015-16/ PhD, Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, 2015)
Monday, 23 May
Roman Catholicism and Traditional Religions in the Gold Coast Aesthetic Clashes, Continuities and Ambiguities
Annalisa Butticci (Art Histories Fellow 2015-16/ University of Utrecht)
Monday, 30 May
Tracing Absence: Missing Provenance, ‘Lost’ Works, and the Blind-Spots of Art History in Turkey
Banu Karaca (Art Histories Fellow 2015-16)
Monday, 13 June
The Sudanese Objects in German Collections
Ahmed Adam (Art Histories Fellow 2015-16 /University of Khartoum)
Monday, 20 June
“Feeling of a Space”: An Art History of Praise and Place in Eighteenth-Century India
Dipti Khera (Art Histories Fellow 2015-16)
Monday, 27 June
Decolonizing the Modern: Amrita Sher-Gil, Rabindranath Tagore and the Global Avant-Garde
Rakhee Balaram (Art Histories Fellow 2015-16)
More information: www.art-histories.de
World Philologies Seminar
4 – 7 p.m., Freie Universität Berlin, Holzlaube, room 2.2051, Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14193 Berlin
[Pressemitteilung]
Thursday, 19 May
Language Ideology: Arabic, the Arabs and Language Anxiety
Yasir Suleiman (University of Cambridge/Doha Institute for Graduate Studies)
Thursday, 2 June
The Concept of Cultural Translation in American Religious Studies
Daniel Boyarin (University of California, Berkeley)
Thursday, 9 June
On Logopolitics: “After their tongues, after their nations”
Elad Lapidot (Freie Universität Berlin, Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg)
Thursday, 30 June
Why some scripts fail and others succeed
Piers Kelly (Australian National University/MPI Jena)
More information: www.zukunftsphilologie.de
