Announcements
Hale Sasmaz Presents Her Paper at International Conference
Our doctoral fellow Hale Sasmaz is going to present her paper about Turkish journalist Sabiha Sertel's years in exile at an international conference titled "Narrating Exile in and between Europe and the Ottoman Empire/Modern Turkey". The conference is organized by the Turkey Studies Network (TSN) and will be held in Amsterdam on 11-12 November 2021.
Nov 08, 2021
Philip Geisler at MESA’s 2021 Annual Meeting
Our doctoral fellow Philip Geisler co-organizes the panel "Islamic Art and the Politics of Museum Display" at this year’s Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). The panel explores the politics of curatorial practices, museum displays, and art discourses in public and private museums including the Malek National Museum (Tehran), the National Museum and the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar, the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts (Istanbul), the Louvre Museum (Paris), the Alhambra Museum (Granada), and the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto from 2000 until today. Philip Geisler will contribute a paper titled "Islamic Art as a Multicultural Mythology in Spain and Canada.“ The panel is sponsored by the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) and will take place online on November 30th, at 11:30 AM (EST).
Oct 25, 2021
Virtual Stories: Digital Artistic Agency of Middle Eastern Children and Youth
Call for art works of young Middle Eastern digital artists
Oct 12, 2021
"The Study of Islam & Muslim Communities in Latin America and the Caribbean in Transdisciplinary Perspective"
Registration for the online colloquium on October 20−21 is open now. Join us for one or all of the panels, the launch of Ken Chitwood's new book "The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean" and Aisha Khan's keynote.
Sep 28, 2021
Call for Applications for scholarships and places in our doctoral programme 2022
We are happy to announce a new call for applications for grants and places in our doctoral programme for the calendar year 2022/2023. Please note that the application deadline is November 1, 2021, 12 noon CET.
Sep 22, 2021
Besnik Sinani Wins DAVO Dissertation Award 2021
Congratulations to our alumnus Besnik Sinani for winning the DAVO Dissertation Award 2021! He was honoured by the German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (DAVO) for his dissertation "The Ba Alawi Sufi Order in Saudi-Arabia: State, Orthodoxy, and Deviance in Contemporary Islam". .
Sep 21, 2021
Jannis Grimm Receives the GPSA Dissertation Prize 2021
Jannis Grimm was awarded the 2021 dissertation prize of the German Political Science Association (GPSA) for his dissertation titled "Contesting Legitimacy: Protest and the Politics of Signification in Post-Revolutionary Egypt" which was submitted in 2020. We warmly congratulate!
Sep 06, 2021
Philip Geisler at Berlin’s International Literature Festival
Our doctoral fellow Philip Geisler will host various events at Berlin’s International Literature Festival. On September, 14, at 6 PM, he will host a discussion about "Decolonizing Worlds: Loot, Booty, Art“ with Götz Aly, Bénédicte Savoy, and Nana Oforiatta Ayim that addresses current debates about the political and institutional treatment of colonial looted art, restitution, as well as practices of exhibiting objects in new contexts.
Sep 03, 2021
Online World Café: "Path to the PhD. Which funding suits me?"
The WorldCafé on "Wege in die Promotion. Welche Stiftung passt zu mir?" is jointly organised by BGSMCS and Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien (FSGS) . The series aims at providing an overview on the scholarship opportunities of German research foundations, and to start a dialogue between foundations and students interested in doing a PhD. In the webinar meetings, you have the opportunity to ask your questions to officials of different foundations. The webinars will be in German. Participation is possible without registration. Please find further information here (in German).
May 12, 2021
Philip Geisler's Lecture "Display and Performativity: Theorizing the Agency of Islamic Art in the Museum" at the Louvre
On June 15, 2021, our doctoral fellow Philip Geisler will give a talk titled "Display and Performativity: Theorizing the Agency of Islamic Art in the Museum" at the conference "Le musée en scène : regards critiques sur la muséographie 1969-2019." The two-day conference is organized by the Musée du Louvre and the École du Louvre in Paris.
May 12, 2021
Book Talk: Ulrike Freitag, "A History of Jeddah"
Apr 13, 2021
New BGSMCS Directors in April
Prof. Isabel Toral and Prof. Ulrike Freitag will take over the office of directors at the Graduate School in April 2021. A big thank you to Prof. Konrad Hirschler for serving as director in the past three years.
Mar 10, 2021
6 short-term postdoc scholarships
Up to 6 short-term postdoc scholarships are available in the research group " Authoritarianism and Global Capitalism: Emancipatory Counter-Strategies in and from the Middle East", funded and organised by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. Successful applicants will be affiliated with BGSMCS, EUME or the Center for Middle Eastern & North African Politics at Freie Universität Berlin. Deadline is on 1 March, 2021. Read the call here: https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/43721 .
Jan 29, 2021
2nd Southern Theory Lecture with Prathama Banerjee
December 10, 2020, at 5 pm CET Please see the link below for information about how to join the event.
Nov 16, 2020
Updated Corona Measures
Oct 22, 2020
Web Q&A for applicants
We will have a short introduction and Web Q&A on October 7 and 9.
Sep 22, 2020
