10 years Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies

In 2018, the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies celebrates its 10th anniversary since the admission of the first year of doctoral researchers in 2008. To mark this milestone, we cordially invite you to celebrate with us.

Programme

Opening and Moderation

Hansjörg Dilger, Deputy Director of the Graduate School

Welcome

Brigitta Schütt, Vice President of Freie Universität Berlin

Peter Frensch, Vice President for Research, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

The Graduate School: Past and Future

Gudrun Krämer, Director of the Graduate School

Hanna Nieber, Iskandar Ahmad Abdalla, Doctoral Students of the Graduate School

Keynote

Ann Laura Stoler, The New School New York

In her keynote, Ann Laura Stoler considers the concept of ‘interior frontiers’ (originally used by the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte in 1803) with respect to its quixotic and unruly political qualities: as a concept alert to the sorts of sensibilities that get recruited to produce hardening distinctions between who is ‘us’ and who is construed as ‘them’; as a diagnostic of where and how sites of anxious over-identification emerge, and as a dispositif, central to the discriminations and visceral exclusions on which racialized governance in its colonial and contemporary conditions depends.

You are kindly requested to register by 31 May via Email with office@bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de