Dates
Book Launch: Islam in a Zongo
Virtual Book Launch of Benedikt Pontzen's "Islam in a Zongo: Muslim Lifeworlds in Asante, Ghana"
Location: Online (Zoom)
Career Talk - Art and Culture
Veronika Hager (Year 2015, BGSMCS) & Alina Kokoschka (Alumna BGSMCS)
Career Talk - Academic Publishing
Sofie Wagenhofer (de Gruyter publishing)
Ethnographic Writing
Prof. Dr. Torsten Tschacher
Career Talk - Universities Outside Of Europe & US
Syafiq Hasyim (Alumnus BGSMCS) & Nora Derbal (Alumna BGSMCS)
Ethnographic Writing
Prof. Dr. Torsten Tschacher
Ethnographic Writing
Prof. Dr. Torsten Tschacher
Career Talk - Academia and Research in Europe
Laura Hindelang (Alumna BGSMCS) & Ellinor Morack (Alumna BGSMCS)
Ethnographic Writing
Prof. Dr. Torsten Tschacher
Post Fieldwork/-Archive Conversations (2016 Cohort)
Dr. Rosa Cordillera Castillo For Doctoral Cohort 2016
Fieldwork Workshop
Dr. Besnik Sinani (Alumnus BGSMCS) & Lisa Ernst (Doctoral Fellow BGSMCS)
Career Talk - Non-University Research Institutions
Jannis Grimm (Alumnus BGSMCS) & Mareike Transfeld (Year 2015, BGSMCS)
Ethnographic Writing
Prof. Dr. Torsten Tschacher
Post Fieldwork/-Archive Conversations (2016 Cohort)
Dr. Rosa Cordillera Castillo For Doctoral Cohort 2016
Workshop "Transkribus"
M. Vogelsberger
Relaunch of our website
We are currently updating our website. Therefore, parts of the site might be temporarily unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenice.
Online-WorldCafé – Wege in die Promotion #4
Which funding suits me? Ask your questions to officials of Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk and Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit.
Online-WorldCafé – Wege in die Promotion #3
Which funding suits me? Ask your questions to officials of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst and the German Acadeic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Workshop: Post-Field II: Conversation
Post-field II: Conversation aims to provide a venue for doctoral students coming back from their fieldwork to transition into writing, through a guided conversation on research experiences and dilemmas. It is being offered in light of suggestions from previous cohorts on the necessity of a mechanism in which doctoral students are able to share and thresh out the various issues they faced while doing their research, in an atmosphere that is relaxed and supportive.
Location: The workshop is held online via Webex. Access information will be shared with the participants shortly before the workshop.
Workshop: Post-Archive Conversations II
Post-archive II: Conversation aims to provide a venue for doctoral students having concluded (most of their) archive work to transition into writing, through a guided conversation on research experiences and strategies for coping with the writing process. It is being offered in light of suggestions from previous cohorts on the necessity of a mechanism in which doctoral students are able to share and thresh out the various issues they faced while doing their research, in an atmosphere that is relaxed and supportive.
Location: Workshop held online via Webex (access information will be shared with the participants shortly before the workshop)
Online-WorldCafé – Wege in die Promotion #2
Which funding suits me? Ask your questions to officials of Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Cusanuswerk and Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.
Workshop Series: Wisdom Encoded - the Digital Kalīla wa-Dimna
Online workshop series, every Monday in July, 5 to 7pm.
Location: Online Workshop Series hosted by the Columbia Global Center Amman
Online-WorldCafé – Wege in die Promotion #1
Which funding suits me? Ask your questions to officials of Dahlem Research School, Elsa-Neumann-Fellowship, Gerda Henkel Foundation, Avicenna Studienwerk, and Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation.
CANCELLED "Lost in Dissertation" Workshops at Berlin State Library
Location: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz – Haus Potsdamer Straße 33 Simón-Bolívar-Saal 10785 Berlin
Semester Break
No courses are taking place at BGSMCS.
Book Presentation: "Whatever's Left of Our Differences"
Location: Falschrum Books Bergfriedstr. 20 10969 Berlin
Lecture: "Women, Islam and the Law in India: The Question of Divorce"
Prof. Dr. Sylvia Vatuk (Professor Emerita, Anthropology, University of Illinois)
Location: Institute of Islamic Studies Fabeckstr. 23-25 14195 Berlin Room 1.2052, near the elevator
Lecture: "Radicalization in Belgium and the Netherlands: Critical Perspectives on Violence and Security"
Prof. Nadia Fadil, Katholische Universität Leuven, Belgien
Location: Institute of Islamic Studies Fabeckstr. 23-25 14195 Berlin Room 1.2051 (1st florr, near the elevator)
Workshop "Unwriting Literary History: Palestinian & Indigenous Literary Imaginaries"
Discussion workshop of the ERC-Project PalREAD. Registration required.
Location: Institute of Arabic and Semitic Studies Fabeckstraße 23-25 14195 Berlin Room 2.2051 (2nd floor, near the elevator)
Lecture: "Subcontracting Guilt: Muslim minority and Holocaust Memory in Germany"
Prof. Ezra Özyürek, London School of Economics and Political Science
Location: Institute of Islamic Studies Fabeckstr. 23-25 14195 Berlin Room 1.2051 (1st floor, near the elevator)
The Specialized Information Service (FID) as a Partner for Middle East, North Africa and Islamic Studies
Location: BGSMCS Library Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Thesis defense by Laura Hindelang
Location: Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies Hörsaal Raum 010/011 Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Book Launch: "What is 'Islamic' Art?" with Wendy Shaw
Location: Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies Lecture Hall Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Lecture by Patrick Eisenlohr at the IAAW
Media, Felt Citizenship, and Regional Boundaries: Movement as Belonging in the Muslim Indian Ocean
Location: IAAW Room315 (3rd floor) Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Invalidenstraße 118 10115 Berlin
"Political Imaginaries of Revolutionary Youth" in Egypt - Lecture by Dina El-Sharnouby
Location: Universität Potsdam Campus Griebnitzsee Haus 7, Raum 2.27
"Korantrinken auf Sansibar" - Talk by Hanna Nieber
Hanna Nieber has completed her dissertation "Drinking the Written Qur'an: Scipture and Healing in Zanzibar Town" at the BGSMCS and is now working as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Religious Studies of Univerität Bayreuth. She will present the findings of her anthropological fieldwork as part of the seminar "Koran und Koranexegese" by Dr. Thomas Würtz.
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Institute of Islamic Studies Room 1.2052 Fabeckstraße 23-25 14195 Berlin
Disputation of Jannis Grimm
Location: Otto-Suhr-Institute of political science Ihnestraße 2 14195 Berlin Room 202
Book Launch with Amy Austin Holmes
"Coups and Revolutions: Mass Mobilization, the Egyptian Military, and the United States from Mubarak to Sisi"
Location: Raum 323 Garystraße 55 14195 Berlin
"Affective Regimes in Turkey and Beyond" - Keynote lecture by Yael Navaro
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Seminarzentrum, Raum L113 Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 14195 Berlin
Philip Geisler talks about "Reconstituting the Islamic Art Museum" in New Orleans
Location: Sheraton New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana
Lecture by Jannis Grimm on "Contentious Politics in Post-Coup Egypt"
Location: Universität Potsdam Campus Griebnitzsee Haus 7, Raum 227
Book Launch: "What is 'Islamic' Art?" with Wendy Shaw
Location: Hopscotch Reading Room Kurfürstenstr. 14 (in the yard) 10785 Berlin
The "Trickster Orchestra" plays in Schöneberg
Location: Apostel-Paulus-Kirche Akazien-/Ecke Grunewaldstraße 10823 Berlin
Lecture: "Legally Brown: Living and Researching Media/Politics in the Critical Spaces" by Prof. Merlyna Lim
Location: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Institute for Asian and African Studies Invalidenstr. 118 10115 Berlin Room 315
We're moving! The library is closed.
Our library is not available until October 8, 2019. From October on, you will find us at Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin.
Application phase for BGSMCS cohort 2020
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