Ankündigungen
Public lecture by Lewis R. Gordon (8 July) and workshop "What is it to be human?" (7-8 July)
You are cordially invited to attend the public lecture by Prof. Dr. Lewis R. Gordon entitled “The Human Question”. The lecture will be held in person and NO registration is required . Time & location of the public lecture : Friday, 08 July 2022, 6.00 pm, Freie Universität Berlin Auditorium, Hörsaal 1b, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin. Find more details about the public lecture and the speaker here . This lecture is organized in the framework of the Replito international workshop on “ What is it to be human? Engaging the possibilities of living together ” . Find the detailed program here . The workshop will be held in person atBerlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Address: Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin . To register for the workshop, please contact: ( m.alzayed@fu-berlin.de ) For more information about these and other Replito events/activities, please click here .
05.07.2022
Jannis Grimm erhält APSA-MENA-Dissertationspreis 2022
Unser Alumnus Jannis J. Grimm wurde für seine Dissertation "Contested Legitimacies. Repression and Revolt in Post-Revolutionary Egypt" mit dem Dissertationspreis 2022 der MENA-Sektion der American Political Science Association (APSA) geehrt. Wir gratulieren herzlich!
21.06.2022
Lecture Series: Researching Asia - Digital Research Methods in (Post-)Pandemic Times
Your are cordially invited to a lecture series coordinated by the Working Group "Researching Asia in Times of a Pandemic" by Andrea Fleschenberg (HU), Sarah Holz (HU) and Salman Khan (King's College).
07.06.2022
Video of Farid El-Ghawaby's presentation @ Juma Al Majid Center for Culture & Heritage (Dubai)
28.03.2022
Netzwerkveranstaltung: Wege in die Promotion – Welche Stiftung passt zu mir?
Die Veranstaltungsreihe „Wege in die Promotion. Welche Stiftung passt zu mir?“ wird von der Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien (FSGS) und der Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS) organisiert. Ziel dieser Veranstaltungsreihe ist es, einen Überblick über die Förderprogramme deutscher Stiftungen für Promovierende zu geben und einen Dialog zwischen Promotionsinteressierten und Stiftungen zu eröffnen. In den Online-Seminaren bietet sich die Gelegenheit, Fragen direkt an Stiftungsvertreter:innen zu stellen.
25.03.2022
Special Lecture: "Decolonising Knowledge: Theory and Practice"
Join us for this special lecture with Singapore-based scholars Prof. Syed Farid Alatas and Dr. Leon Moosavi on Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 2pm–4pm.
03.02.2022
Online Panel "Global Displays of Islamic Art Today: Agency, Identity, and Politics"
Our doctoral fellow Philip Geisler will talk about "Configuring Multiculturalism: Heritage and Narrative at Toronto’s Aga Khan Museum and Granada’s Museo de la Alhambra" as part of a virtual panel and discussion sponsored by the Islamic Art and Material Culture Collaborative (IAMCC), Toronto.
28.01.2022
Philip Geisler becomes Max Planck Fellow
Our fellow Philip Geisler will become a doctoral 4A_Lab-Fellow of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max Planck Institute) in 2022. 4A Laboratory: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics is a research and fellowship program designed in cooperation with the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Institute for Art History in Florence) – Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Max Planck Society) and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation), including their respective museums and research institutions. Further partners are the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Forum Transregionale Studien.
28.01.2022
Nora Haakh erhält den Anerkennungspreis des Tiburtiuspreises
Der Preis wurde von der Landeskonferenz der Rektoren und Präsidenten der Berliner Hochschulen (LKRP) verliehen.
20.12.2021
Hilde Domin Programme for students / doctoral candidates at risk
Doctoral Candidates at risk can apply for a nomination in the DAAD's hilde Domin Programme. Please see the link for all details.
06.12.2021
New board members & new PIs
Prof. Claudia Derichs (HU Berlin) and Prof. Claudia Liebelt (FU Berlin) have been elected as new board members. Prof. Elke Hartmann (FU Berlin) and Prof. Florian Zemmin have joined BGSMCS as PIs/supervisors.
06.12.2021
Hanna Nieber receives the Steppat-Prize for her dissertation
The award is for her dissertation "Drinking the Written Qur’an: Healing with Kombe in Zanzibar Town"
06.12.2021
Nora Haakh receives the special award in "Culture" from the city of Augusburg
The award is for her doctoral thesis on "Majnun und Layla in der Contact Zone: Übertragungen aus dem Arabischen ins Deutsche im zeitgenössischen Theater".
06.12.2021
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.
08.11.2021
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).
25.10.2021
Virtual Stories: Digital Artistic Agency of Middle Eastern Children and Youth
Künstlerischer Wettbewerb für junge Digitalkünstler:innen aus dem Nahen Osten
12.10.2021
"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.
28.09.2021
