Wintersemester 2024/2025 - Sommersemester 2025
Buchvorstellung
"ARAB BERLIN" (Dr. Nahed Samour) Dynamics of Transformation Berlin is increasingly emerging as a hub of Arab intellectual life in Europe. In this first study of Arab culture to zoom in on the thriving metropolis, the contributors shed light on the dynamics of transformation with Arabs as agents, subjects, and objects of change in the spheres of politics, society and history, gender, demographics and migration, media and culture, and education and research. The kaleidoscopic character of the collection, embracing academic articles, essays, interviews and photos, reflects critical encounters in Berlin. It brings together authors from inter- and multidisciplinary fields and backgrounds and invites the readers into a much-needed conversation on contemporary transformations. Time & Location Jul 01, 2025 | 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies Hörsaal 010/011 Hittorfstr. 18 14195 Berlin Further Information Prof. Dr. Schirin Amir-Moazami schirin.amir-moazami@fu-berlin.de
Pre-archive Workshop
Dr. Görkem Akgöz *** Einführung am 16. April 2025, 14-15h, online.
Ort: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin
Buchvorstellung
Contemporary Islamic Political Thought in Egypt by Ebtisam Aly Hussein Moderation: Cilja Harders ******************* About this book: Ebtisam Aly Hussein takes a hermeneutic approach toward reading the writings of Islamic intellectuals Jamal al-Banna and Tariq al-Bishri across several decades in order to explore contemporary Islamic political thought under authoritarianism. How is authority over the public sphere in religious and political terms established? How do al-Banna and al-Bishri discuss the state in Islam, Shari'a application, political violence, and identity politics? And how did their writings interact with autocratic practices under Nasir, Sadat and Mubarak? Ebtisam Hussein is an European Neighborhood Council (ENC) academic council member and Associate Professor of Political Science at Cairo University (on leave). She served as Associate Professor of Middle Eastern studies (Feb 2019-Jan 2022) at Sun Yat-sen University (China) and earned her PhD in 2014 from the Free University of Berlin at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies. Organised by Cilja Harders at OSI/ FU Berlin, in cooperation with Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies. Please register with polvoro@zedat.fu-berlin.de in order to receive the link to the event.
Ort: ONLINE
Talk
On Tue sday, 27 May, 2-4pm , we shall have Prof. Issa Ziddy (Religious Studies, State University of Zanzibar, SUZA) as a visiting speaker at BGSMCS grad school, presenting a talk on his research on 'Transmission of Islamic learning in Zanzibar, 19th-20th century' . The talk will take place in the seminar room in Hittorfstrasse 18. All are welcome, and please forward to any further interested parties! Prof. Ziddy is visiting FU-Berlin through the ErasmusPlus university exchange program. He will be available for a meet and greet event the day after, on Wed. 28 May at BGSMCS (library) , with possibilities to arrange individual consultations during the period of his stay (till 6 June) for any interested MA and PhD students as well as postdocs. And he will give a talk at ZMO (on his research on local regional biographies of sheikhs) on Thursday, 5 June, 1pm. He has worked and published on Islam in East Africa, particularly Tanzania and Zanzibar; on human rights, gender roles, and Muslim women, also and particularly from a legal perspective.
Buchvorstellung
THE JOURNAL MAWĀQIF: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF POST-1967 BEIRUT (IN THREE ACTS) by Yvonne Albers Moderation: Vivienne Schommer ******************* About this book: This book is a story of a generation of Arab intellectuals in the late 20th century told through the biography of the famous Beiruti journal Mawāqif (1968–1994), which was founded and edited by the Syrian poet Adunis, and co-edited by a changing group of acclaimed Arab writers, thinkers and artists, including Khalida Said, Sadiq Jalal al-Azm, Elias Khoury, and Edward Said, to name but a few. At the heart of its narrative is the city of Beirut, a trans-Arab intelligentsia hotspot during the Long 1960s, then a war-torn capital in the late 1970s and 1980s, and ultimately a distant home imagined by the exiled Arab community in the early 1990s. Mawāqif ’s biography mirrors that of a post-1967 Arab intellectual generation and its once-revolutionary project, and shows the deep interconnectedness of the modern intellectual (al-muthaqqaf) as social figure and of journal-making as this figure’s constitutive practice. Yvonne Albers ‘ current research focuses on time and temporality in/of the modern Arab periodical, and on global circulations of theory since the early 20th century. Her recent book Beirut und die Zeitschrift Mawāqif has been published last year (Brill 2023). Together with Anne-Marie McManus and Barbara Winckler she is co-editing a volume on The Journal as Form: An Introduction to Arab Periodical Studies (De Gruyter 2025).
Ort: Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies Hittorfstr. 18 14195 Berlin
Coffee & Croissants 2
Semesterauftakt - geselliges Beisammensein in der Grad School Kommt vorbei - bringt etwas für das kleine Buffet mit! *** für alle Mitglieder des BGSMCS
Ort: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin
Writing Together!
Gemeinsam Schreiben Leitung: Ruben Schenzle
Ort: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin
Vortrag: Israel and Palestine: Positions and Perspectives
von Muriel Asseburg / Peter Lintl (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik) Moderation: Florian Zemmin für alle Kohorten
Ort: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18 14195 Berlin
Writing Together!
Gemeinsam Schreiben Leitung: Ruben Schenzle
Ort: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin
Writing Together!
Gemeinsam Schreiben Leitung: Ruben Schenzle
Ort: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin
Workshop: Design and Experiences of Outdoor Architecture and Realms
organisiert von Professor Birgit Krawietz
Ort: Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies Hittorfstr. 18 14195, Berlin
Writing Together!
Gemeinsam Schreiben Leitung: Ruben Schenzle
Ort: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin
Buchvorstellung
Buchvorstellung Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo von Yoram Meital Moderation: Florian Zemmin für alle Kohorten
Ort: Islamwissenschaftliches Institut Holzlaube, Fabeckstr. 23, 14195 Berlin # 2.2059
Seminar "Post-Archival/-Field"
Professor Elke S. Hartmann Professor Kai Kresse
Ort: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18 14195 Berlin
Writing Together!
Gemeinsam Schreiben Leitung: Ruben Schenzle
Ort: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin
Vortrag
Yassin al-Haj Salih Syrian Revolution, the Syrian Cause, the Syrian Question: In Search of a Synthesis Moderation: Florian Zemmin für alle Kohorten
Ort: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18 14195 Berlin
Vortrag
Mohammad Magout Otherness in the Ottoman Syrian Press: Representations of Social Deviance and Religious Heterodoxy Moderation: Florian Zemmin für alle Kohorten
Ort: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18 14195 Berlin
Writing Together!
Gemeinsam Schreiben Leitung: Ruben Schenzle
Ort: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin
Q & A Graduate School Bewerber*innen!
Webinar (auf Englisch) am 8. Oktober 2024, 14-15 Uhr
Ort: Wir treffen uns auf Webex: tinyurl.com/bd6zcat Password: graduate