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Winter Semester 2024/2025 - Summer Semester 2025

Book launch

"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

Jul 01, 2025 | 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM

Storytelling Workshop

Dr. Görkem Akgöz

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Jun 18, 2025 - Jun 19, 2025

Pre-archive Workshop

Dr. Görkem Akgöz Introduction on 16 April 2025, 14-15h, online.

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Jun 12, 2025 - Jun 13, 2025

Book launch

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.    

Location: online

May 27, 2025 | 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

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.  

May 27, 2025 | 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Book launch

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).   

Location: Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies Hittorfstr. 18 14195 Berlin

May 15, 2025 | 06:15 PM - 08:00 PM

Coffee & Croissants 2

Semester kick-off - informal get-together in the Grad School Come along - bring a little something for the small buffet! *** for all member of the BGSMCS

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Apr 16, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 02:00 PM

Colloquium 1

Professor Florian Zemmin for cohort 2024

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Feb 06, 2025 - Feb 07, 2025

Colloquium 2

Prof. Dr. Birgit Krawietz for fellows of the third year

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Feb 04, 2025 | 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Lecture: Israel and Palestine: Positions and Perspectives

by Muriel Asseburg / Peter Lintl (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik) Moderation: Florian Zemmin for all cohorts

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18 14195 Berlin

Jan 28, 2025 | 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM

Colloquium 2

Prof. Dr. Birgit Krawietz for fellows of the third year

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Jan 28, 2025 | 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Colloquium 2

Prof. Dr. Birgit Krawietz for fellows of the third year

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Jan 21, 2025 | 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Colloquium 2

Prof. Dr. Birgit Krawietz for fellows of the third year

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Jan 14, 2025 | 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Workshop: Design and Experiences of Outdoor Architecture and Realms

organised by Professor Birgit Krawietz

Location: Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies Hittorfstr. 18 14195, Berlin

Jan 08, 2025 - Jan 10, 2025

Pre-field Workshop

PD Dr. Samuli Schielke / Nayera Abdel Rahman Soliman

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Dec 18, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM

Colloquium 2

Prof. Dr. Birgit Krawietz for fellows of the third year

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Dec 17, 2024 | 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Colloquium 2

Prof. Dr. Birgit Krawietz for fellows of the third year

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin # Library

Dec 10, 2024 | 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Pre-field Workshop

PD Dr. Samuli Schielke / Nayera Abdel Rahman Soliman

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Dec 04, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM

Colloquium 2

Prof. Dr. Birgit Krawietz for fellows of the third year

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Dec 03, 2024 | 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Writing Together!

Writing session together ... with Ruben Schenzle

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Nov 29, 2024 | 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM

Pre-field Workshop

PD Dr. Samuli Schielke / Nayera Abdel Rahman Soliman

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Nov 20, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM

Colloquium 2

Prof. Dr. Birgit Krawietz for fellows of the third year

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Nov 19, 2024 | 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Methods and Theories Seminar

Dr. Amaan Merali

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Nov 19, 2024 | 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Methods and Theories Seminar

Dr. Amaan Merali

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin # Bibliothek

Nov 12, 2024 | 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Booklaunch

Booklaunch  Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo by Yoram Meital Moderation: Florian Zemmin for all cohorts

Location: Islamic Studies Institute Holzlaube, Fabeckstr. 23, 14195 Berlin # 2.2059

Nov 11, 2024 | 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Seminar "Post-Archival/-Field"

Professor Elke S. Hartmann Professor Kai Kresse for fellows of the third year

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18 14195 Berlin

Nov 11, 2024 | 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM

Writing Together!

Writing session together ... with Ruben Schenzle

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Nov 08, 2024 | 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM

Lecture

Yassin al-Haj Salih Syrian Revolution, the Syrian Cause, the Syrian Question: In Search of a Synthesis Moderation: Florian Zemmin for all cohorts

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18 14195 Berlin

Nov 07, 2024 | 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Methods and Theories Seminar

Dr. Amaan Merali

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin # Library

Nov 05, 2024 | 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Lecture

Mohammad Magout Otherness in the Ottoman Syrian Press: Representations of Social Deviance and Religious Heterodoxy Moderation: Florian Zemmin for all cohorts

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18 14195 Berlin

Oct 30, 2024 | 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Methods and Theories Seminar

Dr. Amaan Merali

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Oct 29, 2024 | 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Methods and Theories Seminar

Dr. Amaan Merali

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Oct 22, 2024 | 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Writing Together!

Writing session together ... with Ruben Schenzle

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Oct 18, 2024 | 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM

Colloquium 1

Professor Florian Zemmin for cohort 2024

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Oct 17, 2024 | 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM

Colloquium 2

Prof. Dr. Birgit Krawietz for fellows of the third year

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Oct 15, 2024 | 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Methods and Theories Seminar

Dr. Amaan Merali

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Oct 15, 2024 | 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Q & A Graduate School Applicants

Webinar:  Tuesday, 8 October 2024, 2-3 pm, CET PhD Program History and Cultural Studies & Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies

Location: Join us via Webex: tinyurl.com/bd6zcat Password: graduate

Oct 08, 2024 | 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Induction Week

Introduction of the new cohort

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Oct 07, 2024 - Oct 10, 2024

Writing Together!

Writing session together ... with Ruben Schenzle

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Feb 14, 2024 | 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM

Writing Together!

Writing session together ... with Ruben Schenzle

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Jan 24, 2024 | 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM

Writing Together!

Writing session together ... with Ruben Schenzle

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Jan 10, 2024 | 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM