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September 30, 2008
Berlin Seminer - The Middle East & Europe
BERLINER SEMINAR WINTER TERM 2008/09
Theme: Transactions
Venue: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Villa Jaffé, Wallotstr. 10
Time: 5:00-7:00
Wednesday, October 22: The Bible in the Islamic Religious Imagination
- Walid Saleh (Toronto University; Fellow of Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe 2008/09), The Availability of the Arabic Bible to Muslim Scholars: Remarks on Cultural Porosity.
- Moderation: Angelika Neuwirth (Freie Universität Berlin; Member of Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe)
Wednesday, November 5: Obscenity in the Canon
- Sinan Antoon (New York University; Fellow of Europe in the Middle East –The Middle East in Europe 2008/09), The Poetics of the Obscene in Pre-Modern Arabic Poetry: Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf
- Moderation: Samah Selim (IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence; Member of Europe
in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe)
Wednesday, November 19: A Public Good in Palestine
- Sherene Seikaly (Georgetown University; Fellow of Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe 2008/09), Business, Nation, and Economy in Palestine
- Moderation: Johann Büssow (SFB 586 "Differenz und Integration",
Halle/Leipzig)
Wednesday, December 3: Slavery and Abolition in Tunis
- Ismael Montana (Northern Illinois University; Fellow of Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe 2008/09), Black Slavery, its Abolition and Demographics in Tunis: Imprints and Implications
- Moderation: Kai Kresse (Zentrum Moderner Orient)
Wednesday, December 10: Literature and Urban Form in Iraq
- Haytham Bahoora (New York University), Jabra's Baghdad: Colonial
Modernism and Vernacular Spaces
- Moderation: Sinan Antoon (New York University; Fellow of Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe 2008/09)
Wednesday, December 17: Enlightenment in the Islamic Republic
- Roman Seidel (Freie Universität Berlin), On the Reception of Kant in Iran
- Moderation: Haggag Ali (Cairo University; Fellow of Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe 2008/09)
Wednesday, January 7: (Re)Conquest of the Forest
- Selçuk Dursun (Istanbul; Fellow of Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe 2008/09), Landholding and Politics of Forest Use in the Ottoman Empire 19th and Early 20th Centuries
- Moderation: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University; Fellow of the
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2008/09)
Wednesday, January 21: Between the City and the Empire
- Vangelis Kechriotis (Bogaziçi University; Fellow of Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe 2008/09), The Responses of Non-Muslims in the Port-cities of the Ottoman Empire to the Second Constitutional Period
- Moderation: Ulrike Freitag (Zentrum Moderner Orient; Member of Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe)
Wednesday, February 4: Portraits in Ottoman Art
- Aykut Gurçağlar (Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Istanbul), Dragoman Depictions in the Ottoman World: Portraits Commissioned by Dragomans as Patrons of the Art of Painting
- Moderation: Vera Beyer (Freie Universität Berlin)
Kontakt: Georges Khalil, Europa im Nahen Osten – Der Nahe Osten in Europa, c/o Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Wallotstr. 19, 14193 Berlin, Fon +49 (0)30 89001-258, Fax +49 (0)30 89001-200, Email eume@wiko-berlin.de, Website www.eume-berlin.de
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