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Lecture Series | Single Events | Exhibitions | Conferences and Symposia
Lecture Series
ZMO-Colloquium
Programme winter term 2009/10  Thursday, 25 March 2010, 6 pm
Cyberspace, Diaspora, and the Public
Sphere: Gender and Eritrean Politics Online
Lecture by Prof. Victoria Bernal, University of California, Irvine, USA
Thursday, 25 February 2010, 6 pm
How to Bring a Global Perspective on Gender?
Lecture by Prof Mrinalini Sinha, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Thursday, 28 January 2010, 6 pm
Gender and Globalization: 'Islamic Fashion' in
Cyberspace
Lecture by Prof. Annelies Moors, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Die Welt in Weltkriegen -
Erfahrungen, Wahrnehmungen und Perspektiven aus
Afrika und Asien
Series of Events of Zentrums Moderner Orient
(ZMO)
Friday, 23 April 2010, 6 pm, ZfL, Schützenstrasse 18, 10117 Berlin, Room 308
Sensible Forschungsthemen – Sensible Quellen
Lecture and discussion about sensitive source material, with Prof. em. Werner Ende, Dr. Patrick Bernhard (Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, FU), Dr. habil. Katrin Bromber (ZMO) and Dr. Heike Liebau (ZMO)
Thursday, 6 Mayi 2010,6 pm, HU zu Berlin, Dorotheenstr. 24, 10117 Berlin,
Room 1.505
Imperiale Propaganda und kriegsbedingte Mobilität -
Afrikanische Kriegsteilnehmer im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Joint Lecture by Dr. habil. Katrin Bromber (ZMO) and Prof. Brigitte Reinwald (Universität Hannover)
Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 6pm, CMB, Friedrichstr. 191, 10117 Berlin
The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab–Israeli War of Narratives
Lecture by Prof. Gilbert Achcar (SOAS), Moderation: Prof. Ulrike Freitag (ZMO), in Cooperation with the Centre Marc Bloch (CMB)
Tuesday, 18 May 2010, 6 pm, ZfL, Schützenstrasse 18, 10117 Berlin, Room 308
Deutsche Agenten bei iranischen Stämmen 1942 - 1944.
Ein Augenzeugenbericht
Lecture by Dr. Burkhard Ganzer (formerly ZMO)
Thursday, 20 May 2010, 6 pm, HU zu Berlin, Dorotheenstr. 24, 10117 Berlin,
Room 1.505
Strategien der Zusammenarbeit: Aspekte politischer und militärischer
Kollaboration zwischen indischen Nationalisten und der deutschen
Außenpolitik zwischen 1914 und 1945
Panel discussion with Dr. Heike Liebau (ZMO), Dr. Benjamin Zachariah (ZMO)
and Dr. Joachim Oesterheld (HU Berlin)
Thursday, 24 June 2010, 6 pm, ZMO
Rethinking (the Absence of) Fascism in India, c. 1922 - 1945
Lecture by Dr. Benjamin Zachariah (ZMO)
Tuesday, 22 June 2010, 6 pm, TU Berlin, Main Building, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Room H 2036
Confronting Fascism in Egypt: Dictatorship Versus Democracy
in the 1930s
Lecture by Prof. Israel Gershoni (Tel Aviv Universität), in Cooperation with the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung (ZfA)
Wednesday, 30 June 2010, 6 pm, ZMO
Turks in Weimar and Nazi Germany
Lecture by Prof. Marc David Baer (ZMO)

Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar 2009/10 ((every second monday)
November 9, 2009: Introduction - Ulrike Freitag and Nora Lafi
November 16, 2009: Munir Kamal Fakher Eldin (Majdal Shams;
Fellow of EUME 2009/10): The City, the Valley, and the Nation: on a
post-Ottoman ‘land settlement’ in Mandate Palestine, 1921-1948 
December 7, 2009: Mark Levine (University of California, Irvine /
CMES Lund): Tel Aviv as a Colonial Post-Ottoman City 
January 11, 2010: Ellinor Morack (FU Berlin, Berlin Graduate School
Muslim Cultures and Societies): The housing Question in Post-Ottoman
Izmir and the Population exchange with Greece, 1924-30 
January 25, 2010: Nazan Maksudyan (Istanbul Technical University;
Fellow of EUME 2009/10): Changing Social Roles in Post-Ottoman Istanbul:
a Gendered Approach 
February 8, 2010: Nabila Oulebsir (Université de Poitiers): French
City or Ottoman ? The Patrimonial Debate in 19th c. and early 20th c.
Algiers 
April 19, 2010: Kirsten Scheid (American University in Beirut; Fellow
of EUME 2009/10): Erasure and Distortion: The Ottoman Memory in
Contemporary Beirut Art Production
April 26, 2010: Kyle Evered (Michigan State University): Ankara: the
Republican Urban Project and the Ottoman Heritage
May 10, 2010: Zeynep Celik (New-Jersey Institute of Technology): Colonial Algiers and the Ottoman Heritage: Planning, Architecture and
Governance
May 31, 2010: Zeynep Aygen (University of Portsmouth): ‘Life After
the Ottomans: Heritage and the New National Urban Narrative in
Post-Ottoman Cities of the Balkans’
June 14, 2010: Katherine Fleming (New-York University): Changing
Identities in Post-Ottoman Salonica
June 28, 2010: Sait Ozervarli (Yildiz Technical University): Intellectual
dimensions of continuity and transformation in post-Ottoman Istanbul
July 12, 2010: Conclusion - Ulrike Freitag and Nora Lafi

In the Context of the EUME-Seminar 2009/10 "Language an Citizenship" :
Wednesday, 6 January 2010, 6 pm, Villa Jaffé, Wallotstr. 10, Berlin
Orphans into Citizens
Lecture by Nazan Maksudyan (EUME-Fellow 2009/10) and Introduction by Prof. Ulrike Freitag, ZMO

Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 6 pm, Villa Jaffé, Wallotstr. 10, Berlin
Religious Secularism
Lecture by Ghada Al-Madbouh (EUME-Fellow 2009/10) and Introduction by Dr. Dyala Hamzah, ZMO

Thursdays, 2 pm in WS 2009/10, Universität Bayreuth, Raum S 120 (GW I, Main Campus)
AFRICA AND BEYOND: TRANSLOCAL PERSPECTIVES 
Colloquium with different lectures, among others: Dr. Kai Kresse (ZMO), Dr. Nora Lafi (ZMO) and Dr. Chanfi Ahmed (ZMO);
for detailed information please check the programme 

Thursday, 21. Januar 2010, 2 pm, Universität Bayreuth, Raum S 120 (GW I, Main Campus)
A directed landscape: thoughts about war and
mobility from East Africa to South Asia in World
War II
Lecture by PD Dr. Katrin Bromber (ZMO)
In context of the Colloquium Africa and Beyond: Translocal Perspectives 

Wednesday, 28. April 2010, 6.30 pm, HU zu Berlin, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Invalidenstrasse 118, 10115 Berlin, Room 410
Imperiale Propaganda und Sprachnormierung: Die swahilisprachige
Militärpresse im Zweiten Weltkrieg 
Lecture by PD Dr. Katrin Bromber (ZMO)
In context of the Colloquium at the HU "Afrikawissenschaften aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive“

Single Events
Thursday, 8 April 2010, 5.30 pm, Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin, Schützenstraße 18, 10117 Berlin, Room 308
Media, Homeland, and Community in Islamic and Area Studies: A Social History and Emerging Trends 
Lecture by Prof. Dale Eickelman, Darmouth College and WIKO Berlin
In context of the conference Zeit für Medialisierung and in cooperation with the ZMO

Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 5.30 pm, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung.
Schützenstraße 18, 10117 Berlin,
Konferenzsaal
Islam in Kasachstan:
Traditionen und aktuelle Entwicklungstendenzen 
Lecture by Sheich Abdsattar Haji Derbissali,
Grand Mufti and Chairman of the Relegious Administration of Muslims of Kazakhstan, and with Moderation by Dr. Dina Wilkowsky (ZMO)

Thursday, 18 March 2010, 6 pm, ZMO
Der Begriff „Globale Gerechtigkeit“ bei
Henry Odera Oruka -
Eine afrikanische Perspektive auf ein
brennendes Problem 
Lecture by Dr. Anke Graneß, Presentation by Kai Kresse (ZMO)

Monday, 22 February 2010, 7 pm, ZfL, Schützenstraße 18 - 10117 Berlin, Room 308
„Parental Authority, Sexuality and Generation between Maghreb and Mashreq” 
Public Talk and Discussion with Rita El Khayat and Michael Roes

Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 6 pm, ZfA, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7,
10587 Berlin,
Room 811
The Founding Myths of
Turkish Antisemitism 
Lecture by Rifat Bali (EPHE). The discussion will be moderated by Prof. Marc Baer (ZMO). In cooperation with the
Zentrum
für
Antisemitismusforschung (ZfA)

Friday, 29 January 2010, 6 pm, ZMO
Annual lecture of "Gesellschaft zur Förderung des ZMO e. V."
Die andere Küste Ostafrikas - Translokale Topographien des Tanganyikasees vor 1900 
Lecture by Prof. Achim von Oppen, Universität Bayreuth

Thursday, 14 January 2010, 6 pm, Robert-Bosch-Stiftung, Bismarckstr. 71,
10627 Berlin
Istanbul, mon amour 
Lecture by Nedim Gürsel

Friday, 8 January 2010, 6 pm, ZMO
New year's reception and opening of the exhibition 'Wissensstädte - Bibliotheken in Afrika'
Disclosure by Prof. Ulrike Freitag, Director of ZMO
Pictures of the new year's reception 

Exhibitions

Conferences and Symposia
September 20th - 24th 2010, Philipps-Universität Marburg
17. DAVO Congress / 31. German Congress of Oriental Studies 
The German Oriental Studies Congress takes place regularly every third year. It is the most prominent conference of Oriental Studies Germany convened by the The Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft . Researchers and academics from various disciplines of Asian, African and Middle Eastern Studies participate.

July 19th – 24th 2010, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain
WOCMES 2010 - World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies 
After the highly successful experiences of the two previous WOCMES meetings held in Mainz (Germany) in 2002 and in Amman (Jordan) in 2006 , WOCMES Barcelona 2010 will bring this unique event within the Mediterranean region.
The conference is organised by the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed), the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Government of Catalonia.

April 8th - 10th 2010, GWZ Berlin, Schützenstraße 18, 10117 Berlin
Zeit für Medialisierung 
Conference about "Medien und Transkulturelle Kommunikation in den Islam- und Regionalwissenschaften" organized by a. o. Dr. Bettina Gräf (FU Berlin)

25th - 26th March 2010, Durham University, UK
Urban History Conference 2010: Transgressive Cities: Practices and Place 
Conference a.o. with lectures by Nora Lafi (ZMO) und Florian Riedler (ZMO) in the panel Ottoman Microcosms: Social Norms, their Transgression, and the Urban Space

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