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Lecture Series

ZMO-Colloquium
Programme winter term 2009/10 PDFLogo

Thursday, 25 March 2010, 6 pm

Cyberspace, Diaspora, and the Public Sphere: Gender and Eritrean Politics Online Trenner

Lecture by Prof. Victoria Bernal, University of California, Irvine, USA

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Thursday, 25 February 2010, 6 pm

How to Bring a Global Perspective on Gender? PDFLogo

Lecture by Prof Mrinalini Sinha, Pennsylvania State University, USA

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Thursday, 28 January 2010, 6 pm

Gender and Globalization: 'Islamic Fashion' in Cyberspace PDFLogo

Lecture by Prof. Annelies Moors, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Die Welt in Weltkriegen - Erfahrungen, Wahrnehmungen und Perspektiven aus Afrika und Asien PDFLogo

Series of Events of Zentrums Moderner Orient (ZMO)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Thursday, 24 June 2010, 6 pm, ZMO

Rethinking (the Absence of) Fascism in India, c. 1922 - 1945

Lecture by Dr. Benjamin Zachariah (ZMO)

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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)

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Wednesday, 30 June 2010, 6 pm, ZMO

Turks in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Lecture by Prof. Marc David Baer (ZMO)

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Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar 2009/10 PdfLogo ((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 PdfLogo

December 7, 2009: Mark Levine (University of California, Irvine / CMES Lund): Tel Aviv as a Colonial Post-Ottoman City PdfLogo

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 PdfLogo

January 25, 2010: Nazan Maksudyan (Istanbul Technical University; Fellow of EUME 2009/10): Changing Social Roles in Post-Ottoman Istanbul: a Gendered Approach PdfLogo

February 8, 2010: Nabila Oulebsir (Université de Poitiers): French City or Ottoman ? The Patrimonial Debate in 19th c. and early 20th c. Algiers PdfLogo

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

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In the Context of the EUME-Seminar 2009/10 "Language an Citizenship" PdfLogo:

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

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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

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Thursdays, 2 pm in WS 2009/10, Universität Bayreuth, Raum S 120 (GW I, Main Campus)

AFRICA AND BEYOND: TRANSLOCAL PERSPECTIVES PDFLogo

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 PDFLogo

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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 PDFLogo

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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
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Lecture by PD Dr. Katrin Bromber (ZMO)

In context of the Colloquium at the HU "Afrikawissenschaften aus interdisziplinärer PerspektivePDFLogo

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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 PdfLogo

Lecture by Prof. Dale Eickelman, Darmouth College and WIKO Berlin

In context of the conference Zeit für Medialisierung PdfLogo and in cooperation with the ZMO

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Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 5.30 pm, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung.
Schützenstraße 18, 10117 Berlin, Konferenzsaal

Islam in Kasachstan: Traditionen und aktuelle Entwicklungstendenzen PDFLogo

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)

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Thursday, 18 March 2010, 6 pm, ZMO

Der Begriff „Globale Gerechtigkeit“ bei Henry Odera Oruka - Eine afrikanische Perspektive auf ein brennendes Problem PDFLogo

Lecture by Dr. Anke Graneß, Presentation by Kai Kresse (ZMO)

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Monday, 22 February 2010, 7 pm, ZfL, Schützenstraße 18 - 10117 Berlin, Room 308

Parental Authority, Sexuality and Generation between Maghreb and Mashreq” PdfLogo

Public Talk and Discussion with Rita El Khayat and Michael Roes

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Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 6 pm, ZfA, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 10587 Berlin, Room 811

The Founding Myths of Turkish Antisemitism PdfLogo

Lecture by Rifat Bali (EPHE). The discussion will be moderated by Prof. Marc Baer (ZMO). In cooperation with the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung (ZfA)

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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 PdfLogo

Lecture by Prof. Achim von Oppen, Universität Bayreuth

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Thursday, 14 January 2010, 6 pm, Robert-Bosch-Stiftung, Bismarckstr. 71, 10627 Berlin

Istanbul, mon amour PdfLogo

Lecture by Nedim Gürsel

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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 Link

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Exhibitions

 

Wissensstädte - Bibliotheken in Afrika PdfLogo

An Exihibition about the History and the Present of Libaries in African Cities

At ZMO from 11 January to 31 July 2010,
on weekdays: 10 am to 4 pm.

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Conferences and Symposia

September 20th - 24th 2010, Philipps-Universität Marburg

17. DAVO Congress / 31. German Congress of Oriental Studies Link

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.

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July 19th – 24th 2010, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain

WOCMES 2010 - World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies Link

After the highly successful experiences of the two previous WOCMES meetings held in Mainz (Germany) in 2002 Link and in Amman (Jordan) in 2006 Link, WOCMES Barcelona 2010 Link 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.

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April 8th - 10th 2010, GWZ Berlin, Schützenstraße 18, 10117 Berlin

Zeit für Medialisierung PdfLogo

Conference about "Medien und Transkulturelle Kommunikation in den Islam- und Regionalwissenschaften" organized by a. o. Dr. Bettina Gräf (FU Berlin)

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25th - 26th March 2010, Durham University, UK

Urban History Conference 2010: Transgressive Cities: Practices and Place PdfLogo

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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