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Lecture Series | Single Events | Exhibitions | Conferences and Symposia
Lecture Series
ZMO-Colloquium
Programme winter term 2011/12
Summer Term 2012
Thursday, April 26th, 2012, 6 pm, ZMO: What about slaves' voices? Urban
migration and social emancipation
in twentieth century Gambia; Lecture by Alice Bellagamba (Fellow at the Institute for
Advanced Studies of Berlin)
Thursday, May 31th, 2012, 6pm, ZMO: The Kramats of Cape Town: Gravesites as Repositories of Transoceanic Histories and Heritage; Lecture by Prof. Sumit Mandal (HU, Berlin)
Winter Term 2011/2012
Not all about Islam: Current Political Conflicts in Africa,
the Middle East and Asia
Thursday, 29 September 2011: The Way to the New? Republics of Sudan;
Dr. Einas Ahmed (Institute of Political Studies in Bordeaux; Centre d'Etudes & de Documentation Economiques et Juridiques (CEDEJ), Khartoum, Sudan)
Thursday, 27 October, 2011: The Rise (and Fall?) of Al Shabaab: How Militant Islamism, the
War Against Terror and Famine in Somalia are Related; Markus V. Höhne (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle,
Germany)
Thursday, 24 November 2011: Iraq: Dealing with a Violent Past under Conditions of Continuning
Conflict - Conflicting Memories, Competing Narratives; Karin Mlodoch (ZMO, Berlin)
Thursday, 15 December 2011:
The Secular Dimensions of the Zionist Project in Palestine: A
Historical Review;
Prof. Ilan Pappe (Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies; Co-
Director for the Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, University of Exeter, UK)
Thursday, 26 January 2012:
Islam, Nation, and State in Central Asia: The Soviet Experience
and its Legacy Today; Prof. Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, USA)
Thursday, 23 February 2012: Kashmir: Beyond Borders, Ethnicity and Sovereignty;
Dr. Seema Kazi (Guest Scholar of the ZMO, Centre for Women's
Development Studies, New Delhi, India)
Thursday, 29 March 2012: The Origins of the Dispute on the Durand Line;
Prof. Elisa Giunchi (Faculty of Political Science, University of Milan, Italy)
Beyond Oil and Radical Islam: From Classifications
to Links of Economy and Religion in Central Asia
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011, 5 pm, ZMO:
Political Islam and Economy in Central Asia: Islamic Movements, their
Socio-Economic Background and Ideological Aspects ;
Lecture by Parviz Mullojanov
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011, 5 pm, HU: What Counts as Religion in Kyrgyz Social Life? ;
Lecture by Nathan Light
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011, 5 pm, ZMO:
The Boom, the Bust and the Mediating State: Housing Bail-outs and the
Discourse of Fairness in the Wake of the Financial Crisis in Kazakhstan ;
Lecture by Alima Bissenova
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011, 5 pm, HU: The Worst of Places, the Best of Places: Bazaar and Risk Economy in the
Lives of Kyrgyz Muslims ;
Lecture by Emil Nasritdinov
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012, 5 pm, ZMO: 'Tengiz Crude' and the Making of a Nation-state in Kazakhstan ;
Lecture by Saulesh Yessenova
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012, 5pm, ZMO:
Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong? Islamic Elites, Business and
the State in Tajikistan ;
Lecture by Tim Epkenhans
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012, 5 pm, ZMO:
Rethinking Islam and the Soviet Economy ; Lecture by Eren Tasar
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012, 5 pm, HU:
Muslim Selves, Experience, and the Problem of Categories in Uzbekistan;
Lecture by Johan Rasanayagam
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012, 5pm, ZMO:
Markets, Money and Credit in Colonial Central Asia ;
Lecture by Wolfgang Holzwarth
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012, 5 pm, ZMO:
Strategic Citizenship? Work, Home and the Pragmatics of 'Second Passports'
amongst Kyrgyz Migrant Workers in Moscow ;
Lecture by Madeleine Reeves
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012, 5 pm, HU:
Economy and Islamic Proselytism in Central Asia: A Comparison of the
Fethullah Gülen Movement and Jam'at al Tabligh;
Lecture by Bayram Balci
Urban Studies Seminar 2011/12 (every second monday at ZMO)
Annual Theme: Urban Sociability and Urban Movements
(Middle East, North Africa, Iran, Turkey)
November 28: Introduction: Urban Sociabilities and Urban Mobilizations in
Historical Perspective by Ulrike Freitag and Nora Lafi
Opening Lecture Urban Violence Workshop:
December 8: Hope, Violence, and the Urban Dimension of the Egyptian Revolution by Khaled Adham (The United Arab Emirates University Abu Dhabi)
December 12: 'Urban Meets Urban: Ottoman Relations with the Bedouins of the
Libyan Frontiers (1880-1900) by Mostafa Minawi (2011/12 EUME-Fellow at
ZMO Berlin)
January 9: The Debate on the Exemption of Istanbul from Military Draft as
Urban Movement in the Virtual Meeting Place of the Press by Elke Hartmann (Houshamadyan Project / FU Berlin)
January 23: Urban Sociability Among 18th and Early 19th Century Mobile Persians
Between Iran and India by Mana Kia (MPI for Human Development)
February 13: Changing the Game: The Rise and Fall of New Actors in the Local Politics of Late Mamluk Damascus by Torsten Wollina (FU Berlin, Graduate
School Muslim Cultures and Societies)
February 27: Sea Transport Workers Between Urban and Rural: Workers
Sociabilities and Mobilizations by Nurşen Gürboğa (2011/12 EUME-Fellow at
ZMO Berlin)
March 12: From Promenades to Public Gardens: Urban Modernity in Istanbul's
Middling Classes by Edhem Eldem (2011/12 Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
March 26: Syrians in Egypt: Urban Sociabilities and Cultural Colonization? by
Adam Mestyan (2011/12 EUME-Fellow at ZMO Berlin)
April 16: The Role and Rise of the Urban Crowd of Dar Al Khilafeh in Tehran at
the Time of the 1906 Constitutional Revolution by Fatemeh Masjedi (ZMO)
May 7: A Spiritual Landscape of Lahore: Sufi c Labors Post 1947 by Manan Ahmed (Institut für Islamwissenschaft, FU Berlin)
May 21: A Journey to the Other Iraq by Francesca Recchia (Tactical
Technology Collective)
June 4: The Role of Urbanity in City-based Social Movements by Margit Mayer
(FU Berlin) / followed by a concluding discussion
The ZMO-Baraza – Presentation and discussion sessions in Swahili
Since the winter term 2009/10 the ZMO-baraza has been jointly organized by Kai Kresse (ZMO, Berlin) and Lutz Diegner (Humboldt University, Berlin). Unless otherwise announced, it takes place at the ZMO every first Thursday of the month at 4pm.
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012, 4 pm, ZMO
Mitandao ya Waislamu baina ya Ziwa la Tanganyika na pwani, miaka 1920-1960
Baraza with Katharina Zöller (BIGSAS, Bayreuth)
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012, 4 pm, ZMO
SIJUI UNATAKA KITU GANI JUU YA MAISHA YANGU
Baraza with Sauda Ali Barwani (Mwalimu mstaafu, Chuo Kikuu cha Hamburg)
Thursday, April 19th, 2012, ZMO, 4pm
Baraza with Claudia Boehme (Univ. Leipzig)
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012, ZMO, 4pm
Baraza with Oswald Masebo (University of Zanzibar)
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012, HU zu Berlin, 4pm
Baraza with Aldin Mutembei (University of Dar es Salaam)
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012, HU, 4pm
Baraza with Lilian Temu-Osaki (University of Dar es Salaam)
Thursday, July 3rd, 2012, ZMO, 4pm
Baraza with Euphrase Kezilahabi (Univ. Botswana)
Single Events
Thursday, June 7th, 2012, 6 pm, ZMO
African Philosophy and Literature: An Interplay
Lecture by Prof. Euphrase Kezilahabi, University of Botswana
Thursday, May 10th, 2012, 7 pm, SFB 640, Hausvogteiplatz 5
– 7, 10117 Berlin, Raum 0109
Love, Fear and the Arab Spring
Lecture by Prof. Joseph Massad (Columbia
University, N.Y.)
Monday, May 7th, 2012, 1 pm, ZMO
Psychoanalysis, Islam, and the Other of Liberalism
Public Work Talk with Prof. Joseph Massad (Columbia
University, N.Y.)
Thursday, April 19th, 2012, 6 pm, ZMO
The Historical Imagination and
Imagining Madness: Henri Gaden and
the French Colonial Experience in
West Africa
Lecture by Prof. Roy Dilley, University of St Andrews, GB
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012, 7.30 pm, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Schumannstr. 8, Berlin-Mitte
Ein Jahr arabischer Frühling: Islamisten als Wahlsieger
Talk with Khansa Mkada ep Zghidi, Université La Manouba, Tunis; Ahmed Badawi, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin; Joachim Paul, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin;
Friday, January 27th, 2012, 5 pm, ZMO
Annual lecture of the "Gesellschaft zur Förderung des ZMO e. V."
Von Afrika nach Amerika und zurück. Westindische Siedler im Dienste der Basler Mission an der Goldküste 1840-1860
Lecture by Dr. Katja Füllberg-Stolberg (Universität Hannover)
Wednesday, January 11th,
5 pm, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Villa Jaffe, Wallotstr. 10
Istanbul as the City of Lower Classes: Sirket-i Hayriye Steamship Workers (1890 - 1940) 
Lecture by Dr. Nurşen Gürboğa (Marmara University, Istanbul), Moderation: Prof. Ulrike Freitag (ZMO)
Exhibitions
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Was Wir Sehen.
Bilder, Stimmen, Rauschen.
Zur Kritik anthropometrischen Sammelns.
Eine Ausstellung von Anette Hoffmann
mit Beiträgen von Regina Sarreiter und
Britta Lange/Philip Scheffner
15. Mai – 6. Juli 2012
Montags bis freitags 12 – 16 Uhr
Im Atrium des Pergamon-Palais,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Georgenstr. 47
10117 Berlin
In Zusammenarbeit mit dem ZMO |
Conferences and Symposia
October 17th - 20th, 2012, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
From Rebellion to Revolution: Dynamics of Political Change
Berlin-Roundtables on Transnationality organized by the Irmgard Coninx Stiftung; with i.a. Jeff Goodwin (New York University) and Sonja Hegasy (ZMO)
June 7th - 9th, 2012, Orient-Institut, Istanbul
Historical and Contemporary Representations of Europe: Turkey, Persia, the Arab World, and Russia, 1850s-1910s and the 1990s to Present
Workshop in Cooperation with SFB 640 and HU zu Berlin, with among others Leyla von Mende (ZMO)
May 10th - 11th, 2012, Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Micro-Level Analysis of Well-Being in Central Asia
Conference with Aksana Ismailbekova (ZMO) and Jeanne Féaux de la Croix (ZMO)
Friday, March 16th, 2012, Schloss Bellevue, Berlin
Wissen stiften im 21. Jahrhundert: Perspektiven schaffen – Zukunft gestalten
Symposia in context of the 50th anniversary of the VolkswagenStiftung, a. o. with Prof. Ulrike Freitag (ZMO)
Documentation of the talk
Friday, Februar 24th, 2012, ZMO
BORDER ZONES, NATIONALISM & CONFLICT: KASHMIR AND KURDISTAN IN
PERSPECTIVE
Workshop organized by Antia Mato Bouzas (ZMO) and Andrea Fischer-Tahir (ZMO)
February 23rd - 24th, 2012, Roja Muthiah Research Library (RMRL), Chennai, Indien
Science transfer as cultural dialogue
International Workshop in cooperation of Franckesche Stiftungen Halle, ZMO und RMRL, as part of Germany and India 2011-2012 ;
with i.a.: Dr. Heike Liebau (ZMO)
February 16th- 18th, 2012, Deutsches Historisches Institut London
Ruptures and Linkages: Biography and History in the South
International Conference organized by DHI London, ZMO Berlin and Institut für Afrikastudien Universität Bayreuth;
i.a. with: Chanfi Ahmed, Kai Kresse, Dyala Hamzah, Sophie Roche, Benjamin Zachariah, Heike Liebau
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