Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient

 

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) is the only research institution in Germany that deals with the Middle East, Africa, Eurasia, South and Southeast Asia in an interdisciplinary and historically comparative perspective. The focus of research is the interaction of predominantly Muslim societies and their relationships with non-Muslim neighbouring regions.

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Out now: Thinking through Translocal Entanglements - ZMO Triannual Report 2020-22

Articles, essays and interviews on our research topics and regions, our everyday work and our dialogue with society.

Democracy as Local Practice. Citizens, Politics and Elections in West Germany and Italy (1945-1976)

The Historicity of Democracy Seminar on 27 March, 4 pm, with a lecture by Claudia Gatzka.

Call for Papers: Relicts of the Ancien Régime – Socialist & Imperial Legacies and the City

International Workshop at ZMO from 14-15 September 2023. Deadline: 31 March 2023.

Statement of Solidarity for the people in Ukraine

ZMO expresses its solidarity with the people in Ukraine of all nationalities and origins, who have been under attack by the armed forces of Russia.

Reason is a light which is certainly needed to illuminate the darkness, but it can also be useful in full daylight.

Mohammed Abed al-Jabri

Research

Age and Generation

The global increase in life expectancy brings about the reshaping of relations be- tween the generations. [...]

Environment and Justice

Human-environment re- lations in Asia, Africa and the Middle East are chang- ing at an ever-increasing [...]

Representations of the Past

In times of social crises and upheaval, as well as a lack of utopias and visions for the future, pasts [...]

Contested Religion and Intellectual Culture

How does religiosity interrelate with morality and intellectual culture? The research unit Contested [...]

Cross-Cutting, Exploratory and Supplementary Research

Research in this unit addresses questions of the overall programme and supplements it conceptually and [...]
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