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Lecture series

Lecture series in the academic year 2022/23

The Historicity of Democracy Seminar

This seminar is organized within the framework of the HISDEMAB international and collaborative research programme of the Leibniz-Association (ZMO-ZZF-IEG) in collaboration with IFPO and Manouba University.

Events for the lecture series

Lecture series

Monday, 12 December 2022
4:00 pm

Online

“Public Debates and Decision-Making Processes in the Ottoman Empire: State Practices of Violence in the 17th and 18th c.”

HISDEMAB seminar with Markus Koller
Lecture series

Monday, 06 February 2023
4:00 pm

Online

From Empire to Dromocracy. Building the Infrastructure State in Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire, 1839-1908

HISDEMAB seminar with Malte Fuhrmann
Lecture series

Monday, 20 February 2023
4:00 pm

Online

The Politics of the Poor in Egypt – Analytical Reflections and Empirical Findings

HISDEMAB seminar with Cilja Harders
Lecture, Lecture series

Monday, 27 February 2023
4:00 pm

Online

Decision-Making Processes in Samsun and Trabzon: Land Dispute and Claiming Justice (1847-1857)

HISDEMAB seminar with Canay Șahin
Lecture series

Monday, 06 March 2023
4:00 pm

Online

Collective Decision-Making and Foreign Interference in the Latin Community of Ottoman Istanbul

HISDEMAB seminar with Gabriel Doyle
Lecture series

Monday, 08 May 2023
4:00 pm

Online

On Taboos and Traumatic Experiences in Democratic Societies: Palestinians in Germany and Switzerland

HISDEMAB seminar with Sarah El-Bulbeisi
Lecture series

Monday, 15 May 2023
4:00 pm

Online

Reflections on the experiences of deliberative councils in al-Andalus during the era of the Mulûk al-Taïfa

HISDEMAB seminar with Yousef Bani Yassin
Lecture series

Monday, 05 June 2023
4:00 pm

Online

Conflict and Consensus: Decision-Making and Leadership Selection in Cairo's Guilds, Late Eighteenth / Early Nineteenth Centuries

HISDEMAB seminar with Pascale Ghazaleh
Lecture series

Monday, 12 June 2023
4:00 pm

Online

Intermediary Bodies and the Political Construction of Democracy in Tunisia

HISDEMAB seminar with Mounir Saidani
Lecture series

Monday, 26 June 2023
4:00 pm

Online

Deliberation and Autocratic Mentality in State Society: A Reading in İzzet Pacha al-Abed’s Diaries

HISDEMAB seminar with Mehmet Osmanli
Lecture series, Lecture

Monday, 10 July 2023
4:00 pm

Online

Contesting the Redevelopment of Istanbul’s Pierre Loti Hill (1980s – 2010s): Cultural Heritage, Religious Places and the Public Interest

HISDEMAB seminar with Annegret Roelcke
Lecture, Lecture series

Monday, 16 October 2023
4:00 pm

Online

The Art of Public Speaking (Fan al-Khitaba al-Amma): The Tunisian Public Sphere after 2011

HISDEMAB seminar with Charis Boutieri
Lecture series, Lecture

Monday, 13 November 2023
4:00 pm

Online

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

HISDEMAB seminar with Claudia Gatzka​​​​​​​