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Palestine Isn’t Just Another Country
ZMO's vice director Sonja Hegasy
wrote an essay remembering Edward W. Saʿid, his
class of 1990 in Cultural Studies at Columbia University and the role of
music in his life. She draws a line to Kamel Daoud’s novel The Mersault
Investigation, the debate around Achille Mbembe
and the oily attacks during German Unity Day 2020, when unknown vandals
damaged Egyptian and further artifacts in the
New Museum in Berlin.
Her "German-Egyptian Memory of Edward Saʿid"
was published on 6 January in Berlin
Bazzar.
A shortened version in German can
be found in the online magazine Latitude by the Goethe Instite.
Picture: edited by Cagan Okuyan
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8 February 2021, 2
pm, virtual event
Vijitabu Vilivyopita
bahari kuu. Uchapishaji wa Kiswahili wa Kiislamu na mtandao wake katika karne ya ishirini
Baraza la Kiswahili la Berlin
Tukiongozwa na
Annachiara Raia, ataangazia historia ya uchapishaji wa vijitabu vya kiisilamu katika Kiswahili na historia
yake kama ifuatavyo.
Inajulikana kuwa historia ya utamaduni wa uchapishaji imeathiri maendeleo ya jamii na fasihi duniani. Suala ambalo nitashughulika nalo katika wasilisho hili ni kuhusu historia na namna vijitabu vya Kiswahili vya Kiislamu vilivyosafiri, na vilivyochapishwa
Afrika Mashariki. Kuanzia
karne ya ishirini, uchapishaji wa Kiislamu ulianza kuenea na kujenga mawasiliano kati ya wasomaji
na waandishi kutoka
Afrika Mashariki na Bahari
Kuu. Nitaonyesha uhusiano baina ya vijitabu hivi na nyumba zao za uchapishaji.
Kwa njia hii nitaeleza vipengele vya mtandao wa vitabu, wauzaji kutoka maduka ya mijini Mombasa na
Nairobi na nyumba za uchapishaji kutoka Bahari Kuu. Kama magazeti mengine ya Kiislamu yenye habari, lengo la vijitabu vya Kiswahili vya Kiislamu ni kuelimisha umma kuhusu nyanja mbalimbali, kama historia ya Uislamu, tafsiri za kidini na fasihi ya Kiswahili.
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15 February 2021, 5
pm, virtual event
Servants’ Pasts, 16th - 20th
Century, South Asia
Book presentation by Nitin Sinha
(ZMO), Nitin Varma (re:work, HU Berlin) and
Pankaj Jha (Lady Shri Ram College for Women)
We cordially invite you to the
discussion of two edited volumes on the long history of domestic servants
and service in South Asia. The volumes cover the period from the early
modern (going back to medieval and ancient times as well) to the
contemporary, charting a regionally diversified and linguistically varied
history of domestic service. The volumes are the result of the
ERC-Starting grant project ‘Domestic Servants in South Asia’, which ran
at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient and re:work
(Humboldt University), Berlin from 2015 to 2018. We are extremely
grateful to have two discussants holding diverse expertise in the fields
of early modern South Asian and Global labour histories: Abhishek Kaicker, associate professor, department of History,
UC, Berkeley; and Christian G. de Vito, researcher and coordinator of
Research Group, ‘Punishment, Labour, Dependency’ at Bonn Centre for
Dependency and Slavery Studies, Univserity of
Bonn, Germany.
Please register
at registration@zmo.de
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18 February
2021, 3 pm, virtual event
Debates on Representation and
Democracy in early-Independent Jordan
Lecture by Tariq Tell (American
University of Beirut)
This is the fourth lecture of
"The Historicity of Democracy Seminar", organized within the
framework of the HISDEMAB international and collaborative research
programme of the Leibniz-Association (ZMO-ZZF-IEG) in collaboration with
IFPO in Amman and Manouba University,
Tunis.
The online seminar is free and open to the public upon registration. For registration, please
send an email to HISDEMAB@gmail.com
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25 February
2021, 5 pm, virtual event
How Europeans got engaged in the
pandemic
Lecture by Swen
Hutter (WZB) as part of the ZMO-Colloquium Understanding Populism:
State, Academia, and Civil Society
The lecture focuses on the scope
and type of protest and civic engagement in the COVID-19 pandemic. The
starting point is the dilemma faced by civil society in these
extraordinary times. As during past crises and catastrophes, civil
society has a crucial role to play in coping with the situation. It
connects citizens, promotes solidarity, and assists those unable to cope
on their own. Also, it acts as a critical voice and calls attention to
unheard grievances and keeps political elites accountable. At the same
time, restrictions of freedom of movement and assembly have rendered
traditional forms of protest and civic engagement difficult and, at
moments, even impossible. Based on original survey data, the lecture
empirically assesses the tension between activation and de-activation in
Europe in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Please register
at registration@zmo.de
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Christophe,
Barbara; Kohl, Christoph; Liebau, Heike; Saupe,
Achim (Eds.)
The Politics of
Authenticity and Populist Discourses. Media and Education in Brazil, India and
Ukraine
Palgrave Macmillan 2021, 240 p.
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Nora Lafi
Urbanity as an
Ethic: Reflections on the Cities of the Arab World
In: Ege,
Moritz; Moser, Johannes (Eds.), Urban
Ethics Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities,
Routledge 2021 p. 80-95.
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“They opened up a part of the world to us”
ZMO's former vice director and
current chair of the Gesellschaft zur Förderung des ZMO e.V. (Friends of ZMO), Achim von Oppen, published an article on pre-colonial
knowledge production between Africa and Europe in Latitude, an online
Magazine by the Goethe- Institute. "Heinrich Barth's discoveries
were a slap in the face to contemporary European conceptions that
pre-colonial Africa was a continent without states, literatures or
history, writes von Oppen.
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