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Lecture Series | Single Events | Exhibitions | Conferences and Symposia
Lecture Series
ZMO-Colloquium: Winter Term 2013/2014
Fuelling Societies:
Energy Resources and Politics 'From Below'
Thursday, 26 September 2013, - Please note change of time - 5 pm: The Devil's Money:
A Multi-level Approach to the Disordering in Oil-producing Southern Chad; Andrea Behrends (Martin Luther Universität, Halle-Wittenberg)
Thursday, 31 October 2013, 6 pm:
Resource Sovereignties: Converting Energy into
Political Power;
Dr John-Andrew McNeish (Norwegian University of Life
Sciences, Aas)
Thursday, 28 November 2013, 6 pm:
Solar Power for the Poor: New Models of Business and
User Networks in India;
Dr Jamie Cross (University of Edinburgh)
Thursday, 12 December 2013, 6 pm: Oil, Water, and the Writing of History in Southern Arabia;
Prof. Mandana E. Limbert (Queens College, New York)
Thursday, 30 January 2014, 6 pm: Crude Power: Rethinking Oil and Politics; Prof. Kaveh Ehsani (DePaul University, Chicago)
ZMO-Colloquium: Summer Term 2013
Thursday, February 28th, 2013, 6 pm: Migration, Translocality, Globalization -
The Distinctive Case of the Baloch; Prof Brian Spooner (University of Pennsylvania)
Thursday, March 21st, 2013, 6 pm: Cosmopolis and the Vernacular
in Southeast Asian Islam; Prof Anthony Reid (Australian National University, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
Thursday, April 25th, 2013, 6 pm: How to Study a Global Market at its Locales: The Empirical Case of the World Price; Prof Koray Çalişkan (Bogazici Universität Istanbul)
Thursday, May 30th, 2013, 6 pm: Azazeel and Politics of Historical Fiction in Egypt; Saba Mahmood(University of California Berkeley)
Thursday, June 20th, 2013, 6 pm: Poetry in Motion: 100 Years of Zanzibar’s Nadi Ikhwan Safaa, Kelly Askew (University of Michigan)
Thursday, September 27, 2012: Photograph Looking: The Work of Art between Documentary and Performative Registers; Dr Saadi Nikro (ZMO, Berlin)
Audiodokumentation 
Thursday, October 25, 2012: Hey Little Aborigines, Where Is Your Museum? On the Meaning of Contemporary in Contemporary Art; Dr Vesna Madzoski (Amsterdam)
Audiodokumentation
Thursday, November 8, 2012: (Re)searching Archives as Artistic Practice; Dr Teresa Castro (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris) and Catarina Simão (Lisbon)
In collaboration with Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, in the framework of "Living Archive – Archive Work as a Contemporary Artistic and Curatorial Practice"
Thursday, December 13, 2012: The Experience of Knowledge. Problems and Possibilities in Artistic Research; Dr Helmut Draxler (Berlin)
Thursday, Januar 31, 2013: Artistic Research and Museums' Collections. Lessons from the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt; Dr Clémentine Deliss (Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt/Main) and Otobong Nkanga (Amsterdam)
In collaboration with Prof Dr Kerstin Pinther and Prof Dr Tobias Wendl (Art Historical Departement, Freie Universität Berlin, The Arts of Africa)
(Every Second Monday, 5 pm at ZMO)
Annual Theme:
The City and its Margins
November 18th, Einleitung: The City and its Margins: historiography and research perspectives von Ulrike Freitag und Nora Lafi (beide ZMO Berlin)
December 9th, Naomi Davidson (University of Ottawa / EUME-Fellow 2013-2014 at ZMO Berlin): Urban Coexistence and its Margins: Muslim-Jewish Relationships in the French Mediterranean
January 13th, Michelle Campos (University of Florida): Operation Muharram: Communal Boundaries and Urban Unmixing in Ottoman and Mandatory Jerusalem
January 27th, Ulrike Freitag (ZMO Berlin): A wall marking the border: urban Jeddah and its margins und Nora Lafi (ZMO Berlin): The marginalization of the centre: The Tunis medina between patrimonialization and abandon
February 10th, Mohamed Elshahed (NYU / EUME-Fellow 2013-2014 at ZMO Berlin): From Cairo to the urban margins of Egypt: centralization, local administration and developmentalism 1945-1965
April 28th: Robert Gleave (Institut of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter): Violence on the Margins: Locating punishment in late-medieval fiqh
May 12th, Wendy Pullan (Center for Architecture and Urban Studies, University of Cambridge): The migration of frontiers in contested cities
May 26th, Sanaa Alimia (ZMO Berlin): At the Margins of Urban Pakistan: The question of Afghan refugees
June 16th, André Chappatte (ZMO Berlin): Exploring the city's margins: night life in two small towns of Muslim West Africa
June 30th, Wai Weng Hew (ZMO Berlin): From Margin to Centre: Muslim Gated Communities in Contemporary Sub-urban Indonesia
Juli 14th, Ali Sipahi (University of Michigan): When the Margin Becomes the Centre: Suburbanization in the Ottoman East
Urban Studies Seminar 2012/13
(Every Second Monday, 5 pm at ZMO)
Annual Theme: Cities as Laboratories of Change
October 15th, Mohamed Elfateh (BTU Cottbus): Architectural Development and
Householder's Structure in the 19th
Century in Port Suakin (Sudan)
October 29th, Hisham Mortada (University of King Abdul Aziz, Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia): Traditional Architecture in Saudi Arabia: Diversity within Unity
Special session to be held at 8 pm c.t. at TU Berlin, Architekturgebäude,
Straße des 17. Juni 152 (Ernst-Reuter-Platz/Marchstraße), Room A 053
November 12th, Yigit Akin (Fellow of Europe in the Middle East – The Middle
East in Europe 2011/12): We Don't Care for Victories! Give Us Bread!': Gender,
Society, and Culture - Wartime as Laboratory of Change in Ottoman Cities
November 26th, Zouhair Ghazzal (Loyola University Chicago, USA): Urban Forms
of Life and Criminality in Contemporary Aleppo and Idlib
December 10th, Joseph Rustom (Brandenburgische Technische Universität
Cottbus): Waqf and the Urban Space in a Time of Change: Beirut in the 19th c.
January 14th, Joseph Ben Prestel (Max Planck Institut für Bildungs-forschung,
Berlin): Feelings in Times of Change: Emotional Practices and Urban Transformation
in Cairo, 1860-1880
January 28th, Suraiya Faroqhi (Professor Emerita of Ludwig-Maximilians-
Universität München and Istanbul Bilgi University): Reforms in the Guild System
as Laboratory of Urban Change
February 11th, Peter Christensen (Ph.D Candidate in Architecture, Fulbright
Fellow 2011-12, Harvard University): German 'Expertise' and Urban Interventions
in the Construction of the Ottoman Rail Network: A Visual Analysis, 1868-1919
April 29th, Johara Berriane (Freie Universität, Berlin Graduate School Muslim
Cultures and Societies): South-South Migrations: Moroccan Cities as Laboratories
of Change
May 13th, Yazid Anani (Birzeit University, Fellow of Europe in the Middle East
– The Middle East in Europe 2012/13): Urban Change and the Evolution of the
Palestinian National Identity
May 27th, Hanan Toukan (SOAS London, Fellow of Europe in the Middle East
– The Middle East in Europe 2012/13): Art, Publics and Counter-Publics: On Urbanity and Social Change in Post-Taif Beirut
June 10th, Steffen Wippel (Zentrum Moderner Orient): Dubai as a Model? Urban Change and
Economic Development of the Omani
City of Salalah
June 24th, Conclusion: Cities as Laboratories of Change (Ulrike Freitag and
Nora Lafi)
Single Events
Tuesday, October 1st, 5 pm, ZMO
Secular Risk Governmentality Against the “Risk of Islamism”:
Looking Back to the Turkish Military’s Battle With Political Islam 
Lecture by Hulya Arik (York University, Canada)
Thursday, June 4th, 2013, 7 pm, Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance
Wilhelmstr. 67 10117 Berlin
Die Heilige Schrift und die Verfassung - Mensch, Religion und Staat in Islam und Christentum
Public Debate with among others Prof. Udo Steinbach (HU Viadrina) and Bettina Gräf (ZMO)
Thursday, July 4th, 2013, 6 pm, ZMO
The Localization of the Transnational
Tablighi Jama'at Network in Kyrgyzstan:
Reconsidering Traditional and Islamic
Practices
Lecture by Prof. Mukaram Toktogulova (American University of Central Asia in Bishkek,
Kyrgyztan) organized in cooperation with the Competence Network Crossroads Asia
Thursday, June 18th, 2013, 6 pm, ZfL,
Schützenstr. 18,
10117 Berlin,
Room 308
Pluralistic Challenges in Politics,
Culture and Religion: What Next After
Elections in Malaysia and Pakistan?
Discussion with Dr. Farish Noor (RSIS, Nanyang Technological University Singapore) and PD Dr. Dietrich Reetz (ZMO)
Thursday, June 13th, 2013, 6.30 pm, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V., Rauchstraße 17-18, Berlin
In Search of Saudi Arabia - A Rock in a Stormy Sea? Saudi Arabia and the Arab Spring
Discussion organized by (Post-) PhD-Fellows from BGSMCS and ZMO
Wednesday, June 12th, 2013, 5 pm, Villa Jaffé, Wallotstr. 10, Berlin
The Faqih in Modern Times: The Fatwa, Politics and the State 
Lecture by Muetaz Alkhatib (Damaskus / EUME Fellow 2012-13),
Moderation: Bettina Gräf (Zentrum Moderner Orient)
Saturday, June 1st, 2013, 4 pm, Gerichtshöfe, Gerichtsstrasse 12-13, Berlin Wedding
Missing: An Exhibition About Absence
Talk with Dr. Norman Saadi Nikro (ZMO) on the exhibition curated by Jakob Roepke
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013, 6 pm, ZfL, Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin, Room 308
Difficult Heritage and Forensic Architecture in Moroccan Prisons and Torture Centers: A Spatial Shift
Lecture by Susan Slyomovics, University of California, Los Angeles
Thrusday, May 16th 2013, 7 pm, Einsteinforum, Potsdam
Re-Collections. Archival Activism in the Middle East
Lecture by Dr. On Barak (Tel Aviv University), moderation: Dr. Sonja Hegasy(ZMO)
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013, 5 pm, ZMO
Islam and Secular Sensibilities in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Lecture by John Schoeberlein in cooperation
with the Zentralasien-Seminar of the
Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften
der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Competence
Network Crossroads Asia
Monday, April 29th, 2013, 6 pm, HU zu Berlin,
Institut für Asien-
und Afrika-wissenschaften,
Raum 507,
Invalidenstrasse 118,
10115 Berlin - Mitte
The Changing Landscape of Central Asian Studies
Lecture by John Schoeberlein in cooperation
with the Zentralasien-Seminar of the
Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften
der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Competence
Network Crossroads Asia
Thursday, March 21st, 2013, 2.30 pm, ZMO
Bonds of Trade: Slavery and Commerce in the 19th-Century Circum-Sahara
Work Talk with Bruce S. Hall, John Hopkins University, Duke University
Friday, March 15th, 2013, ICI Kulturlabor Berlin, Christinenstraße 18/19, Berlin
What Future Now? The Palestinian Refugees and the Arab Uprisings 
Public Debate with Sonja Hegasy (ZMO) in the Framework of the Workshop: Memories of Palestine: The 1948 Nakba
Friday, February 22nd, 2013, 6 pm, ZMO
Tschiltan
Concert and pictural Impressions organized by Freunde des ZMO e. V. in cooperation with the Stiftung West-Östliche Begegnungen
Sunday, January 13th 2013, HU Berlin
Roundtable discussion: Borders and Knowledge Production: a comparative perspective
Conference: Relocating Borders: a comparative approach, 11-13 January 2013, organized by Paolo Gaibazzi (ZMO)
Exhibitions / Performances / Films
Conferences and Symposia
November 4th, 2013, ZMO, Berlin
Prayer, Architecture, History
Workshop organised by Birgit Meyer (Utrecht University/ZMO) and Charles Hirschkind (UC Berkeley)
28th - 30th October 2013, Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover
The World During the First World War
Symposium of VolkswagenStiftung with among others Katrin Bromber (ZMO) and Heike Liebau (ZMO)
25th - 26th Octobre 2013, ZMO, Berlin
Dispossession and Collective Action: Neoliberal (Re-)Structurings of the Rural in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey
Workshop organised in cooperation with the Center for Area Studies (CAS) by Yasmine Berriane (ZMO), Erdem Evren (ZMO) and Sarah Sippel (CAS).
October 13th, 2013, New Orleans, USA
Panel: Personal and Public Memory in Lebanon and Morocco
organized by ZMO and UMAM with Saadi Nikro (ZMO), Sonja Hegasy (ZMO), and Laura Menin (ZMO);
in the framework of the annual MESA Meeting 2013
23rd - 27th September 2013
The ZMO at the 32. Orientalistentag (DOT) / 20. Internationaler Kongress der DAVO in Münster, Germany
Comparative Studies on Trade Routes, Economic Networks and Regional Integration in the Middle East: Recent Developments and Multiple Forms
Panel organized by Steffen Wippel (ZMO) and Leïla Vignal (Université Rennes-2)
Raiding and Trading: Analysing Transnational Flows in Balochistan
Lecture by Just Boedecker (ZMO) part of the Panel "Comparative Studies on Trade Routes, Economic Networks and Regional Integration in the Middle East: Recent Developments and Multiple Forms”
Encounter of ʿUlamāʾ from South Asia, West Africa and Egypt in the Dār al-Ḥadīth of Medina at the beginning of the Ibn Saʿūd’s Regime
Lecture by Chanfi Ahmed (ZMO)
Zeit und Zeitlichkeit in Abdallah Larouis historischer Epistemologie
Lecture by Nils Riecken (ZMO) part of the Panel "Geschichtsschreibung zwischen Wissenschaft und Ideologie"
19th - 21st September 2013, Lund, Schweden
German Research in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Panel organized by Steffen Wippel (ZMO) in Context of 9.
Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies
12th – 14th June 2013, ZMO, Berlin
IN SEARCH OF THE KINGDOM
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EMERGING SCHOLARSHIP ON SAUDI ARABIA:
FROM THE FIRST SAUDI STATE TO THE PRESENT
International Workshop Co-Organized by
the Doctoral Students at
Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) and Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies
(BGSMCS)
Monday, June 3rd, 2013, ZMO
Thematic Workshop: Memory Studies
organized by Dr. Saadi Nikro (ZMO), Dr. Sonja Hegasy (ZMO) and Dr. Laura Menin (ZMO)
Thursday, March 14th, 2013, ICI Kulturlabor Berlin, Christinenstraße 18/19, Berlin
Memories of Palestine: The 1948 Nakba
Workshop organized by the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) in collaboration with the ZMO
March 6th to 8th, 2013, ZMO
Still in search of Europe?
The possible in arts, ideologies and travel from Africa and the Middle East
International Workshop organized in the framework of the junior research group "In Search of Europe: Considering the Possible in Africa and the Middle East"
Please register in advance
January 11th - 12th, 2013, ZMO
Habitats and Habitus:
Politics and Aesthetics of
Religious World-Making
Workshop convened by Kai Kresse (ZMO) and Birgit Meyer (Utrecht University / ZMO)
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