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Thursday, 8 June 2017
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Thursday, 29 June 2017,
6 pm, FU Berlin, Room 2.2059, Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195
Berlin
CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON
THE HAJJ
Final Session of the
Colloquium
At the Centre of the World? A Spatial Approach to the Hajj
Pilgrimage
In the final session of the Colloquium Prof Dr
Nile Green (University of California) will focus in his talk on the
structural transformations of the Hajj as a consequence of its
integration into the global networks of industrial communications
in the Age of Steam, while Prof Dr Eileen Kane
(Connecticut College) will explore in her lecture the
transformative effects of European Imperialism on the Hajj.
The session is organized by the Berlin
Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies and takes place
at Freie Universität Berlin. Prof Dr Gudrun Krämer
(BGSMCS) will moderate the session. Please find more information in
the invitation flyer.
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Monday, 12 June
2017, 5 pm, ZMO
Between Terkos and Pera:
Plural Ruralities and the Idea of Urbanity in late-Ottman
Istanbul
Lecture by Koca Mehmet
Kentel (University of Washington) as part of the
Urban Studies Seminar 2016-2017
Pera, the ‘modern’ and
‘European’ district of Istanbul – then the
Ottoman capital – has often been praised in the academic and
popular literature as the quintessential example of late 19th and
early 20th century Mediterranean cosmopolitanism. Its theater
halls, gardens, cafés, restaurants, and department stores
were hailed as ultimate cosmopolitan spaces, filled with authors,
diplomats, artists, and merchants from all around the world.
However, as a reflection of general problems with the literature on
cosmopolitanism, the conventional historiography has not
problematized the materiality through which the
‘cosmopolitan’ Pera emerged, or the environmental
encounters that took place in the process. The modernization of its
urban space was studied in isolation, without connecting it to the
larger geography of Istanbul...
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Thursday, 22 June 2017,
6 pm, ZMO
Libanons konfessionalistisches System und ausländische
Interventionen
Lecture by Prof Dr Abdel
Raouf Sinno (Université St. Joseph Beirut). The lecture
will be held in German
Das politische System des Libanon basiert heute
auf religiöser und konfessioneller Zugehörigkeit. Die
osmanische Vergangenheit des Landes, europäische
Interventionen, aber auch das von der französischen
Mandatsmacht implementierte Herrschaftssystem haben
maß-geblich zu dieser Situation beigetragen. Auch nach der
Unabhängigkeit wurde das System nie grundlegend revidiert und
hat u.a. dazu beigetragen, dass sich keine
konfessionsübergreifende nationale Identität ausgebildet
hat. Mit dem Abkommen von Ta’if wurde 1989 der 1975
ausgebrochene Bürgerkrieg beendet, wenn auch unter syrischer
Besatzung. Schon zuvor hatten sich Syrien und Israel informell auf
eine Teilung des Landes in Einflusszonen verständigt...
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Wednesday, 28 June 2017,
4 pm, ZMO
Serving India: A Political
Biography of Subimal Dutt (1903-1992)
Book launch with author
Amit Das Gupta (Universität der Bundeswehr
München)
This first academic biography of an Indian civil
servant in the 20th century covers the nearly nine decades of the
life of Subimal Dutt, best known as India’s longest serving
Foreign Secretary. It tells the story how a Bengali village boy had
one of the most distinguished careers of his generation without
ever for-getting his roots. Struggling all his life between
professional ambition and deep spirituality, Dutt never transformed
into one of those ‘brown Englishmen’ so typical of
South Asia’s civil servants, but remained a strictly
impartial, straightforward and incorruptible officer of – as
he formulated it himself - the ‘vernacular type’...
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Nitin
Sinha
Measuring
“Disaster”: The “Everydayness” of Fluvial
Landscapes and the Colonial State in Gangetic Diaras,
1790s–1880s
In Historical Disaster Experiences: Towards a
Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters Across Asia and
Europe, ed. by Gerrit Jasper Schenk, Springer, 2017,
pp. 369-378.
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Joseph-Désiré
Som-I
Participer dans un «bocal»: Acteurs, enjeux et cadrage
du budget participatif dans la Tunisie de l’après-Ben
Ali
In GIS Démocratie et Participation, Actes
du Colloque “Les expérimentations démocratiques
aujourd'hui. Convergences, fragmentations, portées
politiques”, April 2017.
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ZMO wishes its Muslim subscribers a blessed and happy Ramadan
1438/2017!
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