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Thursday, 31 May 2018, 5 pm, ZMO
The Ecumenical Frame: Coexistence and Sectarianism in the Modern Middle East (till the 1950s)
Lecture by Ussama Makdisi (Rice University, Houston) as part of the ZMO Summer Term Colloquium
The talk provides a historical perspective on the contemporary sectarian tragedy that is unfolding in that part of the world. But it also delves into a complex, and now obscured, modern culture of coexistence in a region rich in religious diversity, but which today encompasses several war-torn countries including Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. In particular, the lecture disputes two narratives that have traditionally dominated the story of diversity in the Middle East. The first stresses a continuous history of either latent or actual sectarian strife between allegedly antagonistic religious communities; the second idealises coexistence and communal harmony between Muslims and non-Muslims...
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3-6 May 2018, Arsenal, Potsdamer Straße 2, 10785 Berlin
The Past in the Present: Neue Filme aus Algerien
Algerian Film Days at Arsenal - Institut für Film- und Videokunst
Over the last few years, a young generation of filmmakers has formed in Algeria whose works deal with the current state of their country while equally referencing its past. Numerous social taboos have meant that artistic engagement with Algeria’s history – such as the historical and cultural legacy of the colonial era, the Algerian War (1954-62), and the “Dark Decade” (1991-2001) – is hardly a matter of course. Perhaps the most deafening silence in Algeria is reserved for the bloody period of terror in the 90s, when the war between Islamist groups and the military led to 200,000 deaths. With this in mind, Arsenal is presenting seven films from 2013-2017 which sound out the reverberations of the past in the present....
Click here for the full description or the more info button for the flyer.
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Friday, 18 May 2018, 4 pm, Moviemento Kino, Kottbusser Damm 22, 10967 Berlin
Benim Varoş Hikâyem (My Suburban Stories)
Film Screening and Q&A with director Yunus Ozan Korkut, moderated by Sezai Ozan Zeybek (Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin)
Benim Varoş Hikâyem (My Suburban Stories) is an exclusive film documenting the underground life in the neighborhood of Ceyhan, Adana, in southern Turkey. Director Yunus Ozan Korkut, once a local, captures the streets otherwise inaccessible to ordinary citizens, in their immedi- ate intimacy. His neighbors, friends and relatives present the audience an exquisite pallet of extraordinary characters while they tell the breath taking and heart breaking stories of their neighborhood...
Admission to the event is free.
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Monday, 28 May 2018, 6 pm, ZMO
Finding Time to Play: Syrian Underage Workers at a Beirut Scrapyard
Lecture by Elizabeth Saleh (American University of Beirut) as part of the Urban Studies Seminar
Scrap iron and copper are two of Lebanon’s leading exports. The scrap business relies heavily upon informal migrant waste pickers based at small scrapyards who then sell their findings on to larger scrapyards. One of the smaller scrapyards is run by a community of forced migrants from the Eastern Euphrates. There is a muallim [master] and his team of underage waste pickers. At times, these young waste pickers turn their different types of work into games...
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PhD position at ZMO: Religion, Morality and Boko in West Africa
Closing Date: 18 May 2018
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) announces the opening of a research position for a doctoral candidate in a project on "Religion, Morality and Boko in West Africa: Students Training for a Good Life (Remoboko)". The contract would start on 1 June 2018, or soon thereafter, and run until 31 May 2022. The doctoral candidate will be based at ZMO in Berlin. Remuneration will be according to Tarifvertrag des öffentlichen Dienstes E13 (65%)...
More information on the project can be found here.
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PhD position at the University of Ibadan (Nigeria) or the Abdou Moumouni University (Niger): Religion, Morality and Boko in West Africa
Closing Date: 18 May 2018
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) announces the opening of a research position for a doctoral candidate in a project on "Religion, Morality and Boko in West Africa: Students Training for a Good Life (Remoboko)". The contract would start on 1 June 2018, or soon thereafter, and run until 31 May 2022. The doctoral candidate will be based at a West African university, either the University of Ibadan (Nigeria) or the Abdou Moumouni University (Niger). The stipend will be 600 euros/month including health insurance. It is renewed after a review of the first year...
More information on the project can be found here.
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PhD position at ZMO: Learning Intelligence: The Exchange of Secret Service Knowledge between Germany and the Arab Middle East 1960-2010
Closing Date: 31 May 2018
ZMO is seeking to hire one PhD student to be employed for 36 months. The envisaged starting date is 1st September 2018. The position is within the research project “Learning Intelligence: The Exchange of Secret Service Knowledge between Germany and the Arab Middle East 1960 - 2010” (head: Dr. Soph ia Hoffmann). The project explores the international relations between German and Arab intelligence agencies to investigate whether such contact led to similarities (or differences) between them...
More information on the project can be found here.
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Leibniz in Africa
New interactive platform on Africa related research in the Leibniz Association
The “Leibniz in Africa” initiative of the Leibniz Association is a gateway for researchers at Leibniz Institutes and at African research institutions who wish to deepen existing collaborations or initiate new ones. Our aims are
- to ease information exchange, the pooling of expertise and the sharing of resources between researchers
- to support the formation of joint research groups and activities
- to guide and support our junior researchers through the maze of potential funding sources and research opportunities
- to inform funders, policy makers and the public about “Leibniz in Africa“ activities
For the testimonial “Leaving the ivory tower“ by ZMO fellow Abdoulaye Sounaye click here.
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André Chappatte
Exploring Youth, Media Practices, and Religious Allegiances in Contemporary Mali through the Controversy over the Zikiri
In Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa, ed. by Felicitas Becker, Joel Cabrita, and Marie Rodet , pp. 229-256. |
Nora Lafi
Book Review: Récits de villes: d’Aden à Beyrouth
In Planning Perspectives, 33 (2), 2018, pp. 303-304. | |
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