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Book presentation: Cairo
collages. Everyday life practices after the event
On 1 February 2021, 5 pm, Mona Abaza
(American University in Cairo) will present her latest book "Cairo
Collages" at ZMO (virtual event via Zoom).
In Cairo collages, the large-scale
political, economic, and social changes in Egypt brought on by the 2011
revolution are set against the declining fortunes of a single apartment
building in a specific Cairo neighbourhood. The violence in Tahrir Square
and Mohamed Mahmud Street; the post-January euphoric moment; the
increasing militarisation of urban life; the flourishing of dystopian
novels set in Cairo; the neo-liberal imaginaries of Dubai and Singapore
as global models; gentrification and evictions in poor neighbourhoods;
the forthcoming new administrative capital for Egypt – all are narrated
in parallel to the ‘little’ story of the adventures and misfortunes of
everyday interactions in a middle-class building in the neighbourhood of Doqi.
The book presentation is organised
in cooperation with the collective Nawara which is organizing a series of
events around the 10th anniversary of the Egyptian revolution.
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11 January 2021, 2
pm, virtual event
Urban Neighbourhood Formations.
Boundaries, Narrations and Intimacies
Book presentation by Hilal Alkan
(ZMO) and Nazan Maksudyan (FU Berlin/Centre Marc Bloch)
This edited volume revolves
around three major aspects of making and unmaking of neighbourhoods:
spatial and temporal boundaries of neighbourhoods, neighbourhoods as
imagined and narrated entities, and neighbourhood as social relations.
With extensive case studies from Johannesburg to Istanbul and from
Jerusalem to Delhi, this volume shows how spatial amenities, immaterial
processes of narrating and dreaming, and the lasting effect of intimacies
and violence in a neighbourhood are intertwined and negotiated over time
in the construction of moral orders, urban practices, and political
identities at large. It offers insights into neighbourhood formations in
an age of constant mobility and helps us understand the grassroots-level
dynamics of xenophobia and hostility, as much as welcoming and openness. Please register
at registration@zmo.de
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11 January 2021, 2
pm, virtual event
Kumkumbuka
na Kumwenzi Marehemu Euphrase Kezilahabi
(1944-2020)
Baraza la Kiswahili la Berlin
Marehemu Euphrase Kezilahabi alikuwa mwandishi na msomi asiyekuwa na kifani. Mchango wake katika nyanja za ushairi, riwaya, hadithi fupi, tamthilia utakumbukwa daima. Alikuwa mwanafalsafa na mwanafasihi
aliyewavutia na kuchochea
fikra na hisia za wasomi wenzake na wasomaji wake kwa ujumla. Katika baraza hili, tungependa kumkumbuka na kumwenzi Marehemu Euphrase Kezilahabi kwa pamoja tukiwapa wanatafiti wa rika la ‛vijana’ pamoja na wanafunzi nafasi ya kutoa michango yao.
Wazungumzaji na wenyekiti
watakuwa ni Alena Rettová, Neema Benson Sway,
Lena Dasch, Josefine Rindt, Roberto Gaudioso, Erasto John Duwe,
na mwenyeji mmojawapo
Luti Diegner.
Please find a Zoom-Link under
"More info".
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14 January
2021, 5 pm, virtual event
Young Swahili-speakers in Oman and
the ‘Zanzibar Diaspora’
Lecture by Franziska Fay
What does it mean to be a ‘young’
(below the age of 35) Swahili-speaker in Oman? How do young people make
sense of their Omani identities while also speaking Swahili? What are the
implications of also speaking Swahili in a majority Arabic-speaking
state? Where do these young people position themselves on the spectrum of
the so-called Zanzibar Diaspora? In this presentation, Fay reflects on
some findings that emerged from preliminary fieldwork with young people between
Zanzibar and Oman in 2018 and 2019.
Franziska Fay is a visiting research fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner
Orient (ZMO) with the Oman Research Grant and a postdoctoral researcher
at the Research Centre Normative Orders at the University of Frankfurt/Main.
Please register
at registration@zmo.de
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18 January
2021, 5 pm, virtual event
Port Cities of the Eastern
Mediterranean. Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire
Book presentation by Malte
Fuhrmann (ZMO)
Eastern Mediterranean port cities,
such as Constantinople, Smyrna, and Salonica, have long been sites of
fascination. Known for their vibrant and diverse populations, the
dynamism of their economic and cultural exchanges, and their form of
relatively peaceful co-existence in a turbulent age, many would label
them as models of cosmopolitanism. In this study, Malte Fuhrmann examines
changes in the histories of space, consumption, and identities in the
nineteenth and early twentieth century while the Mediterranean became a
zone of influence for European powers.
Please register
at registration@zmo.de
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28 January
2021, 3 pm, virtual event
Constitutionalism in the Middle
East and the question of democracy
Lecture by Hedayat Heikal
(Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, Cambridge,
MA)
This is the third lecture of
the "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 and Manouba University.
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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28 January
2021, 5 pm, virtual event
Historical Pedagogy: What Hindutva
Does with History
Lecture by Tanika Sarkar
(Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi) as part of the ZMO-Colloquium Understanding Populism:
State, Academia, and Civil Society
The ideological apparatus of Hindu
nationalism or Hindutva in India depends very largely on its
understanding of Indian history. Its worldview is entirely contained in
that and it pervades the complex organisational apparatus which is
composed of a large number of interrelated and overlapping affiliates and
sub affiliates. These units work among a vast range of social groups
among whom they disseminate their particular sense of history.
Please register
at registration@zmo.de
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South Asia - Gulf Migratory Corridor: Impending
Challenges
ZMO-Alumnus Ginu Zacharia Oommen
and S Irudaya Rajan write in the International Affairs Review on how the
Covid-19 pandemic has rerouted global migration patterns, restructured
migratory corridors, and remapped the fate of millions of migrants and
their families across the globe in an unprecedented manner.
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