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Wednesday, 2 February 2022
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Universal Jurisdiction as
Iustitia ex Machina: Speaking Justice for the
Victims of ISIS and the Syrian Civil War in Germany
In a recent article in The Greater European
Journal (3 (1), December 2021. pp. 35-48), ZMO research
fellow Robin F.C. Schmahl offers a brief survey of four legal cases in
Germany dealing with ISIS foreign terrorist fighters and former Syrian
officials who were charged for torture, genocide, as well as crimes
against humanity. At the centre of public attention in 2020 and 2021,
these cases moved beyond of being a matter of national law towards a
renegotiation of how Germany envisions itself to take up international
responsibility on the basis of universal jurisdiction. Robin shows how
the discussion surrounding the trials can be understood as a form of Gegenwartsbewältigung
that purports a reaffirmation of German identity in the present. Lastly,
he provides a brief problematisation of universal jurisdiction within
national law and its current predominance in German public discourse from
a postcolonial perspective.
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7 February 2022, 4 pm, virtual event
Fasihi Simulizi na Changamano la Bahari Hindi
Baraza la Kiswahili la Berlin
with Elizabeth Sekwiha
Gwajima
Wasilisho hili linachunguza fasihi simulizi ya Zanzibar. Linalenga kujua maana na mafunzo ya baadhi ya majina ya mahali huko Makunduchi. Muktadha wa karne ya ishirini na moja umehusishwa na changamano
la bahari ya Hindi. Kupitia mahojiano na wakaazi na usomaji wa maandishi ya kihistoria, hoja inatolewa kwamba, mbali na kazi asilia ya visasuli ya kuelezea mwanzo wa vitu na mahali (alivyofafanua Mulokozi,
2017), visasuli pia vina dhima ya kuelimisha. Pia, bahari ya Hindi bado ina athari ya kale katika fasihi simulizi; ni kiungo muhimu kati ya nchi na nchi, bara moja na jingine; na ni wigo, nafasi na mahala pa fikra za ubunifu. Hata hivyo, kwa kuwa fasihi simulizi inabadilika kuendana na wakati, matokeo ya utafiti yamegundua mabadiliko ya mawazo: wakati visasuli vingi vinaelezea maana ya majina ya mahali, vingine vinahoji historia ya jamii vikiashiria jitihada za kutafuta utambulisho wa Wazanzibari. Wasilisho linahitimisha kwa kutoa wito wa juhudi
za kurekodi visasuli vilivyosalia visipotee katika ulimwengu wa intaneti na utandawazi na kuhatarisha uwepo wa fasihi simulizi.
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7 February
2022, 4 pm, virtual event
Between Elections and
Constitution: ‘the people’ as body politic (1943-1963)
Lecture by Matthieu Rey
(IFPO) as part of The Historicity of Democracy Seminar.
Matthieu Rey is currently director
of contemporary studies at IFPO. He graduated at EHESS Paris in 2013. He
is the author of numerous books and papers on the question of
parliamentarism in the Middle East, and particularly in Iraq in the
1950s. His research focused on mechanisms of protest and moblization with, for example, a 2010 paper: “La Wathba: manifester en Irak en
1948“. Matthieu Rey developed an attention to the scale of neighbourhoods
too with a 2013 chapter on Syria: “La révolte
des quartiers: territorialisation plutôt que
confessionalisation“. He also studied the impact of the Cold War on local
politics in the Middle East with “Domestiquer
la Guerre froide au Moyen-Orient”
and “‘Fighting colonialism’ versus ‘non- alignment’: two Arab points of
view on the Bandung Conference” as well as the interaction between
international organizations and the region: “How Did the Middle East Meet
the West? The International United Nations Agencies’ Surveys in the
1950s“.
The online seminar is free and open to the public upon registration: https://forms.gle/A8AJDvdaQyUiG5qD8
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7 February
2022, 5 pm, virtual event
Islam and the Arab Revolutions —
The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy
Book Presentation by Usaama al-Azami (University
of Oxford)
The Arab revolutions of 2011 were
a transformative moment in the modern history of the Middle East, as
people rose up against long-standing autocrats throughout the region to
call for ‘bread, freedom and dignity’. With the passage of time, results
have been decidedly mixed, with tentative success stories like Tunisia
contrasting with the emergence of even more repressive dictatorships in
places like Egypt, with the backing of several Gulf states. Focusing
primarily on Egypt, this book considers a relatively understudied
dimension of these revolutions: the role of prominent religious scholars.
While pro-revolutionary ulama have justified activism against
authoritarian regimes, counter-revolutionary scholars have provided
religious backing for repression, and in some cases the mass murder of
unarmed protestors.
Please Register here: https://tinyurl.com/jcnhsv2d
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February 2022, 5 pm, virtual event
Capitalist Relations on
Indonesia’s Indigenous Frontiers
Lecture by Tania Murray Li
(University of Toronto) as part of the ZMO Colloquium Political Economies of
Original Inhabitation
In globally circulating
discourses, autochthonous or Indigenous People are often characterized by
their dedication to preserving lifeways that are community oriented and
non-capitalist. Yet this image has a double edge: protective, from one
perspective, it also enables large scale corporate investors to insist
that they alone are capable of developing the national economy. Drawing
on ethnographic research in Sulawesi and Kalimantan, the lecture
challenges this problematic polarity by exploring the enthusiastic,
three-century engagement of Indonesia’s indigenous farmers with global
markets and traces the consequences of consigning them to a subsistence
or non-market niche.
Please register
here: https://tinyurl.com/4jwtwuj9
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10 February 2022, 5 pm, virtual event
Tradition und Erneuerung im Ringen um die Zukunft: Der
Nahe Osten seit 1906
Online-Buchvorstellung und Diskussion mit Udo Steinbach (Maecenata Stiftung) und Daniel Gerlach (zenith, Candid-Foundation),
organisiert von der Deutsch-Arabischen Freundschaftsgesellschaft e.V.
Der Raum zwischen Mittelmeer und Hindukusch befindet sich
im Umbruch. Innere Transformationsprozesse und externe Interventionen
prägen die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen der Region im
20. und 21. Jahrhundert. In seinem 2021 im Kohlhammer Verlag erschienenen
Buch „Tradition und Erneuerung im Ringen um die Zukunft: Der Nahe Osten
seit 1906“ untersucht Prof. Dr. Udo Steinbach die Umbrüche,
geschichtlichen Verflechtungen und Interdependenzen im Raum von
Nordafrika bis Afghanistan und analysiert die vielfältigen Beziehungen
Europas zu seinen Nachbarn.
Bitte registrieren Sie sich hier: www.tinyurl.com/3tt2nyx9
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Antía Mato Bouzas, Lorenzo Casini
(Eds.)
Migration in the
Making of the Gulf Space. Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions
Berghahn, New York, Oxford, 2022. Series:
Worlds in Motion, 11, 182 p.
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Nora Lafi
Longue-Durée
Reflections on Anti-Colonial Movements in the Middle-East (1798–today)
In: Dimitris
Bouris, Daniela Huber, Michelle Pace (Eds.). Routledge Handbook of EU–Middle East Relations. Routledge, 2022.
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Erika Danneberg Essaypreis 2022 for
Juliane Schumacher
Our colleague and associated
research fellow Juliane Schumacher won the Austrian Erika Danneberg
Essaypreis for a piece titled
"In Zeiten der Solidarität".
In her essay, she reflects on the meaning of solidarity in our society
and it's chances for the future.
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Journeying and Religious
Conversion - Video of conference presentation
In September 2021, ZMO research
fellow Deepra Dandekar presented at the International conference on
Maharashtra, organised by the Asian Studies Centre at the University of
Oxford. A Video and a podcast of the presentation are now made available.
In her presentation, Deepra speaks About the first vernacular novel in
India that outlined concerns about women's reform, widow remarriage, and
Christian feminism.
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