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25 Jahre Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin
e.V.
The Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin e.V. celebrated their 25th anniversary in 2021. GWZ is
the umbrella association for the three independent non-university research
centres Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO),
Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) and Leibniz-Zentrum
für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL).
In December 2021, a festschrift
was published which depicts the history, present and future of the three
centres. Contributions from ZMO thematise the development of the
institute after the reunification in Germany (Dietrich Reetz, Achim
von Oppen), portray the term "Translocality"
(Katrin Bromber) and highlight current research topics related to
environment and justice in Africa and Asia (Katharina Lange). Among many
other articles, the publication also includes an interview with the three
directors of the centres, Ulrike Freitag (ZMO), Eva Geulen
(ZfL) and Manfred Krifka
(ZAS).
The festschrift is only available in German
language. Some reflections on 25 years of research in the humanities in
English language by Ulrike Freitag can be found in ZMO's latest orient bulletin.
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17 January
2022, 4 pm, virtual event
The Jews of Alexandria: Middle
Class Feelings, Urban Identity and Politics, 1880s-1920s
Lecture by Dario Miccoli (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) as
part of The Historicity of Democracy Seminar.
Based on a ‘close reading’ of
documents from the archives of the Alliance Israélite
Universelle (Paris), the Central Archives for
the History of the Jewish People (Jerusalem) and from articles found in
newspapers published in Egypt in the colonial and early monarchic years,
this lecture will look at the consolidation of a middle class Alexandrian
Jewish identity and its relation to urban politics and sociability in the
period that goes from the early 1880s to the mid-1920s. The lecture will
discuss the multiple connections that Alexandrian Jews had with the city
in which they lived and its socio-political environment, as well as the
ways in which its burgeoning Jewish middle class tried to find a place of
its own for example by founding schools, hospitals and cultural
associations.
The online seminar is free and open to the public upon registration: https://forms.gle/A8AJDvdaQyUiG5qD8
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24 January
2022, 3 pm, virtual event
Global South Scholars in the
Western Academy: Harnessing Unique Experiences, Knowledges, and
Positionality in the Third Space
Book Presentation by Staci B.
Martin & Deepra Dandekar (ZMO)
By foregrounding the voices and
experiences of scholars from the Global South who have migrated to
institutions in the Global North, this volume theorizes the "third
space" as a unique, rich, and generative position in the Western
academy. Global South Scholars in the Western Academy engages a range of
critical methodologies to explore the challenges that Global South
scholars face in establishing themselves in academic settings in the
Global North. The text identifies the unique position that scholars have
come to adopt "in-between" North and South and theorizes this
positionality as a "third space", carved out by academics
negotiating personal, professional, and cultural belonging. This liminal
subject position, enriched by experiences of migration, racialization,
poverty, and difference, is shown to drive knowledge-production and
justice-orientated approaches in the academy.
Please Register here: https://tinyurl.com/2p83y53h
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27 January
2022, 5 pm, virtual event
Autochthony and Land Access in Côte
d’Ivoire: Some Key Issues
Lecture by Jean-Philippe Colin
(IRD Montpellier) as part of the ZMO Colloquium Political Economies of
Original Inhabitation
This talk presents a general
discussion of the relationships between autochthons and migrants
regarding the latter’s access to land in Côte d’Ivoire. The first part of
the talk shows how the autochthon-migrant dichotomy has structured land
issues in southern Côte d’Ivoire since the colonial time. Through this
perspective, it discusses key issues such as the social embeddedness of
land transfers, land commoditization, and land conflicts, framed in the
contexts of colonial and postcolonial (land) policies. The second part of
the talk offers a counterpoint to this general picture, through the
presentation of migrants’ land access in a former no man’s land
characterized by a lack of autochthonous stakeholders.
Please register
here: https://tinyurl.com/2vxbsymx
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Publikationspreis (Bildungspreis) des Deutschen
Museums 2020 für „Koloniale Spurenin den
Archiven der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft“
Die Herausgeber des Bandes „Koloniale Spuren in den
Archiven der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft“ (Mitteldeutscher Verlag,
2020), Dr. Matthias Röschner und Dr. Heinz
Peter Brogiato erhielten die Auszeichnung des
Deutschen Museums. Die Laudatio der Jury des Publikationspreises geht
zunächst auf die „fruchtbare Zusammenarbeit“ des Arbeitskreis Archive der
Leibniz-Gemeinschaft ein und fasst den Grundgedanken und das Anliegen des
Sammelbands treffend zusammen: „Das Buch zeigt auf, dass der
Kolonialismus in den Archiven der Mitgliedseinrichtungen der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
vielfältige Spuren hinterlassen hat, denen systematisch nachzugehen sich
überaus lohnt. Die beiden Herausgeber haben eine ebenso lebendige wie
facettenreiche Komposition von Beiträgen zusammengestellt, die tiefe
Einblicke in die koloniale Vergangenheit Deutschlands und deren Fortleben
weit über die Epoche des Kolonialismus hinaus bietet“.
In dem Sammelband befindet sich auch ein Beitrag unserer ZMO-Kolleg*innen
Silke Nagel und Alisher Karabaev über "Kolonialismus und nationaler Befreiungskampf im
Nachlass und Lebensweg des Afrikaforschers Peter Sebald".
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