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Reading in Arabic and
English from the book "Anna and Dr Helmy" by Ronen Steinke
Narrator: Gamal Abdelnasser (Arabic)
The reading is followed by a Q&A with the author.
This book tells the remarkable
story of Mohammed Helmy, an Egyptian doctor living in Berlin. He risked
his life to save Jewish Berliners from the Nazis, among them a girl
called Anna. Helmy spent the entire war in Berlin, constantly
walking the fine line between accommodation to the Nazi regime and
subversion of it.
The book also reveals a wider
understanding of the Arab community in Berlin at the time, many of whom
had warm relations with the Jewish community, and some of whom - like
Mohammed Helmy - even risked their lives to help their Jewish friends
when the Nazis rose to power. Mohammed Helmy was the most remarkable
individual amongst this brave group, but he was by no means the only one.
Date and time:
Thursday, 16 June 2022, 7 pm
Place: Khan Aljanub, Potsdamer Str. 151, Berlin-Schöneberg
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8 June
2022, 4 pm, FU Berlin/Online
Learning Morality, Inequalities,
and Faith: Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania
Book launch by Hansjörg Dilger (FU
Berlin) as part of the Berlin Anthropology Seminar
Christian and Muslim schools have
become important target points in families and pupils' quests for new
study opportunities and securing a 'good life' in Tanzania. These schools
combine secular education with the moral (self-)formation of young
people, triggering new realignments of the fields of education with
interreligious co-existence and class formation in the country's urban
centres. Hansjörg Dilger explores the emerging entanglements of faith,
morality, and the educational market in Dar es Salaam, thereby shedding
light on processes of religious institutionalisation and their individual
and collective embodiment. By contextualising these dynamics through
analysis of the politics of Christian-Muslim relations in postcolonial
Tanzania, this book shows how the field of education has shaped the
positions of these highly diverse religious communities in diverging
ways. In doing so, Dilger suggests that students and teachers' religious
experience and practice in faith-oriented schools are shaped by the
search for socio-moral belonging as well as by the power relations and
inequalities of an interconnected world.
Please find a link for registration under
"more info".
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13 June
2022, 4 pm, Online
'Authoritarian Democracy' and the
late Ottoman Empire: State, Power, and Civil Society in the Second
Constitutional Period
Lecture by Erol Ülker (Iþýk University,
Istanbul) as part of The Historicity of Democracy Seminar.
This paper aims to discuss the
political and ideological character of the single-party rule that
prevailed in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. It addresses
this topic by focusing on the formation of a corporatist movement in the
Second Constitutional Period (1908-1918). The foundations of this
movement were laid after the Constitutional Revolution of 1908, when a
large number of associations, trade unions, and cooperatives were
established in the Empire. A political circle associated with the
Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), the driving force of the
Revolution of 1908, benefited from this unprecedented expansion in
Ottoman civil society. This circle developed strong political and
economic ties with artisan and labor
organizations, and formulated a corporatist political programme.
Representation of Professions (Temsil-i Meslekî) proposed the restructuring of political and
economic life based on corporations representing major occupational
groups.
The online seminar is free and open to the public upon registration: https://forms.gle/A8AJDvdaQyUiG5qD8
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13 June
2022, 4 pm, Online
One Day at the Office: Upapasi, Spatial Il/legalization and Matter in Urban
Zanzibar
Baraza la Kiswahili la Berlin with Muchi and Irene
Katika mazungumzo na majadiliano baina ya Muchi na Irene, wasilishaji
hao wawili wanatuhadithia kuhusu kikundi cha vijana wanaoitwa mapapasi ambao wanafanyia kazi Sekta ya Utalii mjini Zanzibar tangu miaka ya Themanini, ijapokuwa mchango wao katika uchumi haujatambuliwa au kurasimishiwa
na Serikali. Badala yake, mara nyingi vijana hao wanaudhiwa, wakipuuzwa na kuadhibishwa kwa vile hawapaswi kwenye picha ya kiserikali ya kukuza Zanzibar kama mahali pa misafara ya Watalii. Muchi na Irene wanalinganisha
kazi ya Upapasi vile ilivyokuwa zamani na vile ilivyo sasa hivi. Pia, wanatafakari kuhusu nafasi ya mapapasi mjini Zanzibar na katika hi/storia ya kijamii na kiuchumi visiwani huku wakichambua dhana ya uwenye/ji, maana, athari na umuhimu wake. Mwishowe, wanajadiliana na Wanabaraza
kuhusu uwezo wa dhana ya u/ki/tu, pale wanapojitahidi kuelewa na kutafsiri nafasi ya watu, vitu, maneno na vitendo kwenye kutafuta na kujenga maisha.
Muchi ni papasi anayefanya kazi mjini Zanzibar, kisiwani Unguja. Irene ni Mwalimu wa lugha katika Taasisi ya Taaluma za Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Leipzig.
Please register here: https://tinyurl.com/5c9m7hjr
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23
June 2022, 5 pm, ZMO/Online
Autochthony, Line Systems and
State Building in Africa
Lecture by Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe (Humboldt Foundation, Humboldt University
Berlin) as part of the ZMO Colloquium
Although ethno-territorial
struggles affect the manner in which political authority is constituted
and legitimised throughout the world, their impacts on the trajectories
of power and the state in Africa have not received the attention deserved
in the literature on political development and state building. Meanwhile,
in majoritarian agrarian societies, land tenure, just like the granting
of usufruct rights to water, shapes economic and political dynamics.
Conflicts over land and struggles over access to the key resources of
agricultural production are widespread throughout Africa and are likely
to intensify in the light of ongoing climate change-induced production
constraints to agriculturalism and pastoralism. While the details of
these issues are best appreciated by examining the contexts and
experiences of individual states, land and land rights together with the
contentions over land laws, land reforms and the struggles towards
democratising land rights constitute a vantage point for understanding
these societies.
Please register here for online participation: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoc-morz0jEtcExROrWZSgC37u4bcE8Kq1
If you would like to attend the event in person, please send an email to
registration@zmo.de.
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27
June 2022, 5 pm, ZMO/Online
Sports & Modernity in Late
Imperial Ethiopia
Book presentation by Katrin
Bromber (ZMO)
Sports in Ethiopia was always more
than a means of useful recreation. It was also a way to enjoy and define
fun, as new modes of behaviour emerged that showed what it meant to be a
modern man or woman. This book is the first academic study of the history
of modern sports in Ethiopia during the imperial rule of the twentieth
century. Showing how agents, ideas and practices linked societal
advancement and bodily improvement, this innovative study argues that
modern sports offers new possibilities to explore the meanings of
modernity in Africa. Drawing on written and oral sources in Amharic,
Tigrinya, English, French, German and Italian, the book provides an
in-depth analysis of the role of sports in modern educational
institutions, volunteer organizations and urbanization processes.
Please register here for online participation: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYocO2opzwoH9AQneJSY9rdzC19ejNXdZWe If you would like to attend the
event in person, please send an email to registration@zmo.de.
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