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Wednesday, 5 October 2022
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Die Zukunft von der Vergangenheit befreien? Und die
Vergangenheit von der Zukunft?
The second text of the new ZMO
publication series Texts
in Context is now online!
The text was submitted by Mohammed
Abed al-Jabri in 1998 to a global essay competition by Lettre International. We provide the original French
typescript as well as a translation into German. With an introduction by
Sonja Hegasy.
The ZMO online series Texts in Context
presents previously unpublished historical and contemporary sources from
the ZMO research regions in original versions and with translation into
German or English. The ZMO thus makes available primary materials that
reflect important voices and discourses of non-European modernity and
whose underlying debates shaped and continue to shape social life and
political or religious interactions. Each of the texts published here is
introduced by a short essay explaining the contexts and, where possible,
the circumstances of their creation and, if known, providing relevant
information about the author. A main task of the essay is to present the
relevance and significance of the source text presented and to provide
references to the relevant fields of research and scholarly debates.
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11 October 2022, 5
pm, ZMO/Online
Charity in Saudi Arabia: Civil
Society under Authoritarianism
Book presentation by Nora Derbal (The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
In this innovative study of
everyday charity practices in Jeddah, Nora Derbal employs a 'bottom-up'
approach to challenge dominant narratives about state-society relations
in Saudi Arabia. Exploring charity organizations in Jeddah, this book
both offers a rich ethnography of associational life and counters
Riyadh-centric studies which focus on oil, the royal family, and the
religious establishment. It closely follows those who work on the ground
to provide charity to the local poor and needy, documenting their
achievements, struggles and daily negotiations. The lens of charity
offers rare insights into the religiosity of ordinary Saudis, showing
that Islam offers Saudi activists a language, a moral frame, and a
worldly guide to confronting inequality. With a view to the many forms of
local community activism in Saudi Arabia, this book examines perspectives
that are too often ignored or neglected, opening new theoretical debates
about civil society and civic activism in the Gulf.
The event will be held in a hybrid format. Please register here to participate via Zoom. For participation on
site at ZMO, no registration is required.
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27 October 2022, 5
pm, ZMO/Online
A Chronotope
of Expansion: Unknowing Nuclear Wastes in a Kazakh Nuclear Town
Lecture by Catherine Alexander
(Durham University) as part of the ZMO Colloquium Environmental (Un)Knowing:
Exploring the nexus of epistemic and environmental injustice
From 1947 to 1989, the main Soviet
nuclear weapon test site was in north east Kazakhstan, described by a
nuclear physicist as ‘this distant fireball’. This paper moves between
such perspectives from afar and what it is like now to live among the
remnants of those fireballs. While the Soviet and indeed post-Soviet
regime use a variety of strategies to contain and ‘disappear’ the site,
or at least lingering contamination, local responses are more ambivalent.
What appears is a chronotope of expansion that
resists both temporal and spatial containment, denies progress and the
possibility of moving to a brighter peaceful nuclear energy future, as
the present government hopes.
The event will be held in a hybrid format. Please register here to participate via Zoom. For participation on
site at ZMO, no registration is required.
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Call for Papers: Un/Growing into
Generational Roles
International Conference at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner
Orient (ZMO), Berlin, 8-9 June 2023.
Deadline for abstracts:
15 November 2022
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Aller
Anfang ist...? Die Projektwebseite unseres Schulprojekts ist jetzt
online!
Das Projekt im Rahmen des Wissenschaftsjahrs 2022 hat das
Ziel, Schüler*innen and sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung heranzuführen
und ihnen selbst die Möglichkeit zu geben, Geschichte und Gegenwart ihres
Umfelds zu erforschen. Die Ergebnisse der ersten drei Schulprojekte sind
jetzt online mit den Themen "Deutsche aus Russland: Niederlassen in
Niedersachsen", "Flucht und Ankunft in Deutschland 2015 und
2022: ein Vergleich" und "Mit Kind: Wiedereinstieg in den
Beruf?".
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From Coffeehouse to
Internet: Arabic Literature in Transition
ZMO's vice director Sonja Hegasy
will participate in a book launch and talk at the Frankfurter Buchmesse on 21 October 2022. The book discussed will
be “Café Riche. Eye on Egypt” by the poet Maisoon
Saqr, who will also participate in the panel in
person.
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Publications by the
Project MIDA are now accessible in the Repository of the
Max-Weber-Stiftung
The publication platform
perspectivia.net lists now the two publications Archival
Reflexicon and Thematische Ressourcen by Modern India in German
Archives (MIDA).
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