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Wednesday Weekly 24 April 2019

 
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Conference: The Near Eastern Saddle Period

As previously announced, Florian Zemmin will host a conference on The Near Eastern Saddle Period: The Formation of Modern Concepts in Arabic, Turkish, and Persian on 12-14 June 2019 at the University of Bern. The detailed conference programme has been released recently, including panels on The Arabic Nahda, The modern subject, The Ottoman modern order (with a paper presentation by Markus Dreßler), Science and the social, Classical concepts and novel ideas, and Despotism and humanity as well as a keynote lecture by Margrit Pernau titled Koselleck traveling. How do we translate the history of concepts?

    Programme Flyer (PDF)    
 
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Publication

Markus Dreßler contributed an article on Broadening and Homogenizing the National Body: Fuad Köprülü and the Concept of Alevism to the recently published volume Alevism between Standardisation and Plurality. Negotiating Texts, Sources and Cultural Heritage. The paper pays particular attention to Köprülü's conceptualization of Alevism as an Islamic “heterodox” and essentially a Turkish formation. This conceptualization homogenized the knowledge about Alevism and made possible the assimilation of the Alevis into Turkish nationhood in line with the larger project of nation-building in the early period of the Turkish Republic.

    Articles    
 
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Science Lounge on Islamophobia

Our Senior Research Fellow Gert Pickel will join a panel discussion with Farid Hafez, Petra Köpping and Alexander Yendell on Islamophobia and Right Wing Populism in the East on 29 April at the Foyer of the restaurant Pilot. Science Lounges are public discussion events of the Leipzig ScienceCampus Eastern Europe - Global Area (EEGA). Listeners need to register at leibniz-eega@ifl-leipzig.de. The discussion will be held in German.

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Conferences

International Workshop on Halal Economies in non-Muslim Countries, 3-4 May 2019, Indiana University Gateway, Berlin. The workshop will illustrate and interrogate the interactions of commercial and religious ethics, philosophy and choice that occur in the regulation and certification, production, marketing, service delivery and consumption of halal goods in non-Muslim Majority states and societies.
Programme


The Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt calls for papers for a conference on Global Religious Translation in the Early Modern Period on 6-8 June 2019. Deadline for proposals of max. 600 words is 10 May 2019.
Conference Abstract and CfP


The 26th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) combined with the Conference of the Section for Islam Studies of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG), 3-5 October, University of Hamburg, calls for papers for open panels on

  •  Rethinking the Process of “Normalization” of Islamist Parties in Light of the Models of "Civil State" and “Islamic Securalism”
  • Beyond Shariʿa and Fiqh: on the Diversity of Islamic Normative Cultures
  • Rethinking Islamic Origins: Towards a New Understanding of the Beginnings of Arabic Written Tradition

and other topics. Deadline for abstracts (300 words) is 31 May 2019.
Complete Call
 
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