Programm Und Fellows Program and Fellows 2018/2019 Programm Und Fellows 2018/2019 Program and Fellows 2018/2019 Inhaltsverzeichnis / Contents

Programm und Fellows Program and Fellows 2018/2019 Programm und Fellows 2018/2019 Program and Fellows 2018/2019 Inhaltsverzeichnis / Contents

Forum Transregionale Studien 4

Forschungsprogramme und Initiativen / 5 Research Programs and Initiatives

Projektentwicklung / 7 Project Development

Wissenschaftskommunikation / 11 Science Communication

Leitung, Kooperation und Förderung / 15 Direction, Cooperation, and Support

Vorstand / Board of Directors 17

Europa im Nahen Osten – Der Nahe Osten in Europa / 20 Europe In The Middle East—The Middle East In Europe (EUME)

EUME Fellows 2018/2019 24

Zukunftsphilologie 45

Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices & 47 Connecting Art Histories in the Museum (CAHIM)

Art Histories Fellows 2018/2019 51

CAHIM Fellows 2018/2019 61

Prisma Ukraïna – Research Network Eastern Europe 64

Prisma Ukraïna Visiting Fellow(s) 2018/19 67

Akademie im Exil / Academy in Exile 68

Akademie im Exil Fellow(s) 2018/2019 70

4 Das Forum Transregionale Studien

Das Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin ist eine The Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin is a Plattform zur Förderung der inhaltlichen Internatio- platform that promotes the internationalization nalisierung der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. of the humanities and social sciences. It provides Es eröffnet Freiräume für die Zusammenarbeit von scope for collaboration among researchers with Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern mit varying regional and disciplinary perspec- unterschiedlichen regionalen und disziplinären tives and offers them the possibility to test Perspektiven und bietet ihnen die Möglichkeit, and develop transregionally oriented research transregional angelegte Forschungsideen und -vor- ideas and projects. Since its founding in 2009, haben zu erproben und zu entwickeln. Seit seiner in accordance with the principle of “research Gründung im Jahr 2009 beruft das Forum nach dem with, rather than research on”, the Forum has Prinzip des »Forschen mit, statt Forschen über« appointed researchers from all over the world as Fellows aus aller Welt in seine Programme und Fellows in its programs and initiatives, which it Initiativen, die es gemeinsam mit Universitäten und carries out jointly with universities and research Forschungseinrichtungen in- und außerhalb Berlins institutes in and outside of Berlin. durchführt. The Forum has experience with and infrastruc- Das Forum verfügt über Erfahrungen und eine Inf- ture for the organization of transregional and rastruktur in der Organisation von transregionalen cross-institutional research constellations that und institutionenübergreifenden Forschungs- bring together and connect actors from diverse konstellationen und -projekten, die Akteure aus contexts, by means of innovative formats and unterschiedlichen Ländern und Fächern durch discussion platforms, to work on joint research innovative Veranstaltungsformate und Diskussi- issues. Another important area of its work is sci- onsplattformen zusammenbringen und vernetzt, ence communication, which serves the transfer um an gemeinsamen Forschungsfragen zu arbeiten. of research results and project work in the scien- Ein weiterer wichtiger Bereich seiner Arbeit ist die tific community and the wider public. With its Wissenschaftskommunikation, die dem Transfer work, the Forum contributes to a new orientation von Forschungsergebnissen und Projektarbeit in of the humanities and social sciences under the die Wissenschaftscommunity und die breitere conditions of the 21st century. Its programs and Öffentlichkeit dient. Mit seiner Arbeit trägt das initiatives respond to worldwide entanglements Forum zu einer Neubestimmung der Sozial- und and fragmentations and the increased mobility Geisteswissenschaften unter den Bedingungen of people and ideas, but also to new boundary des 21. Jahrhunderts bei. Seine Programme und drawings and the growing importance of region- Initiativen reagieren auf weltweite Verflechtungen ally specific knowledge for a re-orientation in the und Fragmentierungen, die gestiegene Mobilität von world and the pluralization of national canons Menschen und Ideen, aber auch auf neue Grenzzie- and curricula. hungen und die wachsende Bedeutung regionenspe- Since 2013, the Forum has collaborated closely zifischen Wissens für eine Re-Orientierung in der with the Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Welt sowie für die Pluralisierung nationaler Kanons Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland in und Curricula. the area of internationalization, project develop- Im Bereich der Internationalisierung, der Projekt- ment, and science communication. In 2018 and entwicklung und der Wissenschaftskommunikation 2019 this cooperation will be intensified with kooperiert das Forum seit 2013 eng mit der Max the jointly developed research framework topic Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaft- “Mobility – Knowledge – Society”. liche Institute im Ausland. In den Jahren 2018 und 2019 wird diese Zusammenarbeit mit dem gemeinsam entwickelten Forschungsrahmenthema »Mobilität – Wissen – Gesellschaft« weiter vertieft. 5

Forschungsprogramme und Research Programs and Initiativen Initiatives

Mit seinen Forschungsprogrammen setzt das With its research programs, the Forum places Forum längerfristige inhaltliche Schwerpunkte und longer-term emphases and fosters the spread treibt die Verbreitung transregionaler Forschungs- of transregional research approaches. The pro- ansätze voran. Die Programme am Forum bilden grams at the Forum create international, college- internationale, kollegartige ForscherInnengruppen like research groups and work closely together und arbeiten eng mit Universitäten, außeruni- with universities, non-university research insti- versitären Forschungseinrichtungen und Museen tutions, and museums. zusammen. From various disciplinary perspectives, Europe Aus unterschiedlichen disziplinären Perspektiven in the Middle East—The Middle East in erforscht Europa im Nahen Osten – Der Nahe Europe (EUME) seeks to rethink key concepts Osten in Europa (EUME) die Verflechtungen and premises that link and divide Europe and und Grenzziehungen zwischen Europa und dem the Middle East by providing space for open Nahen Osten. Einem Denken in Gegensätzen und debates about processes of reception, transla- Dichotomien hält EUME die offene Debatte um tion, fragmented and shared historical legacies, Rezeptions- und Übersetzungsprozesse, geteilte and the mobility of persons and ideas between historische Vermächtnisse sowie die Mobilität von Europe and the Middle East. Personen und Ideen zwischen Europa und dem Nahen Osten entgegen. Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship aims to contribute to a Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of reevaluation of the canon of text-related research Textual Scholarship will zu einer Neubewertung and to take a new look at pre-colonial philologies des Kanons textbezogener Wissenschaft beitragen and research from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, und bisher marginalisierte präkoloniale Philolo- and Europe that have been marginalized until gien und Wissenschaften aus Asien, Afrika, dem now. At the center of the program’s activities is Nahen Osten und Europa neu in den Blick nehmen. the periodical Philological Encounters. Im Zentrum der Aktivitäten des Programms steht die Zeitschrift Philological Encounters. Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices. Kunstgeschichte und Ästhetische Praktiken Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices. discusses the perspectives and contours of a Kunstgeschichte und Ästhetische Praktiken plural history of art and artistic practices. The diskutiert die Perspektiven und Konturen einer concept of “aesthetic practices” aims to make it pluralen Geschichte der Kunst und künstlerischer possible to understand artifacts and their social Praktiken. Der Begriff der »ästhetischen Prakti- and cultural contexts and dynamics and to ken« soll erlauben, Artefakte in ihren sozialen und examine them, starting from their biographies, kulturellen Kontexten und Dynamiken zu verste- reworkings, exhibition, staging, or destruction. hen und sie, ausgehend von ihren Biographien, ihrer Überarbeitung, Ausstellung, Inszenierung oder Zerstörung, zu untersuchen. 6

Prisma Ukraïna – Research Network Eastern Prisma Ukraïna – Research Network Eastern Europe eröffnet Freiräume zur Erforschung Europe provides scope for researching current aktueller Entwicklungen in der Ukraine und developments in Ukraine and Eastern Europe Osteuropa und ihrer historischen, kulturellen and their historical, cultural, and social precon- und sozialen Bedingungen. Es vernetzt For- ditions. It creates a network of research expertise schungsexpertise in Berlin, Brandenburg und in Berlin, Brandenburg, and beyond and invites darüber hinaus und lädt WissenschaftlerInnen researchers from Eastern Europe for Fellowships. aus Osteuropa als Fellows ein. The Academy in Exile was founded 2017 as a Die Akademie im Exil wurde 2017 als gemein- joint initiative of the Universität Duisburg-Essen, same Initiative der Universität Duisburg-Essen, the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Instituts in Essen (KWI) and the Forum Transregionale Studien. In (KWI) und des Forum Transregionale Studien a first phase, the Academy offers researchers in begründet. In einer ersten Phase bietet die Aka- the humanities and social sciences from Turkey demie Geistes- und SozialwissenschaftlerInnen a platform to continue their research in exile. It aus dem Umfeld der »Academics for Peace« aus helps to shape a program of critical studies of der Türkei eine Plattform, um ihre Forschungen Turkey that researches and debates not only the im Exil fortzusetzen und ein wissenschaftliches shifting foundations of plural and democratic Programm kritischer Türkeistudien mitzugestal- societies and authoritarian ideologies and ten. Die Akademie ermöglicht nicht nur, die sich practices, but also enlivens research in Germany wandelnden Grundlagen pluraler und demokra- related to Turkey. The Academy in Exile has so tischer Gesellschaften und autoritärer Ideologien far supported ten long-term and five short-term und Praxen zu erforschen und zu debattieren, fellowships; of the total of fifteen supported sondern strebt auch an, die türkeibezogene For- researchers, eight work in Berlin and seven in schung in Deutschland zu beleben. Im Rahmen Essen. der Akademie im Exil wurden bislang zehn The researchers invited as Fellows in the context Langzeit- und fünf Kurzzeit-Fellowships bzw. of the research programs work on their own pro- Brückenstipendien vergeben; von den insgesamt jects as well as on joint issues. They contribute fünfzehn geförderten WissenschaftlerInnen to the development and conception of initiatives arbeiten acht in Berlin und sieben in Essen. and scientific events. For the duration of their Die im Rahmen der Forschungsprogramme stay in Berlin, the Fellows are associated with als Fellows ans Forum eingeladenen Wis- universities and research institutions in accord- senschaftlerInnen arbeiten an ihren eigenen ance with their specialized backgrounds. Forschungsprojekten sowie an gemeinsamen Fragestellungen. Sie wirken bei der Entwicklung und Konzeption von Initiativen und wissenschaftlichen Veranstaltungen mit. Für die Dauer ihres Aufenthalts in Berlin sind die Fellows entsprechend ihres fachlichen Hintergrunds an Universitäten und Forschungseinrichtungen assoziiert. 7

Projektentwicklung Project Development

Der Arbeitsbereich Projektentwicklung des Forums The working area Project Development of the ist eng mit der Entwicklung neuer Programme und Forum is closely tied to the development of new Initiativen verknüpft und in eine enge Zusammen- programs and initiatives and collaborates closely arbeit mit der Max Weber Stiftung eingebunden. with the Max Weber Foundation. 2018 and 2019 2018 und 2019 haben wir mit der Max Weber we and the Max Weber Foundation have deter- Stiftung für die Veranstaltungen des Bereichs mined a joint overarching topic for the events Projektentwicklung mit »Mobilität – Wissen – conducted by the Project Development working Gesellschaft« ein gemeinsames Rahmenthema area: “Mobility – Knowledge – Society”. With its bestimmt. Mit seinen Explorativen Workshops, Exploratory Workshops, Transregional Acad- Transregionalen Akademien und der Jahreskonfe- emies, and Annual Conferences the Forum offers, renz bietet das Forum neben den Veranstaltungen along with its research programs’ seminars and seiner Forschungsprogramme weitere Formate, conferences, other formats in which new ideas in denen Ideen und Forschungsvorhaben getestet and research projects can be tested. The events werden. Sie regen innerwissenschaftliche Diskus- are designed to stimulate intra-scientific discus- sionen an, erproben Konstellationen, die zwischen sions, test constellations that fall between the die disziplinären, regionalen und institutionellen disciplinary, regional, and institutional realms Zuständigkeiten unserer Wissenschaftsordnung of our research order, and contribute to the fallen und tragen zum Transfer transregionaler Fra- transfer of transregional issues and learning gestellungen und Erkenntnisprozesse in verschie- processes in various publics. These formats aim dene Öffentlichkeiten bei. Diese Formate sollen zu to contribute to establish sustainable, innovative einer nachhaltigen Etablierung innovativer und and topic-related approaches to teaching and themenbezogener Lehr- und Forschungsansätze research by taking up and mediating suggestions beitragen, indem Anregungen zur Weiterentwick- for the future development of research questions, lung von Forschungsfragen, Curricula oder Bezüge curricula, also exploring relations to current zu aktuellen gesellschaftspolitischen Fragen aufge- sociopolitical issues. griffen und vermittelt werden. In 2015, together with the Max Weber Stiftung, 2015 hat das Forum gemeinsam mit der Max the Forum originated an open call for ideas to Weber Stiftung einen offenenIdeenwettbe- identify new topics and issues. The resulting werb ins Leben gerufen, um neue Themen und Exploratory Workshops offer scope for uncon- Fragestellungen zu identifizieren. Die daraus ventional and focused thinking. The selected hervorgehenden Explorativen Workshops bieten applicants are conceptually and organizationally Raum für unkonventionelles und konzentriertes accompanied in the realization of the respective Denken. Die ausgewählten BewerberInnen werden formats. In addition, within the framework of bei der Realisierung des jeweiligen Formats kon- Transregional Academies, the Forum offers doc- zeptionell und organisatorisch begleitet. Daneben toral candidates and postdocs the opportunity to bietet das Forum im Rahmen von Transregionalen intensively exchange ideas, concepts and experi- Akademien Promovierenden und Postdocs die ences in international “temporary learning com- Gelegenheit zu einem intensiven Austausch von munities”. The goal is the dissemination of tran- Ideen, Konzepten und Erfahrungen in internatio- sregional research approaches and to promote nalen »Lerngemeinschaften auf Zeit«. Ziel ist die networking of researchers. International and Verbreitung transregionaler Forschungsansätze und die Vernetzung der Forschenden. International und multidisziplinär ausgerichtete Forschungsthe- men werden ausdrücklich unterstützt. Als Mittel 8

Explorativer Workshop 12.-14. Juli 2018, Archive Kabinett Berlin: Out of the Archives...New Archival Practices: Towards Alternative Historiographies, Voices, Spaces https://trafo.hypotheses.org/11970

der internen Kommunikation, der Diskussion und multidisciplinary research topics are explicitly der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit stellt das Forum wissen- supported. As a means of internal communica- schaftliche Blogs und eine interne Kommunikati- tion, discussion and public relations, the Forum onsplattform zur Verfügung. maintains and develops scientific blogs and provides an internal communication platform. Der informelle Rahmen von Explorativen Work- shops eignet sich besonders, um neue disziplinen- The informal framework of Exploratory Work- und regionenübergreifende Fragestellungen zu shops is especially suited for discussing new diskutieren. Dabei versteht sich das Forum als discipline- and region-transcending questions. Agentur für innovative Forschungsideen, die The Forum thereby sees itself as an agency incu- das Potential haben, zu größeren Projekten oder bating innovative research ideas that have the größeren Veranstaltungen weiterentwickelt zu potential to be developed into larger projects or werden. Sie richten sich an Wissenschaftler und larger events. They are aimed at scholars at the Wissenschaftlerinnen, die am Beginn ihrer Kar- beginning of their careers to enable them to test riere stehen und ermöglichen es ihnen, in einer new topics and questions in a group of 15 to 20 Gruppe von 15–20 Forschenden neue Themen und researchers. In the academic year 2018/19 the Fragestellungen zu erproben. Im akademischen following Exploratory Workshops are held at the Jahr 2018/2019 finden folgende Explorative Work- Forum: shops am Forum statt:

—— Out of the Archives...: New Archival Practices: Towards Alternative Historiographies, Voices, and Spaces (Convener: Rasha Chatta, Pascale Ghazaleh, Lamia Moghnieh, Alia Mossalam, all EUME Fellows) —— Mobility and Social Disappearance: An Exchange between Latin America & Eastern, Central and Southern Europe (Convener: Estela Schindel, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder) —— Exploring Networks of Transnational Surrogacy (Convener: Anika König, Universität Lübeck) —— Rethinking Refuge: Processes of Refuge Seeking in Africa and Beyond« (Convener: Marcia Schenck, re:work, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) —— Form and Fragment: Methods in the Study of Print Culture (Convener: Anne-Marie McManus, Washington University in St. Louis & Maha Abdel Megeed, American University Beirut). —— ¿New Accesses or New Invisibilizations?: Potentials and Challenges of the Digital Transformation for a Transregional and Multiperspective Co-management of Collections (Convener: Barbara Göbel, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz) —— Another History of the World in 100 Objects (Convener: Mirjam Brusius, German Historical Institute London) 9

Transregionale Akademie 29.9.-7.10.2018, National University of Singapore: Infrastructures, Regions, and Urbanization https://academies.hypotheses.org/ infrastructures-regions-and-urbanization- singapore-2018

Transregionale Akademien sind ein Format, Transregional Academies are a format in which in dem Projektideen, Forschungsfragen oder project ideas, research questions, or thematic Themenfelder intensiv miteinander disku- fields are intensely discussed. They are aimed at tiert werden. Die Akademien richten sich an postdocs and newly appointed professors who Postdocs und neuberufene ProfessorInnen, want to explore research ideas and projects in an die Forschungsideen und -projekte in einem international and multidisciplinary context with internationalen und multidisziplinären Kontext up to 21 doctoral candidates and postdocs from mit bis zu 21 DoktorandInnen und Postdocs aus all over the world. The one- to two-week acade- aller Welt sondieren wollen. Die ein- bis zwei- mies serve to accentuate the international profile wöchigen Akademien dienen der internationa- of research fields and to foster networking. The len Profilierung von Forschungsfeldern und der academies are characterized by a peer-to-peer Erschließung von Netzwerken. Die Akademien principle that lets conveners and participants zeichnen sich durch ein peer-to-peer Prinzip engage equally in planning and shaping the aus, das ConvenerInnen und Teilnehmende glei- program. Each year, two academies are held in chermaßen an der Planung und Gestaltung des changing places – so far, for example, in Berlin, Programms beteiligt. Pro Jahr finden mindestens Beirut, Cairo, Delhi, Cape Town, Rabat, Buenos zwei Akademien an wechselnden Orten statt Aires, São Paulo or Singapore. They are embed- – bislang z.B. in Berlin, Beirut, Buenos Aires, ded in collaborations with other institutions. Kairo, Delhi, Kapstadt, Rabat, São Paulo oder During the year 2018/2019, the Forum organizes Singapur. Sie sind in Kooperationen mit anderen six academies in Beirut, Berkeley, Berlin, Dnipro, Institutionen eingebettet. Im Jahr 2018/2019 Mexico City and Singapore. richtet das Forum sechs Akademien in Beirut, The Annual Conferences offer the Forum and Berkeley, Berlin, Dnipro, Mexiko-Stadt und Sin- the Max Weber Stiftung the opportunity to gapur aus. survey the current development of transregional Die Jahreskonferenzen bieten dem Forum und research and to bring together important actors der Max Weber Stiftung die Gelegenheit, eine in various regional studies. Researchers with Standortbestimmung der aktuellen Entwicklung a transregional orientation can exchange their transregionaler Forschung vorzunehmen und experience by discussing research questions or wichtige Akteure der verschiedenen Regionalstu- themes with current sociopolitical relevance. dien zusammenzubringen. WissenschaftlerInnen High value is thereby placed on interweaving mit transregionaler Ausrichtung können hier ihre various disciplinary approaches and methods. Erfahrungen austauschen, indem sie Forschungs- The conferences also serve to make transre- fragen oder Themen von aktueller gesellschafts- gional research questions more accessible to a politischer Relevanz diskutieren. Dabei wird der broader public in the fields of science, politics, Vernetzung verschiedener disziplinärer Zugänge culture, and media. The interdisciplinary format und Methoden ein hoher Stellenwert eingeräumt. is organized once a year with changing coopera- Die Konferenzen dienen auch dazu, transregionale tion partners. Forschungsfragen einem breiteren Publikum aus 10

Wissenschaft, Politik, Kultur und Medien zugäng- The upcoming Annual Conference “Knowledge lich zu machen. Das Format ist interdisziplinär and Society in Times of Upheaval” will be held angelegt und wird einmal jährlich mit wechselnden on 20th and 21st November 2018 at the Wis- Kooperationspartnern organisiert. senschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB). Issues of the relationship between work Die nächste Jahreskonferenz »Wissen und and technological change, migration and mobil- Gesellschaft in Zeiten des Umbruchs« findet ity, the role of new infrastructures as drivers of am 20. und 21. November 2018 am Wissen- change, and the impact of the changing media schaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) landscape on discourses and publics will be statt. Anhand verschiedener regionaler und histori- discussed on the basis of varying regional and scher Kontexte sollen Fragen nach dem Verhältnis historical contexts. Questions of the present von Arbeit und technologischem Wandel, von situation and the future of Europe will be dis- Migration und Mobilität, der Rolle von neuen cussed in their relation to current debates at a Infrastrukturen als Veränderungsimpulse und den roundtable titled “Science and Society at the Auswirkungen des Medienwandels auf Diskurse Borders of Europe”. und Öffentlichkeiten diskutiert werden. Unter dem Titel »Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft an den In the framework of its programs and with vari- Grenzen Europas« werden einige der Fragen der ous partners, the Forum regularly organizes the- Konferenz im Kontext der aktuellen Debatten um matic film series, public debates, and event series die gegenwärtige Lage und Zukunft Europas in aimed at the broader public. After their respec- einer Podiumsdiskussion debattiert. tive presentations Fellows and other researchers engage in discussions and debate on current Im Rahmen seiner Programme und mit verschie- topics with the audience. Recent topics were: the denen Partnern veranstaltet das Forum regelmäßig effects of shrinking spaces of civil and academic thematische Filmreihen, öffentliche Debatten und freedoms, forms of exile, Arab rebellions, the Vorlesungsreihen, die sich an die breitere Öffent- developments in Ukraine, the historiography of lichkeit richten. Im Anschluss an die Vorführungen the Armenian genocide, the Middle East conflict, folgen Diskussionen mit Fellows und anderen historical policy of authoritarian movements and Forschenden. In den Debatten werden aktuelle regimes or recent sociopolitical developments in Themen adressiert, in den letzten Jahren etwa die Turkey. Auswirkungen schrumpfender Räume bürgerlicher und akademischer Freiheiten, Formen des Exils, Kontakt: [email protected] die Auswirkungen der arabischen Revolutionen, Koordination: Botakoz Kassymbekova die Entwicklungen in der Ukraine, die Historiogra- phie des armenischen Genozids, der Nahostkon- flikt, Geschichtspolitik autoritärer Bewegungen und Regime oder neuere gesellschaftspolitische Entwicklungen in der Türkei. 11

Emerging Topics Khaled Saghieh Workshop: Imagining the Future: The Arab World in the Aftermath of Revolution trafo.hypotheses.org/10427

Wissenschaftskommunikation Science Communication

Die Übersetzung von aktuellen Forschungsthe- The special interest of the Forum is the transla- men und -fragen zwischen den regionalwissen- tion of current research topics and questions schaftlichen und disziplinären Fachöffentlichkei- between area studies and specialized discipli- ten sowie der Transfer transregionaler Ansätze nary publics and the transfer of transregional aus der Wissenschaft in die Öffentlichkeit sind approaches in research to the public. With blogs besondere Anliegen des Forums. Über Blogs and social media, as well as book, audio, and und soziale Medien sowie Buch- , Audio- und open access publications, the working area Sci- Open-Access-Publikationen informiert der ence Communication provides information on Arbeitsbereich Wissenschaftskommunikation ongoing research projects, makes results acces- über laufende Forschungsarbeiten und -projekte, sible, and, by employing participatory formats, macht Ergebnisse verfügbar und trägt über parti- contributes to their development. zipative Formate zu deren Entwicklung bei. The work of the Forum is accompanied by several Die Arbeit des Forums wird von mehreren wissen- scientific blogs.Trafo – Blog for Transregional schaftlichen Blogs begleitet. Das BlogTrafo – Blog Research is a multilingual discussion and infor- for Transregional Research ist eine mehrspra- mation platform curated in cooperation with the chige Diskussions- und Informationsplattform, Max Weber Stiftung in Bonn and the association die in Kooperation mit der Max Weber Stiftung in CrossArea in Leipzig. There is no comparable Bonn und dem Verein CrossArea in Leipzig kura- undertaking in Germany that stimulates the tiert wird. In Deutschland gibt es kein vergleich- debate around transregional research. Trafo bares Angebot, das die Debatte um transregionale makes accessible research results and offers a Forschung anregt. Trafo macht Forschungsergeb- broad spectrum of information: scientific essays, nisse verfügbar und bietet ein breites Spektrum an contributions from the Fellows’ research, confer- Informationen: Wissenschaftliche Aufsätze, Bei- ence reports, interviews with researchers on träge aus der Forschung der Fellows, Tagungsbe- their work, and current calls for papers. Experts richte, Interviews mit Forschenden zur ihrer Arbeit of respective fields of research are included to und aktuelle Calls for Papers. Fachwissenschaft- secure the quality of the contributions. Each lerInnen werden einbezogen, um die Qualität der week, two or three new contributions are pub- Beiträge zu sichern. Jede Woche werden zwei bis lished. The number of visitors on the blog was drei neue Beiträge veröffentlicht. Die Zugriffszahlen 130,000 in 2017/2018. lagen 2017/2018 bei 130.000 NutzerInnen. In the series “All Things Transregional?”, inter- In der Interviewreihe »All Things Transre- viewees discuss what transregional research gional?« wird diskutiert, was transregionale is, whom it benefits, and where its limits lie. To Forschung ist, wem sie nützt und wo ihre this end, the editorial board talks with quali- Grenzen liegen. Die Redaktion befragt hierzu 12

New Books Ela Gezen Brecht, Turkish Theater, and Turkish- German Literature: Reception, Adaption, and Innovation after 1960 https://trafo.hypotheses.org/10224

ausgewiesene deutsche und internationale Wis- fied German and international researchers. The senschaftlerInnen. Die Antworten präsentieren answers present differing positions, refer to each unterschiedliche Positionen, nehmen aufein- other, and sometimes propound controversial ander Bezug und sind in ihren Thesen mitunter hypotheses. In the beginning of 2019, a digital kontrovers. Anfang 2019 wird ein digitaler Sam- anthology of the series will appear. melband der Reihe erscheinen. The new series “Emerging Topics” offers Die Reihe »Emerging Topics« bietet Forschenden researchers the possibility to present upcoming die Möglichkeit, anstehende Workshops und workshops and conferences with transregional Konferenzen mit transregionalen Bezügen zu prä- relevance. In this way, the Trafo Blog provides sentieren. Auf diese Weise gibt das Trafo-Blog insights into currently discussed research topics Einblicke in aktuell diskutierte Forschungsthe- with a transregional perspective. men mit transregionaler Perspektive. In the “New Books” series, scholars from the In dem Format »New Books« stellen Wissen- Max Weber Foundation and the Forum’s network schaftlerInnen aus dem Umfeld der Max Weber as well as their member institutions present Stiftung, des Forums und ihrer Mitgliedseinrich- their most recently published monographs and tungen ihre jüngst erschienenen Monographien anthologies on transregional issues. The authors und Sammelpublikationen zu transregionalen explain the relevance of their topic, discuss the Fragestellungen vor. Die AutorInnen erklären methodology and the theses as well as the find- dabei die Relevanz ihres Themas, diskutieren die ings of their publication. Methodik und die Thesen sowie die Befunde ihrer The Forum offers researchers to curate sequences Veröffentlichung. of contributions to suitable research topics on Das Forum bietet WissenschaftlerInnen an, Trafo. Since 2015, the Islamic Studies scholars Sequenzen von Beiträgen zu geeigneten For- Schirin Amir-Moazami and Ruth Streicher (FU schungsthemen auf Trafo zu kuratieren. Seit Berlin) have guest edited the series “Provincial- 2015 geben die Islamwissenschaftlerinnen Schi- izing Epistemologies”. Their topic is the critique rin Amir-Moazami und Ruth Streicher (FU Berlin) of the predominance of Western knowledge sys- die Reihe »Provincializing Epistemologies« als tems. In 2018, the series “‘The 1979 Moment’ Gastredakteurinnen heraus. Ihr Thema ist die in the Middle East” was released, containing Kritik an der Vorherrschaft westlicher Wissens- contributions from a workshop held in June systeme. 2018 lief zudem die Serie »The 1979 2016 at the Forum. Publisher is the workshop Moment in the Middle East« an. Sie enthält convener, the literary and Islamic scholar Amir Beiträge, die aus einem im Juni 2016 am Forum Moosavi. veranstalteten Workshop hervorgegangen sind. Herausgeber ist der Workshop-Convener, der Lite- ratur- und Islamwissenschaftler Amir Moosavi. 13

Essays des Forum Transregionale Studien Sonam Kachru, What is it like to become a likeness of oneself, 2015 / Clare Davies, Decolonizing Culture, 2015 / Yuval Evri, Translating the Arab-Jewish Tradition, 2016 / Nahrain Al-Mousawi, Death at the Border, 2016 http://www.perspectivia.net/publikationen/ trafo-essays

Blogformate sind auch integraler Bestandteil der Blog formats are also an integral part of the Zusammenarbeit von Veranstaltungsmanagement cooperation between event management and und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit. Sie werden intensiv public outreach. They are intensively used to zur Vor- und Nachbereitung wissenschaftlicher prepare and follow up scientific conferences and Konferenzen und Workshops eingesetzt. Seit workshops. Since 2015, the blog “Transregional 2015 ist das Blog »Transregional Academies« Academies” has been the platform for the die Plattform für die gebündelte Darstellung der bundled presentation of the Forum’s academies. Akademien des Forums. Sie dient zum einen der It serves, first, better networking among the par- besseren Vernetzung der Teilnehmenden, zum ticipants and, second, external communication. anderen der Kommunikation nach außen. Das The blog makes the documentation of events Blog macht die Veranstaltungsdokumentation lastingly available. dauerhaft verfügbar. With books, dossiers, and a scientific periodical, Mit Büchern, Dossiers und einer wissenschaft- the Forum offers additional publication formats lichen Zeitschrift bietet das Forum weitere for the publication of research results. To make Publikationsformate für die Veröffentlichung von full use of the potential of digitalization, open- Forschungsergebnissen an. Um die Potentiale der access publications are particularly supported Digitalisierung auszuschöpfen, werden Open- and fostered. This is done in cooperation with Access-Publikationen besonders unterstützt und the Max Weber Stiftung on the open access plat- gefördert. Dies geschieht in Kooperation mit der form perspectivia.net. Max Weber Stiftung auf der Open-Access-Platt- The Essays of the Forum Transregionale form perspectivia.net. Studien make results from ongoing research Die Essays des Forum Transregionale Studien projects available. They appear twice a year on machen Ergebnisse aus laufenden Forschungs- the open-access platform perspectivia.net and in a vorhaben verfügbar. Sie erscheinen zweimal jähr- small printed edition. The issues can be obtained lich auf der Open-Access-Plattform perspectivia. free of charge from the Forum. net und in einer kleinen gedruckten Auflage. Die In the academic year 2018/19, two Dossiers, Ausgaben können kostenlos beim Forum bezo- “Reimers Konferenzen Revisited” und “All gen werden. Things Transregional?”, will be published in the Im akademischen Jahr 2018/19 erscheinen zwei open access series “Areas and Disciplines”. These Dossiers, »Reimers Konferenzen Revisited« are bundled publications of revised contributions und »All Things Transregional?«, in der Open- from two blog series discussing what transre- Access-Reihe »Areas and Disciplines«. Dabei gional research means and how it is practiced in handelt es sich um gebündelte Veröffentlichun- different disciplines. gen überarbeiteter Beiträge aus zwei Blogreihen, in denen diskutiert wird, was transregionale Forschung bedeutet und wie sie in unterschiedlichen Disziplinen praktiziert wird. 14

Fröhliche Wissenschaft Matthes & Seitz Berlin Neil MacGregor, Globale Sammlungen für globalisierte Städte, 2015 Sheldon Pollock, Philologie und Freiheit, 2016 Susannah Heschel, Jüdischer Islam, 2018 http://www.perspectivia.net/trafo-schriften

In der Reihe Fröhliche Wissenschaft des Verlags In the series Fröhliche Wissenschaft of Mat- Matthes & Seitz werden ausgewählte Vorträge in thes & Seitz publishing house, selected lectures deutscher Übersetzung veröffentlicht. Die Reihe are published in German translation. The series umfasst essayistische Texte zu aktuellen philo- comprises essayistic texts on current philosophi- sophischen und gesellschaftlichen Debatten und cal and societal debates and appears in a pleas- erscheint in einem ansprechenden Taschenbuch- ing paperback format. The books appear open format. Die Bücher erscheinen nach 6 Monaten auf access on perspectivia.net six months after their perspectivia.net im Open-Access-Format. publication.

Seit 2016 sind vier Bände der ZeitschriftPhilologi - Since 2016 four volumes of the periodical Philo- cal Encounters erschienen, herausgegeben von logical Encounters have been published by a einem Gremium um den Programmleiter des For- committee headed by the program director of the schungsprogramms »Zukunftsphilologie«, Islam research program Zukunftsphilologie, Islam Dayeh. Das Journal erscheint als Print-Publikation Dayeh. The journal appears as a print publication bei dem renommierten Wissenschaftsverlag Brill. with the renowned academic publisher Brill.

Darüber hinaus veröffentlicht das Forum Audiofor- Beyond that, the Forum publishes audio formats mate, die Vorträge, Diskussionen oder Gespräche documenting lectures, discussions, and talks with mit WissenschaftlerInnen dokumentieren. Seit researchers. Since 2013, more than 100 talks have 2013 wurden mehr als 100 Beiträge bei Voice been published that were listened by more than Republic veröffentlicht mit Zugriffszahlen von 30.000 users so far. In September 2018 the Forum bislang mehr als 30.000 Personen. Im September changed to the company SoundCloud. 2018 ist das Forum zum Anbieter SoundCloud The WeberWorldCafés present current scientific gewechselt. topics and have been organized by the Forum and Beiträge aus der Wissenschaft zu aktuellen The- the Max Weber Stiftung twice a year since 2014 men vermitteln die WeberWorldCafés, die die at venues like the German Historical Museum Max Weber Stiftung gemeinsam mit dem Forum (“Russia in Europe – Europe in Russia”), the Bode seit 2014 zweimal jährlich an Orten wie dem Deut- Museum (“Negotiating Cultural Heritage”), or the schen Historischen Museum (»Russland in Europa Dortmund City Hall (“Demographic Change”). – Europa in Russland«), dem Bode-Museum This communicative and open event format is (»Negotiating Cultural Heritage«) oder dem aimed at a younger audience. The guests have the Dortmunder Rathaus (»Demographic Change«) opportunity to discuss with experts at different organisiert. Dieses kommunikative und offene topic tables. These experts are mostly researchers Veranstaltungsformat richtet sich an ein jüngeres from the Forum’s and the Max Weber Foundation’s Publikum. Die Gäste haben die Gelegenheit, an research network. The events are accompanied by Thementischen mit ExpertInnen zu diskutieren, in young science reporters via blogs and other social der Regel WissenschaftlerInnen aus dem Umfeld media. des Forums und der Max Weber Stiftung. Die Ver- anstaltungen werden durch junge Science-Reporter über Blogs und andere soziale Medien begleitet. 15

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Der Vorstand des Forums besteht aus der The Executive Board of the Forum consists of Lateinamerika-WissenschaftlerinMarianne the Latin American Studies scholar Marianne Braig, dem Globalhistoriker Sebastian Conrad Braig, the global historian Sebastian Conrad (beide Freie Universität Berlin), dem Afrika- (both Freie Universität Berlin), the Africa his- Historiker Andreas Eckert (Humboldt-Univer- torian Andreas Eckert (Humboldt-Universität sität zu Berlin), der Sinologin Barbara Mittler zu Berlin), the Sinologist Barbara Mittler (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg) sowie (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg), and the der Arabistin Friederike Pannewick (Philipps- Arabic studies scholar Friederike Pannewick Universität Marburg). In wissenschaftlichen (Philipps-Universität Marburg). In scholarly mat- Angelegenheiten, insbesondere bei der Entschei- ters, especially when deciding on new programs dung über neue Programme und der Berufung and appointing Fellows, the executive board von Fellows, berät sich der Vorstand mit einem confers with an internationally staffed Academic international zusammengesetzten Wissen- Advisory Committee. schaftlichen Beirat. The Forum was founded in October 2009 in Das Forum wurde im Oktober 2009 im Amtssitz the official seat of the Stiftung Preußischer der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Form Kulturbesitz in the form of a registered associa- eines eingetragenen Vereins gegründet. Mitglie- tion. Members of the Forum are universities and der des Forums sind Universitäten und auße- non-university research institutions from all over runiversitäre Forschungseinrichtungen aus dem Germany. Hermann Parzinger, President of the gesamten Bundesgebiet. Hermann Parzinger, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, is the Chair- Präsident der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, person of the Members’ Assembly. 16

ist Vorsitzender der Mitgliederversammlung. Georges Khalil, the Academic Coordinator of the Die Geschäftsstelle wird von Georges Khalil, Forum, heads the business office. dem Wissenschaftlichen Koordinator des Since April 2013, Germany’s Federal Ministry Forums, geleitet. for Education and Research (BMBF) has sup- Seit April 2013 unterstützt das Bundesminis- ported this cooperation and the program Art terium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) die Histories and Aesthetic Practices in the Kooperation mit der Max Weber Stiftung und framework of its project support. In 2018/2019 das Programm Art Histories and Aesthetic the program receives funding by the KHI Flo- Practices im Rahmen einer Projektförderung. renz/Max-Planck-Gesellschaft for additional Im Jahr 2018/2019 fördert das KHI Florenz/ fellowships. The Forum is supported by the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft das Programm über Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery weitere Fellowships. Die Geschäftsstelle des for Science and Research. In 2018/2019 the Forums wird vom Regierenden Bürgermeister Forum receives funding in the framework of the von Berlin – Senatskanzlei für Wissenschaft Philipp-Schwartz-Initiative. EUME is supported und Forschung finanziert. 2018/2019 erhält by a private foundation in 2018/2019. Some das Forum zwei Förderungen im Rahmen der of its Fellows are funded by the Alexander von Philipp-Schwartz-Initiative. EUME wird durch Humboldt Foundation, the Fritz Thyssen Foun- eine private Stiftung unterstützt. Einige seiner dation, and other institutions. Prisma Ukraïna Fellows erhalten Förderungen aus Mitteln der is supported with funds from the State of Berlin Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, sowie der and the Marga and Kurt Möllgaard Foundation. Fritz Thyssen Stiftung und anderer Einrich- The Academy in Exile has been funded by tungen. Prisma Ukraïna wird durch Mittel the Volkswagen Foundation since fall 2017; des Landes Berlin und der Marga und Kurt some of the fellowships are supported by the Möllgaard-Stiftung finanziert. Freudenberg-Stiftung or the Scholar Rescue Die Akademie im Exil wird seit Herbst 2017 Fund. Through the support of other foundations, von der VolkswagenStiftung gefördert; einige the Academy will expand further. On issues of ihrer Fellowships werden durch die Freudenberg- general administration, the Forum cooperates Stiftung oder den Scholar Rescue Fund finan- closely with the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. ziert. Mit Unterstützung weiterer Stiftungen Detailed information on the Forum and its ist eine Erweiterung der Akademie geplant. In research programs can be found at Fragen der allgemeinen Verwaltung arbeitet das Forum eng mit dem Wissenschaftskolleg zu www.forum-transregionale-studien.de Berlin zusammen.

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www.forum-transregionale-studien.de 17 Vorstand / Board of Directors

Andreas Eckert Marianne Braig

ist Professor für die Geschichte Afrikas an der ist Professorin für Politikwissenschaft an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (seit 2007) und Freien Universität Berlin mit dem Schwerpunkt leitet seit 2009 das Internationale Geisteswis- der Politik Lateinamerikas. Außerdem ist sie senschaftliche Kolleg »Arbeit und Lebenslauf Mitglied des Vorstands des Center for Area Stu- in globalgeschichtlicher Perspektive (re:work)«. dies (CAS) an der Freien Universität Berlin. Als Zuvor war er Professor für Neuere Geschichte, Sprecherin repräsentiert sie das internationale Schwerpunkt Geschichte Afrikas (2002-2007). Kompetenznetz »desiguALdades.net«, das Gastprofessuren und Fellowships führten internationale Graduiertenkolleg »Zwischen ihn u.a. an die School of Oriental and African Räumen«, sowie das internationale Verbund- Studies (SOAS) in London, Maison des Sciences projekt »Medidas para la inclusión social y de l’Homme in Paris, Indiana University in equidad en instituciones de educación superior Bloomington und Harvard University. Andreas en América Latina (MISEAL)«. Marianne Braig Eckert schreibt regelmäßig als freier Autor für ist seit der Gründung des Forums im Jahr 2009 die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung und DIE im Vorstand. ZEIT. Er ist seit der Gründung des Forums im is Professor of Political Science with a focus on Jahr 2009 Vorsitzender des Vorstands. politics of Latin America at the Freie Universität is Professor of African History at Humboldt Uni- Berlin. She is member of the Board of Directors versity Berlin (since 2007) and has been leading of the Center for Area Studies (CAS) at the Freie the “IGK Work and Human Life Cycle in Global Universität Berlin and spokeswoman of the History (re:work)” research center since 2009. international competence network “desiguAL- Before that, he was Professor of Modern History dades.net”, the international graduate school with a focus on African history (2002-2007). As “Zwischen Räumen” and the international joint Visiting Professor and Fellow, he worked at the project “Medidas para la inclusión social y equi- School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in dad en instituciones de educación superior en London, the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in América Latina (MISEAL)”. Marianne Braig has Paris, Indiana University in Bloomington, and been a member of the Board since the foundation Harvard University. Andreas Eckert also writes of the Forum in 2009. for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and DIE ZEIT. He has been Chairman of the Board of Directors ever since the Forum was founded. 18

Sebastian Conrad Barbara Mittler

ist Historiker und Japanologe. Er hat seit 2010 ist Professorin für Sinologie an der Universität den Lehrstuhl für Moderne Geschichte an der Heidelberg. Sie leitet als Direktorin das Exzel- Freien Universität Berlin inne und leitet dort den lenzcluster »Asia and Europe in a Global Con- Arbeitsbereich »Globalgeschichte«. Von 1999 text« und das Heidelberger Centrum für Trans- bis 2005 war er Mitglied der Jungen Akademie kulturelle Studien (HCTS). Barbara Mittler hat an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der im Februar 2015 ihr Amt als Vorstandsmitglied Wissenschaften und wurde 2007 Professor für des Forum Transregionale Studien angetreten. Moderne Geschichte am European University is Professor of Sinology at the University of Institute in Florenz. 1999/2000 war er Fellow Heidelberg. She is the Co-Director of the Cluster am Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Sebastian of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Con- Conrad gehört dem Vorstand des Forums seit text” and the Heidelberg Centre for Transcul- dem Jahr 2009 an. tural Studies (HCTS). Barbara Mittler became is a Historian and Japanologist. Since 2010, he a member of the Forum’s Board of Directors in has been Professor of Modern History and has February 2015. been leading the research section “Global His- tory” at the Freie Universität Berlin. From 1999 to 2005, he was a member of the Young Acad- emy at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and was Professor of Mod- ern History at the European University Institute in Florence. In 1999/2000 he was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Sebastian Conrad has been member of the Board since the Forum was founded in 2009. 19

Friederike Pannewick

ist seit 2007 Professorin für Arabistik am Centrum für Nah- und Mitteloststudien (CNMS) an der Philips-Universität Marburg. Sie war von 2001 bis 2011 Projektleiterin am »Arbeitskreis Moderne und Islam (AKMI)« des Wissenschaftskollegs zu Berlin. Sie war außerdem von 2005 bis 2007 Associate Professor for Arabic Studies an der Universität Oslo. Sie ist unter anderem Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des Orient-Instituts Beirut (Institut der Max Weber Stiftung) und der Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. Seit Oktober 2012 ist sie Mitglied des Vorstands des Forum Transregi- onale Studien.

has been Professor of Arabic Studies at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) at Philips University Marburg since 2007. From 2001 to 2011, she led the projects “Cultural Mobility in Near Eastern Literature” and “Travelling Tradi- tions—Comparative Perspectives on Near Eastern Literatures” of the “Working Group Modernity and Islam (AKMI)” at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. She was Associate Professor of Arabic Stud- ies at the University of Oslo from 2005 to 2007 and she is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Orient Institute Beirut (Institute of the Max Weber Stiftung) and the Friedrich Schlegel Gradu- ate School for Literary Studies at the Freie Univer- sität Berlin. Since October 2012, she has been a member of the Forum‘s Board of Directors. 20 Europa im Nahen Osten – Der Nahe Osten in Europa / Europe in the Middle East— The Middle East in Europe (EUME)

Die Leitidee von Europa im Nahen Osten – Europe in the Middle East—The Middle Der Nahe Osten in Europa (EUME) ist die East in Europe (EUME) is a multi-disciplinary Erforschung der historischen, politischen, reli- research program at the Berlin-based Forum giösen, sozialen und kulturellen Verflechtungen Transregionale Studien. EUME seeks to rethink und Grenzziehungen in und zwischen Europa key concepts and premises that link and divide und dem Nahen Osten. Gegenüber einem Denken Europe and the Middle East. Within the frame- in Gegensätzen und Dichotomien sollen die viel- work of five research fields in the disciplines of fältigen Rezeptions- und Übersetzungsprozesse, Literature, Political Philosophy, Urban History, gemeinsame historische Vermächtnisse sowie Philology-cum-Late Antiquity, and Islamic die Mobilität von Personen und Ideen ins Blick- Studies, the program attempts to recollect the feld treten. EUME wurde 2006 als gemeinsames legacies of Europe in the Middle East and of the Forschungsprogramm der Berlin-Brandenburgi- Middle East in Europe in an inclusive way that schen Akademie der Wissenschaften, der Fritz aims to do justice to their entanglements. The Thyssen Stiftung und des Wissenschaftskollegs program creates a platform that rests upon the zu Berlin begründet und steht in der Tradition idea of “learning communities” (Wolf Lepenies) des von 1996 bis 2006 vom Land Berlin und dem and the principle of “research with rather than BMBF geförderten Arbeitskreises Moderne und research on”. It allows for the invitation of post- Islam (AKMI). Seit September 2011 wird EUME doctoral researchers, the organization of regular als Programm am Forum Transregionale Studien seminars, lectures, workshops and summer weitergeführt. academies, that strengthen and modify existing research groups and contexts in Germany, EUME integriert fünf Forschungsfelder, die an beyond academic circles. Bruchlinien nationaler, religiöser oder kultureller Vorverständnisse ansetzen. Aus unterschiedli- The program draws on the international exper- chen disziplinären Perspektiven (Anthropolo- tise of scholars in and outside of Germany and gie, Islamwissenschaft, Philologie, Geschichte, is embedded in university and extra-university Literaturwissenschaft, Politologie) zielt EUME research institutions in Berlin. EUME was darauf ab, die Bedeutung der Forschung zu initiated in 2006 by the Berlin-Brandenburg außereuropäischen Kulturen und Gesellschaften Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Fritz für die Differenzierung der Geistes- und Sozial- Thyssen Foundation and the Wissenschaftskol- wissenschaften unter den Bedingungen globaler leg zu Berlin and builds upon the previous work Verflechtungen und Fragmentierungen deutlich of the Working Group Modernity and Islam zu machen. (1996-2006) at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. EUME supports and rests upon five inter- — Das Forschungsfeld Mobile Traditionen: Ver- connected research fields: gleichende Perspektiven auf die nahöstlichen Lite- raturen (Friederike Pannewick und Samah Selim) — Travelling Traditions: Comparative Perspectives ist literaturwissenschaftlich ausgerichtet und on Near Eastern Literatures (Friederike Pannewick untersucht nahöstliche Literaturen im Hinblick and Samah Selim) reassesses literary entangle- auf nationalphilologische Kanonbildungen und ments and processes of translation and canoniza- literarische Verflechtungen mit den Literaturen tion between Europe and the Middle East. anderer Regionen. 21 Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe

— Städtevergleich: Urbaner Wandel im Mittelmeer- — Cities Compared: Urban Change in the Mediter- raum und angrenzenden Regionen (Ulrike Freitag ranean and Adjacent Regions (Ulrike Freitag and und Nora Lafi) möchte aus dem Blickwinkel der Nora Lafi) contributes to the debate on plurality, historischen Erfahrungen soziokultureller, eth- citizenship and civil society from the historical nischer und religiöser Differenz in den Städten experience of conviviality and socio-cultural, am Mittelmeer und dem Indischen Ozean zur ethnic, and religious differences in the cities Debatte über Pluralismus, Migration, Staatsbür- around the Mediterranean. gerschaft und Zivilgesellschaft beitragen. — Islamic Discourse Contested: Middle Eastern and — Politisches Denken im modernen Islam: Nah- European Perspectives (Gudrun Krämer) analyzes östliche und europäische Perspektiven (Gudrun modern Middle Eastern thought in the frame- Krämer) thematisiert moderne islamische Ideen work of discourses on modernity, secularity, and und Konzepte im Kontext der zeitgenössischen justice. Diskurse um Moderne, Säkularität und Gerech- — Tradition and the Critique of Modernity: Secu- tigkeit. larism, Fundamentalism and Religion from Middle — Tradition und die Kritik der Moderne: Säkula- Eastern Perspectives (Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin) rismus, Fundamentalismus und Religion aus nah- tries to rethink key concepts of modernity like östlichen Perspektiven (Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin) secularity, tradition, and religion in the context ist darauf ausgerichtet, Schlüsselbegriffe der of experiences, interpretations, and critiques Moderne im Horizont nahöstlicher Erfahrungen from the Middle East in order to contribute to a zu durchdenken, um zu inklusiven Vorstellungen more inclusive language of culture, politics and von Politik und Gesellschaft beizutragen. community.

— Im Forschungsfeld Der Koran als Text einer — Perspectives on the Qur'an: Negotiating Differ- gemeinsamen Antike und geteilten Geschichte ent Views of a Shared History (Angelika Neuwirth) (Angelika Neuwirth) wird der Gründungstext situates the foundational text of Islam within the des Islam innerhalb der religiösen Landkarte der religious and literary landscape of late antiquity, Spätantike lokalisiert und eine Historisierung early Islamic History and Arabic philology, and seiner Entstehung mit seiner Rezeption und combines a historicization of its genesis with an Wahrnehmung in Europa und dem Nahen Osten analysis of its hermeneutics, its reception and verbunden. perception in Europe and the Middle East.

Die Forschungsfelder bilden den Rahmen von These research fields contribute to our knowl- EUME, in dessen Zentrum ein Postdoc-Pro- edge of Middle Eastern cultures and societies gramm steht, das jedes Jahr Fellows, insbeson- and their relations to Europe. At the same time, dere aus dem Nahen Osten, aber auch aus den they attempt to re-center the significance of aca- USA, Afrika, Südasien und anderen europäischen demic disciplines for the study of non-European Ländern, für die Dauer eines akademischen Jah- contexts, in this case the Middle East. Thus, res nach Berlin einlädt, um an ihren Forschungs- EUME supports historical-critical philology, vorhaben zu arbeiten. Die EUME-Fellows sind rigorous engagement with the literatures of the entsprechend ihrer disziplinären Ausrichtung Middle East and their histories, the social his- assoziiert am Corpus Coranicum (BBAW), dem tory of cities and the study of Middle Eastern Zentrum Moderner Orient, der Friedrich Schlegel political and philosophical thought (Christian, Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftli- Jewish, Muslim, and secular) as central fields of che Studien, der Berlin Graduate School Muslim research not only for area or cultural studies, but 22 Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe

Cultures and Societies, dem Center for Global also for Europe and the academic disciplines. History und dem Institute for Jewish Studies der The research fields constitute the framework for Freien Universität Berlin und der Humboldt- the fellowship program that forms the center of Universität zu Berlin, dem Zentrum für Litera- EUME. Since 1997, more than 250 scholars from tur- und Kulturforschung Berlin, den Instituten and of the Middle East have been EUME Fellows, für Geschichts-, Islam- und Politikwissenschaft who, by their scholarly projects and their ques- und dem Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik tions relating to the order of knowledge, society der Freien Universität Berlin oder den Instituten and politics, shape the academic program of für Europäische Ethnologie und Slawistik der EUME. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. EUME explores modernity as a historical space Ein gemeinsames Berliner Seminar bringt die and conceptual frame – not as a particular Interdependenzen der Forschungsfelder sowie national or European realm, but as a reflexive die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Fragen zur modernity, as an uneven, polyphonic terrain in Geltung, die mit den spezifischen Forschungs- which people, ideas, and discourses moved and themen verbunden sind. In Arbeitsgesprächen, were assimilated, contested, displaced, reshaped, Workshops und Sommerakademien können or redeployed in a variety of ways, in Europe as spezifische Themen vertieft werden. well as in the Middle East. The program puts forward three programmatic ideas: Seit den Anfängen des Arbeitskreises Moderne und Islam (AKMI) im Jahr 1996 forschten über — support for research that demonstrates the 250 Postdocs als Fellows des AKMI oder von infinitely rich and complex historical legacies EUME für ein Jahr in Berlin. Internationale between Europe and the Middle East; Workshops trugen zur Erweiterung der wis- — a re-examination of genealogical notions of senschaftlichen Kontakte bei. Komplementär ‘mythical beginnings’, ‘origins’, and ‘purity’ in zu den Aktivitäten in Berlin wurden ab 1996 relation to culture and society; and jährlich Sommerakademien und Workshops in der Region abgehalten. So führte das Programm — an attempt to contribute to the rethinking of seitdem mit mehr als 2000 Wissenschaftle- key concepts of a common modernity in light rInnen aus Deutschland, Europa, den USA und of today’s perspective on cultural, social, and arabisch und muslimisch geprägten Ländern political entanglements; entanglements that und Israel wissenschaftliche Debatten über Kon- supersede rigid identity discourses, national, zepte von Recht und Ordnung, Grenzziehungen cultural, or regional canons, and epistemolo- in religiösen Traditionen, zum Zusammenleben gies established in the world of the nineteenth von Menschen unterschiedlicher sozialer, eth- century. nischer und kultureller Herkunft in den Städten des Mittelmeerraums, zu Kanonisierungspro- EUME is directed by a Collegium that currently zessen in Literatur und Geschichtsschreibung, consists of: Ulrike Freitag (Zentrum Moderner zu Fragen der Hermeneutik, Grenzziehungen Orient), Cilja Harders (spokesperson of the Col- zwischen Christentum, Judentum und Islam, legium; Freie Universität Berlin), Kader Konuk zur Bedeutung von Exil und Rückkehr im paläs- (Universität Duisburg-Essen), Gudrun Krämer tinensischen und israelischen Diskurs, der Rolle (Freie Universität Berlin), Nora Lafi (Zentrum von Kunst und Kultur im politischen Prozess Moderner Orient), Angelika Neuwirth (Freie oder der Mobilität von Personen und Ideen Universität Berlin), Rashid Ouaissa (Philipps- zusammen. Nahezu alle ehemaligen Fellows und Universität Marburg), Friederike Pannewick Sommerakademie-TeilnehmerInnen erhielten (Philipps-Universität Marburg), Amnon Raz- 23 Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe

in der Zwischenzeit Assistenzprofessuren oder Krakotzkin (Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva), Professuren an Universitäten. Die Mehrzahl ist Samah Selim (Rutgers University), and Stefan an Einrichtungen im Nahen Osten tätig. Weber (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin).

EUME wird von einem Kollegium verantwortet, Koordination: Georges Khalil das derzeit aus Ulrike Freitag (Zentrum Moder- Kontakt: [email protected] ner Orient), Cilja Harders (Sprecherin des Kollegi- Information: eume-berlin.de ums; Freie Universität Berlin), Kader Konuk (Uni- versität Duisburg-Essen), Gudrun Krämer (Freie Universität Berlin), Nora Lafi (Zentrum Moderner Orient), Angelika Neuwirth (Freie Universität Berlin), Rachid Ouaissa (Philipps-Universität Marburg), Friederike Pannewick (Philipps-Uni- versität Marburg), Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben- Gurion University, Beer Sheva), Samah Selim (Rutgers University) und Stefan Weber (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin) besteht. 24 EUME Fellows 2018/2019

Diana Abbani

Lost Voices: Musical Life between Identity Quest and Modernity in Early 20th- Century Beirut

Diana Abbani received her PhD in Arabic Studies Diana’s book project is based on archival from Sorbonne University with a dissertation research (newspapers and memoires) and entitled “Music and Society in Beirut during recorded songs from early twentieth-century the Nahda Period”. She holds an MA in History Beirut. Combining interdisciplinary methods, from Sorbonne University and an MA in Political it focuses on questions of modernisation, class Science from Saint Denis University, Paris. Her and taste through the analysis of the changes work focuses mainly on the social and cultural occurred in the musical life. It follows the ways life in the Levant, particularly on Beirut, at the in which the collapse of the Ottoman Empire turn of the 20th century. In her dissertation, she and the French mandate changed and affected draws a social and cultural history of Beirut’s entertainment and leisure in Beirut by focusing musical scene in the first quarter of the twen- on its evolving musical scene, as it manifested tieth century. She offers a historical rethinking in changing places of consumption, sociality of the cultural and musical history of Beirut by and the distribution of music as a new form of looking at the relation between music, technol- commodity. The reading of how the social and ogy and society through the analysis of a set of political transformations in early 20th-century primary sources. Beirut affected and created new forms of enter- During the academic year 2018/19, Diana will tainment, leisure, musical expressions and com- be a EUME Fellow associated with the Friedrich modities allows to understand the role of music Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies at in making a national identity and discourse in Freie Universität Berlin. the newly established State of Greater Lebanon. The research offers thus a historical analysis of how collective identities took shape in songs that built national imaginary during the 1920s and 1930s by setting myths (such as the Glorious Arab or Syrian Unity) and new social debates about issues such as the decadence in the society or gender. 25 Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe

Refqa Abu-Remaileh

PalREAD – Country of Words: Reading and Reception of Palestinian Literature from 1948 to the Present

Refqa Abu-Remaileh is an Assistant Professor PalREAD aims to tell the story of Palestinian at the Freie Universität Berlin’s Arabic Studies literature by tracing, collecting, mapping and Department. She is the Principal Investigator of analyzing the development and evolution of the ERC project “PalREAD – Country of Words: Palestinian literary and cultural production and Reading and Reception of Palestinian Literature practices from 1948 to the present across various from 1948 to the Present”. She received her Arab, European, American, and Latin American DPhil and MSt in Modern Middle Eastern Stud- countries. The project aims to take a holistic ies, with a focus on modern Arabic Literature approach to researching authors and literary and Film, from the University of Oxford (2010, texts: their trajectories, production, reading sites, 2004), and her BA in English Literature from reception, and circulation. PalREAD is a 5-year the University of British Columbia (2002). She (2018-2023) European Research Council (ERC) has worked with the London-based charity funded project, hosted at the Freie Universität Oxford Research Group as a consultant on their Berlin, led by principal investigator Refqa Abu- Palestine-Israel projects. Remaileh. In 2012-13, she was a EUME Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin. From 2014-16, she was an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral Fellow affiliated with EUME and continues to be affiliated with EUME to the present. 26 Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe

Seda Altuğ

The Making of Modern Syria: Sect, Land, Politics and Violence (1915–1946)

Seda Altuğ is a lecturer at the Atatürk Insti- Seda’s study aims to investigate the governing of tute for Modern Turkish History at Boğaziçi ethno-religious difference through exploring the University, Istanbul. She received her PhD management of the land issue in Syria under the from Utrecht University, Netherlands. Her French mandate and its aftereffects in the post- dissertation is entitled “Sectarianism in the colonial period. “The land question” addresses Syrian Jazira: Community, Land and Violence a set of political, economic, ideological, judicial in the Memories of World War I and the French and cultural issues. Viewed in this way, the land Mandate (1915–1939)”. Her research interests issue is a question not only of economic history, cover state-society relations in French-Syria, but also of social history, implicating a redefini- sectarianism, land question, empire, border and tion in the relationship between land and the memory. She has recently started working on individual/community/nation. The practices and land and property regimes in the late Ottoman discourses surrounding the land issue are also East and Syria under the French mandate. formative in the making of modern state power She was a EUME Fellow during the academic and citizenship practices as well as in claims of year of 2017/18 and continues to be with EUME sovereignty at all levels. The nature of the strug- in the academic year of 2018/19 as a Fellow of gle over the use, revenue and distribution of land the Forum Transregionale Studien. In 2018/19, where the colonial agency is claimed to have she is associated with the Center for Global His- played a marginal role leads to the second theme tory at Freie Universität Berlin. of this project: sectarianism, namely the govern- ance of cultural (ethnic or religious) difference that often, but not always provided the political and social underpinnings of the contest over land. This study, in particular, will focus on the socio-economic project of difference-making. It will hold a multi-sited archival research and delve into the debates on land dispute and settlement in three frontier regions with politically contested new settlements and mixed land tenure systems in French-Syria.

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Mohammed Bamyeh

A Theory of Tradition

Mohammed Bamyeh is Professor of Sociology at During his time at EUME, Mohammed will be the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and the cur- preparing his new book A Theory of Tradition, for rent editor of International Sociology Reviews which he has been collecting notes and source (ISR). He has held the Hubert Humphrey chair materials for the past 20 years, for publication. in International Studies at Macalester College in It is intended as a contribution to compara- Saint Paul, Minnesota, and the SSRC-MacArthur tive social theory, as well as to debates on the Fellowship in International Peace and Security. He nature of “modernity” in a variety of world has previously taught at Georgetown University, regions. He will also continue his work in the New York University, SUNY Buffalo, and the Uni- sociology of knowledge, with a focus on the versity of Massachusetts. He received his PhD in relationship between intellectual influences and Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madi- revolutionary processes in the Arab World. son in 1990. His subsequent areas of interest have included processes of comparative cultural change as reflected in Islamic histories, revolutionary processes and social movements, and social theory. He is also a specialist in the sociology of knowledge, especially concerning the role of intellectuals in society and professional knowledge systems in the Arab World. He is the lead author of the Arab Council for Social Sciences’ (ACSS) first report, Social Sciences in the Arab World: Forms of Presence (2015). He has been a EUME Fellow in the academic years 2010/11 and 2014/15 and returns as affiliated EUME Fellow from May 2018 to February 2019, and again in July and August 2019. 28 Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe

Rasha Chatta

The Arab Migrant Graphic Novel: A Comparative Study of (Im)migrant Stories, War Narratives, and Conflicted Memory between the Near East and Europe

Rasha Chatta earned her PhD in Comparative Her research project focuses on the graphic Literature from SOAS, University of London novel, a sub-genre that is traditionally less (2016), with a dissertation titled “Marginality examined in Arab and Middle Eastern Studies. and Individuation: A Theoretical Approach to It will seek to offer a comparative study of the Abla Farhoud and Arab Migrant Literature”. She Arab migrant graphic novel by examining the holds an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies visual and creative portrayal of (im-)migrant from SOAS and a BA in History of the Middle experiences in the aftermaths of the Lebanese East and North Africa from Panthéon-Sorbonne civil war, the Israeli-Lebanese war of summer (Paris I) and “Classes préparatoires” in Humani- 2006, and the Syrian war in the wake of the Arab ties. At SOAS, she has taught courses on Arab spring. It will also focus on the role of memory in women’s literature, Arab cinema, and the Arabic bridging dislocated narratives between the Near language. In 2009, she was Community Out- East and Europe. Her project engages analytically reach Director at the Cairo-based Resettlement with the creative forms of expression attending Legal Aid Project. Her research interests include the current mass migrations, offering historical visual aesthetics and memory, approaches to depth to the understanding of the cultural roots world literature, migrant and diasporic litera- of recent movements and experiences. While tures, and war literature with a focus on Lebanon aiming to bring the expertise of area studies to and Syria. Among her publications is the chapter bear on the radical new artistic forms, the study “Mutations of the Trans-Migrare: Reflections also aims to contribute to visual studies and the on Individuation and Un-Homing on the Other study of comic and graphic narratives. It seeks to Side of Belonging”, in Kläger, F. and Stierstorfer, do so both by expanding the reach of these fields K. (eds.), Diasporic Constructions of Home and to include contemporary authors of Arab back- Belonging (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015) 53–69. ground writing in Arabic and different European During the academic years 2017/18 and languages, and by exploring the possibility of a 2018/19, she is a EUME Fellow associated with comparative approach to the visual aesthetics of the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Liter- conflicted memory. ary Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. 29 Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe

Pascale Ghazaleh

The Property of the People: The Battle for National Wealth and Citizens’ Rights in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt

Pascale Ghazaleh is an Associate Professor of The process of state-building in Egypt during the History at the American University in Cairo. She nineteenth century involved a degree of brutality, specializes in Ottoman history and nineteenth- as individuals experienced increasingly direct century Egypt. She received her PhD in History government involvement in the form of military from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences conscription, tax collection, recruitment for pub- Sociales (EHESS), Paris. She has published lic works projects, and census-taking. Pascale research on the social organization of craft wishes to investigate whether the abstract idea guilds in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- of national resources as the basis of the national century Egypt, and on the material culture and economy – viewed increasingly as an autono- social networks of merchants in Cairo during the mous sphere in later years – has developed as same period. During her time as a EUME Fellow, a response to various forms of expropriation to she will be working on a project about ownership which citizens were subjected as part of a drive practices and their relation to the constitution toward “colonial administrative-market unifica- of national resources in late nineteenth-century tion,” in Benedict Anderson’s words. Rather than Egypt. In the academic year 2017/18 and in focusing on ways in which intellectuals from summer 2019, she is a EUME Fellow of the recently educated classes formulated this idea, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and associ- she wants to look at how different social groups ated with the Center for Global History at Freie laid claim to resources in the name of their Universität Berlin. Egyptian-ness. 30 Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe

Zeina G. Halabi

Excavating the Arab Present: History, Power, and the Archive

Zeina G. Halabi is Assistant Professor of Arabic Zeina’s current book project examines the ways Literature at the American University of Beirut. in which contemporary writers excavate the Arab She specializes in modern Arabic literature with cultural archive in search for past narratives particular interest in questions of loss, mourn- that make legible the Arab world in gestation. ing, and dissidence in contemporary literature She reads the archive as a repository for cultural and visual culture. She was a 2012-2013 EUME memory and a device of knowledge and power Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien, that structures it. Addressing a palimpsest where she began working on her first book titled of contemporary works in cinema, visual art, The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual: Prophecy, literature, and music from Egypt, Lebanon, and Exile, and the Nation (Edinburgh University Palestine, her book reveals the ways in which the Press, 2017) that examines the depiction of Arab reexamination of the Arab archive by practices of intellectuals in post-1990s fiction and film. She excavation enables cultural actors to articulate a has authored articles on the shifting notion of novel interpretation of the past and envision the political commitment in the writings of canoni- future. It suggests that contemporary excavation cal and emerging Arab writers. She is currently practices are not a nostalgic return to an imag- working on her second book project provisionally ined Arab identity and a statement on cultural entitled Excavating the Present: History, Power, authenticity. Rather, they are the means by and the Arab Archive, which explores archival which artists and writers articulate an overarch- practices in contemporary literature. She received ing disenchantment with the ways stories of the her BA from the American University of Beirut Arab past had hitherto been transmitted and an (2001), MA from the London School of Econom- effort to create a field of meaning for the future. ics (2003), and PhD from the University of Texas As she proposes alternatives to the ahistorical at Austin (2011). and presentist scholarly approaches that have In the summers of 2018, 2019 and 2020, she governed research on the contemporary Arab was and will be a EUME-CNMS Fellow of the world, she reveals the ways in which archival Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. and excavation practices can answer ontological questions in time of wars and uprisings. 31 Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe

Mona Kareem

Good Mothers, Bad Sisters: Arab Women Writers in the Nation

Mona Kareem earned her PhD in Comparative Mona’s study will examine contemporary Arabic Literature from The State University of New York feminist writings that offer various perspectives at Binghamton (2018), with a dissertation enti- on the nation vis-à-vis their fictional narratives tled “Good Mothers, Bad Sisters: Arab Women on marginalized groups. Her research is broken Writers in the Nation.” She holds an MA in down into a number of key political questions: Comparative Literature from SUNY Binghamton How do these women-writers tackle the experi- and a BA in English and Comparative Literature ences and histories of marginalized groups, from the American University of Kuwait. For the specifically migrants, blacks, and the stateless? past six years, Kareem has taught literature and How do they challenge or reproduce hegemonic writing classes at SUNY Binghamton, Rutgers accounts, rhetoric, and representations in their University, and the City University of New York. approaches to subaltern subjectivities? How do She is the author of three poetry collections their writings address the archaic question of and two book-length translations. Her transla- politics and aesthetics? What kind of intellectual tion of Ashraf Fayadh’s Instructions Within was history is summoned and generated in their nominated for the Best Translated Book Award praxis of writing? The choice to focus on the 2017. She has been a fellow at the BANFF center contemporary Arab feminist novel has multiple in Canada and the Norwich Center in the UK. reasons and functions. One, it is instigated by Her research interests include the contemporary the rise of the genre. Two, the dominant mobili- feminist novel, the Arabic prose poem, strategies zation of the feminist novel as a vehicle for socio- of literary translation, and subaltern subjectivi- political critique calls for a sociopolitical reading. ties. Three, it allows for a critique of the Arab femi- During the academic year of 2018/2019, Mona nist thought, to examine their feminist praxis in will be a EUME Fellow associated with Friedrich writing literature, and to subsequently debunk Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies at the hegemonic understanding of Arab women as Freie Universität Berlin. one entity, centered around the experiences of middle-class citizen-women. 32 Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe

Malak Labib

The Fabric of Development: Transnational Expertise and the Politics of Economic Planning in Egypt (1941-1965)

Malak Labib received her doctorate from Aix- Malak’s project explores the socio-technical his- Marseille University/Institut de Recherche sur le tory of development in Egypt, from the wartime Monde Arabe et Musulman (2015) and her MA regime of economic management to the first from Sciences Po Paris (2005). Her background five-year plan (1941–1965). Moving beyond an is in History and Political Science. Her research analysis of developmentalism as the simple interests cover history knowledge and science, expression of technocratic reason and high political economy and the history of develop- modernism, her project pays attention to the ment. In 2018, she was a CEDEJ/CNRS postdoc- knowledge networks, institutional mechanisms toral fellow. She taught at Aix-Marseille Univer- and social practices that shaped the politics of sity, the American University in Cairo, and Cairo development. Moreover, the project examines University. She has also been active in a number the complex interactions between global and of alternative teaching initiatives in Egypt. From domestic forces in shaping the politics of devel- 2008 to 2010, she was a research fellow at the opment planning, and in doing so, it challenges Economic and Business History Research Center the national confines of Nasserism and seeks to of the American University in Cairo. move beyond nation-centered narratives about During the academic year 2018/2019, she will be political economy and state formation in Egypt a EUME Fellow funded by a research fellowship and the Middle East. Her research draws on oral of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and associated history interviews, private papers and archival with the Center for Global History at Freie Uni- research in Cairo, London, Washington, New versität Berlin. York and Berlin. 33 Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe

Lamia Moghnieh

Global Mental Health at the Periphery: A Social History of Psychiatry, Humanitarianism and Violence in Lebanon (1860–2012)

Lamia Moghnieh received her PhD in Social Lamia’s project examines the history and Work and Anthropology from the University of development of modern psychiatry in Lebanon, Michigan, Ann Arbor. She also has an MA in starting from the first humanitarian intervention Social Science from the University of Chicago in Ottoman Syria in 1860—and the foundation of and an MA in Psychology from the American the first psychiatric institution in 1900 Ottoman University of Beirut. In her dissertation “Human- Lebanon and the Levant—to the present day. itarian Psychology is War and Postwar Lebanon: Her project looks at the entanglements between Violence, Therapy and Suffering”, she examines humanitarianism and psychiatric science as two the humanitarian process of psychologizing suf- projects of modernization and rehabilitation of fering from war and displacement from Israel’s subjects in the Middle East. Lebanon represents invasion in 1982 to the Syrian Refugee crisis in a powerful case for how both these projects 2012. Based on 18 months of ethnographic field- unfolded to produce new forms of therapeutic work, this research looks at how humanitarian subjects in Lebanon, especially with regards to psychology—a new form of expertise—sought to violence and war. More specifically, the project produce therapeutic subjects that both experts looks at 1) the psychiatric reforms in the late and communities in Lebanon contested, appro- nineteenth-century Lebanon; 2) how modern priated and negotiated. In 2016/2017, Lamia psychiatry classified and diagnosed various was a postdoctoral fellow with the Arab Council social transformations in twentieth-century for the Social Sciences (ACSS), affiliated with the Lebanon and 3) how humanitarianism psycholo- SOAM department at the American University of gized violence and war, creating new forms of Beirut. She recently took part of a collective spe- therapeutic subjects in Lebanon. Deeply com- cial issue publication in Contemporary Levant on mitted to a multidisciplinary approach, Lamia “Ethnography as Knowledge in the Arab Region”, situates her project at the intersection of critical contributing a paper on “The Violence We Live medical anthropology, the history of science and In: Reading and Experiencing Violence in the society and Middle East history. The book is a Field” 2:1, 24-36 (2017). mixture of ethnography, archival research and She was a EUME Fellow during the academic interviews with psychiatrists in Lebanon. The year 2017/18 and stays affiliated with the archival research is based on collected records research program for the academic year of of the Lebanon Hospital for Mental and Nerv- 2018/19. ous Disorders—popularly known as Asfourieyh Hospital (1901–1982)— scientific journals and various magazines. 34 Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe

Alia Mossallam

‘Hekāyāt Sha’b – Stories of Peoplehood’: Nasserism, Popular Politics and Songs in Egypt (1956–1974)

Alia Mossallam’s PhD dissertation explored Alia’s research is driven by an interest in alter- a popular history of Nasserist Egypt through native narratives of the 1952 Military Coup in stories told and songs sung by people who Egypt – an event widely celebrated as a revolu- contributed to milestone events of the 1952 tion and that continues to influence people’s revolution (the building of the Aswan High Dam, general consciousness of the role of the military and the 1956 and 1967 wars). She has taught in revolutionary politics until this day. For her at the American University in Cairo (AUC), the study she chose to explore the main milestones Cairo Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences of this “Revolution”, namely the 1956 war on (CILAS), Freie Universität Berlin (FU) and held a Port Said (The Suez War), the building of the series of history workshops ‘Ihky ya Tarikh’ with Aswan High Dam and the duration of the war of students, activists and artists in governorates all attrition in Suez (between the 1967 Six Day War over Egypt, as an experiment in history-telling. and 1973 Yom Kippur). Her aim however was to She has also explored playwriting with Laila research the popular experiences behind these Soliman and Hassan El-Geretly as attempts to events; the experiences of the popular resistance bring stories (and songs) of struggle unto the in the wars in Port Said and Suez, and the stories stage. Her publications include an article on of the builders of the High Dam and the Nubians youth activism in the volume Democratic Transi- displaced by it. Her study thus contributes to an tion in the Middle East, a workers’ history of the alternative understanding of the politics behind Aswan High dam in the Journal of Water History, the revolution. Relying mainly on ethnography, and an article on history workshops in Egypt in her research explored these experiences through the History Workshop Journal. She has also writ- the songs people sang about each of these ten for Mada Masr, Jadaliyya and Ma'azif. events, through researching intimate languages In 2017 and 2018, Alia is a EUME Fellow of the within each of the communities. The study thus Alexander von Humboldt Foundation working on informs, in a theoretical sense, the questions of: a book on a popular history of the building of the How do people document their experiences when Aswan High Dam, and starting a new project on they are written out of mainstream history? the experience of the Egyptian Labour corps in What can oral forms of popular culture and inti- World War I – mainly through songs, theatrics mate languages (songs, poetry, idioms), tell us and cultural articulations of their experience on about the histories of communities that cannot the home and war fronts. “write” their histories? 35 Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe

Burak Onaran

Politics of Time and History: Turkey’s Regime of Historicity in the Coup d’État of 1960

Burak Onaran is Associate Professor in the Burak’s current research project focuses on Department of Sociology at Mimar Sinan Güzel the period surrounding the 1960 coup d’état Sanatlar University, Istanbul. He received his (May 27) in Turkey, which was long considered MA in History from Boğaziçi University (2002) the second foundational period of the Turkish and his PhD in History from the École des hautes Republic. Attempts to govern time and his- études en sciences sociales (EHESS) (2009). His tory have always been an important feature of research interests cover mainly social, political modern politics. This tendency becomes much and culinary history of the Ottoman Empire and more visible in the course of radical political Republican Turkey. His first book, based on his transformations, during which history is rapidly dissertation, examines two plots against the rewritten, national calendars are reorganized, sultan after the abolition of Janissaries (1826) and daily routines of citizens are interrupted or in the context of the transformation of the Otto- modified. Focusing on the conception of time as man political system and its social implications, an element which determines and is determined and thus contributes to a better understanding by political culture is essential to expanding of the changes in the Ottoman political space the horizons of Turkish political history. Fol- through the analysis of the idea and practice of lowing this line of thinking, the main objective regicide: Détrôner le Sultan, Deux conjurations à of his research is to shed light on the complex l’époque des réformes ottomanes: Kuleli (1859) et relationship between politics, history, and the Meslek (1867) (Leuven: Peeters, 2013; published experience of time during the period in ques- in Turkish translation as Padişahı Devirmek: tion. It also aims to bring into view the temporal Osmanlı Islahat Çağında Düzen ve Muhalefet: perspective and historiographical undercurrents Kuleli (1859), Meslek (1867); Istanbul: İletişim, that characterize the political culture of modern 2018). His second book is a collection of four- Turkey beyond May 27, 1960. teen articles, attempts to re-write a political history through culinary culture, primarily in a late Ottoman and Turkish Republican context: MutfakTarih: Yemeğin Politik Serüvenleri (History [in the] Kitchen: The Political Adventures of Food), (İstanbul: İletişim, 2015). During the years 2019-2020 he is a EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and will be associated at the Institute for Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin. 36 Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe

Wendy Pearlman

Syrian Refugees in Germany: Integration, Identity, and the Lived Experience of Exile

Wendy Pearlman is Associate Professor of Politi- Wendy spent the first summer conducting cal Science and the Martin and Patricia Koldyke interviews with Syrian refugees for We Crossed A Outstanding Teaching Professor at Northwestern Bridge and It Trembled and completing writing of University, where she specializes in the com- the manuscript. During the other summers, she parative politics of the Middle East. Her latest will launch a new project on the evolving experi- book, We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices ences of Syrian asylum-seekers in Germany. Her from Syria (HarperCollins 2017), chronicles the field research will focus on questions of integra- Syrian uprising and war through a mosaic of tion, identity, fulfillment of professional aspira- testimonials collected from 2012 through 2017 tions, and the lived experience of exile during from more than 300 displaced Syrians across the this stage. Middle East, Europe, and the United States. She is also the author of two other books, Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Move- ment (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada (Nation Books, 2003), as well as dozens of essays, articles, or book chapters. She holds a BA from Brown University, an MA from Georgetown, and a PhD from Harvard. She has studied or conducted research in Spain, Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Germany, Israel, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In the summers of 2016 to 2021, Wendy is a EUME-CNMS Fellow of the Alexander von Hum- boldt Foundation. 37 Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe

Dina A. Ramadan

Culture is the Red Line: Scenes from a Sit-In and the Battle for Egyptian Identity

Dina A. Ramadan is Assistant Professor of Ara- The demonstrations that took place in front of bic at Bard College. She received her PhD from the Ministry of Culture – against the ministry’s the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, perceived “Ikhwanization” – throughout the and African Studies at Columbia University and month of June, have often been referred to as the is working on a manuscript entitled “The Educa- “warm-up” for the Tamarrud-led anti-Morsi pro- tion of Taste: Art, Aesthetics, and Subject Forma- tests that began on June 30, 2013. The Ministry tion in Colonial Egypt”. She is a senior editor of of Culture sit-in provides an apt case study of the Arab Studies Journal and the guest editor of the ways in which culture is framed and defined in Spring 2010 themed issue on visual arts. She is a Egypt today. By following the development of the founding member of the Association for Modern sit-in and its surrounding discourse, the degree and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, to which such framing continues to be shaped by and Turkey (AMCA). She has contributed to Arab early 20th-century definitions becomes evident; Studies Journal, Art Journal, Middle East Research enlightenment, tanwir, persists as the founda- and Information Project, Journal of Visual Culture, tion for understanding culture, thaqafa, and Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Middle East its relationship to a national identity, hawiya. Studies Association Bulletin, Nka: Journal of Con- It is in this moment of grave threat to Egyptian temporary African Art and other publications. identity that dominant ideas about arts and She has been a EUME Fellow in the academic culture become crystalized. These demonstra- year of 2013/14 and returns as an affiliated tions become a site of solidarity for middle class EUME Fellow in fall 2018 while she is a Visiting Egyptian intellectuals, who see national art and Assistant Professor at Bard College Berlin. culture as theirs to defend against those unable to understand or appreciate them. While many voice their concern about the immediate perils to artistic freedom, they simultaneously articulate a definition of national culture that is limited and prescriptive: artistic culture is intended, first and foremost, to educate and elevate. Even when discussing art as liberatory, as part of freeing from restrictions, its advocates and defenders impose very strict rules on its production and consumption. 38 Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe

Nir Shafir

Pamphleteering Islam in the Ottoman Empire

Nir Shafir is a historian of the early modern Nir’s research examines the vernacular legal Ottoman Empire. His research explores how works that he calls “manuscript pamphlets” – shifts in material culture and religious practice cheap, hand-written, and very mobile texts that shaped the intellectual and scientific life of circulated widely and rapidly across the Ottoman the Middle East between 1300 and 1800. He Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth received his doctorate in History from University centuries. Like social media in our own times, of California, Los Angeles in 2016 and has an these manuscript pamphlets developed new appointment as an Assistant Professor of His- publics and connected the empire but they tory at the University of California, San Diego. also created uneven and “lumpy” intellectual In addition, he is currently editor-in-chief of the and political landscapes as their circulation Ottoman History Podcast, the leading podcast disrupted traditional mechanisms of knowledge on Islamic history in general, where he also transmission and authorship. These effects in curates the podcast’s history of science series. turn exacerbated the deep polemical debates During the academic year of 2018/19, he will be in the seventeenth century about the proper the Irmgard Coninx Price EUME Fellow at the practices and beliefs of Muslims that took place Forum Transregionale Studien associated with within the sphere of Islamic law. Manuscript the Institute of Islamic Studies at Freie Univer- pamphlets both turned law into the primary sität Berlin. space for polemical political debate, as small disagreements over proper Islamic practices became major fights over political participation and were themselves the material agents of polarization. More broadly, his research asks how and why political polemicization emerges in the wake of new technologies of communication, whether manuscripts or the internet, and what are the social practices that allow for factional- ism to abate. Historiography, Popular Culture and Routes of Authoritarianism

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Cihan Tekay

Electrifying the Nation-State: Generating Citizens in Turkey’s Early Republican Era (1923- 1950)

Cihan Tekay is a PhD candidate in Cultural The history of electrification in Turkey is con- Anthropology at The Graduate Center, City nected to the transformation of social life, the University of New York. Her dissertation focuses formation of a late modernizing nation-state, and on the political and economic anthropology of the formation of citizens who became consum- electrification in Turkey from a historical per- ers of energy derived from natural resources. spective. She is the recipient of the Social Science Through archival ethnography and oral history, Research Council’s International Dissertation this project analyzes the process that brought Research Fellowship. She is interested in the his- modern citizens and state into being through tory of globalization of consumer technologies, the production and provision of an electrical post-World War I political-economic relations infrastructure in the early Republican era, 1923– between Germany and Turkey, and the spread of 1950. In the late Ottoman years preceding this scientific ideas across the world. era, the use of electricity and the possibilities it In 2018, she is an Associated Doctoral EUME brought to urban centers reflected the anxieties Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien and inherent to a late-modernizing, non-Western at the Center for Global History at Freie Univer- public. Throughout the modernization process, sität Berlin. the rural was undermined in favor of urbanization, while the conditions of modernization were created by those who lived in the rural areas such as peasants turned mineworkers, as well as by the dispossession of a non-Muslim bour- geoisie. Thus, debates around electricity, its use and production lay one of the bases upon which Turkish nationalism developed, connecting capital, materiality, infrastructure and modernity. Cihan’s project aims to integrate the history of materiality and infrastructure with the project of state-building, modernization and subject formation by investigating the relationship between state, capital, electricity and society. Historiography, Popular Culture and Routes of Authoritarianism

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Yektan Türkyilmaz

Historiography, Popular Culture and Routes of Authoritarianism

Yektan Türkyilmaz received his PhD from Duke Yektan currently works on three interrelated University Department of Cultural Anthropol- projects that have emerged out of his PhD dis- ogy. He taught courses at University of Cyprus, sertation: Sabancı, Bilgi, Duke California State Universities The first traces the genealogies of historio- addressing the debates around the notions of graphical threads on the Armenian Genocide. It collective violence, memory making and recon- follows-up on a central concluding observation ciliation, and politics of music. He is working on that the Armenian Genocide, seen as a process, his book manuscript based on his dissertation, has not only ended countless lives but also “Rethinking Genocide: Violence and Victimhood marks the beginnings of novel ideological forma- in Eastern Anatolia, 1913–1915”, that addresses tions that redefine the boundaries of communi- the conflict in Eastern Anatolia in the early 20th ties and citizenship and sets an exemplary case century and the memory politics around it. for many other instances of collective violence in He has been a 2014/15 EUME Fellow and the broader region of the Middle East up to the returned as a EUME Fellow for the academic present. years 2017/18 and 2018/19 and will be associ- His second project addresses the emergence of ated with the Freie Universität Berlin, Friedrich- the sound recording industry and its implica- Meinecke-Institut, Arbeitsbereich Neuere tions on the remaking of public space in the Geschichte (Prof. Dr. Oliver Janz). broader Ottoman and post-Ottoman world. Finally, his third and most recent research topic addresses the ongoing political upheavals in Turkey. Putting the country’s turbulent history in relation with the recent radical transformations in capitalism and governmentality at the global scale this project tackles the making of popular authoritarianism, institutional disintegration and their implications in the realm of popular culture. 41 Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe

Zeynep Türkyilmaz

An Archeology of Today: Tracing the Genealogies of Yezidi Victimhood

Zeynep Türkyilmaz received her PhD from Zeynep’s project is a long durée study of Yezidi the Department of History at the University of victimization and their narratives, tracing their California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2009. Her manifold manifestations from 1700s until 2014 dissertation, “Anxieties of Conversion: Mis- genocide. It is essentially a critique of ahistorical sionaries, State and Heterodox Communities in and uniform characterizations of Yezidis as an the Late Ottoman Empire,” is based on intensive ever-persecuted people. Informed by Foucault’s research conducted in Ottoman, British, and sev- archaeology of knowledge, which enforces an eral American missionary archives. She was an inquiry of multi-dimensional, multi-linear Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar processes formed by discontinuities, contingen- Postdoctoral Fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill between cies and the choices of actors, thus opening up 2009-2010 and a postdoctoral 2010/11 EUME the possibility of dissonant discourses, this Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien. She project brings in complexities of Yezidi agency worked as an Assistant Professor of history at and actorship. Drawing on extensive archival Dartmouth College between 2011 and 2016 and research and recently published oral testimonies as program coordinator and research fellow at of survivors, this project moves away from Koc University’s Research Center for Anatolian the portrayal of Yezidis only as meek, passive, Civilizations finishing her book project based converted and persecuted peoples, and study on her dissertation. Her research and teaching them as local rulers, and powerbrokers between interests include state-formation, gender, nation- empires; armed and resilient, fighting back on alism, colonialism, and religion with a focus on their Sunni neighbors’ intrusions, sometimes heterodoxy and missionary work in the Middle initiating attacks, and always resisting state’s East from 1800 to the present. She returned as a attempts to infiltrate in matters relating to their EUME Fellow for the academic year of 2017/18 identity as well socio-economic well-being, and continues to be with EUME in 2018/19 as a conscription, and taxation alike. The focus is on Fellow of the Forum Transregionale Studien. In their demands and responses to the introduction 2018/19, she is associated with the Center for of citizenship as well as the redefinition of com- Global History at Freie Universität Berlin. munal coexistence in their local settings at high- altitude and remote corners of these political entities. In so doing, Zeynep hopes to illustrate how Yezidi subjecthood has been reshaped at the intersection of modernizing empires and nation- states. 42 Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe

Avi-ram Tzoreff

Provincializing European Jewry: R. Yosef Hayyim of Baghdad, Ottoman Modernity and the Criticism of Secular Discourse

Avi-ram Tzoreff studied at Ben-Gurion University Avi-ram’s project aims to examine the figure of in the Negev. His PhD dissertation “Jewish-Arab Rabbi Yosef Hayyim – one of the major religious Coexistence against the Secular Discourse” authorities of Baghdadi Jewry in the 19th cen- focused on the crystallization of the concept of tury – as a major reference for a re-examination Jewish-Arab cooperation in Palestine, as well as and problematization of the cultural catego- on the critical approach towards Zionist colonial ries that were developed in European Jewish and secular nationalism in the writings of the contexts, and for the understanding of the author and essayist Yehoshua Radler Feldman, characteristics of modern Ottoman Judaism also known as R. Binyamin (1880–1957). and Ottoman modernity. This discussion of the He will be a postdoctoral EUME Fellow in the figure of Rabbi Yosef Hayyim is contextualized academic year of 2018/19 associated with the with regards to: the social and intellectual local Institute of Jewish Studies at Freie Universität life of Baghdadi Jewish and non-Jewish circles, Berlin. the framework of the political and cultural developments in the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century in general and the urbanization process of Baghdad in particular, and as part of the general Jewish cultural and the British colonial trade networks. Contextualizing Rabbi Yosef Hayyim’s thought with regards to major issues – such as perceptions of subjectivity, gender, poverty and social criticism, theological discourse of modern scientific thinking and of kabalistic knowledge – contributes to the understanding of the historical and cultural Iraqi Jewish experience in the 19th century and of Ottoman modernity, and thus challenges the exclusivity of categories developed on the grounds of European secular discourse. 43 Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe

Sezai Ozan Zeybek

The Geography of Cattle and Sheep: Security, Dispossession and Industrial Food Production in Turkey

Sezai Ozan Zeybek received his PhD in Geogra- Ozan’s research disentangles the ways in which phy from The Open University, UK. He worked markets, states and supra-national institutions as an Associate Professor at Istanbul Bilgi intervene in ecological networks and produc- University, Turkey. Dr. Zeybek works on more- tion regimes in order to increase and accelerate than-human collectives and ecologies, state capital accumulation, particularly in conflict violence, militarism and different constructions zones. For this purpose, he focuses on changing of manhood. His recent publications include a human-animal relations in the Kurdish region of study of stray dogs in Istanbul, livestock killings Turkey as a means of exploring and comparing in the Kurdish region of Turkey during the forced social transformations starting from 1990s up to displacement of the Kurdish population in the present. In this period, human-animal relations 1990s or the criminalisation of goats during the have been drastically altered towards indus- appropriation of forests in the early Republican trial production in a very short span of time, period of Turkey. He teaches on how fungi, which took place in the nexus of A) a new set of financial capital and human health relate to each financial tools introduced by IMF & the World other or how human’s treatment of animals has Bank and B) the security concerns of the Turkish been affected by the energy systems humans State. Through the exercise of selective military could extract. He also published two children’s violence and financial tools, such transformation stories. endorsed the replacement of “inefficient” species As a Fellow of the Forum Transregionale Studien of cattle for more productive animal breeds, and 2018/2019, Ozan is affiliated with EUME. by means of that, villagers for entrepreneurs. The main conceptual framework of the research draws on an emerging conversation between science & technology studies, biopolitics and animal studies, while extending this body of work to a conflict-ridden region in Turkey. 44 Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe

Himmat Zoubi

Culture Spaces and “The Right to the City”: Palestinians in Israel as a Case Study

Himmat Zoubi is a Palestinian researcher and Seventy years after Israel’s sweeping attempts to feminist activist. She wrote her dissertation on de-urbanize Palestinian social life, Palestinians “Control Surveillance Discipline and Everyday in Israel have forged alternative cultural and Resistance: The Case of Haifa during the Mili- intellectual initiatives to practice their “right tary Rule” in the Department of Sociology and to the city” in Israel. Himmat’s project builds Anthropology at Ben Gurion University. She has on her doctoral research which examined the completed two Master’s degrees, one in Crimi- production of Israel colonial urban space through nology from Hebrew University and another in the destruction of urban Palestinian space in Gender Studies from Bar Ilan University. She Israel between 1948 and 1953. Building on how contributed to several book chapters and articles power relations shape space, people, and social on gender, cities and settler colonialism, memory interaction, this project broadens this scope by and oral history, indigenous knowledge and exploring transformations in spatial social power resistance, among them “The Ongoing Nakba relations in Haifa. It examines the interaction – Urban Palestinian Survival in Haifa”, and between macro and micro politics, the continu- “Economic Violence against Palestinian Women ous struggle between colonial power and the in the 1948 Era: Internally Displaced Women colonized over urban space, and the way Pales- from the Saffouri Village”. She has received tinians, living their city today, challenge spatial several awards and grants for her research, and social power relations to reproduce urban among them the PARC – Palestinian American space. This project builds on a growing body of Research Center Fellowship, the Scholarship for knowledge on the interplay between culture, as Outstanding Arab Doctoral Students – Council everyday practice, and cultural city policy mak- for Higher Education, and the Dean’s List Award ing as a global urban phenomenon. It contributes for Academic Excellence (2017-2018). to two bodies of literature: on settler colonial During the academic year 2018/2019, she will be cities and on cultural resistance. The project a EUME Fellow and associated with the Zentrum critically examines the relationships between Moderner Orient, Berlin. neoliberalism, globalization, local urban poli- cies and cultural resistance, using “Palestinian cultural pockets” in “mixed cities” in Israel as a case study. 45 Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship

Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship will zu einer Neubewertung Textual Scholarship supports research on mar- des Kanons textbezogener Wissenschaft beitra- ginalized and undocumented textual practices gen. In einem Zeitalter beispielloser Mobilität and literary cultures with the aim of integrating von Wissen und Menschen möchte Zukunfts- texts and scholarly traditions from Asia, Africa, philologie bisher marginalisierte präkoloniale and the Middle East, as well as from Europe Wissenschaft aus Asien, Afrika, dem Nahen itself, by way of a critical recuperation of philol- Osten und Europa neu in den Blick nehmen und ogy. The program takes as its point of departure bisher vernachlässigte Zweige philologischer the growing concern with the global significance Forschung unterstützen. of philology and the potential of philology to challenge exclusivist notions of the self and the Zukunftsphilologie wurde von 2010 bis 2018 canon. In an age of advanced communication, von einem Kollegium geleitet, das aus folgenden intellectual specialization, and unprecedented Personen bestand: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität migration of knowledge and people, the disci- Berlin), Manan Ahmed (Columbia University), pline of philology assumes new relevance. The Michael Allan (University of Oregon), Elisabetta program seeks to create a context of intellectual Begnini (University of Turin), Whitney Cox synergy in which scholars from various textual (University of Chicago), Adrien Delmas (Institut and philological traditions can work together Francais, South Africa), Ananya Jahanara Kabir comparatively and develop a common language (King’s College London), Shamil Jeppie (Univer- necessary for an engagement in more fundamen- sity of Cape Town), Rajeev Kinra (Northwestern tal political and cultural concerns. University), Marcel Lepper (Deutsches Litera- turarchiv Marbach), Sumit Mandal (University From 2010 to 2018 Zukunftsphilologie was of Nottingham), Markus Messling (Centre Marc directed by a Collegium that consisted of: Islam Bloch Berlin), Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn (CNRS, Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin), Manan Ahmed Paris), Ronit Ricci (Australian National Univer- (Columbia University), Michael Allan (University sity), Umar Ryad (University of Utrecht), Nicolai of Oregon), Elisabetta Begnini (University of Sinai (University of Oxford) und Shaden Tageldin Turin), Whitney Cox (University of Chicago), (University of Minnesota). Adrien Delmas (Institut Francais, South Africa), Ananya Jahanara Kabir (King’s College London), Im Interesse geschichtsbewusster Philologie Shamil Jeppie (University of Cape Town), Rajeev fördert das Programm Forschungen in den fol- Kinra (Northwestern University), Marcel Lepper genden Bereichen: Genealogie und Transforma- (Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach), Sumit tion philologischer Praxis; der Ort der Philologie Mandal (University of Nottingham), Markus im System des Wissens (z. B. ihre Beziehung zu Messling (Centre March Bloch, Berlin), Pascale exakter Wissenschaft, Theologie und Rechts- Rabault-Feuerhahn (CNRS, Paris), Ronit Ricci wissenschaft); Philologie, Nation und Imperium; (Australian National University), Umar Ryad Philologie, Übersetzung und Mobilität und (University of Utrecht), Nicolai Sinai (University schließlich Philologie und Universität. Darüber of Oxford), and Shaden Tageldin (University of hinaus will Zukunftsphilologie kritische Minnesota). Neubewertungen historiographischer und philologischer Praxis unterstützen. To promote historically conscious philology, the program supports research that addresses intellectual entanglements and interactions beyond national, cultural, and regional boundaries. 46 Zukunftsphilologie

Bei der Neubetrachtung wichtiger »Philolo- The program’s main areas of focus include the giekriege« geht es nicht nur darum, den argu- genealogy and transformations of philologi- mentativen Wert der betreffenden Debatten zu cal practice, philology’s place in the system of eruieren, sondern auch um eine Reflexion über knowledge, its relation to science, theology, and ihren allgemeinen kulturellen und politischen jurisprudence, philology and the university, and Kontext und darüber, wie sie unser Wissen um the relation of philology to nation and empire. die Vergangenheit geprägt haben. Furthermore, Zukunftsphilologie aims to Über einen Zeitraum von vier Jahren, von 2010 support critical reviews of historical and philo- bis 2014, wurde Zukunftsphilologie im Rah- logical practice. In revisiting important “philo- men des Forums durch ein Fellowshipprogramm, logical wars”, the goal is not to merely evaluate drei Winterakademien (Kairo, Delhi, Kapstadt), the argumentative worth of these debates, but das World Philologies Seminar sowie eine Reihe to reflect on the wider cultural and political con- von Workshops gefördert. In dieser Phase war text in which they emerged and how they have Zukunftsphilologie an der Friedrich Schlegel shaped our knowledge of the past. Graduiertenschule für Literaturwissenschaft- From 2010 until 2014, Zukunftsphilolo- liche Studien an der Freien Universität Berlin gie offered more than 25 postdoctoral grants assoziiert. through its fellowship program. It hosted a lively Seit Winter 2015 ist Zukunftsphilologie mit series of workshops and lectures as well as three der Berufung seines Leiters, Islam Dayeh, als international winter and summer academies Juniorprofessor am Seminar für Arabistik und (Cairo, Delhi, Cape Town). Postdoctoral Fellows, Semitistik der Freien Universität Berlin angeglie- trained in a branch of the historical or philologi- dert und wird dort weitergeführt. cal disciplines, were invited annually to pursue their own research projects within the research Im Zentrum des Programms steht die Zeitschrift group and to work together with Berlin-based Philological Encounters und das »World Philolo- research centers and universities in the field of gies Seminar«. Philological Encounters widmet philology. In this phase Zukunftsphilolo- sich der historischen und philosophischen Kritik gie was associated with the Friedrich Schlegel der Philologie und wird vom Verlag Brill heraus- Graduate School of Literary Studies at the Freie gegeben. Universität Berlin. Koordination: Islam Dayeh Since the winter of 2015, Zukunftsphilologie Kontakt: [email protected] has been affiliated with the Freie Universität Ber- Information: zukunftsphilologie.de lin due to its director Islam Dayeh’s appointment as Assistant Professor at the Department of Arab and Semitic Studies. The program will continue its work there and will be now focusing on its peer-reviewed journal Philological Encounters, an academic journal dedicated to historical and philosophical critique of philology (published by Brill), and its lecture series “World Philology Seminar”. 47 Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices & Connecting Art Histories in the Museum (CAHIM)

Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices. Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices. Kunstgeschichte und Ästhetische Praktiken Kunstgeschichte und Ästhetische Praktiken ist ein Forschungs- und Stipendienprogramm für is a research and fellowship program which kunsthistorische Forschung in transkulturellem questions and transcends traditional disciplinary und globalem Horizont. Angesiedelt am Forum boundaries in a transcultural, global horizon. By Transregionale Studien in Berlin und in enger creating a space of dialogue for scholars from all Kooperation mit dem Kunsthistorischen Institut continents, it discusses the potential and con- in Florenz (MPI), schafft es einen Dialograum für tours of a plural history of art and visual culture. Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus Located at the Forum Transregionale Studien in aller Welt, der es erlaubt, die Perspektiven und Berlin and in close cooperation with the Kun- Konturen einer pluralen und transregionalen sthistorisches Institut in Florenz (MPI), the pro- Geschichte der Kunst und visuellen Kultur zu gram creates a space of dialogue for scholars from diskutieren. all continents thereby facilitating the examination of the potential and contours of a plural history of Der Begriff der »ästhetischen Praktiken« soll art and visual culture. dazu einladen, Artefakte in ihren Transfer- und Transformationsprozessen aus transkulturellen bis The concept of »aesthetic practices«, introduced hin zu postglobalen Perspektiven zu untersuchen. by the program, is an invitation to study artifacts Der Begriff zielt auf die Dynamiken des Erzeugens with their biographies as well as processes of und der Wahrnehmung von Dingen, Bildern und transfer and transformation in a transcultural, Architekturen. Er umfasst die Geschichte ihrer post-global perspective. This includes the dynam- Erhaltung, Ausstellung, Überarbeitung, musealen ics of the production and perception of things, Aufbewahrung, Neuinszenierung oder Zerstörung. images and architectures from the time of their creation to their subsequent apprehensions up to Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices the present, also including their display, storage, wendet sich an Forscherinnen und Forscher der oppression, reworking, or destruction. asiatischen, afrikanischen, australischen, europä- ischen, der nord-, süd- und zentralamerikanischen Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices Kunstgeschichte, der Archäologie, der Anthro- invites scholars from Asian, African, Australian, pologie sowie weiterer Disziplinen, die sich mit European art histories and those of the Americas der Geschichte und Gegenwart visueller Kulturen and is also addressing neighboring disciplines befassen. Das Programm bezieht soziologische, such as Archaeology, Anthropology and other genderspezifische, historische, rechts- und religi- fields dealing with the history of visual cultures. onswissenschaftliche, technische, philologische, With the study of »aesthetic practices«, the pro- ökologische und wissenschaftshistorische Fragen gram engages with sociological, gender-specific, in die transregionale Erforschung ästhetischer historical, legal, religious, technical, philological, Praktiken ein. Der transregionale und disziplinen- linguistic, ecological, and scientific questions and übergreifende Ansatz von Art Histories ermög- dimensions. The transregional and multidiscipli- licht es, Artefakte als Akteure oder Elemente in nary approach of Art Histories and Aesthetic sozialen und kulturellen Dynamiken zu verstehen. Practices allows understanding artifacts as Das Programm zielt auch darauf, die Dichotomie actors or participants in specific social and cul- einer formalen versus einer kontextuellen Analyse tural dynamics. The program also aims to over- von Artefakten oder Objektkonstellationen zu come the dichotomy of formal versus contextual überwinden. In diesem Sinn arbeitet es auf eine approaches towards artifacts or constellations of kunsthistorische Ökologie hin. objects. It thus promotes the concept of an art- historical ecology. 48 Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices & CAHIM

Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices is strukturiert sich in fünf thematische Felder: structured along five thematic lines: 1. Materiality 1. Materialität und Technik; 2. Mobilität und and Techniques; 2. Mobility and Translation; 3. Übersetzung; 3. Narrative und Display; 4. Ort und Narratives and Display; 4. Site, Space and Environ- Raum; 5. Ästhetik und Ökologie ment; 5. Aesthetics and Ecology.

Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices hat Since 2013, Art Histories and Aesthetic Prac- seit 2013 über vierzig herausragende junge inter- tices has supported and provided scholarly super- nationale WissenschaftlerInnen mit innovativen vision for more than fourty outstanding young Forschungsprojekten gefördert und wissen- international researchers with innovative research schaftlich betreut, zahlreiche Veranstaltungen in projects, carried out numerous events in Germany Deutschland sowie weltweit durchgeführt und and around the world, and thereby substantially damit erheblich zur Etablierung und Diskussion contributed to the establishment and discussion of einer transregionalen Geschichte der Kunst und a transregional history of art and artistic practices. künstlerischer Praktiken beigetragen. Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices stands Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices for intense collaboration between museums steht für eine intensive Zusammenarbeit zwi- and other art-historical research institutions in schen Museen und anderen kunsthistorischen Germany and around the world. In Berlin, Art Forschungseinrichtungen in Deutschland und Histories and Aesthetic Practices cooperates weltweit. In Berlin kooperiert Art Histories mit with the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (SPK - SMB), den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (SPK - SMB), der the Freie Universität, the Humboldt-Universität Freien Universität, der Humboldt-Universität zu zu Berlin, the Technische Universität, and the ICI Berlin, der Technischen Universität sowie dem ICI Berlin. With Universität Heidelberg’s Excellence Berlin. Mit dem Cluster of Excellence »Asia and Cluster “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, the Europe in a Global Context« der Universität Hei- program has developed longer-term collaborations delberg hat das Programm auf Bundesebene eine on the national level. This includes the series of längerfristige Zusammenarbeit aufgebaut. Hierzu events “Art Histories and Terminologies”, which is gehört die Veranstaltungsreihe »Art Histories and devoted to the language and linguistic competence Terminologies«, die sich der Sprache und Sprach- of a transregionally oriented art history. Additional fähigkeit einer transregional ausgerichteten collaborations with partners in Germany, in Kunstgeschichte widmet. Weitere Kooperationen Europe, and around the world have been devel- mit Partnern aus dem Bundesgebiet, in Europa oped, including India, Mexico, China, Turkey, and sowie weltweit konnten in den vergangenen Iran. Among the constant partners of the program Jahren aufgebaut werden, darunter unter anderem is the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte in in Indien, Mexiko, China, der Türkei und in Iran. Paris. Zu den ständigen Partnern des Programms gehört Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices das Deutsche Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris. is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices Education and Research as a project at the Forum wird vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Transregionale Studien. It is associated to the pro- Forschung als Projekt am Forum Transregio- gram »Connecting Art Histories in the Museum« nale Studien gefördert. Es ist assoziiert mit dem (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max- Programm »Connecting Art Histories in the Plack-Institut/Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) and is Museum« (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz directed by Hannah Baader and Gerhard Wolf, KHI – Max-Plack-Institut/Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) in Florenz. und wird von Hannah Baader und Gerhard Wolf, Kontakt: [email protected] KHI in Florenz, geleitet. Information: https://www.arthistories.de 49 Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices & CAHIM

Connecting Art Histories in the Museum ver- Connecting Art Histories in the Museum bindet akademische und museale Forschung mir combines academic and museum research with kuratorischer Arbeit. Bis zu sechs herausragende curatorship. Up to six outstanding international internationale NachwuchswissenschaftlerIn- young Art Historians receive a grant for up to nen ein Fellowship, um 12 bis 24 Monate lang two years to investigate artistic and cultural anhand von Objekten der Staatlichen Museen zu interactions in the Mediterranean region, Berlin zu forschen. Im Mittelpunkt des Projekts, Europe, Asia, and Africa between 400 and 1900, in dem das Kunsthistorische Institut in Florenz based on the objects from the National Museums mit den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin kooperiert, of Berlin. stehen künstlerische und kulturelle Interaktio- The scholars study museum objects or groups nen im Mittelmeerraum, in Asien, Europa und in of objects with the aim of establishing a dialog Afrika von 400 bis 1900. between Western, Byzantine, Islamic, Asian and Im Dialog westlicher, byzantinischer, islami- African art histories. Instead of concentrating scher, asiatischer und afrikanischer Kunst- exclusively on the objects’ place in the history of geschichte erforschen die WissenschaftlerIn- premodern art or their museological aspects, the nen Objekte der Museen, ohne sich allein auf research program is concerned with the modern museologische Aspekte oder die Geschichte repercussions and expressions of interactions vormoderner Kunst zu konzentrieren. Zentral between diverse historical topographies. These hierfür sind folgende Fragestellungen: Wie geht dynamics are examined in the light of the follow- die Forschung zu historischen Räumen mit der ing questions: How can art historical research Verlagerung und dem Austausch von mobilem deal with the transfer and exchange of moveable oder immobilem Erbe um? Wie artikuliert or immoveable cultural heritage? How did muse- die alte, wie die im Entstehen begriffene neue ums in the past articulate political and cultural Museumslandschaft in Berlin politische und attitudes towards historical sites of the produc- kulturelle Einstellungen in Bezug auf histori- tion, accumulation, and translation of artifacts? sche Orte der Produktion, Akkumulation und And how do museums, especially new museums, Translation von Artefakten? Wie bewerten und do this now? How do museum displays evaluate inszenieren Museumsausstellungen rituelle und and present the ritualistic and aesthetic dimen- ästhetische Dimensionen von Objekten? Welche sions of objects? What possible dynamics can be Dynamik entsteht zwischen Objekten in den created between objects in the museums that are Museen, die in Bezug auf ihre Provenienzen, ihre alien to each other in provenance and historical historischen Aufbewahrungsorte und -kontexte context? Museums play a key role in the ongo- einander fremd sind? Museen spielen heute ing redefinition of art and art history and their eine wichtige Rolle bei der Neubestimmung von relation to aesthetics, anthropology, and politics Kunst und Kunstgeschichte zwischen Ästhetik, in the decentralized, globalized 21st century. Anthropologie und Politik in den globalen With its ‘universal’ collections, the Staatliche Perspektiven des 21. Jahrhunderts. Die Staat- Museen zu Berlin participate in this process in a lichen Museen zu Berlin mit ihren universalen particular way, offering a unique opportunity for Sammlungen nehmen in besonderer Weise an research using multidisciplinary approaches to diesem Prozess teil. Sie bieten eine einzigartige artifacts from different cultures and civilizations. Möglichkeit zur Erforschung von Artefakten unterschiedlichster Kulturen und Zivilisationen in kunst- und wissenshistorischer Perspektive. 50 Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices & CAHIM

Internationale DoktorandInnen und Postdocs International doctoral students and postdoctoral der Kunstgeschichte und benachbarter Diszipli- researchers in Art History and related disciplines nen sind eingeladen, sich für das Stipendien- are invited to apply for the fellowship program. programm zu bewerben. Die zunächst auf ein Fellows also have the chance to provide curato- Jahr angelegten Stipendien, die um ein weiteres rial assistance for individual exhibitions, as Jahr verlängert werden können, umfassen eigen- well as contribute to the development of new ständige und qualifizierende wissenschaftliche concepts for exhibition practices. Through the Forschungen in den Archiven und Sammlungen joint activities of the research group, such as der Museen. Die StipendiatInnen können darü- seminars, workshops, excursions, and confer- ber hinaus einzelne Ausstellungen kuratorisch ences, the academic exchange and research col- begleiten sowie bei der Entwicklung neuer laboration both within and outside the museum Konzepte für die Ausstellungspraxis mitarbei- is optimally developed. ten. Durch gemeinsame Seminare, Workshops, Kontakt: [email protected] Exkursionen und Tagungen werden der wissen- Information: https://www.khi.fi.it/CAHIM schaftliche Austausch und die Forschung auf musealer wie auch außermusealer Ebene optimal gefördert. 51 Art Histories Fellows 2018/2019

Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier

Ghosts in Transition: For a Spectro-aesthetics of Con- temporary Art in Postcon- flict Societies

Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier is an art historian In the past decades, artists and curators have and associate researcher at the Centre for Histor- been increasingly concerned with questions of ical Culture, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her memory and intervention in the context of mas- research interests are visual arts and memory sive human rights violations. Yet, scholarship in global politics, culture, and human rights. on contemporary art in postconflict situations Stéphanie received her PhD at the Erasmus remains limited. How do artists and curators in University Rotterdam (“Images of Khmer Rouge affected countries articulate aesthetic, moral, atrocities, 1975-2015”). She received her mas- and political demands in their work? How do ter’s degrees in art history from the Université they relate to healing and cultural revival? What La Sorbonne Paris I. She also works as curator forms of visibility and participation do they and has organized exhibitions in Israel, France, create for the public at home and abroad? How Germany, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, do postconflict conditions affect the field of art and Thailand. She is a recipient of a Leon Mil- history/theory itself? To answer these questions, man Memorial Fellowship at the United States the project brings art history into dialogue with Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC spectrality studies as it has developed across (2012), a recipient of a fellowship at the Stone disciplines (literature, international relations, Summer Theory Institute at the School of the Art critical geography). It takes the figure of the Institute in Chicago, Illinois (2010), and was a spectre or ghost as framework for analyzing in a researcher in the Theory Department at Jan van comparative fashion the ways artists and cura- Eyck Academie in the Netherlands (2005-2006). tors from countries such as Cambodia, Iraq, and Stéphanie is the co-founder of the international Colombia, address the complexities of transition research group DK-Memosis, dedicated to the and challenge the local/global divide. The notion study of memorialization in Cambodia. She has of hauntology will also help to rethink the rela- published in Dapim, Mémoires en Jeu, Journal of tion of art history and catastrophe beyond the Perpetrator Studies, Kunstlicht, and Media, Culture Holocaust and in response to conflicts happen- & Society among others. ing worldwide. 52 Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices & CAHIM

Filiz Tütüncü Çağlar

Rewriting the History of Ottoman Archaeology: The Case of the Raqqa Excavations by the Ottoman Imperial Museum (1905–6 and 1908)

Filiz Tütüncü Çağlar is an archaeologist special- Archaeology developed as a transnational izing in Byzantine and Islamic archaeology. discipline in the Ottoman Empire. The history Her research focuses on the material culture of of Ottoman archaeology, however, has always early Islamic Raqqa, and on the history of Otto- been an ideologically charged subject and is man archaeology by integrating archaeological, yet to receive a comprehensive treatment in the textual, and art historical sources in examining context of cultural and intellectual history of the discipline of archaeology as conceptual- the Ottoman Empire at the turn of the century. ized and practiced in the late Ottoman Empire. By focusing on the Raqqa excavations as a case Filiz received her BA in Japanese Language and study, this project places Ottoman approaches Literature from Ankara University (Turkey) in to archaeological fieldwork within the context 2003, following which she pursued a profes- of Istanbul’s own imperial ambitions, examin- sional career as a trilingual tour guide. In 2008, ing it as a western(izing) intellectual pursuit. In she was awarded her MA degree in Archaeology doing so, the project offers a new approach to and History of Art at Bilkent University, Ankara; the history of Ottoman archaeology as it unfolds her thesis on the archaeology of horse stables against a complex background of political rival- in Middle Byzantine Cappadocia is currently ries, social networks, and cosmopolitan trends under revision for publication as a monograph. whilst being actively shaped by key individuals In 2017, Filiz was awarded her PhD in Art His- on whose co-operation the Imperial Museum tory and Visual Studies from the University of greatly relied. By demonstrating the full poten- Victoria (Canada). Her doctoral thesis entitled, tial of utilizing archaeological and art historical “From Raqqa with Love: The Raqqa Excavations sources in complementing text-based histories, by the Ottoman Imperial Museum (1905-1906 the project calls for methodological shift which and 1908)”, examines the Ottoman excavations is necessary for a critical re-evaluation of the at Raqqa within the broader context of the early historiography of Ottoman archeology. history of Islamic archaeology. 53 Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices & CAHIM

Nachiket Chanchani

Scrolling Forward: Manuscript Culture, Literary Production, and the Making of Early Modern Western India

Nachiket Chanchani (Ph.D., University of Penn- Nachiket’s project will bring together the dis- sylvania, 2012) is a tenured associate professor ciplines of art history and philology through a jointly appointed in the Department of the His- pointed discussion of a single scroll prepared tory of Art and in the Department of Asian Lan- in 1451 in the Sultanate city of Ahmedabad guages and Cultures at the University of Michi- in Gujarat in Western India. The text of this gan, Ann Arbor. Concurrently, he is an adjunct sumptuous scroll, which is eleven meters long professor at the Law School at the University of when unrolled, is of a poem entitled Vasanta Michigan and a consulting curator at the Detroit Vilasa, or “Spring Diversions,” accompanied with Institute of Arts. In spring 2019, the University a set of paintings. Or, perhaps, the paintings are of Washington Press will publish his first mono- accompanied by the text of the poem. Composed graph, Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains: in three languages – two classical (Sanskrit and Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Prakrit) and one a peculiarly medieval one with Himalayas. His other writings are appearing in a scant literature (Old Gujarati) – the Vasanta Artibus Asiae, Archives of Asian Art, History of Vilasa has had a unique history as a material Photography, Ars Orientalis, Art in Translation, object. It is also a foundational literary and vis- Arts Asiatiques, South Asian Studies, in edited ual monument to the development of a local cul- books, and on The Hindu newspaper’s editorial ture in early-modern Western India. Chanchani’s pages. Nachiket lectures widely. He has also research will especially focus on the interplay of been closely involved with projects at premier a poly-linguistic literary text and visual imagery art museums, and has received fellowships from in a context of vernacularizing social, political, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Asian Cultural and aesthetic realities and suggest that the Council, Smithsonian Institution, and The Royal poem represents a newly burgeoning form of an Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. accessible classical literacy for communities that hitherto functioned without it. 54 Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices & CAHIM

Afonso Dias Ramos

The Visual South: Decolonising Visual Culture in and out of the Museum

Afonso Dias Ramos holds an M.A. and received Over the last decade, the demands to decolonise his PhD in the History of Art from University the practice, writing, and display of art have College London with a thesis focusing on the accrued unprecedented urgency over the world. relationship between political violence and Yet, there are scarcely any comprehensive and photography in contemporary art, exploring comparative analyses of what such calls actu- and confronting the recent artistic legacy of the ally mean or entail. Afonso’s project therefore liberation and civil wars in Angola (1961-2002) critically scrutinizes and provides historical in countries such as Angola, Cuba, Portugal, grounding, from a transnational viewpoint, to South Africa, and the US. He previously studied the two most mediatized and incendiary of those History of Art at Universidade Nova de Lisboa global protests, in making the case for them to and Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). Recent be considered in tandem for the first time. On the publications include the articles “‘Rarely penet- one hand, the divisive dispute between political rated by camera or film’ – NBC’s Angola: Journey leaders, activist groups, and civil society over to War (1961)” (2017), “Photography and Propa- the removal of monuments that celebrate impe- ganda in the Late Portuguese Empire: Volkmar rialists, supremacists, and slave traders on the Wentzel’s Assignments for National Geographic streets outside the museum. On the other hand, Magazine” (2017), “Kongo Reframed” (2017), the debate splitting the cultural world over the and “How to Disappear Completely – The right to exhibit imagery that graphically exposes Struggle for Angola” (2017). the bodily violence of racial terror and white supremacy in the museum. Afonso’s study maps out the genealogy of these movements to reveal that, despite their momentous resurgence, they are neither novel nor isolated occurrences, but part of ongoing ideological wars over the control, meaning, and writing of modern imperial history in the postcolonial era. 55 Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices & CAHIM

Daniel Horn

Les Autres Temps Modernes - Présence Africaine, Existentialism, Art Brut and the Revision of Primitivism in Postwar Paris (1945-1960)

Daniel Horn is an art historian specializing in Daniel’s research revisits the art-historical modern and contemporary art and an assistant debates concerning artistic autonomy and cul- curator at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich. Fol- tural appropriation specific to the magazine and lowing postgraduate studies at the University of publishing house Présence Africaine, founded in California Los Angeles on a Moss Scholarship Paris in 1947 by the Senegalese writer Alioune he completed his PhD in art theory at the Acad- Diop. The momentum of this novel cultural emy of Fine Arts Vienna while also conducting criticism by a black authorship partly recouped research at the École des hautes études en sci- and built upon the prewar négritude movement’s ences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. The dissertation scholarship and analysis that had been disrupted received the Award of Excellence by the Federal during the city’s occupation. Daniel’s study Ministry of Science, Research and Economy of focuses on the first decade of Présence African, Austria. His research was a comparative study of in the course of which its initial concerns of völkisch, proto-fascist art theory and propaganda cultural production as theorized by a distinctly of late Weimar Republic to early national social- migratory and cosmopolitan experience gradu- ist Germany and the contemporaneous political ally faded into the background in favor of an writings of Georges Bataille and his circle of activist anti-colonialist agenda. While situating dissident Surrealists. He regularly publishes on this proto-postcolonialist art history in the con- modern and contemporary art and theory and his text of the Algeria Crisis and the decolonization writing can be found in exhibition catalogues, of the Afrique-Occidentale française territories in artist monographs and journals including Artfo- 1960, his study aims to also highlight the import rum, Texte zur Kunst, Springerin, Frieze and May of Présence Africaine to subsequent questions Art Quarterly. of aesthetic hegemony and appropriation within Western visual culture. 56 Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices & CAHIM

Shailka Mishra

The Painting Workshop of Amber-Jaipur in the Eighteenth Century: Paintings, Patronage, Practices

Shailka Mishra is Assistant Curator of the Situated in present day north-eastern Rajasthan, Mehrangarh Museum in Jodhpur, India and a the kingdom of Amber-Jaipur came into Research Scholar at the Freer Sackler Galleries, prominence after its alliance with the Mughal Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, where imperium in the sixteenth century. With their she is cataloguing a newly acquired collection of rising fortune, the rulers of Amber became lavish north Indian court painting. As Assistant Cura- patrons and discerning connoisseurs. Yet, we tor at the Mehrangarh Museum, Shailka played a know surprisingly little about their patronage of key role in conceptualizing and organizing “Pea- painting. This lacuna becomes even more severe cock in the Desert: The Royal Arts of Jodhpur, when we consider the staggering range of his- India”, a traveling exhibition that is currently on torical sources that relate to the painting work- view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. For shop. Account books, inventories, daily registers, the eponymous catalogue, Shailka co-authored treasury records, records of court protocol have the introductory chapter and wrote the painting been barely used by art historians. Written in an entries. Her recent publications include “Maps archaic script, and often with cryptic shorthand and Map-making at the Amber-Jaipur Surat- notations these documents resist easy access. khana in the 18th Century” in Jnana-Pravaha However, these court records not only shed new Research Journal. A specialist in Jaipur painting, light on painting practices at Amber-Jaipur but she received her doctorate from the Jawaharlal also indicate the value of studying similar docu- Nehru University, New Delhi in 2016. Her ments in other archives related to other king- research was supported by grants from Nehru doms. Moreover, such documents demonstrate Trust for the Indian Collections at the Victoria the rich possibilities for a new understanding of and Albert Museum, Indian Council of Historical Indian paintings’ social worlds. Research and Jnana Pravaha (Varanasi). Shailka was also a Fellow at the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, City Palace, Jaipur in 2011-12, where she studied their maps and paintings. 57 Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices & CAHIM

Sophia Prinz

Global Modernity, Material Worlds and the Migration of Form

Sophia Prinz studied applied cultural studies As soon as things move from one place to at the University of Lüneburg (now Leuphana another, social forms migrate with them. Things University) with a concentration in art and are neither passive instruments in a course of visual culture. From 2006 to 2018, Prinz was a action nor mere expressions of a society. Rather, research associate at the department of cultural they themselves are actively involved in the sociology, first at the University of Konstanz, formation of meanings, practices, and cultural then at European University Viadrina in Frank- patterns of perception. Through this, they neces- furt (Oder). There, she received her doctorate in sarily influence the social orders of their respec- 2012 with a dissertation on the practice of seeing tive destinations. Following from this observa- (published in 2014 under the title “Die Praxis des tion, the proposed research project intends to Sehens: Über das Zusammenspiel von Körpern, illuminate the locally specific forms of global Artefakten und visueller Ordnung”). She con- modernity from a cultural sociological perspec- ceived and coordinated “Mobile Worlds: On the tive. Sophia’s project is guided by two basic Migration of Things in Transcultural Societies,” assumptions: First, that global modernity should a joint project sponsored by the Federal Ministry not be read as a Western export but must instead of Education and Research (BMBF) that ran be regarded as the result of a centuries-old his- from 2015 until 2018. For that project, she was tory of interconnectedness. Second, that social awarded the Brandenburg Postdoc Award. Since modernization processes are not only associated 2018 she has been a visiting professor of the with abstract, socio-structural changes—such theory of design at Berlin University of the Arts as processes of rationalization, differentiation (UdK). Alongside her academic commitments, and institutionalization—but also correlate with she has also served as a research associate at the the emergence of specific material and visual Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich, contributing cultures. By implication, conclusions about the to many of its exhibitions. particular social and cultural conditions of each local modernity can be drawn from its material and aesthetic characteristics—whether from architecture, design or visual arts. 58 Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices & CAHIM

Lianming Wang

Animal Encounters in the Qing Court: Pictorial Monuments and Political Narratives, 1740-1790

Lianming Wang is Assistant Professor at the During the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (r. Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg 1735-1799), the Qing empire experienced a dra- University. He specializes in global Jesuit art matic territorial expansion achieved by military and architecture, with a focus on early modern actions and political alliances with ethnic tribes China. He is preparing his book manuscript in the borderlands. Lianming’s research project Das Erbe der Gesellschaft Jesu: Architektur und attempts to address the role that tribute animals transkulturelle Verflechtungsräume im Peking der played in the creation of the Qing political narra- Frühen Neuzeit (Universitätsverlag C. Winter tive and in strategies of nation building, by look- Heidelberg, Spring 2019). He studied art history, ing at the making of their commemorative por- classical archeology and Italian Philology in traits on a monumental scale. Particular focus Shanghai, Padova and Würzburg and received will be given to the phenomena of multiplicity, his PhD (2014) in East Asian Art History from or the intertwining of meanings, transmediality Heidelberg University. He has taught at the Insti- and the sheer size of these so-called “pictorial tute of East Asian Cultural Studies, University monuments” — which are large systems of of Würzburg (2009-2011). He received research images that were displayed in hybrid spaces of grants from Geschwister-Supp Stiftung, Heinz- cultural and diplomatic encounters or spaces Götze Stiftung, DAAD, and USF Ricci Institute, of political negotiation. Extremely pronounced among others. He was involved in organizing is the propagandistic nature of these images, many international workshops and conferences monumentalizing the formation of the new related to Sino-European exchanges. Currently tribute system, and essentially new world order, he is working on his habilitation project “Animal established by the Qing empire. Engaging in Encounters and Qing Political Narratives” deal- focused discourse on the fundamental questions ing with the making and display of large-sized related to issues such as the origin, formation, painting sets that connected to the Qing tribu- and popularization of the “pictorial monuments” tary animals. will provide new ways of reading this unique transcultural phenomenon. 59 Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices & CAHIM

Jing Zhu

Photographing Bodies of Non- Han in the South-West of China in the 1930s and 1940s: Anthropometry, Museum Collections and Gender

Jing Zhu is a postdoctoral fellow at the depart- From around 1900 onwards, photography, a new ment of history, University of Warwick, spon- visual medium and technology introduced from sored by Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation from July the West, began to replace Miao albums, a long- 2018 to July 2020; meanwhile she is a visiting established genre of ethnographic illustrations research fellow with Forum Transregionale depicting the ethnic minorities in the south-west Studien from October 2018 to July 2019. She borderlands. As China modernised, photography received her PhD degree in History from the became a more popular and ‘trusted’ medium University of Edinburgh under the supervision of of representing ethnic minorities. In the 1930s Dr Stephen McDowall and Professor Francesca and 1940s, in particular during the second Sino- Bray in 2018. Jing was a UK-China Rutherford Japanese war, a large number of photographs Research Fellow at Science Museum in London of non-Han in the south-west borderlands were from March to July 2018. During this five-month produced by Chinese anthropologists and ama- fellowship, she researched for the China collec- teurs. Taking global, transnational and interdis- tions of Science Museum for their future exhibi- ciplinary approaches, Jing’s project investigates tion; she also co-organised an international the representation of the bodies of non-Han in workshop “Chinese Science, Technology and photography. In the light of traditional visual Medicine: Cultures, Histories and Global Con- materials, it reveals new styles and charac- nections” on 3rd/4th June 2018. Drawing on teristics, influenced by Western technology, Miao albums and Republican photography, her anthropology and museology, in representing research focuses on the production and repro- the bodies of non-Han; it explores the ‘mental duction of visual knowledge of ethnography in image’, or visual grammar, embedded in the late imperial and Republican China by exploring photography and asks how scientific and visual the intersections of gender, visuality and empire. realities of ethnicity were recreated, popularised Her articles are soon in print with JBACS and and imagined through political and gendered Ming Qing Studies this year. discourses. 60 Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices & CAHIM

Alya Karame

The Lives of Qur'anic Manuscripts from Eleventh Century CE Khurasan: Palimpsests of Religious and Political Meanings

Alya Karame is the holder of the Barakat Trust Alya’s current book project focuses on Qur’anic Award (2018-2019) and a research associate of manuscripts from the Eastern Islamic World the Khalili Research Centre at the University of copied between the 4th/10th and 6th/12th cen- Oxford, where she is working on her book pro- turies. In addition to their codicological study, ject. In 2016, she joined the program Connecting Alya investigates them as objects of material cul- Art Histories in the Museum, and was based for ture by uncovering the layers of meanings they two years at the Museum für Islamische Kunst gained in their afterlives. Adopting a diachronic in Berlin. She completed her PhD in 2016 in art perspective, the project examines the travels and history at the University of Edinburgh and her lives of the manuscripts and observes the ways MA in History of Art & Archaeology at the School in which their roles and usage have changed cap- of Oriental and African Studies in 2011. During turing the social, religious and political factors her studies, she was the recipient of a number of that shaped their past and present forms. awards in support of her research and field trips. Having been a graphic designer with an interest in visual culture, Alya taught design, visual culture, and art of calligraphy courses since 2007. Alya Karame is an affiliated Fellow. 61 CAHIM Fellows 2018/2019

Sabiha Göloğlu

Multi-, Paraline, Perspectival, and Photographic Views: Travelling Images of the Islamic Pilgrimage and Visitation Sites

Sabiha Göloğlu received her PhD in Archaeology In the late Ottoman Empire, Mecca, Medina, and History of Art in 2018 from Koç University and Jerusalem as well as their sacred sites and in Istanbul, Turkey. Her dissertation focuses on structures (the Kaaba, the Masjid al-Haram, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century representa- the Prophet Muhammad’s Tomb, the Masjid tions of the Islamic pilgrimage and visitation al-Nabawi, the Dome of the Rock, the Masjid al- sites in the Ottoman Empire, bringing together Aqsa, and the Temple Mount) were depicted via a broad array of images that have never been a variety of visual modes including multi-, para- systematically and comparatively examined line, perspectival, and photographic views. The before, except in catalogues and articles. Sabiha travelling of religious imagery across different covers different media and settings such as media and geographies was accelerated by inter- manuscript, reverse glass, wall, and canvas national networks and transregional contacts to paintings, ceramic and wood panels, prayer rugs, which Ottoman artistic and architectural cul- engravings, lithographs, and photographs. She tures made their own innovative contributions. investigates the textual and visual contents of These representational modes coexisted without representations of Mecca, Medina, and Jerusa- hierarchy or evolutionary processes, contrary to lem, analyzes the various visual modes utilized dominant narratives of art history that overem- to depict the holy sites, and traces the produc- phasize the roles of perspective and photography. tion, circulation, and use of images as well as the This project examines four visual modes with principles governing their visual arrangement a fresh look outside traditional frameworks and architectural placement. Sabiha has two by demonstrating how they were technically forthcoming articles which explore the content constructed, materially utilized, and spatially and use of images of the three holy cities in late mobilized in unison. It also shows that these Ottoman prayer books. She holds a BA of Archi- modes were not alternatives to one another, as tecture and MA of Architectural History from they could convey spatial information in different the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, ways and create manifold graphic qualities that Turkey. could suit a particular medium and setting. 62 Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices & CAHIM

Regina Höfer

Mapping Art Collecting and Circulation in the British Empire: The Connoisseur and Dealer L. A. Waddell

Regina Höfer is an art historian, specialising Provenance research is about to become a major in Tibetan and South Asian art, and a curator. focus of museum work. It investigates where She is a lecturer and an associated academic at objects come from, how they were obtained, the Central Asian Seminar, Institute for Asian how they might have changed their function in and African Studies at the Humboldt University the process of translocation and what this could in Berlin and an associated academic at the mean. Regina’s research project centres on the Department of Asian and Islamic Art History, question of how art and cultural artefacts have University of Bonn. Before that she worked at been collected and distributed in colonial South the Institute of the History of Art, University of Asia, Burma and Tibet and the ways these have Vienna, as an assistant professor. She was assis- reached Western collections. One of the most tant curator at the Asian Art Museum, Berlin, important protagonists is L. A. Waddell (1854- and curated several exhibitions. Her PhD thesis 1938). His collection is housed by the Asian “A Habsburg Trophy Hunt: The South Asian Art Museum and the Museum of Ethnology in Collection of Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este Berlin besides major British museums. As an between Colonial World View, Art and Souvenir” Indian Army surgeon, amateur researcher and is the first investigation of a colonial South Asian archaeologist stationed in British India, Waddell collection and reflects her research interest in had first-hand access to local culture and count- colonial South Asian art as well as in collecting less opportunities to obtain artefacts: During practices. Regina’s research interests are global his own archaeological excavation in the Swat art, modern and contemporary Tibetan, Indian Valley (1895) or several British military opera- and Pakistani art, colonial South Asian photog- tions to Burma and Beijing (Boxer Rebellion) for raphy, provenance research, traditions of collect- example. Many of these were problematic from ing Asian art and museums in Asia. a contemporary point of view and included war booty. Studying this important protagonist will thus be crucial in mapping and understanding the entangled landscape of art connoisseurship, collection and trade in colonial South Asia. 63 Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices & CAHIM

Max Koss

The Magazine Pan (1895- 1900): Print Culture, Applied Arts and the Politics of the Senses

Max Koss is a PhD candidate at the University of Max’ project tells the story of the Berlin-based Chicago and currently finishing his dissertation, literature, art and design magazine Pan through provisionally called: “The magazine Pan (1895- the lens of the applied arts movement, thereby 1900): print culture, applied arts and the politics positioning it as a crucible of modern design. of the senses.” His specialization is nineteenth To this end, the project examines the material and twentieth century art history, particularly dimensions of periodical publishing at the fin- that of Europe and North America. His areas of de-siècle – production, circulation and reception expertise include graphic arts, applied arts, and – as they manifest themselves in the case of a design, among others. Max has received MA particularly luxurious publication such as Pan. degrees from the University of Chicago and the A particular focus is on the multifaceted uses of Courtauld Institute of Art in London. He holds paper in, but also around the magazine. Paper a BSc in Economic History from the London with its material and metaphorical qualities School of Economics and Political Science. emerges in this project as a hitherto understud- Most recently, Max was a doctoral fellow of the ied, yet essential medium in the development of a KHI’s Connecting Art Histories at the Museum modern sensorium. By describing the industrial, program, based the Kunstbibliothek of the Berlin commercial and domestic networks to which State Museums. He has received fellowships paper belonged and between which it traveled, from the Mellon Foundation, the Samuel H. paper’s role in upending traditional hierarchies Kress Foundation, the German Schiller Founda- of the senses will be restored. Max argues, tion, the German Academic Exchange Service with Pan as a crucial moment in the apprecia- (DAAD) and others. He has also held internships tion, we might even say cult, of paper, that its at the National Gallery of Art, DC; the Art Insti- technological development and ensuing artistic tute of Chicago, and the Musée d’Art Moderne de repositioning in the 1890s paved the way for an la Ville de Paris. experiential paradigm which permeates both art and commerce in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. 64 Prisma Ukraïna – Research Network Eastern Europe

Prisma Ukraïna führt unter der Leitung von Prisma Ukraïna is an interdisciplinary research Prof. Dr. Andrii Portnov seit 2016 die Arbeit der network that places Ukraine in the center of von ihm initiierten Berlin-Brandenburg Ukraine common interest and that serves at the same Initiative (BBUI) fort. Im interdisziplinären time as a “prism” to open up regional and tran- Forschungsverbund Prisma Ukraïna steht die sregional perspectives. Since 2016, under the Ukraine als Forschungsgegenstand im Zentrum leadership of Prof. Dr. Andrii Portnov, Prisma des gemeinsamen Interesses und fungiert gleich- Ukraïna has continued the work of the Berlin- zeitig als »Prisma«, um regionale und transregi- Brandenburg Ukraine Initiative (BBUI) that he onale Perspektiven zu eröffnen. initiated.

»Ukraine« bedeutet wörtlich »Grenzgebiet«. Ein “Ukraine” means, literally, “border region”. A Blick in ihre Vergangenheit zeigt die enge Ver- look at its past shows the close interweaving of wobenheit regionaler Geschichten, die durch das regional histories that are structured by Russian, russische, polnische, osmanische, österreich- Polish, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, and Soviet ungarische und sowjetische Erbe strukturiert legacies. In addition, this region bears witness to sind. Die Ukraine zeugt des weiteren von der the contact, interaction, mutual interpenetration, Berührung, Interaktion, der gegenseitigen and coexistence of various cultures and religions, Durchdringung und Koexistenz verschiedener like Western and Eastern Christianity, Islam, Kulturen und Religionen wie des westlichen and Judaism. To this day, Ukraine is character- und östlichen Christentums, des Islams und ized by social and cultural diversity that should Judentums, und ist bis heute durch soziale und be taken seriously. All this forms the framework kulturelle Diversität geprägt, die es ernst zu neh- for current societal processes of searching, set in men gilt. All das bildet den Rahmen für aktuelle motion by the question of national identity and gesellschaftliche Suchprozesse, die durch die sovereignty in times of far-reaching transforma- Frage nach nationaler Identität und Souveränität tions and regional re-ordering. in Zeiten tiefgreifender Transformationen und Examining Ukraine thereby opens up a whole regionaler Neuordnung in Gang gesetzt werden. spectrum of questions about the socio-cultural Die Betrachtung der Ukraine eröffnet dabei ein hybridity and plurality of societies in transfor- ganzes Spektrum an Fragen nach soziokulturel- mation, old and new boundary drawings, the ler Hybridität und Pluralität von Gesellschaften conditions for peaceful coexistence, and the im Wandel, alten und neuen Grenzziehun- effects of economic and political re-ordering. The gen, den Bedingungen friedlicher Koexistenz, gaze is thereby turned to bordering countries and und den Auswirkungen wirtschaftlicher und regions of the Eastern European and post-Soviet politischer Neuordnung. Damit lenkt sie den realm, in which similar questions arise. And its Blick auf angrenzende Länder und Regionen des study can be fruitful also for understanding the osteuropäischen und postsowjetischen Raums, continuing transformations in Western Europe in denen sich vergleichbare Fragen stellen. Und and other regions of the world. Prisma Ukraïna ihre Erforschung kann auch fruchtbar sein für focuses on these and other questions in a histor- das Verständnis der andauernden Transformati- ical perspective as well as from the perspective of onen in Westeuropa und anderen Weltregionen. social and cultural sciences. Prisma Ukraïna fokussiert diese und weitere Fragen in historischer, sozial- und kulturwissen- schaftlicher Perspektive. 65 Prisma Ukraïna – Research Network Eastern Europe

Prisma Ukraïna lädt zu diesem Zweck Nach- To this end, Prisma Ukraïna invites young wuchswissenschaftlerInnen, JournalistInnen researchers, journalists and activists from und AktivistInnen aus der Ukraine und Osteu- Ukraine and Eastern Europe to spend up to ropa ein, bis zu drei Monate als Visiting Fellow, three months in Berlin as Visiting Fellows, affiliiert an einer Partnereinrichtung, in Berlin zu affiliated with a partner institute. They hold verbringen. Sie halten Vorträge und organisieren lectures and organize their own international eigene, internationale Workshops, bringen so ihr workshops, thereby contributing their knowledge Wissen und ihre Expertise in den hiesigen For- and expertise to the research context here and schungskontext ein und treiben ihre Vorhaben advancing their projects in exchange with Berlin im Austausch mit Berliner und Brandenburger and Brandenburg researchers. In the years 2016, ForscherInnen voran. In den Jahren 2016, 2017 2017 and 2018 six Fellows were invited to Berlin: und 2018 konnten bereits sechs Fellows nach a journalist from Kyiv – Nataliya Gumenyuk, Berlin eingeladen werden: Nataliya Gumenyuk – historians from Kramatorsk and Stockholm: eine Journalistin aus Kyiv, HistorikerInnen aus Alexandr Osipian and Yuliya Yurchuk; Ilya Kramatorsk und Stockholm: Alexandr Osipian Kalinin – a literary scholar from St. Petersburg, und Yuliya Yurchuk, Ilya Kalinin – ein Literatur- an anthropologist from Kyiv – Iuliia Buyskykh, wissenchaftler aus St. Petersburg, Iuliia Buys- and Olga Linkiewicz – a historical anthropologist kykh – eine Anthropologin aus Kyiv und Olga from Warsaw. In autumn 2018 an author and Linkiewicz – eine anthropologisch arbeitende curator from Kyiv – Kateryna Mishchenko – will Historikerin aus Warschau. Im Herbst 2018 visit us in Berlin that will be succeeded by other besucht uns eine Autorin und Kuratorin aus researchers in 2019. Kyiv – Kateryna Mishchenko –, der im Jahr 2019 As a research network, Prisma Ukraïna also weitere WissenschaftlerInnen folgen werden. fosters stronger networking among Eastern Als Forschungsverbund fördert Prisma Ukraïna European researchers in Berlin and Branden- auch die stärkere Vernetzung von Osteuropa- burg, transcending disciplinary and institu- ForscherInnen in Berlin und Brandenburg über tional boundaries. To do so, it provides scope disziplinäre und institutionelle Grenzen hinweg for exchange and networking. Lecture series, und stellt hierfür Freiräume zum Austausch podium discussions, and workshops with inter- und zur Vernetzung zur Verfügung. Es werden national participants are carried out; these aim Vortragsreihen, Podiumsdiskussionen und both at the expert and the lay public. Workshops mit internationaler Beteiligung Besides, transregional academies enable net- durchgeführt, die sich an Fachpublikum und an working of young researchers and incite them die interessierte Öffentlichkeit richten. to develop innovative research questions. Until Darüber hinaus organisiert Prisma Ukraïna now, Prisma Ukraïna Academies took place transregionale Akademien, die Vernetzung von in Berlin (“Beyond History and Identity: New NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen und Entwick- Perspectives on Aesthetics, Politics, and Society lung innovativer Forschungsfragen anspornen. in Eastern Europe”, 2-12 December 2015) and at Bisherige Akademien fanden in Berlin und am the New Europe College in Bucharest (“Revisit- New Europe College in Bukarest statt (»Beyond ing the Nation: Transcultural Contact Zones in History and Identity: New Perspectives on Aest- Eastern Europe”, 26 February – 6 March 2018). hetics, Politics, and Society in Eastern Europe«, 2-12 December 2015, and »Revisiting the Nation: Transcultural Contact Zones in Eastern Europe«, 26 February – 6 March 2018). 66 Prisma Ukraïna – Research Network Eastern Europe

Im Juni 2019 wird sich die Akademie am Ukrai- In June 2019, an academy at the “Tkuma” nischen Institut für Holocaust-Studien »Tkuma« Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies in in Dnipro (Ukraine) mit Gewalt, Trauma und Dnipro (Ukraine) will deal with post-violence and ihrer Überwindung beschäftigen. processes of overcoming trauma.

Der Verbund wird von Wissenschaftlerinnen The network Prisma Ukraïna is borne by und Wissenschaftlern an Universitäten und researchers at universities and research institu- wissenschaftlichen Institutionen in Berlin und tions in Berlin and Brandenburg. The Collegium Brandenburg getragen. Das Kollegium besteht currently consists of Jan C. Behrends (Zentrum derzeit aus Jan C. Behrends (Zentrum für Zeit- für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam), historische Forschung, Potsdam), Katharina Katharina Biegger (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Biegger (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), Katha- Berlin), Katharina Bluhm (Freie Universität rina Bluhm (Freie Universität Berlin), Sebastian Berlin), Sebastian Conrad (Freie Universität Conrad (Freie Universität Berlin), Susanne Frank Berlin), Susanne Frank (Humboldt-Universität (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Gabriele Frei- zu Berlin), Gabriele Freitag (Deutsche Gesells- tag (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde, chaft für Osteuropakunde, Berlin), Catherine Berlin), Catherine Gousseff (Centre Marc Bloch, Gousseff (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin), Theocharis Berlin), Theocharis Grigoriadis (Freie Universität Grigoriadis (Freie Universität Berlin), Alfrun Berlin), Alfrun Kliems (Humboldt-Universität zu Kliems (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Mag- Berlin), Magdalena Marszałek (Universität Pots- dalena Marszałek (Universität Potsdam), Getrud dam), Getrud Pickhan (Freie Universität Berlin), Pickhan (Freie Universität Berlin), Miloš Řezník Miloš Řezník (Deutsches Historisches Institut (Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau), Warschau), Gwendolyn Sasse (Zentrum für Ost- Gwendolyn Sasse (Zentrum für Osteuropa- europa- und internationale Studien, Berlin), Mat- und internationale Studien, Berlin), Matthias thias Schwartz (Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Schwartz (Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Ber- Berlin), Silvia von Steinsdorff (Humboldt-Uni- lin), Silvia von Steinsdorff (Humboldt-Universität versität zu Berlin), Annette Werberger (Europa- zu Berlin), Annette Werberger (Europa-Univer- Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder), Thorsten sität Viadrina, Frankfurt am Oder), Thorsten Wilhelmy (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), Georg Wilhelmy (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), Georg Witte (Freie Universität Berlin) und Alexander Witte (Freie Universität Berlin), and Alexander Wöll (Universität Potsdam). Wöll (Universität Potsdam).

Die Arbeit des Verbundes wird vom Land Berlin The research network is financially supported und von der Marga und Kurt Möllgaard-Stiftung by the state of Berlin and the Marga and Kurt gefördert. Möllgaard Foundation.

Leitung: Andrii Portnov Koordination: Ewa Dąbrowska Kontakt: [email protected] Information: www.prisma-ukraina.de 67 Prisma Ukraïna Visiting Fellow(s) 2018/2019

Kateryna Mishchenko

Island as a Topos of Political Imaginary in Contemporary Ukraine and Beyond

Kateryna Mishchenko (1984, Ukraine) is a New special formations are being intensively writer, curator and publisher. She was the editor produced in Europe due to the redrawing of maps, of Prostory, a magazine on art, literature and emergence of pseudo-state entities, and refugee social critique. She is co-founder and editor of flows that transform sociolopolitical landscapes. the Ukrainian publishing house Medusa. Kat- A geographic perspective on these processes, in eryna Mishchenko curated exhibitions in Galerie particular the question of the threatened com- für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (GfZK) and monwealth of the European Union states, brings Visual Culture Research Center Kyiv (VCRC). to the forefront a figure of island. The ideas She is co-author of the book “Ukrainian Night” of isolationism, new nationalisms, Brexit, the (with Miron Zownir). Her essays appeared in annexation of Crimea narrow the territory of the international journals as well as in an anthol- imagined future, forming a new political order. ogy on the Euromaidan in the Suhrkamp Verlag Kateryna’s research is focused on how the island (“Euromaidan: Was in der Ukraine auf dem Spiel matrix works in the Ukrainian context. In recent steht”, 2014). years, Ukraine experienced a double spatial move: firstly, the uprising on the Maidan, resulting in the stratification of urban texture and the emergence of an autonomous space in the cityscape, and secondly, the seizure of the Crimean penin- sula, the military occupation in the east of the country and the creation of the so-called “people’s republics” whose territories drift more and more towards full isolation. Together with the islands, new borders are being formed, the periphery is defined anew, and people are becoming displaced, with social and cultural “waters” washing those new fragments of land. Inevitably, the narratives are changing, as well as the language and the type of (political) subjectivity — the word is taken by new islanders. All these figures, experiences and constellations need to be analyzed. 68 Akademie im Exil / Academy in Exile

Die Akademie im Exil (AiE) ist eine gemein- The Academy in Exile (AiE) is a joint initiative same Initiative des Forums, der Universität of the Forum, the Universität Duisburg-Essen Duisburg-Essen (UDE) und des Kulturwissen- (UDE), and the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut schaftlichen Instituts in Essen (KWI) und wurde in Essen (KWI) and has been founded in 2017 2017 mit Unterstützung der VolkswagenStiftung with the support of the VolkswagenStiftung. begründet. Das Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin The Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin provides unterstützt das Forum durch die Bereitstellung human resources to the Forum. In its founding von Personalmitteln. In ihrer Gründungsphase phase the Academy offers researchers of the bietet die Akademie Geistes- und Sozialwissen- humanities and social sciences that are active schaftlerInnen aus dem Umfeld der »Academics in the initiative “Academics for Peace” in Turkey for Peace« aus der Türkei eine Plattform, um a platform to continue their research in exile. It ihre Forschungen im Exil fortzusetzen und ein helps to shape a program of critical studies of wissenschaftliches Programm kritischer Türkei- Turkey. In the coming years, the Academy wants studien mitzugestalten. Die Akademie will sich to open up for scholars from other countries that in den kommenden Jahren WissenschaftlerInnen are affected by restrictions of civil and academic aus anderen Ländern öffnen, die von Einschrän- freedom. It offers researchers involved scope kungen bürgerlicher und wissenschaftlicher for scientific debate and research on questions Freiheiten betroffen sind. Sie bietet den beteilig- of the foundations of plural and open societies, ten WissenschaftlerInnen Freiräume für wissen- authoritarian ideologies and political practice. It schaftliche Debatte und Forschung zu Fragen der strives to use the intellectual potential of endan- Grundlagen pluraler und offener Gesellschaften, gered researchers for Turkey-related research autoritärer Ideologien und politischer Praxis. and teaching in Germany and to make it fruitful Sie strebt an, das intellektuelle Potenzial as an impetus for the internationalization of our gefährdeter Forschender für die Türkei-bezogene universities. Forschung und Lehre in der Bundesrepublik zu The Academy in Exile is now located in two nutzen und als Impuls für die Internationalisie- cities, Berlin and Essen. An expansion of the rung unserer Hochschulen fruchtbar zu machen. offer will be possible from 2018 through the Die Akademie im Exil ist zunächst an zwei support of other foundations and through part- Standorten, Berlin und Essen, angesiedelt. nerships with the Freie Universität Berlin and Eine Ausweitung der Angebote wird ab 2018 the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Since its mit Unterstützung weiterer Stiftungen durch inception, the Academy has supported fifteen Partnerschaften mit der Freien Universität Berlin endangered scholars from Turkey through long- und der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ermög- term or short-term fellowships. The scientists licht. Seit seiner Gründung hat die Akademie will be appointed as Fellows to the KWI or the fünfzehn gefährdete WissenschaftlerInnen aus Forum, half of them to the Forum. In Essen and der Türkei durch Lang- oder Kurzzeitfellowships Berlin, they are involved in relevant faculties unterstützt. Die WissenschaftlerInnen werden of the universities or in research programs of als Fellows an das KWI oder das Forum berufen, the Forum. In the following section of the AiE die Hälfte von ihnen an das Forum. In Essen Fellows, those researchers that work in Essen or und in Berlin sind sie in fachlich entsprechende receive a short-term grant are not listed. Only the Fakultäten der Universitäten oder in Forschungs- Fellow who want to publicly expose herself as programme des Forums eingebunden. In der am AiE Fellow is presented. All fifteen AiE Fellows 69 Akademie im Exil

Ende folgenden Sektion der AiE-Fellows sind die contribute to the Academy in Exile’s research WissenschaftlerInnen, die in Essen arbeiten oder agenda and intellectual profile. die ein Brückenstipendium erhalten nicht und The Academy in Exile complements existing nur die Wissenschaftlerin angeführt, die sich programs like the Philipp-Schwartz-Initiative of öffentlich als AiE-Fellows ausgewiesen wissen the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and möchte. Alle fünfzehn Fellows der AiE tragen zur other fellowship programs for scholars at risk. Forschungsagenda und zum intellektuellen Profil It establishes a forum for the transfer and the der Akademie im Exil bei. integration of research in exile. Die Akademie im Exil ergänzt bestehende The Academy in Exile is steered by a council Angebote, wie die Philipp-Schwartz-Initiative der of five members: Kader Konuk (UDE), Volker Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung und andere Sti- Heins (KWI), Claus Leggewie (University of pendienprogramme für gefährdete Wissenschaft- Gießen), Georges Khalil (Forum), and Friederike lerInnen, indem eine Diskussionsgrundlage für Pannewick (Forum/University of Marburg). The den Transfer und die Einbindung der Forschung im research agenda and the Fellow selection are Exil geschaffen wird. in charge of a multidisciplinary collegium. Its Die Akademie im Exil wird durch einen Rat members are four scholars exiled from Turkish geleitet, der aus Kader Konuk (UDE), Volker Heins universities as well as four experts on Turkey (KWI), Claus Leggewie (Universität Gießen), based at universities in Germany and two Georges Khalil (Forum) und Friederike Pannewick Turkey-related working scholars from US univer- (Forum/Universität Marburg) besteht. Das For- sities. schungsprogramm und die Auswahl der Fellows Leitung: Kader Konuk (Universität Duisburg-Essen) wird von einem multidisziplinären Kollegium Koordination: Egemen Özbek getragen und entwickelt, das aus vier Exilwissen- Kontakt: [email protected] schaftlerInnen aus der Türkei, vier türkeibezogen Kontakt am Forum: [email protected] arbeitenden ForscherInnen an deutschen For- Information: www.academy-in-exile.eu schungseinrichtungen sowie zwei Türkei-bezogen arbeitenden ExpertInnen an US-amerikanischen Universitäten besteht. 70 Academy in Exile Fellow(s) 2018/2019

Nazan Üstündağ

The Pornographic State and the Erotics of Resistance: A Photographic Account of Kurdish Bodies in Turkey

Nazan Üstündağ received her PhD in 2005 from Nazan is going to work on her second book the Sociology Department at Indiana University project with the working title The Pornographic Bloomington. Between 2005 and 2018, she State and the Erotics of Resistance: A Photographic worked as an Assistant Professor at Boğaziçi Account of Kurdish Bodies in Turkey based on University, Department of Sociology. Currently, research that she has conducted in Turkey’s she is an Academy in Exile and IIE-Scholar Kurdistan since 2005. The book aims at explain- Rescue Fund Fellow at the Forum Transregionale ing the different modalities by which the Turkish Studien. Nazan’s dissertation examined different state and the public passionately obsess about forms of subjectivities and belongings of rural- Kurdish bodies, how such obsession is mani- to-urban women in Istanbul and the life stories fested in images and how these images render they craft in the intersection of the violence of Kurds available for state and communal violence. state, capital and patriarchy. Aside from writing The book also addresses the dialogical process on urban belongings in the era of neoliberal- by which Kurds transform this obsession into a ism, Nazan wrote extensively on social policy, knowledge of oppression and struggle against it, gendered subjectivities and state violence in by producing their own images of law, commu- Kurdistan. She has also worked as a columnist nity and body. Nazan’s research is informed by in the journal Nokta and the newspaper Özgür studies that address the “irrational” dimensions Gündem. Her opinion pieces appeared in venues of state violence and law in order to trace the life such as Bianet, T24, Roar Magazine and Jadaliyya. of politicized bodies, objects and images without Üstündağ is a member of Women for Peace and assimilating them into a rationalized histori- Academics for Peace. Most recently, she is finish- ography. Her book builds a common framework ing a book manuscript with the working title for these studies by introducing the concepts of Mother, Politician and Guerilla: The Emergence of pornography and erotics that are useful in elabo- A New Political Cosmology in Kurdistan Through rating the affective, aesthetic, and ethical dimen- Women’s Bodies and Speech. sions of violence and power. Methodologically, Nazan is a IIE Scholar Rescue Fund Fellow of the her study contributes to the work on violence Academy in Exile at the Forum Transregionale and power by taking photographic images as Studien. its focus. Images make it possible to talk about changing technologies and hence show how the operation of power and resistance, desire and passion, are linked to materiality. Contact

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