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VERANSTALTUNGSBERICHTE RECENT CONFERENCES In the second part of the workshop Annelies Moors In 2018, the third summer school of the international (Amsterdam) and Simone Pfeifer (Mainz) discussed summer school program “Arabische Philologien im “نح راسا عربي بر متعدة – the themes of transparency and anonymity in the re- Blickwechsel search process. In her intervention, Moors presented (www.arabic-philologies.de) was held at the Faculty the “right to anonymity” and the tension between the of Letters and Human Sciences, Mohammed V Uni- liability of researchers to their interlocutors and their versity in Rabat, Morocco. The summer school was obligations to university institutions. Pfeifer’s contri- organized by Christian Junge (Philipps-Universität bution considered anonymity and “double identity” of Marburg), Bilal Orfali (American University of Bei- researchers in digital research contexts and reflected rut) and Barbara Winckler (Westfälische Wilhelms- on the positionality of anthropological research in an Universität Münster), in cooperation with Fatiha Taïb interdisciplinary research team. (Mohammed V University in Rabat), in the frame- The panel on “Artivism”, chaired by Larissa Fuhr- work of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sci- mann (Mainz), was the final panel on the second day ences and Humanities and funded by the German of the conference. This panel called for academics and Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). practitioners interested in artivism in the so-called Ar- It brought together 14 PhD students and postdocs ab world and the diaspora to discuss approaches, ex- and four senior scholars from Algeria, Egypt, Germa- periences, theories as well as current discourses and ny, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, Nigeria, Switzerland, phenomena in the field. the United Kingdom and the USA. Randa Aboubakr Iyad El-Baghdadi (Oslo) started with a discussion of (Cairo University), Lale Behzadi (University of Bam- the narratives underlying IS propaganda. He focused berg), Julia Bray (University of Oxford) and Fatiha on his own biographical intersections and gave exam- Taïb (Mohammed V University in Rabat) acted as ples from the internet. mentors to the junior scholars. Monika Salzbrunn (Lausanne) then focused on the The summer school project has a twofold agenda: to connection between arts and activism as well as the facilitate the systematic exchange of perspectives and interlinkage between politics and aesthetics. experiences between scholars based in the West and The final panelist, Khalid Wad Albaih (Copenha- in the Arab world, and to foster the use of Arabic as gen), presented his artistic and very personal perspec- an academic language in European academia. Ad- tive on IS, enriched by examples from his own car- dressing young scholars (PhD students, postdocs) in toons. The panel was a welcome contribution to the the field of Arabic literary studies based in Germany conference shedding light on the artistic counter nar- and other European countries and the Arab world, it ratives in the field of Jihadi Audiovisualities. provides them the opportunity to present their own re- Dr. Christoph Günther, Universität Mainz search in an international academic context, to discuss current, innovative approaches to Arabic philology, literature and culture, and to practice the respective foreign language (English or Arabic). This year’s summer school addressed the emerging interest in emotion, affect, and body in the field of Arabic literature and culture that goes along with an emotional and affective turn in the humanities. In this regard, the transformations and actions related to the so-called “Arab Spring” have often been explained by analyzing affective intensities, emotional dispositions, and structures of feeling, while in studies of classical Arabic literature and culture concepts of emotion have been addressed from a new theoretical and methodo- logical background. AGYA International Bilingual Summer School “Emotions that Matter: Interdisci- plinary Approaches to Feeling, Affect, and Body in Arabic Literature, Arts, and Cul- الشعر التي ّتم: مقرب متعدّة ّالتصص / ture لإحسس اانفعل الجسد في اأ الفنو الثقف ,Mohammed V University, Rabat ,”العربي 1-3 November 2018 Discussion of Junior Scholars' Research Projects 100 VERANSTALTUNGSBERICHTE RECENT CONFERENCES Participants of AGYA Bilingual Summer School in Rabat The presented research projects of the participants To conclude, emotions and affects do certainly mat- illustrated impressively the versatility and relevance ter for Arabic studies; however, the theories and me- of this perspective in many fields of research; they methods of different fields still need to be brought in- dealt, for instance, with emotional communities in the to a more effective interdisciplinary dialogue. In par- Abbasid court society, affective trance in Algerian Su- ticular, anthropology and sociology provide a rich set fi rituals, modern kitchen affects in North Africa and of approaches from which literary and cultural studies concepts of emotion in classical Sufi philosophy. could certainly benefit, while the emotions and affects The junior scholars presented their current research in/of literature and art allow a deep insight in human projects in small working groups in order to allow for experience and social collectives and are therefore in-depth discussions. In addition, two plenary sessions relevant far beyond literary and cultural studies. were dedicated to the discussion of theoretical texts, The next summer school is planned to be held in one in Arabic and one in English. 2019 at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy), The first session dealt with concepts of body and with a focus on “Cities”. soma, based on excerpts from the book-length study Christian Junge (Marburg) and (The Body, the Image, Barbara Winckler (Münster) ”الجسد والصرة والمقدّس في اإسا م“ and the Sacred in Islam, 1999), written by the Moroc- can scholar Farid Zahi, while the second, in English, discussed affects and migration, taking Gretchen Head’s article “‘The Sea Spits Out Corpses’: Periph- erality, Genre, and Affect in the Cosmopolitan Medi- terranean” (2015) as a starting point. Finally, the program was complemented by two keynote lectures. On the first evening, the eminent Moroccan scholar and writer Prof. Abdelfattah Kilito -The Poetics of Er / شعري الط“ gave a lecture titled ror” (in Arabic). On the second day, Prof. Abdelhay Moudden (Political Science Department, Mohammed V University in Rabat) presented a lecture based on research conducted together with his colleague Prof. Taieb Belghazi (Cultural Studies Department, Mo- تصير الماضي “ hammed V University in Rabat) titled :Visualizing the Painful Past / األيم: المصالح السينمائي Reel Conciliation” (in Arabic). 101 DAVO-Nachrichten German Middle East Studies Association Volume 46/47 for Contemporary Research and Docu- September 2019 mentation (DAVO) DAVO Secretariat DAVO was established in 1993. Since then, about and Editor of DAVO-Nachrichten 1300 scholars and other people interested in the Prof. Dr. Günter Meyer Middle East have become members of the Asso- Centre for Research on the Arab World ciation. 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