SCM Opening Lecture

 Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichmuth (Zentrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

The “Early Modern Period” as a Cross-Cultural Concept: The Case of the Islamic World  

Universitätsplatz, Löwengebäude, HS XIII, 6 pm (s.t.)

Workshop

 „ANT im Kontext" - Vom Export, Re- import zum Austausch von Gesellschaftskonzepten und Kulturbegriffen in der ANT

in coperation with the Max Planck Fellow Group "Law, Organization, Science and Technology" (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)

organised by Lennart Lehmhaus, Matias Dewey, Sung-Joon Park

Venue: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36

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Workshop

   Behind the Rule - Law and Identity

organised by Ahmed Abd-Elsalam and Francesca Petricca

Venue:
03.07.: Universitätsplatz, Burse zur Tulpe, Musikzimmer (2. florr)
04.07.: Orientalisches Institut, Mühlweg 15, SR I

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Meeting of the Scientific Board

Orientalisches Institut, Mühlweg 15, SR I, 2 pm

Supervisor's Assembly

Orientalisches Institut, Mühlweg 15, SR I, 6 pm

Meeting of the Central Asia Study Group

 Prof. Ingeborg Baldauf (Zentralasienseminar, Humboldt-Universität Berlin)

 Making politics in contemporary Afghanistan: A local ruler searching for legitimacy

 Orientwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Mühlweg 15,4.15 pm

Meeting of the Board

Orientalisches Institut, Mühlweg 15, SR I, 4 pm

Plenary Meeting

 ANT and other methodologies reconsidered

 Universitätsplatz, Burse zur Tulpe, Musikzimmer (2. floor)

Study Group

   Presentation given by the network of excellence “Enlightenment – Religion – Knowledge”

 Orientalisches Institut, Mühlweg 15, SR I, 5.45 pm

Public Lecture

 Prof. Dr. Francesco Trincia (Università La Sapienza, Rom)

 What may be today a demystified reality?

 Universitätzplatz, Melanchthonianum, HS XVI, 6.15 pm

Meeting of the Central Asia Study Group

 Rita Sanders (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle)

 In the twilight of two states: The “German House” in Taldykorgan/Kazakhstan

 Orientwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Mühlweg 15, 4.15 pm

SCM Opening Lecture

 Prof. Dr. Mohamed Hamadi Redissi (Tunis University)

 Wahhabism: How a sectarian movement became Islam

 Universitätsplatz, Melanchthonianum, HS XVI, 7 pm

 Corporate Colloquium “Society and Culture in Motion”

 Prof. Dr. Matthias Kaufmann (Seminar für Philosophie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)

 Translation als spezifische Form kultureller Bewegung

 Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36, Seminar Room, 4.15 pm

Corporate Colloquium “Society and Culture in Motion”

Steven Vertovec (Max Planck Institutefor the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Götttingen)

Conceiving and Researching Diversity

 Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36, Seminar Room, 4.15 pm

Meeting of the Central Asia Study Group

 Zaynobidin Abdirashidov (Zentralasienseminar, Humboldt-Universität Berlin)

 Attitudes towards Ismail Gasprinski in Turkistan: local administration and intelligentsia

 Orientwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Mühlweg 15

Godwin Onuoha: Fieldwork in Nigeria

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Serena Tolino: Participation in the conference La tutela dei minori di cultura islamica nell’area mediterranea: Aspetti sociali, giuridici e medici (Naples)

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Dr. Hagen Findeis & Daniel Kremers: Participation in the conference Arbeitswelten - Forschungskulturen (Lutherstadt Wittenberg, wzw wissenschaftszentrum sachsen-anhalt)

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Serena Tolino: Fieldwork in Egypt and Lebanon

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Serena Tolino: Participation in the  Graduate Conference of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (Exeter)

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Lennart Lehmhaus: Participation in the 15th World Congress of Jewish Studies and bibliographical research (Jerusalem); Presentation: Ways of Wisdom and Narrative Critique in the Medieval Ben Sira

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Florian Klingele: Fieldwork in Bavaria and Austria

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Daniel Kremers: Fieldwork in Japan

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Godwin Onuoha: Participation in the 3^rd European Conference on African Studies (Leipzig); Presentation: Contesting the Space: The State and Emergent Context(s) of Igbo Self-Determination in Nigeria

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Dr. James M. Thompson: participation in the International Wittgenstein Workshop Form(s) of Life and the Nature of Experience (Lisbon); Presentation: Translating Forms of Life?:  Remarks on the Encounter of the Other

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Francesca Petricca: Participation in the conference L’essor de la « société civile » dans le monde musulman contemporain, paradoxes et convergences (Rome)

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Lennart Lehmhaus: Participation in the Graduate Workshop Rabbis and others in conversation (Princeton University, USA); Presentation: Dialogue and Instruction in Seder Eliyahu Zuta

Florian Klingele: Participation in the conference Bilder - Sehen - Denken. Zum Verhältnis von begrifflich-philosophischen und empirisch-psychologischen Ansätzen in der Bildwissenschaftlichen Forschung (Chemnitz)

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Sophie Strauß: Fieldwork on Bali (Indonesia)

Francesca Petricca: Fieldwork in Egypt

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Dr. Carsten Wergin: Fieldwork on Rodrigues Island (Mauritius)

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Godwin Onuoha: Fieldwork in Nigeria

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Herr PD Patrick Franke wird an der Universität Bamberg zum Professor für Islamwissenschaft ernannt und scheidet damit aus der Betreuerversammlung der Graduiertenschule aus.

 As the first arts scholar Dr. Katharina Schramm obtains the prize for fundamental research of the state Sachsen-Anhalt.

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Mrs PD Dr. Ildikó Bellér-Hann has accepted the chair on "Modern Cultures and Societies of Western China and Central Asia" at the Department of Regional and Cross-Cultural Studies of the University of Copenhagen   .

Currently, Dr. Bekim Agai is substitute professor for Islamic Studies at the Oriental Institute.  He is standing in for Professor Jürgen Paul, who was awarded a research semester funded by the German Research Society (DFG) and dedicated to research on Local Lordship in Muslim Central Asia and Eastern Iran, 10th-14th centuries.

 Dr. James Thompson accepted an invitation by the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Zürich to be a guest scholar for the academic year 2009-2010 in order to conduct research related to his project The Translation of Human Rights: A Praxis-Theoretical Approach to the Origin of Values. Additionally, he is working with researchers at the University of Fribourg.

 End of January 2009 Prof. Dr. Rahul Peter Das (South Asia Seminar of the Oriental Institute of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg) was honored with the "Nav Rattan Award" ("Nine-Jewels-Award") for his merits in South Asia Studies.

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