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1 Academic Calendar Winter term 2018/2019 October October 9 am - 6 pm 15 October 6 pm Welcome Day BGSMCS and cohort 2016 Ceremony Farewell and welcome ceremony for the outgoing and incoming director of the Graduate School For all fellows, PIs and friends of the Graduate School BGSMCS October - Induction Week For doctoral cohort 2018 BGSMCS 22 October 2 6 pm Masculinity Studies in the Muslim Contexts: Approaches and Challenges Presentation 1 and 2 Dr. Danilo Marino (BGSMCS); Dr. Adam Talib (Durham University) 22 October Cohort 2016 (mandatory) Presentation 1: Coping with Closure. Pasts and Fates of the Turkish Tekkes by Lucia Cirianni Salazar Presentation 2: Fuelled by Modernity: Building the Modern Arab Oil States 23 October am Preparatory Meeting Nudity in Islamic and Cultural Studies BGSMCS Alteinsteinstr. 48 1

2 23 October 6 8 pm 24 October 30 October 2 6 pm Lecture Adam Talib (Durham University) Rape and the Reader. Classic Arabic Poetry Comes to Light ; Chair: Prof. Beatrice Gründler Public Event IT-Security for Dummies Doing research in online environments I Dr. Danilo Marino (BGSMCS) Jannis Grimm (Doctoral Fellow, BGSMCS) Dr. Steffen Köhn (FU Berlin) Holzlaube Fabeckstraße Berlin Room: October 4-8 pm Critical Theories and Methods: Introduction November 2018 Doing research in online environments II 1 November 2-6 Dr. Steffen Köhn (FU Berlin) 5 November 9 am 4 pm 6 November 12 pm Intensive Writing Day I Jour fixe From a blank sheet to the first draft For doctoral cohorts 2017, 2016, 2015, and older. Registration For all doctoral students and postdocs With brown bag lunch bring your own food. Ingrid Scherübl Dr. Lars Ostermeier 6 November 2 5 pm Open Discussion Staying mentally healthy during the PhD (part 2 of Academic Day session) For all fellows of the Graduate School. Lisa Ernst, Markus Fiebig, Merima Sehagic 2

3 8 November 9 am 4 pm Intensive Writing Day II From a first draft to a complete draft For doctoral cohorts 2017, 2016, 2015, and older. Registration Ingrid Scherübl 9 October am Preparatory Meeting : Constructions of Heritage in Islamic and Near Eastern Studies BGSMCS Atensteinstr November Critical Theories and Methods: Positionality and the Politics of Knowledge Production Presentation 3 and 4 12 November 2-6 pm Presentation 3: Social Stratification at a Muslim Qasba - Genealogy and Narrating the Past at Amroha ( ) by Soheb Ur-Rahman Niazi Presentation 4: The Ba Alawi Sufi Order in Saudi-Arabia: State, Orthodoxy, and Deviance in Contemporary Islam by Besnik Sinani 12 November 6-8 pm Mo Lecture Mark Sedgwick (Aarhus University, Denmark) The Relevance of Western Sufism for the Study of Sufism in the Muslim World ; Chair: Prof. Dr. Torsten Tschacher Besnik Sinani (BGSMCS) Holzlaube Fabeckstraße Berlin Room: November 9 am 4 pm Intensive Writing Day III Public Event Reflecting on- and polishing your manuscript For doctoral cohorts 2017, 2016, 2015, and older. Registration Ingrid Scherübl 3

4 15 November 9 am 3 pm Nudity / ʿawra 16 November 9 am 5 pm Nudity / ʿawra 22 November 6 pm Film Screening L atelier du calligraphe, a documentary by Natalia Duque Quintero Natalia Duque Quintero, Dr. Gaétan Du Roy 23 November Critical Theories and Methods: Textual Cultures/Archives & Prof. Konrad Hirschler November - Conference Presentation: Engaging the Listener in Your Talk Ric Oquita, Impulsplus 30 November 2 6 pm Critical Theories and Methods: Historiography/Temporality & Dr. Nils Riecken 4

5 December 2018 For all doctoral students and postdocs 4 December 12 pm Jour fixe With brown bag lunch bring your own food. Input from Dr. Thomas Weitner: Funding programs for post-doctoral research Dr. Lars Ostermeier 5 December Christmas Party All BGSMCS 6 December 10 am - 2 pm Pre-archival Prof. Konrad Hirschler Dr. Nadja Danilenko Presentation 5 and 6 10 December 2-6 pm Presentation 5: Reconfigured Territories in the MENA Region: Visualized Landscapes in the Era of Digitization and Migration by Heba Amin Presentation 6: Products of Work: Hybrid Subjectivities of Tunisian Muslim Workers by André Weißenfels 12 December 4-6 pm Talk Forbidden Love Affairs and Urban Cosmopolitanism in Shubra Representing Religious boundaries in Egyptian Telenovelas Chair: Dr. Samuli Schielke Dr. Gaétan du Roy BGSMCS 13 December 10 am 1 pm/ 5 pm Post-fieldwork For doctoral cohort 2016 (and older) CANCELLED!!! RESCHEDULED TO SUMMER TERM! Dr. Rosa Castillo (HU) 5

6 14 December 10 am - 5 pm Academic Writing Dr. Luita Spangler 21 December 2 6 pm Critical Theories and Methods 5 December 5 pm Christmas Party For all fellows and PIs of the Graduate School Doctoral Researchers from all cohorts January 2019 For all doctoral students and postdocs 8 January 12 pm Jour fixe With brown bag lunch bring your own food. Input: tba Dr. Lars Ostermeier 11 January 10 am - 5 pm 17 January 10 am - 2 pm Academic Writing Pre-archival Dr. Luita Spangler Prof. Konrad Hirschler Dr. Nadja Danilenko 18 January 2 pm - 6 pm Critical Theories and Methods 6

7 Presentation 7 and 8 21 January Presentation 7: Mobilization of Manpower at the End and during the Change of Empires in the Multi-Confessional Borderland "Sandjak" (1900s-1920s). by Jovo Miladinovic Presentation 8: Interrelations between the Iranian Motion Picture Industry and International Film Festivals by Viktor Ullman Presentation 8 and 9 22 January 10 am 2 pm Presentation : The politics of gender in a colonial Islamic society: governing 'womanhood' in late 19th- and early 20th-century Russian Central Asia. by Said Gaziev Presentation 9: Negotiations of (Muslim) Womanhood among Uyghur Minkaohan Women in Urumqi, Xinjiang by Lisa Ernst Prof Ulrike Freitag / Prof. Ingeborg Baldauf 24 January 9 am 5 pm Islamic Heritage 25 January 9 am 3 pm Islamic Heritage 31 January 10 am - 3 pm Pre-field workshop Dr. Rosa Castillo (HU) 7

8 February February 2pm 6pm 4 February 5 February 12 pm Jour fixe Critical Theories and Methods Presentation 10 and 11 Presentation 10: Processes of Racialization and the Everyday. An Ethnographic account of Bosnian Muslims in Berlin by Merima Sehagic Presentation 11: Die Poetik als Teil eines philosophischen Wissenschaftssystems: Der Poetik-Kommentar Ibn Sinas in seiner Summa "Die Genesung der Seele" by Ali Sakr For all doctoral students and postdocs With brown bag lunch bring your own food. Input: tba Dr. Lars Ostermeier 8 February Critical Theories and Methods 13 February 10 am - 3 pm Pre-field workshop Dr. Rosa Castillo (HU) February - Research Prof. Cilja Harders 8

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