Vortragsreihe: Configurations of Race, Religion and Language in Modern Knowledge
Vortragsreihe "Configurations of Race, Religion and Language in Modern Knowledge" am Institut für Islamwissenschaft der Freien Universität Berlin
25.04.2019 – 11.07.2019
Programme
Thursdays 6 - 8 pm, Room 2.2059 (Holzlaube)
April 25
Translating In-Justice
Emily Apter (New York University / American Academy of Berlin)
May 2
Conditions of Secularity: The Novel and Collective Religious Imaginaries
Ayman El-Desouky (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies)
May 9
Semites, Then, Now, and Later
Gil Hochberg (Columbia University)
May 16
Diachronic Violence, Materiality and Theories of Recognition
Reinhard Bernbeck (Freie Universität Berlin)
May 23
The Anthropologist as Reader
Brinkley Messick (Columbia University)
May 28 (Tuesday)
Religion, Race, and Memory
Gil Anidjar (Columbia University)
June 6 (Room 0.2051)
Rejecting Judeo-Christian Privilege: The First Step Towards Semitic Solidarity
Anya Topolski (Radboud Universiteit)
June 13
The Question of Judeo-Arabic: Nation, Partition, and the Linguistic Imaginary
Ella Shohat (New York University)
June 20
The Dark Side of Modern Religion
Theodore Vial (Iliff School of Theology)
June 27
Race and the Rule of Law: How to Turn a People into a Race
Falguni Sheth (Emory University)
July 4
Translating the Revolution, Revolutionary Translation
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (Princeton University)
July 11
The Fall of Boundaries: The State and Religion
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (Princeton University)
A lecture series by the Institute of Islamic Studies and the Seminar for Arabic Studies of FU Berlin
Organized by Schirin Amir-Moazami and Islam Dayeh islamwissenschaft@fu-berlin.de