Workshop: Deconstructing Oriental Studies 2015
02.05.2015
3.2.2015
09:45 - 10:00 Welcoming remarks by Prof. Christoph K. Neumann, LMU Institute for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Chair of Turkish Studies.
10:00 – 10:30 Dr. Talin Suciyan, Dr. Christl Catanzaro : Introduction
10:30 – 11:30 Dr. des. Denise Klein (Leibniz Institute for European History, Mainz): Studying the Ottoman World: Compartmentalization and Alternative Strategies
11:30-11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 12:45 Prof. Dr. Mihran Dabag (Ruhr Universität, Bochum): Ewig umkreist dich was ohne Namen ist. Zur Problematik des Zusammenhangs von Leugnung, Disziplin und Forschungsförderung
12:45-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00 Dr. Achim Rohde (Philipss University, Marburg): Asians in Europe. Reading German-Jewish History Through a Post-Colonial Lens
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30 Dr. Bilgin Ayata (Free University, Berlin): Looking Behind the Mirror: Critical Occidentalism and the 'Postnational' Imperative in Kurdish Studies.
4.2.2015
10:00 – 11:00 Dr. Felix Wiedemann (Frei Universität, Berlin): Die Geburt der Orientalistik aus dem Geiste des Kolonialismus?
11:00 – 13:00 Discussion and concluding remarks
Students of the course (Proseminar) “Deconstructing Oriental Studies” are welcome to present their research topic after each session’s discussion, if they wish to. They will have 10 minutes. We would kindly ask students to register until the 1st of February.
Venue : Amalienstr. 52, K 001 (EG).
This workshop is funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon).