Institute Research Workshop: Paradigm Change in the Near and Middle East (Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, LMU Munich)
12.05.2017 – 13.05.2017
Friday, 12 May (Venue: Edmund-Rumpler-Strasse 13 - B 117)
(A) REFRAMING OLD TEXTS IN(TO) NEW POWER SETTINGS
13:00-15:00
• Andreas Kaplony: Kitāb "Writ" in Coranic Arabic, Imperial Arabic, and Koine-Arabic
• Sarah Lemaire: The Creation in Yose ben Yose's Piyyut "Atah konanta ʻOlam": a Deliberate Palimpsest
• Julia Strutz: Paradigm Change and its Discontents: Heritage Politics in Istanbul
15:00-15:30 • Coffee break
15:30-17:30
• Talin Suciyan: An Anonymous Mass: The Survivors
• Rocio Daga Portillo: Ibn Taymiyya, a Salafist?: Legal Discourse in Its Historical Context
• Bettina Gräf: Hiba Raʾūf ʿIzzat: The Egyptian Political Scientist Comments on Wael Hallaq’s "The Impossible State" (2012) on Youtube
(B) KEYNOTE LECTURE
18:15-19:00
• Idriss Jebari (Beirut): Thinking the Maghrib as an Epistemological Rupture: The Moroccan Post-Independence Efforts to Decolonize the Social Sciences
19:00-21:00 • Dinner
Saturday, 13 May (Venue: Amalienstr. 52 - K 201)
(C) REPHRASING IDENTITIES
10:00-12:00
• Vevian Zaki: To Speak or Not to Speak in the Other's Language: Two Examples from the Arabic Bible
• Emma Mages: Linguistic Identification in Egyptian Plays of the Nahḍa
• Nevra Lischewski: Sprachreform im multilingualen Kontext
12:00-12:30 • Coffee break
12:30-14:00
• Mehr Newid: Divergenzen und Konvergenzen im neupersischen Sprachgebrauch am Beispiel von Fārsī-ye Tehrānī (FT) und Fārsī-ye Kābolī (FK)
• Vefa Akseki: Aspekte der Herausbildung individueller Einstellungen zu Sprachen
• Final discussion