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Coffee & Croissants 2

Semester kick-off - informal get-together in the Grad School Come along - bring a little something for the small buffet! *** for all member of the BGSMCS

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Apr 16, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 02:00 PM

Book launch

THE JOURNAL MAWĀQIF:  AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF POST-1967 BEIRUT (IN THREE ACTS)  by Yvonne Albers Moderation: Vivienne Schommer ******************* About this book: This book is a story of a generation of Arab intellectuals in the late 20th century told through the biography of the famous Beiruti journal Mawāqif (1968–1994), which was founded and edited by the Syrian poet Adunis, and co-edited by a changing group of acclaimed Arab writers, thinkers and artists, including Khalida Said, Sadiq Jalal al-Azm, Elias Khoury, and Edward Said, to name but a few. At the heart of its narrative is the city of Beirut, a trans-Arab intelligentsia hotspot during the Long 1960s, then a war-torn capital in the late 1970s and 1980s, and ultimately a distant home imagined by the exiled Arab community in the early 1990s.  Mawāqif ’s biography mirrors that of a post-1967 Arab intellectual generation and its once-revolutionary project, and shows the deep interconnectedness of the modern intellectual (al-muthaqqaf) as social figure and of journal-making as this figure’s constitutive practice.  Yvonne Albers ‘ current research focuses on time and temporality in/of the modern Arab periodical, and on global circulations of theory since the early 20th century. Her recent book Beirut und die Zeitschrift Mawāqif has been published last year (Brill 2023). Together with Anne-Marie McManus and Barbara Winckler she is co-editing a volume on The Journal as Form: An Introduction to Arab Periodical Studies (De Gruyter 2025).   

Location: Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies Hittorfstr. 18 14195 Berlin

May 15, 2025 | 06:15 PM - 08:00 PM

Pre-archive Workshop

Dr. Görkem Akgöz Introduction on 16 April 2025, 14-15h, online.

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Jun 12, 2025 - Jun 13, 2025

Storytelling Workshop

Dr. Görkem Akgöz

Location: BGSMCS Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin

Jun 18, 2025 - Jun 19, 2025