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