9.30 a.m. Arrival and Registration
10 a.m. – 10.30 a.m. Welcome and Introductory Remarks (Nils Riecken and Larissa Schmid)
10.30 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. Panel 1: The Sovereign State, Modern Politics, Religion, and Islam
Chair: Nils Riecken
Ruth Mas, The Muslim Refugee and the Bestial Sovereignty of the State
David Moshfegh, Islamwissenschaft as a Science of Religion
12.00 p.m. – 1 p.m. Lunch Break
1 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. Panel 2: Islam and the German Empire
Chair: Anandita Bajpai
Zubair Ahmad, Managing Muslim Bodies in the Colonies: On the Formation of Germany’s Islampolitik
Jörg Haustein, How the Germans brought “Islam” to East Africa: Colonial Debates and the Politics of Religion
2.30 p.m. – 3.00 p.m. Coffee Break
3.00 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. Panel 3: Transnational Histories of German Orientalism I
Chair: Walid Abd el-Gawad
Nora Derbal, Jews, “Turcos” and the French in North Africa: Heinrich Freiherr von Maltzan’s not so disinterested writings in the Magazin für die Literatur des Auslands (1870-73)
Amit Levy, Islam without Muslims: German-Jewish Scholars and Oriental Studies in Palestine/Israel
4.30 p.m. – 4.45 p.m. Coffee Break
4.45 p.m. – 6.15 p.m. Panel 4: Transnational Histories of German Orientalism II
Chair: Ulrike Freitag
Robert Terrell, The Geopolitics of Islam and Islams in Post-Imperial Berlin, 1922-1928
Dyayla Hamzah, Oriental Professors and German Orientalists in 1930s Berlin: Improbable Communities, Transnational Imaginaries, and Networks
6.15 p.m. Walk to restaurant
7 p.m. Conference Dinner
Friday, 12 October 2018
10 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. Panel 5: “Islam” and Orientalism in the Habsburg Empire
Chair: Heike Liebau
Caroline Herfert, “Enlightening the Orient is Our Agenda […]:“ Orientalist Discourse and the Habsburg Empire's Trade Policy in the Viennese Oriental Museum and its Journal “Österreichische Monatsschrift für den Orient” (1875-1918)
Philipp Bruckmayr, Catholic Revisionism in the Making of “Islam” as an Epistemic Field: the Case of Hermann Stieglecker
11.30 a.m. – 11.45 a.m. Coffee Break
11.45 a.m. – 1.15 p.m. Panel 6: “Islam” in German Politics and Public Debates
Chair: Ergün Özgür
Joseph Ben Prestel, Between Pro-Migrant Activism and Criticism of Religion: Islam and the West German New Left during the 1970s
Iskandar Ahmed Abdalla, Rendering Islam Liberal: Time, Space and The Imperative of Intelligibility
1.15 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. Lunch Break
2.30 p.m. – 4.00 p.m. Panel 7: Rendering “Muslims” Visible, Framing “Islam”
Chair: Samuli Schielke
Alex Konrad, The Hybridization of Muslim Spaces in Germany: A Historical Perspective on the Perception of Muslims
Bettina Gräf, Drone Technology: an (Im)possible Topic of Islamic Studies
4 p.m. – 4.15 p.m. Coffee Break
4.15 p.m. – 6 p.m. Panel 8: Comments on Papers, Concluding Discussion, Publication
Chairs: Nils Riecken and Larissa Schmid
Rebekka Habermas, Comment
Schirin Amir-Moazami, Comment
6 p.m. End of Conference