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Jointly organized by the Orient-Institut Beirut and Forum Transregionale Studien

Language, Science and Aesthetics - Articulations of Subjectivity and Objectivity in the Modern Middle East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia. 

This Summer Academy offers early-career scholars an opportunity to follow up on the debates about modernity, its preconditions and its aftermath by focusing on the multifarious processes and often unique ways in which societies outside Europe have adopted, translated, rejected or produced the global, the modern and tradition since the seventeenth century. It places a specific focus on the notions of subjectivity and objectivity, the individual and the subject, as key notions of modernity, and addresses systems and practices of knowledge production, communication and authority as they developed in the region that extends from Morocco to Indonesia. The Summer Academy engages with the debates on the writing of a more global history by paying particular attention to changing textual and aesthetic practices and language policies.

You are cordially invited to attend our public lectures:

Lecture I 11 Sept, 5 – 6.30 pm, AUB, Building 37

Ray Brassier (American University of Beirut)

Dialectics between Suspicion and Trust

Lecture II  12 Sept, 5 – 6.30 pm, Orient-Institut Beirut

Hans Harder (University of Heidelberg)

Reading Paratexts: The significance of textual frames

Lecture III  13 Sept, 11:30 – 1 pm, Orient-Institut Beirut

Nader el-Bizri (American University of Beirut)

Ontological-Epistemological Renewals within the Dialectics of Tradition and Modernity? Critical reflections on methodology in the field of ‘Arabic sciences and philosophy’

Lecture IV 15 Sept, 5 – 6.30 pm, Orient-Institut Beirut

Kirsten Scheid (American University of Beirut)

Dhawq ‐ On the aesthetics of incorporation and the importance of a linguistic approach

Lecture V  16 Sept, 5 – 6.30 pm, Orient-Institut Beirut

Monica Juneja (University of Heidelberg)

From the Religious to the Aesthetic Image – or the struggle over art that offends

Lecture VI 18 Sept, 5 – 6.30 pm, AUB, Building 37

Bodhisattva Kar (University of Cape Town)

Modernity and Misplacement: A curious history of anachronis