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      • Catastrophe, Memory & Critique - Jens Hanssen (DFG funded conference; current book project)
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      • A Literary History of Arab Futures: Enlightenment, Ruins, and Dystopia – Zeina Halabi
      • From Copying to Burning the Qur’an: Creating Models & Transposing Sacrality – Alya Karame
      • Critical Theory from the Global South: New Perspectives from Beirut – Sami Khatib
      • Abrahamic Interdependence - Relationship of the Islamic to the Jewish in Marital Law – Ahmed M. F. Abd-Elsalam
      • Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad: Trajectories of artists and artworks in/from Lebanon since 1943 (LAWHA) – Nadia von Maltzahn (PI, ERC funded project)
      • The ABC of Abū Bakr al-Shanawānī (d. 1610). Arabic letter semiotics on the threshold of modern times – Berenike Metzler (DFG funded project)
      • Kant and the Non-European: Critique, Justice and Freedom (Lecture series and panel discussions, in collaboration with AUB)
      • Global Weimar – Global Nahda (In collaboration with Princeton University)
      • The Japanese Red Army in Lebanon: Solidarity, Militancy, and Transregional Connectivity – Claudia Derichs
    • Previous projects
      • Escape to Europe: Comparative Refugee Imaginaries - Markus Schmitz
      • Living in Limbo - Sarah El Bulbeisi
      • BALANCE AS JUSTICE: DECONSTRUCTION OF PREMODERN ETHICS ON THE BASIS OF ḲINĀLĪZĀDE ꜤALĪ ÇELEBĪ’S AKHLĀḲ-I ꜤALĀ’Ī - FATIH ERMIŞ
      • The New Testament quotations in Ibrahim al-Biqāʿīs (st. 1480) commentary on the Koran - Thomas Würtz
      • From Arabic to Latin: Moving sciences of music around the Mediterranean - Rosy Azar Beyhom
      • Women and religion in post-conflict societies - Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink
      • Discourses on Statehood in Iraq - Christian Thuselt
      • Cultural Policies in Lebanon: Cultural Institutions between State and Society (Nadia von Maltzahn)
      • Fictio Statis (Pierre France)
      • The Lebanese Intifada of October 17: Perspectives from Within (Birgit Schäbler)
      • Relations in the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the Eastern Bloc (1950's to 1991) (Birgit Schäbler)
      • Europe and the Middle East (Birgit Schäbler)
      • Picturing the (Un)Dead: Reflections and Deconstructions of Lebanese and Iranian "Martyrs" in Contemporary Photo-Related Art-Practices (Agnes Remeder)
      • Hierarchical Rationality of Religious Beliefs System in Islamic and Christian Theology (Qodratullah Qorbani)
      • The inimitability of the Qur’ān (i‘jāz al-qur’ān) in transconfessional contexts of the early ῾Abbāsid period (Hans-Peter Pökel)
      • Cultural Mobilities and Political Spaces (Christopher Bahl)
      • Al-Qadi al-Fadil (Stefan Leder)
      • Bedouin Syria (Johann Büssow)
      • Borrowing and lending (Jonathan Kriener, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
      • Clergy and conflict management (Thomas Scheffler)
      • Higher Education and Citizenship in Egypt (Daniele Cantini)
      • History Writing at Lebanese Universities (Jonathan Kriener)
      • Knowledge in postgraduate studies (Daniele Cantini)
      • Mamâlik – Spatial Dynamics of Islamic Polities (Kurt Franz)
      • Media culture transformation (Hanan Badr)
      • Museums in Dialogue with the Future (Felicia Meynersen)
      • Political slogans (Nader Srage)
      • Political thought (Stefan Leder)
      • Rural societies in an age of urbanisation (Astrid Meier)
      • S.C.R.I.P.T. - Source Companion for the Research on Islamic Political Thought (Stefan Leder)
      • Talking about art – aesthetic reflection in Egypt and Lebanon (Monique Bellan)
      • Tracing an author’s library (Torsten Wollina)
      • A Literal World: Perceiving the World as a Linguistic Construction before the Emergence of the Metaphor in Arabo-Islamic Thought (Abdallah Soufan)
      • Open Arabic Periodical Editions (OpenArabicPE) (Till Grallert)
      • “Women on the streets!: a genealogy of food riots in the Middle East between the 18th and 20th centuries“ (Till Grallert)
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      • Research Fellow | The Centre Marc Bloch | Application deadline: 31 May 2026
      • Two Fully Funded PhD Positions (3 Years) | Université de Lille; REPOLIJIS – Rethinking Modern Politics through Jewish and Islamic Sources | Deadline: May 15, 2026
      • CfA: The Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies (CEDEJ) in Cairo is pleased to announce its fellowship program for the academic year 2026-2027
      • CfA - Deadline: 15 May 2026: Confronting Musical Diversity in Western and Central Eurasian Empires during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Max Weber Stiftung – Georgia Branch Office | Tbilisi, 24–25 September 2026
      • DAAD Ausschreibungen: Projekte zur Anbahnung von Hochschulkooperationen mit Syrien
      • Call for Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Palestine Studies
      • Call for Applications: The new Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Rohstoffwelten – Kulturen im Umbruch" now accepts applications for fellowships!
      • Call for Papers | DAVO: The OIB is encouraging present and past fellows and all alumni to consider submitting paper- and panel-proposals for the next Annual DAVO Congress in Munich, September 10.-12.2026
      • Call for Applications: Summer School on reading and analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources, 13-17 September 2026, Amman. Deadline: March 15, 2026
      • The DFG would like to draw attention to the current call for applications from The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the DFG
      • Call for Papers for a Workshop: “Demarcating Literary Genres in Premodern Arabic Literature. Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Question of Fictionality” June 3–5, 2026
      • Die Botschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Damaskus sucht zu Anfang Mai 2026 eine/n Übersetzer/in und Dolmetscher/in im Sprachendienst (m/w/d)
      • Summer School: Critique and Emancipation
      • Call for applications by The Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) – Deadline: February 12, 2026 – Small Grants Program on the theme of “Constantine Zurayk: Nation, Identity, and History: Towards New Agendas.”
      • Call for applications: The Cochrane Research Fellowship at the Chester Beatty Library. Deadline: 13 February 2026
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      • Call for applications for a postdoctoral position – Sorbonne Université – to conduct research on the tangible heritage of a region in the Middle East, Deadline 14 November 2025
      • Call for Contributions: The Review of Middle East Studies (RoMES) invites contributions to an upcoming special issue on Digital Humanities in Middle East Studies
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      • Call for papers: The Arab Graduate Students Conference (AGSC), organized by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS), has been extended to 30 October 2025
      • Call for Papers – The Many Worlds of Ahmad Shawqi: Poetry, Drama, and Cultural Legacy. American University of Beirut – May 2026 (Dates TBA)
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      • Call for Early-Career Fellows of the Vienna Center for Advanced Studies (ViCAS)
      • The ERC project KNOW: Polymathy and Interdisciplinarity in Premodern Islamic Epistemic Cultures (1200–1800) invites proposals for its first international workshop
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      • Call for applications for a fully funded PhD fellowship at Ghent University
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      • Call for Papers: The Making of the Lebanese Working Class, Historical Materialism, London Conference, November 2025
      • A workshop on editing Arabic texts in manuscripts organised by Farouk Jabre Center for Arabic & Islamic Science & Philosophy
      • Call for applications for the international Senior Fellowship Programme of the College for Social Sciences and Humanities, an Institute for Advanced Study based in Essen (Germany) that is part of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)
      • Junior social scientists working on MENA region – deadline: 4 May 2025
      • Associate Senior Lecturer in History (Middle Eastern) – Lund University
      • CALL FOR PAPERS for the Symposium ARAB-GERMAN RELATIONS IN THE MIRROR OF HISTORY
      • استكتاب للمشاركة في ندوة العلاقات العربية-الألمانية في مرآة التاريخ
      • Call for papers: Diasporas, Exiles, Migrants, and Refugees from Europe in the Middle East and North Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries. A workshop held on July 8-10, 2025, at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany
      • IEG Fellowship - The Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz call for applications for one fellowship starting in September 2025. Application Deadline: April 14, 2025
      • Faculty vacancy announcement – The City University of New York Faculty Open Rank - Open Rank, Palestinian Studies Cluster Hire/ Art & Humanities
      • Call for Proposals for a conference on the Lebanese Civil War on the 50th anniversary of its outbreak
      • B2B - Call for Papers - Orient-Institut Istanbul
      • Call for submissions: Palestine Studies, German Studies: Special issue of The German Quarterly
      • Call for Applications: Why Location Matters: Research in the Arab World | دعوة إلى تقديم الطلبات: أهمّية مواقع الأبحاث في العالم العربي
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May

Seminar Series Lecture

Tracing al-Suyūṭī’s Impact on Sixteenth-Century Syrian Scholars: A…

13
May

Seminar Series Lecture

“Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Medieval Islamic Science”

09
May

International conference

New Perspectives on South-Asian and Middle Eastern Connections in the 20th…

06
May

Seminar Series Lecture

The Value of Asking the Right Questions. Al-Suyūṭī’s Influence on the…

29
April

Seminar Series Lecture

„Sohn der Bücher“: Gelehrsamkeit und literarisches Erbe von Ǧalāl ad-Dīn…

28
April

Lecture

Lebanon's Art World in Catastrophic Times: Visual Arts in the 1980s and Art…

22
April

Seminar Series Lecture

Historical-cultural portrait of the Mamluk-Ottoman transition

22
April

Seminar Series Lecture

The Heirs of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī (d. 1505 AD)

08
April

Lecture

Saudi-Arabia's Path to the Future: A Radical Transformation? (Cancelled)

08
April

Seminar Series Lecture

“Diverse Sciences in Islamic Civilization” and “Some Critical Thoughts On…

11
February

Lecture

Two Concepts of Restraint: The Logic of the State in Ibn Khaldun

14
January

Lecture

The Land of Palestine: Early Ethnographers, Late Archives, and Present Law

08
January

Exhibition

Defying the Violence: Lebanon’s Visual Arts in the 1980s, Manazir Journal 7…

17
December

Seminar Series Lecture

Hegel's Concept of Dialectical Sublation, applied to the History of Islam

15
December

Film Screening and Discussion

“The Dream” as Discourse, the Camp as Archive: A Screening and Discussion…

03
December

Seminar Series Lecture

From Ideology to Critique: History in the Thought of the Iraqi Philosopher …

26
November

Seminar Series Lecture

Can Policies Last? Governmental Experience between Transmission and…

08
November

Conference

Arab-German Relations through the Mirror of History

05
November

Seminar Series Lecture

Conflicting perspectives: colonial knowledge, local agency, and the…

22
October

Seminar Series Lecture

Women and Gender in the History of Political Violence

08
October

Seminar Series Lecture

Fault lines in the conflicting views of early Islam

01
October

Lecture

An Arabic "Book" That Moves: Kalila and Dimna

24
September

Seminar Series Lecture

Affective Imaginings in the Archive: A Feminist Perspective

03
September

Seminar Series Lecture

History, Herstory or Their stories? Intersectional Feminist Perspectives

17
July

Lecture

The murder of middle east correspondent Robert Pfeffer, Beirut 1979

08
July

Research Colloquium

The Ḥadīth: its authority and critique in gender issues

23
June

Book talk

لعنة لبنان شهادات ومسارات في الحرب الأهلية الإقليمية

16
June

Lecture

POLITICAL SCIENCE ON TRIAL: An experience in the Lebanese Civil War

11
June

Book talk

Landscapes of Resistance: Narratives around Sacred Places in Sinjar (Iraq)…

03
June

Conference

Catastrophe, Memory & Critique

22
May

Book talk

The Dispossessed Generation. Youth in the Middle East and North Africa.

13
May

Lecture

On the Syrian Revolution after the Fall

06
May

Lecture

Dispersal and Preservation: Traces of Palestinian Manuscript Cultures

05
May

Book talk

The Library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār: Book Culture in Late Ottoman…

30
April

Lecture

Who's Indigenous? The Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of Digital…

30
April

Lecture

From the Champs-Élysées to Cairo: Iconoclasm as Anti-Colonialism in…

24
April

Exhibition

Nothing Lasts Forever: Syria Through the Eyes of the Free ما في للأبد:…

16
April

Lecture

Collection-based Research meets Digital Strategy: Gotha Oriental Collection

16
April

Lecture

Collection-based Research meets Digital Strategy: Gotha Oriental Collection

15
April

Lecture

(Postponed) From Struggling with the World to Struggling with Kant: Aḥmad…

11
April

Lecture

Perpertual War , Perpetual Peace: Reflections on Kant’s Laws of War

09
April

Workshop

Kant & Arendt on Political Judgment

08
April

Lecture

Kant’s Ambivalent Legacy: The Idea of Progress and its Implications

07
April

Lecture

Kant’s Concept of Progress. Limit of critical thinking?

26
March

Public research seminar

Taking on the Patriarchy Nazira Zeineddine the first Muslim Feminist?

24
March

Lecture

Kant's Account of Universal History and Adorno's Critique

21
March

Roundtable

Public Use of Reason and Academic Freedom: Kant's Radical Legacy…

18
March

Public research seminar

Open Roads and Dead Ends on the way to Independence in Syria: 1936-1942

06
March

Book fair

Lebanese Book Festival 2025

28
February

Film Screening and Discussion

The Soil and the Sea

26
February

Research Colloquium

OIB/COSIMENA Seminar series lecture

19
February

Public research seminar

Ahmad Al-Sharaa and the Return of History

13
February

Lecture

Hosts, Settlers and Repatriation in 1940s Palestine’ by Prof. Dr. Jens…

07
February

Panel Discussion

Destruction of cultural heritage sites in Gaza

29
January

Research Colloquium

OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium II on Knowledge Transfers

21
January

Lecture

Rescuing ‘Trauma’ in Chronic Violence: Framing Concepts for the Arab Region

27
November

Research Colloquium

OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium II on Knowledge Transfers

15
November

International workshop

Avicenna, Avicennism(s), and the Later Philosophical Traditions

11
November

Lecture

Europa schrumpft, Afrika wächst

05
November

Research Colloquium

Creation and Transfer of Knowledge in Islamic Law

31
October

Lecture

El Alamein: Perspektiven aus der ägyptischen und deutschen Erinnerung…

30
October

Public lecture

Fourth Public Lecture: Translation and the Colonial Dilemma - Pioneering…

26
September

Lecture

Postponed until further notice: Roundtable "Public Use of Reason and…

23
September

Research Colloquium

OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium II

05
September

Lecture

"Why are we moving in the opposite direction of perpetual peace?"

02
July

Panel Discussion

Designing Arab Modernity: Al Mashrou' - Alami’s modernist endeavor in…

26
June

Public research seminar

„Inter-cultural Dialogue: A Dream that turned into a Nightmare. A Personal…

26
June

Research Colloquium

OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium II

26
June

Book fair

OIB Summer Book Bazar

13
June

Research Colloquium

Knowledge and Culture Transfer in the Mamluk period (1250 – 1517)

10
June

Workshop

Dealing with Material Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean. Between…

03
June

International conference

Artistic hubs in and of the Arab Region

30
May

Panel Discussion

War and civilizationist horizons

27
May

Public research seminar

The ‘Alawis of Syria from World War I to the Turkish War of Liberation

24
May

Public research seminar

The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule Revisited

24
April

Research Colloquium

OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics

27
March

Research Colloquium

OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics

12
March

Lecture

Albert Hourani, and the American University of Beirut, 1937-1939

29
February

Book fair

Lebanese Book Festival 2024

28
February

Research Colloquium

OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics

26
February

Lecture

Islamic Environmental Ethics Between Theory and Practice. Observations of…

22
February

Research Colloquium

"Lebanon As A Crossroad Of Displacement(S): An Assessment Under…

14
February

Research Colloquium

OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics

13
February

Research Colloquium

Shaken Hierarchies: The Role of Northern Biqaʿs Qabaḍāyāt in the Great…

25
January

International conference

“Global Weimar – Global Nahda”

08
January

Lecture

Knowledge and Its Discontents: Religion and Society according to al-Jāḥiẓ

06
December

Research Colloquium

„OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics”

27
November

Public research seminar

Werte im Widerstreit. Der globale Süden und der Westen

21
November

Research Colloquium

„OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics”

31
October

Research Colloquium

„OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics”

11
October

Public research seminar

Before Solidere: The urban history and planned erasure of Downtown Beirut’s…

07
October

Josef van Ess-Memorial Lecture

Thinking through smell: Olfaction in early modern Near and Middle Eastern…

04
October

Book talk

A CULTURE OF BUILDING: Courtyard Houses in the Old City of Aleppo

28
September

ندوة

"زقاق البلاط، مدرسة المعلم بطرس البستاني والأثر الأكاديميّ في بيروت"

26
September

Research Colloquium

„OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics”

21
September

A Conversation and a Book Launch

THE LEBANON UPRISING OF 2019 Voices From The Revolution

13
September

Workshop

Spaces and Places – Art Exhibitions in Lebanon (1940s-1990s): (Re)assessing…

04
September

Summer Academy

(Call for Papers) Summer Academy on the Entangled Histories of Concepts in…

31
August

Research Colloquium

OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics

18
August

Film Screening

Film festival on human rights and migration

27
July

Research Colloquium

„OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics”

05
July

Film Screening

Cinema weeks of the Orient-Institut Beirut: “Communities of being-together…

03
July

Public research seminar

The Question of Palestine in Germany

22
June

Public research seminar

„OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics”

19
June

Summer School

BICAR SUMMER SCHOOL 2023: IS THERE A REVOLUTIONARY SUBJECT?

16
June

Public research seminar

The second day of the seminary “Alpinism worldwide – Mountains and Society”…

15
June

Public research seminar

Mountaineering in Pakistan A personal challenge and its symbolic impact

13
June

Book talk

Charles Malik, On Being and Time: The Division on Heidegger from the 1937…

25
May

Research Colloquium

Gender Ethics: „What is an Ethical Tafsir of Gender?

25
May

Panel Discussion

Curating an Artist’s (and Parent’s) Biography

24
May

Book talk

Losing Istanbul:Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire

19
May

Conference

The religious Other in Quranic Tafsir

28
April

Public lecture

Anthropology “Out of Place”: Towards a new Ethnographic Praxis

25
April

Public lecture

Anthropological trajectory, theoretical and ethnographic issues

25
April

International Symposium

Anthropology in Arab Countries

23
March

Public research seminar

The Globalization of Palestine Reconsidered: Solidarity Movements and…

20
March

Workshop

Open Science: Concepts, Publishing Practices and Knowledge Production

16
March

Book talk

Beyond the lines social networks and palestinian militant organizations in…

15
March

Workshop

Contested (in)visibilities and memorial cultures: towards a critical…

11
March

Conference

Living in a Digital Age: Technology and its Effects on Religion and Popular…

21
February

Keynote Lecture

Reverberations of Interconnected Crises: Solidarity, Agency & Identity…

09
February

Public research seminar

Occidentalist Mapping: Arab Spring and Self subversive Representation of…

26
January

Lecture

At the Arab Film Club in Beirut: Occasions to “Hear & Be Heard”

25
January

Public research seminar

Waving the Mantle of the Prophet

13
January

Book talk

A Book Talk by Rosie Bsheer: Archive Wars

16
December

Workshop

The Qur’an Manuscript in its Artistic Context

14
December

Book talk

A Book Talk by Tine Gade: Sunni City

11
December

Conference

Discussing the interdependence between Humans, Religion and Environment

30
November

Public research seminar

Negotiating Diverse Identities in Late Mamluk Court Culture: Law, Gender…

29
November

Lecture

BALANCE AS JUSTICE: DECONSTRUCTION OF PREMODERN ETHICS ON THE BASIS OF…

22
November

Conference

WOMEN AGAINST VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

15
November

Lecture

TRAUMA AND TABOO: PALESTINIANS IN GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND

27
October

Public research seminar

Mere Desolation? On Daesh's iconoclasm

19
October

Discussion

Religious Pluralism in Lebanon and Germany

29
September

International conference

Labors of love, trials of friendship Challenges of the modern social…

29
August

Summer School

Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources

26
July

Workshop

Coexistence Theology various methods and theoretical approaches

22
July

Workshop

Avicennism(s) in Context: The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in…

05
July

Workshop

Relations in the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the Eastern Bloc…

30
June

Workshop

Reckoning with God: Divine-Human Relations after the Arab Spring

28
June

Film Screening & Music Performance

Mastering the Oud A Tribute to Albert Mansour

20
June

Workshop

REVOLT IN(G) Collapse

15
June

Public research seminar

Politics and music in the 20th and 21st centuries in Lebanon

03
June

The German- Lebanese History Prize

Launch of the German- Lebanese History Prize

01
June

Summer School

Moving Biography

21
April

Keynote Lecture

Contemporary Innovations in Arab Biography: A Conversation

30
March

Keynote Lecture

The Biographical Tradition in pre-Modern Arabic Literature

17
March

Public research seminar

Vaccination in the late Ottoman Empire

10
March

Workshop

Typologies in the Islamic Ethical Discourse

24
February

Workshop

Relations in the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the Eastern Bloc…

07
February

Photo Exhibition and Film Screening

Relations in the Ideoscape – Photo Exhibition and Film Screening at the…

16
December

Public research seminar

Collège de Notre-Dame de Jamhour Past – Present / Some Ideas on the Future…

02
December

Celebration

OIB's 60th anniversary 2021

24
November

International conference

COEXISTENCE AND SOLIDARITY IN TIMES OF WAR

16
November

Workshop

Alles ist Data? Tout est Data!

11
October

Public Screening

Beziehungen im Kalten Krieg – Filme zwischen Nordafrika und Ostblock |…

27
September

Public Screening

The Second Evasion | Film Screening and Discussion

16
September

MWS Connecting Themes Conference

Contested Knowledge in a Connected World

09
September

Discussion Session

Arabic as a Living Language: Challenges & Horizons

17
June

Online Public Seminar

Taboo, Trauma, and Identity: Subject constructions of Palestinians in…

11
June

Veranstaltungsreihe

Von Kairo nach Karl-Marx-Stadt: Studieren im Kalten Krieg

10
June

Online Public Seminar

An Online Discussion with Maryam Al-Ali, author of Akhbār Khadījah bint…

02
June

Public research seminar

Not-so-Failed State, Militias' Invisible Hands & Inconspicuous Civil…

28
April

Round Table, Training and Photography Exhibition

Memory of war

26
April

Online Seminar

Online Seminar on The Role of New and Social Media in Managing Crisis in…

28
January

Workshop

Diffracting the Mediterranean. Rethinking infrastructural environments…

10
December

Workshop

Environmental History of the Ottoman Empire

05
November

Public research seminar

The (Un-)literal World How the Construction of Metaphor Theory in Islam…

28
October

Public research seminar

Beirut’s Public Spaces After October 17

15
October

Workshop

Women, Banks and Politics: Making Sense of the Intifada

21
July

Public research seminar

Whither Lebanon? Crises and (Re)Solutions

10
March

Public research seminar

The Geopolitics of Energy Transitions in the Middle East

05
March

Public research seminar

Mapping Arabic Sociologies of Religion

27
February

Public research seminar

The Importance of the Russian schools in the Middle East 1882-1915

12
February

International conference

Neighborliness in Global Perspective - Conference Sequel

07
February

Public research seminar

Testimony, Subjectivity and Technology: Video Practices in Syria since 2011

12
December

Annual Conference of the Max Weber Foundation

Neighborliness in Global Perspective

26
November

Panel Discussion

100 years of “Science as a Vocation”

11
October

Salon Conversation

Living in the Mediterranean: Mobilities and Performances in and across…

01
October

Panel Discussion

Destruction/ (Re-) Construction

05
September

Public research seminar

The New Spatial Contract: migration and the invisible barriers in cities…

29
August

Exhibition Opening and Lecture

Critical ecologies: aesthetic practices and the archive

09
July

Exhibition

The Peaceful Revolution in the GDR in 1989 and the Short-Lived Syrian…

20
June

Public research seminar

The UN-led Peace Talks for Yemen and the Southern Cause

19
June

Book fair

Book Sale at Orient-Institut Beirut

13
June

Keynote Lecture

Art and Barbarism

11
June

Politics of the Machines (POM) Conference

Politics of the Machines (POM) | Beirut 2019 | Art/Conflict

04
May

Workshop

Workshop: Open Access

03
May

Public keynote lecture

Digital Dust of the Arabic Past": Corpus-Based Research in Arabic & Islamic…

03
May

International conference

Digital Humanities Institute - Beirut 2019

25
April

An Evening of Storytelling

وثائق بيروتية.. حنين وعبرة

04
April

Public book presentation

المدن الأقطاب في لبنان

02
April

Public research seminar

Neighbourhoods of Books: The Role of Book Collections in Mamluk Bilad…

14
March

Public research seminar

Learning Intelligence: The Exchange of Secret Service Knowledge between…

28
February

Public research seminar

Cairo after 2011. The “little” story of a building

29
January

Weber World Café

Changing Neighbourhoods

17
January

Workshop

Ritualised reactions to subsistence crises: Food riots in the Ottoman…

12
January

Public book presentation

The Art Salon in the Arab Region: Politics of Taste Making (BTS 132)

13
December

Public research seminar

„Text, Context and Paratext: Maṭāliʿ al-Anẓār Sharḥ Ṭawāliʿ al-Anwār as a…

29
November

International conference

Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War

14
November

Public event

Contrasting Classical European and Oriental Music. What makes their…

25
October

Public research seminar

Roads to the Ruins: Documentary Research Practices of Loss and Presence

23
October

Lecture

Lebanese Cultural Players and Authority: Ministry of Culture or No Ministry…

02
October

Workshop

Unicode and Computer Typography for Arabic Text: Digital Humanities…

27
September

Public research seminar

Neighbourliness in Cairo: Living in the Yacoubian Building

18
September

Public research seminar

Why Gender Matters: Feminist approaches to violence, authoritarianism and…

04
September

Round table

“Knowledge of Nature and Intangible Cultural Heritage: Interdisciplinary…

18
July

WOCMES

OIB Alumni Meeting at WOCMES

18
July

WOCMES

WOCMES Panel: Neighbourliness: Neighbourhood relations in Beirut and beyond

14
June

Public research seminar

Nejmeh, THE TROUBLED CLUB: Football and Politics in Lebanon

07
June

Public research seminar

Friendship between natural enemies: the ambitious fraternity of the Ikhwān…

31
May

Public research seminar

Fantasia of the Library: Cataloguing and Classifying in Late Ottoman…

03
May

Public research seminar

الرؤية الناصرية لعلاقات الجِيرة مع البلدان العربية المشرقية، بين…

30
April

Public research seminar

Migrant labour and the structure of the labour market in Lebanon

22
March

Public conversation

In conversation with… Eileen Cooper

08
March

Public research seminar

Emotional Cities: Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo, 1860-1910…

01
March

Public research seminar

Between Intelligence and Knowledge Transfer: Soviet-Arab Relations…

22
February

Public Screening

Stitching Palestine

20
February

Public lecture

When Relations Turn Sour: Ernest Renan and the Islam Debate of 1883 as a…

11
December

Public book presentation

Book Presentation at the Book Fair

10
November

Public research seminar

Castles and Churches of the Templars in the Holy Land and Syria

31
October

"The Financialization of Housing and Real Estate in Lebanon: An Exchange”

26
October

International conference

Contextualising the Art Salon in the Arab Region

14
September

Public research seminar

Medieval Arabic Cosmography and its Ottoman Reception

26
August

Summer School

Reading and analysing Ottoman manuscript sources

20
July

Public research seminar

Lebanon after the Syrian Withdrawal: External Intervention, Power-Sharing…

13
July

Public research seminar

Post-1967 Arab Political Thought and the Lingering Problem of Modernity

06
July

Public research seminar

Christian Political Activism in Lebanon: A Revival of Religious…

22
June

Public research seminar

Abbasid Cities (c. 750-950 CE) and Their Slave Markets

15
June

Public keynote lecture

Academic mobilities and relational thinking

14
June

International workshop

Workshop “Postcolonial legacies, scholarly mobility and research capacity…

01
June

Public research seminar

Arab Nationalism as Culture: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

25
May

Public research seminar

Preaching the Faith: “Storytellers” in Early Islam

18
May

A Suspended Life by Jocelyne Saab

04
May

Public research seminar

On (not) drinking: al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqāmah no. 48

11
April

Public research seminar

Religion, reform and society: The potential of religion for social…

29
March

Public research seminar

What future for Arabian music after two centuries of musicological…

21
March

LANDLESS MOROCCANS

20
February

Public book presentation

Public Culture and Islam in Modern Egypt

16
February

Public book presentation

Middle East Studies for the New Millennium: Infrastructures of Knowledge

27
January

The Art Salon in the Arab Region

27
January

International workshop

The Ibāḍiyya in the context of early Islamic theology and law

20
January

Discussion group

And what if one spoke of the land? Labour, food and the making of space in…

12
December

International workshop

Left-Wing Trends in the Arab World (1948-1979): Bringing the Transnational…

08
December

Public research seminar

Changing frameworks of transmission. The circulation of Arabic grammar…

01
December

Public Screening

Beirut la rencontre

14
November

International workshop

The Avant-garde and its Networks: Surrealism in Paris, North Africa and the…

10
November

Public research seminar

Pleasure and Intoxication as a Literary Topic. Eating Ḥashīsh in Mamlūk…

03
November

Public research seminar

The Political Economy of Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates and…

15
October

Seminar

Second meeting of the discussion group "Rural history, Lebanon and beyond"

13
October

Public research seminar

A Tale with Two Stories: Legal Development from the Perspective of (Inter-)…

22
September

Public research seminar

The Power of Remembrance Political Parties, Memory, and Learning about the…

31
August

Summer School

(Call for papers) Reading and analysing Ottoman administrative sources

29
July

International workshop

Rethinking Social Movements in the Digital Age: Activism, Dissent and…

11
July

Public research seminar

Islamic Mysticism and Philosophical Psychology: Undergirding the Bridges

11
July

International workshop

(Call for papers) East Meets West: Western Psychology in Dialogue with…

11
July

Workshop

East Meets West: Western Psychology in Dialogue with Islamic Mysticism

16
June

Public research seminar

Majāz al-Qur᾽ān – “pre-scientific” philology or late antique linguistic…

09
June

Discussion and book launching

Jewish Intellectuals in Baghdad. Discourses and allegiances (1908-1951)

26
May

Public research seminar

“Who are you, Nadja?” Unsī al-Ḥājj and the Encounter of Arabic Literature…

12
May

Public keynote lecture

The “Abominable Pig” and the “Mother of All Vices”: Pork, Wine and Culinary…

11
May

Our Heedless Wars

05
May

International conference

Books in Motion: Exploring Concepts of Mobility in Cross-Cultural Studies…

28
April

Discussion and book launching

Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity

21
April

International workshop

Cross-disciplinary approaches to the Hydraulic Landscapes of the Eastern…

24
March

محاضرة

عناية المحدثين بالإسناد

16
February

Public book presentation

On priests and modes. Or how the author finally got to understand Byzantine…

06
February

Discussion group

Initial meeting: Rural history, Lebanon and beyond

12
January

Public book presentation

Entangled Education: Foreign and Local Schools in Ottoman Syria and Mandate…

16
December

Public research seminar

Sacred Trash in Medieval Damascus: New 6th/12th- 7th/13th-century Documents…

27
November

Public research seminar

Political Remittances and Lebanon: The case of a decentered diasporic field

17
November

Seminar

Islamic Art at the Crossroads: Artistic Exchanges between the Middle East…

14
October

International conference

The ‘state’ of Lebanon: Concepts of political order in crisis?

02
July

Public research seminar

Celestial and Mundane at the Emergence of Islam

02
July

International conference

Angels and Mankind: Nature, Role and Function of Celestial Beings in Near…

02
June

محاضرة

الشعر المنثور : الشعر المجهول

28
April

Public research seminar

My tears flowed like water because of this gracious cypress: Imagery and…

08
March

Workshop

Establishing a framework for scholarly editing and publishing in the 21st…

05
March

Public research seminar

The archaeology of reading in Ottoman Bilād al-Shām

26
January

Public book presentation

مصر الثورة وشعارات شبابها: دراسة لسانية في عفوية التعبير

20
January

Public research seminar

Christians in the city: Aleppo in Ottoman times

14
January

International forum

Food Fabrication: Culinary practices and food politics in the Arab world

02
December

Public book presentation

The taste of gentrification: Arab fast food in Berlin.

30
November

International conference

Where is the Middle East heading? Ethno-religious minorities between…

25
November

Public research seminar

The unmanly man. Figurations of the eunuch in the works of al-Jāḥiẓ (d.…

18
November

Public research seminar

Antun Saadeh: The literary critic at the centre of national identity.

11
November

Public book presentation

Imperial norms and local realities: The Ottoman municipal laws and the…

06
November

International conference

Constitutional Experiences in the Middle East and North Africa (from…

05
November

Lecture

Baalbek - The German-Lebanese archaeological project: A new megalith in the…

03
November

International conference

The First World War in the Middle East: Experience, knowledge, memory

28
October

جلسة مناقشة بمناسبة إطلاق كتاب

مصر الثورة وشعارات شبابها - دراسة لسانية في عفوية التعبير

21
October

Public research seminar

Death Becomes Her: Beirut and the Literary Representation of the Dead…

07
October

Public book presentation

Twenty years of everyday life: Biography, worldview and self-image in the…

18
September

Summer Academy – lecture VI

Modernity and Misplacement: A curious history of anachronism

16
September

Summer Academy – lecture V

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

15
September

Summer Academy – lecture IV

Dhawq - On the aesthetics of incorporation and the importance of a…

13
September

Summer Academy – lecture III

Ontological-Epistemological Renewals within the Dialectics of Tradition and…

12
September

Summer Academy – lecture II

Reading Paratexts: The significance of textual frames

11
September

Summer Academy – lecture I

Dialectics between Suspicion and Trust

10
September

International Summer Academy

Language, Science and Aesthetics

08
July

Public research seminar

The Lebanese constitution: Legality in the arena of political philosophy

01
July

Public research seminar

Neoliberal Islamism and the Construction of Official Egyptian Nationalism

11
June

Public event

Khalil Sarkis and his wife Louise, née Boustani, at the Orient-Institut…

10
June

Public research seminar

The religions of Armenians in Lebanon: Current situation and future…

13
May

Public research seminar

Dismember remember: The anatomical theatre of Lina Saneh and Rabih Mroué …

04
March

Public research seminar

Expressions of Contemporary Cultural Identity amongst Lebanese Greek or Rūm…

27
February

Workshop

Social Sciences at Arab Universities: Opportunities and Constraints

18
February

Discussion and book launching

"لبنان الطوائف في دولة ما بعد الطائف: إشكاليات التعايش والسيادة وأدوار…

29
January

Public event

Not Who We Are - Documentary film screening

12
December

International conference

DiverCities: Contested Space and Urban Identities in Beirut, Cairo and…

05
December

International conference

Occult Sciences in pre-modern Islamic culture

03
December

Public research seminar

Disciplines of Knowledge, Disciplines of the Self: Re-reading Azhari Reform

22
October

Public research seminar

Political Protestantism and autocracy: Kaiser Wilhelm II’s encounter with…

28
September

International conference

Whither the nation? National identity in the twentieth-century

26
September

Panel at 32nd DOT, Münster, Germany

New Methods in the History and Geography of the Near East

24
September

Panel at 32nd DOT, Münster, Germany

Konzepte des Politischen. Grundlagen und Entwicklungen 8.-16. Jh.

10
September

Public research seminar

To whom belong the streets? The tramways of Damascus as an example for the…

30
July

Public research seminar

Organizing knowledge in Arabic travelogues

04
July

Workshop

Conceptual History and Historical Semantics in Middle Eastern Contexts:…

25
June

Seminar

The Syria-Iran Axis: Cultural Diplomacy and International Relations in the…

04
October

International congress

Inverted Worlds: Congress on Cultural Motion in the Arab Region

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