DAAD premises, 11. Saleh Ayoub Street Zamalek
June, 13 to April 17, 2025
Date: June 13th, 2024
Location: DAAD premises, 11. Saleh Ayoub Street Zamalek
Time: promptly at 6:00 pm
Registration link:https://www.daad.de/surveys/199876?lang=en
The OIB (Cairo Office) together with COSIMENA is organizing a new series on a new theme, namely “Knowledge Transfer, its History and its Future in the Age of Digital Humanities” during the period June 2024 – April 2025.
Like in the previous series, the topic is also treated in an interdisciplinary manner from different perspectives, namely history, religious studies, sociology, modernity and computer science. This time too there will be three clusters with 4 presentations each. In the first cluster we address the question of what knowledge transfer is. The second is about the questions of how, why and by whom. And in the third cluster is the topic 'Digitizing history.'
The OIB Cairo Office invites you to participate in the public lectures on the First theme of the “OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on “Knowledge transfer between history and innovation”, namely “Knowledge and Culture Transfer in the Mamluk period (1250 – 1517)” which is organised in cooperation with the DAAD within the framework of the project “Clusters of Scientific Innovation in the Middle East and North Africa” (COSIMENA).
Concept note:
The presentation will speak about aspects of knowledge transfer in the Mamluk period. It will therefore at first describe processes of (knowledge) transfer and (personal) mobility in general in the Mamluk Empire and then dwell on two specific case studies. i.e. the transfer of military technology from Europe to the Mamluk realm and of the image of the Mamluk into contemporary Europe. In doing so it will add to the discussion of mobility in the pre-modern Period in Egypt and beyond
Speaker:
Prof Dr. Albrecht Fuess, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies.
Prof. Dr. Albrecht Fuess specializes on the History of the Near and Middle East (13th to 16th centuries). He studied History and Islamic Studies at the Cologne University and Cairo University. He obtained his Ph-d in Cologne in 2000 with a dissertation on the history of the Syro-Palestinian coast in Mamluk times (1250-1517). Since 2010 he is a Professor of Islamic Studies at the-University Marburg.