[Bilimsel Haber] To attend in Berlin: Urban Studies Seminar: Urban Violence

[Onur Inal]

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:37:15 +0200
From: Nora Lafi <nora.lafi at cms.hu-berlin.de>

ZMO-EUME: Urban Studies Seminar
Chaired by Prof. Ulrike Freitag and Dr. Nora Lafi

Annual Theme 2010-11: Urban Violence

December 2: Introduction  by Nelida Fuccaro (SOAS, London), Ulrike
Freitag (ZMO) and Nora Lafi (ZMO)

December 13: Fanatics? Foreigners, Notables and Officials in Djeddah’s
Urban Disorders of the 1850s  by Philippe Petriat (Universite Paris I
Sorbonne)

January 10: Rebels and their Rivals in a Syrian Town (1920s)  by
Michael Provence (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, ZMO)

January 24: A Glimpse into Infanticide Cases in Nineteenth Century
Ottoman Cities  by Gulhan Balsoy (Fellow of Europe in the Middle East
– The Middle East in Europe 2010/11)

February 7: The March 1909 Riots in Istanbul: Reform, Reaction, Islam
and Clashing Political Strategies by Zeynep Turkyilmaz (Fellow of
Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe 2010/11)

February 21: Fluid Identities and Violent Alliances: Localism versus
Class in the Urban Violence of Interwar al-Mahalla al-Kubra – Egypt
by Hanan Hammad (Texas Christian University; Fellow of Europe in the
Middle East – The Middle East in Europe 2010/11)

March 7: From Shanghai to Yug-2: Violence and the Urban Youth of a
Bishkek Neighbourhood  by Philipp Schroeder (MPI fuer Ethnologische
Forschung, Halle)

March 21 : Urban Mobs in Early 19th Century Istanbul: the Besiktas
Rebellion (September 1807) and the Cardak Incidents (May 1808) by
Aysel Yildiz (Sabanci University)

April 11: Urban Violence in Shihr (Yemen): Space and Identities  by
Sylvaine Camelin (Universite Paris X Nanterre)

May 2: To Whom Belong the Streets? Investment in Public Space and
Popular Contentions in Late Ottoman Damascus by Till Grallert (Berlin
Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies)

May 16: The Civic Domestication Process of Urban Factional Violence in
Late Middle-Ages Italian Cities by Patrick Boucheron (Universite Paris
I Sorbonne)

June 6: Conclusion: Nelida Fuccaro (SOAS, London), Ulrike Freitag
(ZMO) and Nora Lafi (ZMO)

This seminar is supported with funds of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.

Twice a Month,
Mondays 17:00-19:00
Starting December 2, 2010

Venue:
Conference Hall
Zentrum Moderner Orient
Kirchweg 33
14129 Berlin-Nikolassee (S-Bahn lines 1 and 7)
Participants are asked to register at the following address:
Dr. Nora Lafi
nora.lafi at rz.hu-berlin.de
Telefon (+49) (0) 30 80307- 0


The seminar is part of the activities of the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)
and of the research program
'Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe'
(EUME, research field 'Cities Compared: Cosmopolitanism in the
Mediterranean and Adjacent Regions') of the Berlin-Brandenburgische
Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, and the
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

For more information please visit:
http://www.zmo.de
http://www.eume.de
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~mediter



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Dr. Nora Lafi (Researcher, BMBF)
Zentrum Moderner Orient, Kirchweg 33, 14129 Berlin, Germany
Ottoman Studies
Urban Studies

co-director (with Pr. Ulrike Freitag) of 'Cities Compared: Cosmopolitanism
in the Mediterranean and Adjacent Regions', a research field within the
program Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe.

Personal Home Pages:
http://www.zmo.de/Mitarbeiter/Lafi/index.htm
http://www.h-net.org/people/editors/show.cgi?ID=124118

H-Mediterranean Editor:
http://www.h-net.org/~mediter/