Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe
"Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe" is a five-year multi-disciplinary research program of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. This research program seeks to rethink key concepts and premises that divide Europe from the Middle East. Within the framework of four research fields in the disciplines of Literature, Political Philosophy, Urban History, Philology-cum-Late Antiquity, and Islamic Studies, the program will attempt to recollect the legacies of Europe in the Middle East and of the Middle East in Europe in an inclusive way that aims to do justice to their entanglements.
The program draws on the international expertise of scholars in and outside of Germany and is embedded in university and extra-university research institutions in Berlin. It builds upon the previous work of the Working Group Modernity and Islam, supports and rests upon the following interconnected research fields:
- Cities Compared: Cosmopolitanism in the Mediterranean and Adjacent Regions
- Islamic Discourse Contested: Middle Eastern and European Perspectives
- Perspectives on the Qur'an: Negotiating Different Views of a Shared History
- Travelling Traditions: Comparative Perspectives on Near Eastern Literatures
- Tradition and the Critique of Modernity: Secularism, Fundamentalism and Religion from Middle Eastern Perspectives
For more information please visit: www.eume-berlin.de
Contact:
Georges Khalil
Europa im Nahen Osten – Der Nahe Osten in Europa
c/o Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Wallotstr. 19
D-14193 Berlin
Tel: 030-89001-258
Fax: 030-89001-200
E-Mail an Georges Khalil