Urban Studies Seminar 2010-2011: Urban Violence

Urban Studies Seminar 2010-2011: Urban Violence

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Zentrum Moderner Orient
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Location
Berlin
Country
Germany
From - Until
10.01.2011 -
By
Lafi, Nora

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.

This seminar is supported with funds of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.
It takes place twice a month, mondays from 17:00 to 19:00.

Programm

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)

Contact (announcement)

Dr. Nora Lafi
Zentrum Moderner Orient
Email: nora.lafi@rz.hu-berlin.de
Phone: (+49) (0) 30 80307- 0

http://www.zmo.de
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