FS2025

Doctoral Colloquium Basel/ Bern/ Zurich

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FS 2024

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FS 2023

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FS 2022

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FS 2021

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FS 2020

The colloquium was canceled due to Corona.

FS 2019

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FS 2018

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HS 2017

Workshop: Urban Transformations and Cultural Practices Letters to the Governor; Death, Mobility, and Claims of the City

BASEL, December 7, 2017

Based on Sayed Aweys's two books: Cries of the Silents: the phenomenon of writing on vehicle structures in modern Egyptian society & One of the features of modern Egyptian society; the phenomenon of sending messages to the shrine of Imam Shafi'i, the workshop will try to explore two field sites where people work on the creation of new participatory spaces.

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FS 2017

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HS 2016

Conflict and cooperation on the "Balkan route"
The transit of refugees through the Balkans and its political and social consequences

BASEL, September 27, 2016

The SUC Doctoral Cooperation Basel / Zurich (MUBIT) invites you to an event with Dr. phil. Andreas Ernst (correspondent of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung for the Western Balkans).

The migration of hundreds of thousands of refugees across the Balkans has presented the countries and societies affected with new challenges. How are governments and citizens dealing with this? How is the migration managed logistically and how is it dealt with politically? Which legal and illegal networks support the transit - and how do the refugees organize themselves? The consequences of the "refugee crisis" for relations between the neighboring countries and their relationship with the EU are also interesting.

Born in Zurich in 1960. Studied history in Zurich and Berlin. Has lived since 1999, first in Skopje and then in Belgrade. 2007 National Fund project on "State Building" in Kosovo since 1999 (together with Prof. Nada Boskovska, University of Zurich). 2012 Visiting Fellow Center for South-Eastern European Studies, University of Graz. 2013 Journalism Prize of the Southeast Europe Society (Munich). 2014 Istanbul travel grant from the Landis and Gyr Foundation.

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FS 2016

İmparatorluğun Hafızası: Osmanlı Arşivi

BASEL, 22 Nisan 2016

Osmanlı Arşivi'nde araştırma yapacak bir araştırmacının arşivden nasıl yararlanacağı, belge türleri, Osmanlı bürokrasisinin işleyişi ve Osmanlı Arşivi'nin tanıtımı bu seminerin temel konusudur. Seminerin birinci b.lümünde; Osmanlı'da Hazine-i Evrak olarak adlandırılan modern arşivin nasıl kurulduğu ve günümüzde nasıl işlediği ele alınacaktır. Araştırmacının arşiv belgesini değerlendirken, belgenin türünü, hangi bürokratik işlemlerden geçtiğini ve Osmanlı bürokrasisinin nasıl işlediğini bilmesi oldukça önemlidir. Osmanlı bürokrasisinde yaşanan değişimin belgelere nasıl yansıdığı, örnek belge türleri üzerinden anlatılacaktır. Seminerin ikinci b.lümünde ise; Osmanlı Arşivi'nde bulunan defter ve belge tasniflerinin tanıtımı yapılarak, araştırmacının arşivde hangi fonlarla karşılaşabileceği üzerinde durulacaktır. Ayrıca Osmanlı Arşivi'nin dışında Türkiye'de bulunan diğer arşivlere de kısaca değinilecektir.

Prof. Dr. Fatmagül Demirel, lisans, master ve doktora eğitimini İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Tarih Bölümünde tamamladı. İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Arşivcilik bölümünde çalıştı. Halen Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Bölümü'nde öğretim üyesi olarak çalışmaktadır. Uzmanlık alanı olan Osmanlı hukuk ve basın tarihi üzerine yayınlanmış kitap ve makaleleri bulunmaktadır.

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From the Middle East to Northern Europe: Forced Migration, Asylum and Transnational Networks

BASEL, March 16, 2016

An international workshop with Kamel Doraï organized by MUBIT Inter-University Doctoral Cooperation in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Basel/Zurich & Middle Eastern Studies, The Graduate School of Social Sciences (G3S), University of Basel, Switzerland.

Based on two case studies, Palestinian and Iraqi refugees, this workshop proposes to analyse the role of networks in the migration process in the Middle East and towards Northern Europe and the way it contributes to the current theoretical debate in the field of forced migration studies.

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HS 2015

Setting the course of contemporary history in Turkey in 2015

BASEL, September 24, 2015

The SUC Doctoral Cooperation Basel / Zurich (MUBIT) invites you to an event with Prof. Dr. Mithat Sancar (University of Ankara).

Mithat Sancar is Professor of Law at Ankara University and Member of Parliament for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). He will be speaking on the very topical subject: "Contemporary historical course in Turkey from 2015".

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FS 2015

Doctoral Colloquium Basel / Bern / Zurich

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A Modern World in Flux. Studying Migration, Refugees, and Settlement Regimes from the Middle East and Beyond

BASEL, May 29-30, 2015

The SUC doctoral cooperation Basel / Zurich invites you to a workshop with Prof. Dr. Isa Blumi (Georgia State University Atlanta).

The two-day workshop will discuss, theorize and historicize the consequences of large migration flows in modernity in an interdisciplinary manner. Both the migration movements of immigrants and refugees as well as the reactions of governments to such migration movements will be analyzed. The consequences of these processes for global development will also be discussed.

Further information on applications can be found here.

Arab Revolutions of 2010-2011

BASEL, January 21, 2015

Guest lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jack A. Goldstone (George Mason University and Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars)

The workshop deals with the causes and effects of the revolutions and uprisings that moved the Middle East and North Africa from 2010-2011.

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HS 2014

Arab Nationalism: From Ottoman Empire to Colonial Mandates

BASEL, September 11 - 12, 2014

The 2nd Annual MUBIT Doctoral Workshop in Late- and Post-Ottoman Studies in Basel, "Arab Nationalism: From Ottoman Empire to Colonial Mandates", is a two-day intensive seminar (September 11-12, 2014) organized by Prof. Dr. Maurus Reinkowski, Dr. Selen Etingü, and Alp Yenen, M.A., Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Social Sciences at the University of Basel. Two leading scholars of Ottoman-Arab history will take over the instruction of the seminar: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hasan Kayalı and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Michael Provence, University of California, San Diego. The objective of the workshop is for participants to acquire advanced knowledge of the history and historiography of Ottoman-Arab nationalism.

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FS 2014

Doctoral Colloquium Basel/Bern/Zurich

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Early Turkish nationalism and the Kizilbaş Alevis

BASEL, May 15, 2014

The SUC doctoral cooperation Basel / Zurich invites you to a workshop with Dr. Markus Dreßler (currently research associate and habilitation candidate at the University of Bayreuth (Religious Studies)).

The workshop will deal with the political and discursive backgrounds of the ambivalence that still characterizes the public debate on the religious and ethnic characteristics of the Kızılbaş Alevis today (based on an analysis of the Turkish nationalist preoccupation with the Kızılbaş Alevis in the Young Turkish and early Kemalist period). The basis of the workshop and a prerequisite for participation is the reading of two chapters from the monograph by Markus Dreßler, Writing Religion: the Making of Turkish Alevi Islam (2013). Copies will be provided electronically to all participants.

Further information on the event can be found here.

The Politics and History of Implementing sharīʿa in Modern Egypt

BASEL, 18 February 2014

SUK-Doktoratskooperation Islamwissenschaft (MUBIT) invites you to a workshop with Prof. Dr. Khaled Fahmy (Department of History, The American University in Cairo).

The topic to be discussed in this workshop is The Politics and History of Implementing sharīʿa in Modern Egypt. Based on Professor Fahmy's research in the Egyptian National Archives (ENA) on the history of siyāsa in nineteenth century Egypt, he has realized siyāsa playing an integral role in sharīʿa. The workshop will reflect on the results of this research in what turned out to be nothing less than an entire archive of the siyāsa system that existed in Egypt during the nineteenth century.

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HS 2013

You can also download the complete program of all events in the autumn semester 2013 here .

BASEL:Violence and Social Order in the Middle East since 1914: Turkey, Palestine and Syria (in English). Seminar with lecturer PD Dr. Hans-Lukas KieserNumber of participants limited. Priority is given to members of (1) MUBIT (Basel / Bern / Zurich) and (2) G3S. For MA and PhD students from Basel, regular applications are still possible via MOnA (with 3 CP, with pre-registration). For further information please contact Hans-Lukas Kieser.

BERN: Islam, Worlds, Environments
Seminar with Prof. Reinhard Schulze

ZURICH: Current research debates on Mohammed

Thu 16-18, Seminar (European credit transfer system: 4 CP) with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rudolph / Prof. Dr. Christoph Uehlinger
Venue: Asia-Orient Institute, Department of Islamic Studies, Wiesenstrasse 7-9, 8008 ZH
In addition, 4-5 guest lectures are planned under the overall heading "Positions on Mohammed Research", each Thu 18-20 (although the seminar will be canceled on these days).

Turkish Nationalism: Approaching Ottoman and Islamic Legacies beyond Ethnicity, Secularism, and Westernism

BASEL, September 13-14, 2013

The doctoral seminar Turkish Nationalism: Approaching Ottoman and Islamic Legacies beyond Ethnicity, Secularism, and Westernism will explore the complex relationship between Turkish nationalism and Islam, which is further complicated by the Ottoman imperial legacy. The seminar is a two-day intensive seminar (September 13-14, 2013) hosted and organized by Prof. Dr. Maurus Reinkowski and Alp Yenen, M.A., from the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Basel. Two leading scholars of Turkish nationalism will take over the instruction of the seminar. Prof. Dr. Erik J. Zürcher (University of Leiden), one of the leading scholars of the political and intellectual history of the late Ottoman and early Republican era, will introduce an advance study of the emergence and development of Turkish nationalism from empire to republic. Prof. Dr. M. Hakan Yavuz (University of Utah), a political scientist renowned for his study of political Islam and conservative nationalist movements in Turkey, will lecture on nationalism theories and the complex relationship between nationalism and Islam in the Turkish Republic. The objective of the seminar is for participants to acquire an advanced knowledge of the history, historiography, and theories of Turkish-Muslim nationalism. In addition, the seminar aims to enhance the skills of doctoral candidates in writing, presenting, and discussing conference papers.

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FS 2013

The Kurdish Issue. The Transnational Nature of Ethnic Conflicts and Their Impact on Regional Politics.

BASEL, 22 May 2013

SUK-Doktoratskooperation Islamwissenschaft (MUBIT) invites you to a workshop with Prof. Dr. Kemal Kirişci (TÜSIAD Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington D.C.)

Further information is available here.