Urban Studies Seminar 2014 - 2015 Chaired by Prof Ulrike Freitag and Dr Nora Lafi Annual Theme: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Marginality in Africa, the Middle East and Asia Twice a month, Mondays 5 pm - 7 pm Venues: Conference Hall Zentrum Moderner Orient Kirchweg 33 14129 Berlin-Nikolassee Please register at the following address: Dr Nora Lafi [email protected] Phone: (+49) (0) 30 80307- 0 November 10th, Azita Bathaïe (ZMO, Fernand Braudel Fellow): Mobility from Iran to Kabul: 'Newcomers' as Margins Special session to be held at 4 pm at the Centre Marc Bloch, Georg Simmel Saal, Friedrichstraße 191, D-10117 Berlin November 20th, Jean-François Pérouse (Institut Français d'Etudes Anatoliennes, Istanbul): The Tremendous Making and Unmaking of the Peripheries in Current Istanbul November 24th, Simon Gunn (University of Leicester): Containing Urban England: The Green Belt in the Twentieth Century December 8th, Ufuk Adak (EUME Fellow 2014-2015 at ZMO): On the Margins of the City: Izmir Prison December 22nd, Yektan Turkyilmaz (EUME Fellow 2014-2015 at ZMO): War, Revolution and Re-making the Urban Margins of Van Province, MayAugust 1915 January 12th, Katharina Zöller (University of Bayreuth): The Manyema of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) between Urban Margin and Regional Connections January 26th, Katrin Bromber (ZMO): „They Thought that We Were Criminals”: Sports and Urban Marginality in Addis Ababa, 1920s to 1970s April 13th, Aksana Ismailbekova (ZMO): Urban Uzbeks at the Margins of Osh EUME is a project at: April 27th, Marie Rodet (SOAS London): Kayes’ Marginalised Histories of Slavery: Telescoping of Memories, Telescoping of Meanings May 11th, Franck Mermier (CNRS-EHESS Paris): Markets and Marginality in Beirut June 1st, Saskia Schäfer (Columbia University New York): Religious Diversity & Urban Space: Intersecting Mechanisms of Exclusion in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur which is funded by: June 15th, Jeanine Dagyeli (ZMO): Whose Margins? Sacred Space and Marginalized Populations in pre-Soviet Bukhara June 29th, Stefan Knost (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Marginality in 18th and 19th Century Aleppo The Urban Studies Seminar is a joint activity of the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) and 'Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe' (EUME), a research program at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin. It is part of the EUME research field, « Cities Compared ». The seminar aims at presenting and discussing ongoing research of scholars working on cities in regions with Muslim societies with an emphasis on Urban Studies in a comparative perspective. For more information please visit: www.zmo.de | www.eume-berlin.de | www.forum-transregionale-studien.de | www.h-net.msu.edu/~mediter Zentrum Moderner Orient Kirchweg 33 14129 Berlin Telefon: 030/80307-0 Fax: 030/80307-210 Email: [email protected] Internet: www.zmo.de