Summer Academies

Summer Academies are designed to support scholarly networks and to contribute to closer ties among research activities in and outside Europe and the Middle East. Summer Academies give young scholars an opportunity to discuss relevant issues within an international group of up to 24 doctoral and postdoctoral colleagues in an international and multidisciplinary framework over a period of 10 - 14 days. Summer Academies also contribute to the internationalization of the scholarly program of EUME and the enlargements of the implied scholarly networks and serve as an instrument for the recruitment of emerging young scholars for the postdoctoral program.

Applications are advertised internationally, and candidates are selected based on the relevance of their research to the specific agenda. The program deviates from the normal lecture-hall set-up, since the main contributors are the young researchers themselves. Leading scholars attend the conference in an advisory capacity, adding their own methodical questions. The Summer Academy is held either in Berlin, at a European partner institute, or at a research institute in a Middle Eastern country.

Summer Academies organized by Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe:

Istanbul, September 21 - 28, 2008
Living together: Plurality and Cosmopolitanism in the Ottoman Empire and BeyondDownload
Convenors: Professor Asef Bayat (ISIM), Professor Edhem Eldem (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul), Professor Ulrike Freitag and Dr. Nora Lafi (both Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin), Dr. Stefan Weber and Dr. Modjtaba Sadria (both Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London).

Istanbul, September 2 - 12, 2007
Literary and Historical Approaches to the the Qur'an and the BibleDownload
Convenors: Professor Angelika Neuwirth (Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik, Freie Universität Berlin), Professor Stefan Wild (Orientalisches Seminar, Universität Bonn)

Beirut, Oktober 2 - 13, 2006
Travelling Traditions. Comparative Perspectives on Near Eastern LiteraturesDownload
Convenors: Professor Dr. Friederike Pannewick (Oslo University), Dr. Samah Selim

Summer Academies in the framework of the Workinggroup Modernity and Islam (AKMI):


Neue Annäherungen an die arabisch-muslimische Welt in den Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften
12.-18. September 1996, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
Leitung: Professeur Rémy Leveau (Centre Marc Bloch), Professor Dr. Reinhard Schulze (Universität Bern)

Processes and Counterprocesses of Modernization
14.-24. September 1997, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Leitung: Professor Dr. Peter Heine (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Crisis and Memory
10.-25. September 1998, Orient-Institut der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft Beirut
Leitung: Professor Dr. Angelika Neuwirth (Freie Universität Berlin)

Notions of Law and Order in Muslim Societies
13.-26. September 1999, Fondation du Roi Abdul-Aziz Al Saoudi pour les Etudes Islamiques et les Sciences Humaines, Casablanca
Leitung: Professor Dr. Gudrun Krämer (Freie Universität Berlin)

History and Historiography: New Perspectives of Research
18.-29. September 2000, Institut für Islamwissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin
Leitung: Professor Dr. Gudrun Krämer (Freie Universität Berlin)

The Local Production of Islamic Knowledge
03.-14. September 2001, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul
Leitung: Altan Gokalp (Centre Marc Bloch), Professor Dr. Martin van Bruinessen (ISIM)

Ties that Bind and Kin that Matter. Conceptualising Social Order in the Middle East and North Africa
22.07.-02. August 2002, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
Leitung: Professor Dr. Gudrun Krämer (Freie Universität Berlin)

The Hermeneutics of Border: Canon and Community in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
3. - 13. August 2003, Berlin
Leitung: Professor Nasr H. Abu Zaid (Leiden University / Utrecht University), Professor Daniel Boyarin (UC Berkeley), Professor Dr. Christoph Markschies (Universität Heidelberg)

Literature and Borders. Delimitations. Transgressions
29. August - 8. September 2004, Swedish Institute, Alexandria
Leitung: Dr. Friederike Pannewick (Freie Universität Berlin)