The Berlin Seminar serves as a bracket for all other activities and provides an interdisciplinary research environment, which is one of the strengths of any area-related form of academic communication. It is planned as a regular fortnightly event to give fellows of the Project, the members of the Collegium, fellows of the project 'Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe', and scholars from Berlin universities and extra-university institutions an opportunity to meet and discuss their ongoing work. On the basis of individual research cases, questions related to the common agenda of 'Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe' will be debated. The Seminar facilitates the development of innovative ideas and research approaches in relation to key questions of the humanities and social sciences, which will have an impact on the ways research and teaching is undertaken. It also allows fellows of 'Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe' and fellows of the Wissenschaftskolleg a structured access to the Berlin research milieu and enables young scholars in Berlin to consider their work in a broader, interdisciplinary, and international context.

 

New Approaches to Language and Society
Summer Term 2010 

Language and Citizenship
Winter Term 2009/2010

History as Translation 
Summer Term 2009

Transactions
Winter Term 2008/2009

History, Memory, and Community 
Summer Term 2008

Concepts and Genealogies of Modernity 
Winter Term 2007/2008

Language and Community 
Summer Term 2007

Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe 
Winter Term 2006/2007