The instrument of 2- to 4-day workshops with 10 to 18 participants allows for intense discussions of specific issues within – and also between – the individual projects. Apart from the integration of the fellows in the respective Berlin-based research groups, the workshops are primarily planned to be a central instrument in advancing the particular research agendas of the participating scholars.

Each year, one or two smaller workshops also involving the opportunity to invite scholars from abroad are available for each of the abovementioned research fields. Workshops within the individual projects are ideally steered and undertaken in close cooperation with the fellows working in the respective fields and by including scholars working on similar issues in other historical, geographical, or cultural settings. In this way, regional findings can be channeled into the mainframe institutional disciplines.

Information on the different workshops:

2011

Making Things Speak: Objects, Commodities, and Societies in Historical Perspective
June 23 - 25,  2011 in Berlin/Pergamonmuseum

What did it mean to be European in the Sixteenth Century? A View from the Ottoman Empire
June 22, 2011 in Berlin

2010

Aesthetics, Politics, and Cultural Practices in Arab Societies Today  
July 14 - 17, 2010 in Berlin

Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective for Ottoman Urban History
May 27 - 28, 2010 in Berlin
Report on the Workshop

The Aesthetic in Medieval and Early Modern Arabic Rhetorical Theory and Practice
February 22-25, 2010 in Berlin

Layers of Islamic Art and the Museum Context
Program   Participants   Reviews in Newspapers
January 13 - 16, 2010 in Berlin

2009

Allegory and the Plain-sense Meaning of Scripture
July 15, 2009 in Berlin

How to talk about the non-Muslim experience in the Ottoman society: From narrating community life to integrating plurality
July 13-14, 2009 in Berlin

2008

Cultural Voices of a Fragmented Nation:
War, Trauma and Remembrance in Contemporary Iraq  
December 11 -13, 2008 in Marburg

Literatur als Palimpsest 
November 10, 2008 in Berlin

Forging Administration
June 18-19, 2008 in Berlin

Islam, the Quran and Late Secularism 
June 12, 2008 in Berlin

The work and life of Ahmad Faris Shidyaq
March 6-8, 2008 in Berlin

Aneignung, Relektüre, Redaktion: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Psalter und Koran
February 26, 2008 in Berlin

2007

Di/Visions
Culture and Politics of the Middle East - Talks, Discussions, Screenings
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, December 8, 2007 - January 13, 2008
Publication:
Di-Visions Culture and Politics of the Middle East
A table of content can be found here .

Nation and Translation
June 18-20, 2007 in Berlin
Publication:
Samah Selim (ed.), "Nation and Translation in the Middle East", special edition of "The Translator", St. Jerome Publishing, Vol. 15, #1, 2009
The content and abstracts can be found here , the introduction by Samah Selim you can read here .

The Qur'anic Law of Inheritance in the Context of Ancient Near Eastern Adoption Contracts
May 24 - 25, 2007 in Berlin

Stories of Ascension: Mattan Torah, Pentecost and Mi`raj al-Nabi
May 23, 2007 in Berlin

Reconsidering "Islamic Feminism": Deconstructionor the Quest of Authenticity?
April 26-28 and May 2, 2007 in Berlin

New Trends in Egyptian Historiography of the Ottoman Period: A German-Egyptian Encounter
March 14, 2007 in Berlin

In the framework of the 2007/08 "Jahresthema - Europe in the Middle East – Middle East in Europe" of the  Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften monthy talks by fellows and Members of EUME took place.
Please find a short summary of the lectures here .