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In February 2018, “The Maghreb in Transition” recruits twelve highly motivated research fellows (... more In February 2018, “The Maghreb in Transition” recruits twelve highly motivated research fellows (MA, Ph.D. students, and Postdoctoral researchers) into its project “Social Visibility, Affect & Epistemics of Protest in Morocco and Tunisia since 2011”.
“The Maghreb in Transition” is an interdisciplinary research partnership between the Ludwigs-Maximilians University of Munich and eight partner universities in Morocco and Tunisia, namely Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University (Fez), Hassan II University (Casablanca), the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA) (Rabat), Al Akhawayn University (Ifrane), Mohamed V University (Rabat), the University of Sousse, the University of La Manouba (Tunis), and the University of Carthage (Tunis). This multilateral cooperation is sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) as part of the German-Arab Transformation Partnership.
This workshop inquires into the poetics and geopolitics of reading and writing in/on the Maghreb ... more This workshop inquires into the poetics and geopolitics of reading and writing in/on the Maghreb as acts of subversion and resistance. It centres around the idea that one’s reading of texts—which comprise a writing either of self or of the other—advocates modes of misunderstanding hierarchies, fixities, narratives, and discursive underpinnings that engage in a competition for power against dominant texts. Taking cue from current debates on the politics and poetics of (un)writing /-reading the Maghreb, Prof. Sadiq Rddad, Prof. Khaled Bekkaoui (Moroccon Cultural Studies Centre) and Prof. Pierre-Noël Denieuil (University of Sousse) will shed light on aspects of discursive writing from colonial times to our modern era. While Prof. Bekkaoui will address the potential of colonial postcards in producing narratives of dominion/subservience, Prof. Rddad will highlight the theological mechanics of "overwriting" employed by the state to unread discourses of fundamentalism. Prof. Pierre-Noël, on the other hand, will foreground elements of unwriting by discussing examples from the scholarly communities in Tunisia post-2011. These theoretical interventions will be preceded by a hands-on part: Prof. Sandy Kebir (University of Fez) will speak about the craftsmanship of abstract writing, considering its fundamental aspects and basic requirements. Dr. Idriss Jebari (Bodowin College) and Ms. Sarah Martin (LMU Munich) will address questions around the importance of book proposals, sample chapters to the editors, and the excitements and anxieties of the revision process.
Alluding to George Marcus and James Clifford’s seminal study “Writing Culture” (1986), the presen... more Alluding to George Marcus and James Clifford’s seminal study “Writing Culture” (1986), the present workshop seeks to sensitize and remind us that academic writing is not a mere representation of reality, but a textual practice that is profoundly shaped by discursive rules (e.g. Orientalism), non-discursive regulations, material settings, political conditions, social norms and literary conventions. Reflecting on these general insights, the workshop intends to weigh the particular conditions that have shaped the geopolitics of academic writing in/on Morocco and Tunisia during the last years: who are its most important actors? Who are its publishers? Who are its intended readers? How do these institutional and non-institutional actors structure and shape the process of academic textual production in/on the two countries?
The workshop is opened by a round table discussion with Prof. Dr. Taoufiq Sakhkhane (Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University Fes) and Prof. Dr. Mounir Saidani (University of Tunis El Manar) tackling the contemporary situation of academic writing and publishing in Tunisia and Morocco. The discussion is followed by a hands-on workshop conducted by Dr. Sabrina Sontheimer (LMU University of Munich, Writing Centre). Its objective is to scrutinize the papers of its participants by conveying them the dos and don’ts of academic writing in English, tackling issues like the writing process (developing ideas, structuring, writing, revising), differentiating topic, research question, thesis, overall structure and outline, paragraphing, style and typical mistakes.
While the attendance to the round-table discussion is open to everybody, places for the hands-on part are limited. For participation, please get in touch with Dr. Ben Amara, Dr. El Maaourf, or Dr. des. Hamid in advance.
What are the conditions that shape our present “style of thought” (Said 1978) in and on the Middl... more What are the conditions that shape our present “style of thought” (Said 1978) in and on the Middle East? In as much have these conditions been subject to change since 2011? And what can – or should – be the role of science, and other bodies of the production of knowledge, in processes of political transition?
Starting from these and related questions, this workshop seeks to broaden and deepen our reflection on the relation of knowledge and power – or of science and politics – five years after the “Arab Spring”. By drawing on the notions of „travelling“ (Said 1983), displacement, and deterritorialization, the workshop intends to put the focus on recent shifts and (dis- )continuities in this relation, both in a temporal and spatial dimension, and to question the maneuverability of modern bodies of knowledge from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
The workshop is opened with an input by Prof. Ralph Weber (Institute for European Global Studies). Prof. Weber will re-visit the notion of Eurocentrism, thereby challenging the debate on modern science’s inertia and assumed biasedness, and suggest to draw a more nuanced distinction between philosophical and political Eurocentrism.
Prof. Sari Hanafi (Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies, American University of Beirut) will investigate in his intervention the after-life of postcolonial studies’ in the Arab world. Questioning the centrality of Said’s orientalism (1978) as understood by the left in the West and in the Arab World, he will relate to knowledge’s uneven distribution in a divided public sphere.
On the second day, the two interventions will be brought into a critical dialog with the individual research projects and the project’s overall framework. These dialogical explorations ideally result in a refinement of our initial research questions, which we seek to answer in a joint publication in 2017.
In 2016, the project focuses on a number of classical and contemporary approaches to study the ne... more In 2016, the project focuses on a number of classical and contemporary approaches to study the nexus of media, knowledge and power. The program is structured in three intensive workshops, each dedicated to a particular subject, as well as an opening and a closing session that take place in Munich and in Tübingen respectively. The program’s overall objective is to accompany its participants in pursuing an individual or collaborative research project whose results are eventually published in 2017.
This workshop marks a first step in our common exploration of the relation of knowledge and power... more This workshop marks a first step in our common exploration of the relation of knowledge and power – or of science and politics – five years after the Arab Spring. The workshops seeks to open up a common space of reflection and debate on the particular conditions that constrain and enable our present style of thinking (Said 1978) on and in the Middle East, situating our academic practices as researchers from Germany, Morocco, and Tunisia in their particular contexts.
The workshop is opened by Dr. Henning Trüper (TU Berlin) with a succinct overview over the scholarly reflections on the relation of science and politics in the 20th century, drawing a (dis)continuous line from Max Weber, Karl Mannheim, Gaston Bachelard, Michel Foucault and Thomas Kuhn to Edward Said. This genealogy, with its particular centrism(s) and biases, will then be brought into a creative dialog with our own experiences and observations as researchers – with various biographical and disciplinary backgrounds – in and on “the Maghreb in Transition”, tackling (i.a.) the question: what can (or should) be the role of science in political transformation processes?
These dialogical explorations ideally result into the formulation of a number of research projects, which are individually or collectively pursued during the year and whose results are presented in a joint conference at the end of the year.
The protest movements that toppled the authoritarian regimes in Egypt and Tunisia in 2011 and the... more The protest movements that toppled the authoritarian regimes in Egypt and Tunisia in 2011 and the Gezi Park protests in Turkey in 2013 were widely perceived as historical turning points heralding a new era of dignity, freedom and human rights. Recent developments, however, indicate that security is back as a top priority on the political agenda. Particularly the crisis in Syria has an impact on the domestic and foreign policy of these countries that highlights – and questions – the nation state’s capacity to cope with the new challenges in North Africa and the Middle East.
Our panellists with long-standing experiences in the region will explore these tensions and possible outcomes from an interdisciplinary perspective and are more than happy to answer your questions:
Dr. Aymon Kreil, URPP Asia & Europe, University of Zurich
Dr. Kreil studied Anthropology, Arabic and History in Gevena, Neuchatel and Paris and wrote his PhD thesis on love, sex and expert discourses in Cairo. He is currently researching on security, state and neighbourhood networks in Egypt.
Dr. Ramzi Ben Amara, Department of Anthropology, University of Sousse
Dr. Amara studied German, Religious Studies, Anthropology and African Studies in Heidelberg and Bayreuth. He wrote his PhD thesis on the Izala Movement in Nigeria. Since 2014, he is a coordinator of the DAAD project “Tunisia in Transition”.
Salim Salamah, Department of International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Malmo University
Salim Salamah is a blogger and activist from Syria. Since 2013, he lives in Sweden in exile. He makes regular appearances in national and international media on the human rights situation in Syria.
Ludwig Schulz (M.A.), German Orient-Institute, Berlin
Mr. Schulz studied Political Science, Law and the history and culture of the Middle East/ Turkish Studies in Munich and Istanbul. He is currently working on his dissertation on Turkey’s foreign policy.
People from in- and outside academy are most welcome to join the discussion.
Als im Januar 2015 die Regierung von Habib Essid vom tunesischen Parlament gewählt wurde, feierte... more Als im Januar 2015 die Regierung von Habib Essid vom tunesischen Parlament gewählt wurde, feierte die internationale Gemeinschaft das Land in Nordafrika für seinen erfolgreichen Übergang von einer Diktatur zu einer Demokratie. Tunesien gilt vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Entwicklungen in anderen Ländern der Region oft als Ausnahmeerscheinung. Dennoch scheint auch der tunesische Transformationsprozess, wie jüngere Ereignisse gezeigt haben, vor großen Herausforderungen zu stehen, deren Ursachen und Wirkungen auf lokaler, nationaler und transnationaler Ebene zu verorten sind.
Das Panel setzt sich mit dem Transformationsprozess in Tunesien in seiner politischen, sozio-ökonomischen, kulturellen und internationalen Dimension auseinander.
Dabei soll insbesondere Fragen wie dem Spannungsverhältnis von Sicherheit und Freiheit, der Eröffnung neuer politischer Räume, Debatten um die nationale Identität oder dem Ort der Religion nachgegangen werden. Aber auch die Rolle sozialer Medien, neuer Formen der politischen Partizipation, dem Einfluss inter- und transnationaler Akteure und der Herausforderung des Terrorismus auf die tunesische Tagespolitik soll beleuchtet werden.
Interessierte, die im Rahmen des Panels einen Vortrag halten möchten, sollen sich bitte bis zum 16. Juni mit einem kurzen Abstract (ca. 300 Worte) an die Koordinatoren des Panels wenden
The Institute for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at LMU Munich convenes in 2015 a two-part works... more The Institute for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at LMU Munich convenes in 2015 a two-part workshop on Arab (mass) media and violence – aiming at analyzing strategies of presenting and (de-)legitimating violence in Arab media, particularly by national and transnational TV channels.
The uprisings of the “Arab Spring”; the expansion of the so-called “Islamic State” in terms of territory and media presence; or the recent Gaza conflict – all once again have attracted the global attention to the effective media visualization of violence in the Middle East. In this regard, transnational mass media have often entered a new and (un)holy alliance with media propaganda – e.g. by social media – of local and regional stakeholders.
This workshop aims at examining various aspects of the presentation of violence in and by Arab (mass) media, such as: strategies of religious and political-ideological (de-)legitimation; the normative power of social and cultural values in regard to violence; the tactical employment of multiple media formats; narrative and discoursive patterns; or the visual (non-) presentation of violence.
At this point, however, no definite choice of media or topics shall be provided in order to allow participants considering their own research interests as well as the most recent political developments.
In the first part of the workshop (January 15&16, 2015) we will discuss relevant theoretical premises and identify possible research perspectives. For the second part (June 19&20, 2015) the participants will each be called to prepare a research contribution on selected aspects, which will then be presented and discussed in working groups in order to be prepared for a joint publication.
Everyone interested in Arab media (and ideally possessing some knowledge of Arabic) is most welcome to participate in this workshop (no fee). An informal e-mail to Dr.des David Arn (david.arn{at}lmu.de) is sufficient for registration and subsequent access to the documents to be discussed.
The panel explores the history of the discipline of anthropology in Tunisia and Germany in a comp... more The panel explores the history of the discipline of anthropology in Tunisia and Germany in a comparative perspective. Whereas anthropology in Tunisia is a discipline just in the making, anthropology – or Ethnologie – in Germany has a longer and complex genealogy. The panel seeks to explore the distinct histories and particular places of the discipline(s) in the post-colonial context of Germany and in the transitory context of Tunisia respectively, investigating both commonalities and differences between them.
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“The Maghreb in Transition” is an interdisciplinary research partnership between the Ludwigs-Maximilians University of Munich and eight partner universities in Morocco and Tunisia, namely Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University (Fez), Hassan II University (Casablanca), the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA) (Rabat), Al Akhawayn University (Ifrane), Mohamed V University (Rabat), the University of Sousse, the University of La Manouba (Tunis), and the University of Carthage (Tunis). This multilateral cooperation is sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) as part of the German-Arab Transformation Partnership.
The workshop is opened by a round table discussion with Prof. Dr. Taoufiq Sakhkhane (Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University Fes) and Prof. Dr. Mounir Saidani (University of Tunis El Manar) tackling the contemporary situation of academic writing and publishing in Tunisia and Morocco. The discussion is followed by a hands-on workshop conducted by Dr. Sabrina Sontheimer (LMU University of Munich, Writing Centre). Its objective is to scrutinize the papers of its participants by conveying them the dos and don’ts of academic writing in English, tackling issues like the writing process (developing ideas, structuring, writing, revising), differentiating topic, research question, thesis, overall structure and outline, paragraphing, style and typical mistakes.
While the attendance to the round-table discussion is open to everybody, places for the hands-on part are limited. For participation, please get in touch with Dr. Ben Amara, Dr. El Maaourf, or Dr. des. Hamid in advance.
Starting from these and related questions, this workshop seeks to broaden and deepen our reflection on the relation of knowledge and power – or of science and politics – five years after the “Arab Spring”. By drawing on the notions of „travelling“ (Said 1983), displacement, and deterritorialization, the workshop intends to put the focus on recent shifts and (dis- )continuities in this relation, both in a temporal and spatial dimension, and to question the maneuverability of modern bodies of knowledge from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
The workshop is opened with an input by Prof. Ralph Weber (Institute for European Global Studies). Prof. Weber will re-visit the notion of Eurocentrism, thereby challenging the debate on modern science’s inertia and assumed biasedness, and suggest to draw a more nuanced distinction between philosophical and political Eurocentrism.
Prof. Sari Hanafi (Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies, American University of Beirut) will investigate in his intervention the after-life of postcolonial studies’ in the Arab world. Questioning the centrality of Said’s orientalism (1978) as understood by the left in the West and in the Arab World, he will relate to knowledge’s uneven distribution in a divided public sphere.
On the second day, the two interventions will be brought into a critical dialog with the individual research projects and the project’s overall framework. These dialogical explorations ideally result in a refinement of our initial research questions, which we seek to answer in a joint publication in 2017.
The workshop is opened by Dr. Henning Trüper (TU Berlin) with a succinct overview over the scholarly reflections on the relation of science and politics in the 20th century, drawing a (dis)continuous line from Max Weber, Karl Mannheim, Gaston Bachelard, Michel Foucault and Thomas Kuhn to Edward Said. This genealogy, with its particular centrism(s) and biases, will then be brought into a creative dialog with our own experiences and observations as researchers – with various biographical and disciplinary backgrounds – in and on “the Maghreb in Transition”, tackling (i.a.) the question: what can (or should) be the role of science in political transformation processes?
These dialogical explorations ideally result into the formulation of a number of research projects, which are individually or collectively pursued during the year and whose results are presented in a joint conference at the end of the year.
Our panellists with long-standing experiences in the region will explore these tensions and possible outcomes from an interdisciplinary perspective and are more than happy to answer your questions:
Dr. Aymon Kreil, URPP Asia & Europe, University of Zurich
Dr. Kreil studied Anthropology, Arabic and History in Gevena, Neuchatel and Paris and wrote his PhD thesis on love, sex and expert discourses in Cairo. He is currently researching on security, state and neighbourhood networks in Egypt.
Dr. Ramzi Ben Amara, Department of Anthropology, University of Sousse
Dr. Amara studied German, Religious Studies, Anthropology and African Studies in Heidelberg and Bayreuth. He wrote his PhD thesis on the Izala Movement in Nigeria. Since 2014, he is a coordinator of the DAAD project “Tunisia in Transition”.
Salim Salamah, Department of International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Malmo University
Salim Salamah is a blogger and activist from Syria. Since 2013, he lives in Sweden in exile. He makes regular appearances in national and international media on the human rights situation in Syria.
Ludwig Schulz (M.A.), German Orient-Institute, Berlin
Mr. Schulz studied Political Science, Law and the history and culture of the Middle East/ Turkish Studies in Munich and Istanbul. He is currently working on his dissertation on Turkey’s foreign policy.
People from in- and outside academy are most welcome to join the discussion.
Das Panel setzt sich mit dem Transformationsprozess in Tunesien in seiner politischen, sozio-ökonomischen, kulturellen und internationalen Dimension auseinander.
Dabei soll insbesondere Fragen wie dem Spannungsverhältnis von Sicherheit und Freiheit, der Eröffnung neuer politischer Räume, Debatten um die nationale Identität oder dem Ort der Religion nachgegangen werden. Aber auch die Rolle sozialer Medien, neuer Formen der politischen Partizipation, dem Einfluss inter- und transnationaler Akteure und der Herausforderung des Terrorismus auf die tunesische Tagespolitik soll beleuchtet werden.
Interessierte, die im Rahmen des Panels einen Vortrag halten möchten, sollen sich bitte bis zum 16. Juni mit einem kurzen Abstract (ca. 300 Worte) an die Koordinatoren des Panels wenden
The uprisings of the “Arab Spring”; the expansion of the so-called “Islamic State” in terms of territory and media presence; or the recent Gaza conflict – all once again have attracted the global attention to the effective media visualization of violence in the Middle East. In this regard, transnational mass media have often entered a new and (un)holy alliance with media propaganda – e.g. by social media – of local and regional stakeholders.
This workshop aims at examining various aspects of the presentation of violence in and by Arab (mass) media, such as: strategies of religious and political-ideological (de-)legitimation; the normative power of social and cultural values in regard to violence; the tactical employment of multiple media formats; narrative and discoursive patterns; or the visual (non-) presentation of violence.
At this point, however, no definite choice of media or topics shall be provided in order to allow participants considering their own research interests as well as the most recent political developments.
In the first part of the workshop (January 15&16, 2015) we will discuss relevant theoretical premises and identify possible research perspectives. For the second part (June 19&20, 2015) the participants will each be called to prepare a research contribution on selected aspects, which will then be presented and discussed in working groups in order to be prepared for a joint publication.
Everyone interested in Arab media (and ideally possessing some knowledge of Arabic) is most welcome to participate in this workshop (no fee). An informal e-mail to Dr.des David Arn (david.arn{at}lmu.de) is sufficient for registration and subsequent access to the documents to be discussed.
Talks by Amir Hamid
“The Maghreb in Transition” is an interdisciplinary research partnership between the Ludwigs-Maximilians University of Munich and eight partner universities in Morocco and Tunisia, namely Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University (Fez), Hassan II University (Casablanca), the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA) (Rabat), Al Akhawayn University (Ifrane), Mohamed V University (Rabat), the University of Sousse, the University of La Manouba (Tunis), and the University of Carthage (Tunis). This multilateral cooperation is sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) as part of the German-Arab Transformation Partnership.
The workshop is opened by a round table discussion with Prof. Dr. Taoufiq Sakhkhane (Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University Fes) and Prof. Dr. Mounir Saidani (University of Tunis El Manar) tackling the contemporary situation of academic writing and publishing in Tunisia and Morocco. The discussion is followed by a hands-on workshop conducted by Dr. Sabrina Sontheimer (LMU University of Munich, Writing Centre). Its objective is to scrutinize the papers of its participants by conveying them the dos and don’ts of academic writing in English, tackling issues like the writing process (developing ideas, structuring, writing, revising), differentiating topic, research question, thesis, overall structure and outline, paragraphing, style and typical mistakes.
While the attendance to the round-table discussion is open to everybody, places for the hands-on part are limited. For participation, please get in touch with Dr. Ben Amara, Dr. El Maaourf, or Dr. des. Hamid in advance.
Starting from these and related questions, this workshop seeks to broaden and deepen our reflection on the relation of knowledge and power – or of science and politics – five years after the “Arab Spring”. By drawing on the notions of „travelling“ (Said 1983), displacement, and deterritorialization, the workshop intends to put the focus on recent shifts and (dis- )continuities in this relation, both in a temporal and spatial dimension, and to question the maneuverability of modern bodies of knowledge from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
The workshop is opened with an input by Prof. Ralph Weber (Institute for European Global Studies). Prof. Weber will re-visit the notion of Eurocentrism, thereby challenging the debate on modern science’s inertia and assumed biasedness, and suggest to draw a more nuanced distinction between philosophical and political Eurocentrism.
Prof. Sari Hanafi (Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies, American University of Beirut) will investigate in his intervention the after-life of postcolonial studies’ in the Arab world. Questioning the centrality of Said’s orientalism (1978) as understood by the left in the West and in the Arab World, he will relate to knowledge’s uneven distribution in a divided public sphere.
On the second day, the two interventions will be brought into a critical dialog with the individual research projects and the project’s overall framework. These dialogical explorations ideally result in a refinement of our initial research questions, which we seek to answer in a joint publication in 2017.
The workshop is opened by Dr. Henning Trüper (TU Berlin) with a succinct overview over the scholarly reflections on the relation of science and politics in the 20th century, drawing a (dis)continuous line from Max Weber, Karl Mannheim, Gaston Bachelard, Michel Foucault and Thomas Kuhn to Edward Said. This genealogy, with its particular centrism(s) and biases, will then be brought into a creative dialog with our own experiences and observations as researchers – with various biographical and disciplinary backgrounds – in and on “the Maghreb in Transition”, tackling (i.a.) the question: what can (or should) be the role of science in political transformation processes?
These dialogical explorations ideally result into the formulation of a number of research projects, which are individually or collectively pursued during the year and whose results are presented in a joint conference at the end of the year.
Our panellists with long-standing experiences in the region will explore these tensions and possible outcomes from an interdisciplinary perspective and are more than happy to answer your questions:
Dr. Aymon Kreil, URPP Asia & Europe, University of Zurich
Dr. Kreil studied Anthropology, Arabic and History in Gevena, Neuchatel and Paris and wrote his PhD thesis on love, sex and expert discourses in Cairo. He is currently researching on security, state and neighbourhood networks in Egypt.
Dr. Ramzi Ben Amara, Department of Anthropology, University of Sousse
Dr. Amara studied German, Religious Studies, Anthropology and African Studies in Heidelberg and Bayreuth. He wrote his PhD thesis on the Izala Movement in Nigeria. Since 2014, he is a coordinator of the DAAD project “Tunisia in Transition”.
Salim Salamah, Department of International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Malmo University
Salim Salamah is a blogger and activist from Syria. Since 2013, he lives in Sweden in exile. He makes regular appearances in national and international media on the human rights situation in Syria.
Ludwig Schulz (M.A.), German Orient-Institute, Berlin
Mr. Schulz studied Political Science, Law and the history and culture of the Middle East/ Turkish Studies in Munich and Istanbul. He is currently working on his dissertation on Turkey’s foreign policy.
People from in- and outside academy are most welcome to join the discussion.
Das Panel setzt sich mit dem Transformationsprozess in Tunesien in seiner politischen, sozio-ökonomischen, kulturellen und internationalen Dimension auseinander.
Dabei soll insbesondere Fragen wie dem Spannungsverhältnis von Sicherheit und Freiheit, der Eröffnung neuer politischer Räume, Debatten um die nationale Identität oder dem Ort der Religion nachgegangen werden. Aber auch die Rolle sozialer Medien, neuer Formen der politischen Partizipation, dem Einfluss inter- und transnationaler Akteure und der Herausforderung des Terrorismus auf die tunesische Tagespolitik soll beleuchtet werden.
Interessierte, die im Rahmen des Panels einen Vortrag halten möchten, sollen sich bitte bis zum 16. Juni mit einem kurzen Abstract (ca. 300 Worte) an die Koordinatoren des Panels wenden
The uprisings of the “Arab Spring”; the expansion of the so-called “Islamic State” in terms of territory and media presence; or the recent Gaza conflict – all once again have attracted the global attention to the effective media visualization of violence in the Middle East. In this regard, transnational mass media have often entered a new and (un)holy alliance with media propaganda – e.g. by social media – of local and regional stakeholders.
This workshop aims at examining various aspects of the presentation of violence in and by Arab (mass) media, such as: strategies of religious and political-ideological (de-)legitimation; the normative power of social and cultural values in regard to violence; the tactical employment of multiple media formats; narrative and discoursive patterns; or the visual (non-) presentation of violence.
At this point, however, no definite choice of media or topics shall be provided in order to allow participants considering their own research interests as well as the most recent political developments.
In the first part of the workshop (January 15&16, 2015) we will discuss relevant theoretical premises and identify possible research perspectives. For the second part (June 19&20, 2015) the participants will each be called to prepare a research contribution on selected aspects, which will then be presented and discussed in working groups in order to be prepared for a joint publication.
Everyone interested in Arab media (and ideally possessing some knowledge of Arabic) is most welcome to participate in this workshop (no fee). An informal e-mail to Dr.des David Arn (david.arn{at}lmu.de) is sufficient for registration and subsequent access to the documents to be discussed.