Leibniz Center for the Modern Orient

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Leibniz Center for the Modern Orient Berlin
Leibniz Center for the Modern Orient Berlin
Leibniz Center for the Modern Orient
Category: research Institute
Carrier: Humanities Centers Berlin
Legal form of the carrier: registered association
Seat of the wearer: Berlin , GermanyGermanyGermany 
Facility location: Berlin-Nikolassee
Type of research: Basic research
Subjects: History, anthropology, Islamic studies
Areas of expertise: Humanities, social sciences
Basic funding: Federal and state funding within the framework of the Leibniz Association, third-party funding
Management: Ulrike Friday
Employee: approx. 55
Homepage: www.leibniz-zmo.de

The Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) (until 2016 Zentrum Moderner Orient ) is a research institution founded in Berlin in 1996 that deals with the Middle East , Africa , Central Asia , South and Southeast Asia in an interdisciplinary and historical-comparative perspective . The focus of the research is the interaction of predominantly Islamic societies and their relationships with non-Islamic neighboring regions.

The ZMO was founded in 1996 as a non-university humanities center for historical cultural and social sciences and opened on June 12, 1998 in the central courtyard in Nikolassee designed by Hermann Muthesius . The Center, which is headed by Ulrike Freitag , is sponsored by the Association for Humanities Centers Berlin . The ZMO's core scientific program was funded by the Berlin Senate , the German Research Foundation and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research . The ZMO has been a member of the Leibniz Association since January 1, 2017 and is therefore included in the joint research funding of the federal and state governments.

Research program

Research program 2020–2024

The centre's research program currently comprises four interdisciplinary research fields and around 35 research assistants who have been working on aspects of the history and culture of the “Modern Orient” since the 16th century.

The main research program of the ZMO, Rethinking Translocal Entanglements: Perspectives from Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020-2024), explores how social actors deal in their experiences, perceptions and practices with tensions and challenges that arise from translocal networking . This takes place in the awareness that the societies of these actors are often (in a characteristic way) themselves shaped by the specific history of such entanglements and the resulting tensions. In historical terms, research focuses on global networks of largely Muslim societies (or their respective counterparts) from the 16th to the 21st centuries. Further research dimensions concern existential experiences and transformations of social practices; spatial (re-) configurations; conceptual structures, visions and revisions within such entanglements; economic relations as well as formations and reformations of the religious, legal and political.

The research program is worked on with a view to the following four thematic focal points, which form the framework for four corresponding research fields: 1. Age and generation , 2. Environment and justice, 3. Images of history , 4. Controversial religion . The resulting cross-cutting issues are processed in different formats and by different researchers from the respective research fields. Joint methodological and theoretical challenges are discussed from a comparative perspective. This means that empirical work on specific materials, archives, field observations and texts can be accompanied by conceptual considerations that allow researchers to participate in relevant theoretical debates. Particular attention is paid to conceptual structures and theories from the ZMO's research regions. The research at the ZMO can thus contribute to overcoming the Eurocentric dominance of the humanities and social sciences.

The main research program is supplemented by additional research groups from various subject areas.


Research program 2008–2019

The central research program of the ZMO Muslim Worlds - World of Islam? Drafts, Practices and Crises of the Global (2008–2019) examined a broad spectrum of historical and current dynamics within and between Muslim societies since the 18th century, as well as their connections to Europe. The broad cooperation between historians, ethnologists, Islamic scholars, economists, psychologists and other specialist representatives at the center exceeds the usual boundaries of regional and specialist sciences. The scientists placed particular emphasis on cooperative and interdisciplinary basic research based on intensive archive and field research as well as knowledge of a large number of regional languages. They explored fundamental areas of non-European modernity and, as has become particularly clear recently, areas of non-European modernity that are necessary for understanding the present.


Research program 2000–2007

In this time frame, various sub-projects have researched the topic of “translocality”. An important finding of research was the importance of parallel unlocking and limiting mechanisms, especially in times that are apparently exclusively characterized by increasing global networking. Furthermore, the network character of globalization became apparent, which was no longer understood as all-encompassing, but rather as a multitude of overlapping, cross-border processes of circulation and exclusion. The concept of “translocality” was essentially worked out at the ZMO in order to grasp these developments more precisely than the often teleological and Eurocentric concept of globalization allows.


Research program 1996-2000

Under the topic of "Delimitation and appropriation in globalization: Asia, Africa and Europe since the 18th century", perceptions, processing and consequences of global processes and discourses were examined from a historical and comparative perspective. Three group projects, “Islam and Globalization”, “Actors of Change” and “Locality and State” were used here to organize the overall program.

Publications

The ZMO Studies series publishes research results from the work of the individual projects, conference proceedings and selected monographs that complement the research profile of the center. This ZMO-owned series has been published by Verlag Walter de Gruyter since 2019. In addition, there are the ZMO Working Papers , which reflect developments and discussions from the ZMO's research projects, and the ZMO Programmatic Texts , which deal with the interdisciplinary and interregional research at the center in the form of conceptual essays. Both ZMO Working Papers and ZMO Programmatic Texts are Open Access series. Research results are also published in monographs and articles that appear in Germany and abroad. All researchers work in accordance with the Rules for Safeguarding Good Academic Practice .

Events

To discuss research results, the ZMO organizes public colloquia, lecture series, workshops and international conferences. In addition, there are panel discussions on current scientific and political issues, some in cooperation with national or international organizations. In particular, it works with intermediary and cultural organizations and with political foundations in Germany. The events include an annual open day, film series and festivals, exhibitions, panel discussions and roundtables, as well as public lectures.

Networking and cooperation

The director of the ZMO is also a professor of Islamic studies at the Free University of Berlin . The teaching activities of academic staff at various faculties of Berlin universities as well as at universities in and outside Germany contribute to the close connection between teaching and research. Vice-Director Kai Kresse is also a professor at the Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin. Vice-Director Sonja Hegasy is visiting professor at the Barenboim-Said Akademie Berlin from 2019 to 2021. Together with the Humboldt University of Berlin, the ZMO is the only non-university research institution involved in the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS) of the FU Berlin (host university). The supervision of dissertations and post-doc junior researchers is one of the tasks of the ZMO.

The ZMO invites foreign guests to do research together for one to two month research stays in Berlin. Here they present their work to the interested Berlin public.

Cooperations with other scientific institutions include Europe, North America, and especially the research regions. In Berlin, the ZMO has a cooperation agreement with the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University . In addition, there are various research collaborations in Berlin, such as within the framework of the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies and the Forum Transregional Studies and with other non-university institutions (e.g. Center Marc Bloch , Institute of the Max Weber Foundation). In addition, the Leibniz Center for the Modern Orient is part of the “Historical Authenticity” research network of the Leibniz Association.

In 2012 the international cooperation with the Beirut archive Umam Documentation & Research began in the project Transforming Memories: Cultural Production and Personal / Public Memory in Lebanon and Morocco (2012–2014). In addition, the ZMO was involved in the following joint projects:

  • Crossroads Asia (2011–2014), partner: Center for Development Research, Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies ( Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ), Central Asia Seminar (HU Berlin), Center for Development Studies (ZELF, FU Berlin)
  • Phantom borders in East Central Europe (2011–2014), partner: Center Marc Bloch , HU Berlin, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  • Urban Violence in the Middle East (2010–2013), Partner: School of Oriental and African Studies
  • Participation in the Collaborative Research Center 640 at the HU Berlin
  • Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) for the research project Cultural Exchange in a Time of Global Conflict: Colonial, Neutrals and Belligerents during the First World War at the ZMO
  • DFG long-term project Modern India in German Archives, 1706 - 1989 (MIDA) (2014–2026)
  • Spaces of Participation: Topographies of Social and Political Chance in Morocco, Egypt, and Palestine (Volkswagen Foundation 2014–2020)
  • Religion, Morals and Boko in West Africa: Student Careers for a Good Life (acronym: Remoboko), Partners: Universite Abdou Moumouni, Niamey in Niger and the University of Ibadan in Nigeria

Library

The center's library is designed as a special scientific library for the main research areas at the center. “In 2010 the ZMO library joined the Common Library Network (GBV) . This means that joint cataloging with important oriental science libraries (special collection area Halle, Berlin State Library, Orient Institute Beirut and Istanbul, university libraries Jena, Erfurt, Gotha, Göttingen, Hamburg, Kiel) is possible in a network database. "The library of the ZMO currently comprises around 50,000 volumes and has around 90 current journals. “Two of the special collections have had a particular impact on the inventory structure. Initially, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy took over approx. 10,000 volumes of monographs and 297 journal titles from the branch library for German and General History of the former Academy of Sciences of the GDR on Oriental Studies on permanent loan. The second significant increase came about with the Fritz and Gertraud Steppat donation, also comprising approx. 10,000 volumes of predominantly Arabic-language monographs and journals. ”Through the bequests of the Africa historian Jürgen Herzog , the Middle East historian Gerhard Höpp and the Indologist Horst Krüger she has other valuable sources and rare secondary literature. It is a public reference library.

carrier

Emerging from a division of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and re-established in 1992 on the recommendation of the Science Council as a research focus on the Modern Orient under the umbrella of the Max Planck Society , the center has been run by the Verein Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin e. V. (GWZ). In addition to the ZMO, the GWZ also includes the Leibniz Center for General Linguistics (ZAS) and the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL).

Society for the Promotion of the ZMO

The Society for the Promotion of the ZMO e. V. was founded on January 26, 2007. The idea for this arose after the ten-year existence of the research center in 2006. The association pursues exclusively charitable purposes. He wants to support and promote the Leibniz Center for the Modern Orient ideally and materially. To this end, he cooperates with institutions and personalities from science, politics and culture at home and abroad. With the means and contacts available to him, he would like to accompany the diverse activities of the ZMO. This happens through the targeted support of scientific projects of the center as well as through the promotion of publication projects or through the organization and implementation of public information events, lectures and discussion groups. He is particularly committed to the scientific legacies at the ZMO.

The chairman of the society is Peter Heine , an Islamic scholar and founding director of the ZMO from 1996 to 1998. The deputy chairwoman is Katrin Bromber, an African scientist and head of research at the ZMO. Bettina Gräf, Islamic scholar and former employee at the ZMO, is the company's treasurer. The board also includes Udo Steinbach, an Islamic scholar and head of the German Orient Institute from 1976 to 2007, and Ulrike Freitag, Middle East historian and director of the ZMO since 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  8. ↑ Age and generation. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Environment and Justice. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Historical images . Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Controversial Religion. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Main research program of the ZMO. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Complementary research. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  14. ↑ ZMO - Research - Current Projects. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  15. ↑ ZMO - Research - Current Projects. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  16. ^ ZMO - Research - Projects 1996-2000. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  17. ^ ZMO studies. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  18. ↑ ZMO Working Papers | Leibniz Center for the Modern Orient (ZMO). Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  19. ↑ ZMO Programmatic Texts | Leibniz Center for the Modern Orient (ZMO). Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  20. ^ DFG, German Research Foundation - Good Research Practice. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Knowledge transfer. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  22. ^ Forum Transregional Studies: Home. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Historical authenticity. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  24. ↑ Partner Donors. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  25. ^ ZMO - Research - Transforming Memories. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  26. ^ ZMO - Research - Crossroads Asia - Crossroads Asia. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Home - Phantom Boundaries. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  28. ↑ ZMO - Zentrum Moderner Orient @ DAVO 2011. Retrieved on August 6, 2020 .
  29. ↑ hu_adm: Collaborative Research Center 640 - Humboldt University of Berlin. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  30. ↑ gwz 2014. Retrieved on August 6, 2020 .
  31. ↑ gwz 2015. Retrieved on August 6, 2020 .
  32. ↑ gwz 2015. Retrieved on August 6, 2020 .
  33. ^ The ZMO library - proceedings and prospects | Leibniz Center for the Modern Orient (ZMO). Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
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  35. ↑ Humanities Centers Berlin /// Article /// ZAS. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
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  37. ^ Library. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  38. ↑ Udo Steinbach. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
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