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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · 3d

ZMO invites applications for the Oman Research Grant 2026. The grant comprises funding for a research stay in Berlin of up to 3 months in 2026 at ZMO, as well as travel costs to Berlin.
The grant is funded by Deutsche Oman-Stiftung (German Oman Foundation).
www.zmo.de/en/about-us/...

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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · 3d

The conference "Decentering Knowledge: Concepts, Conceptualizations, Translations", organized by the Religion and Intellectual Culture unit at ZMO will take place next week, on October 13 and 14.

More info and full programme: www.zmo.de/en/events/de...

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · 7d

Herzlichen Glückwunsch an die @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de zum 30. Jubiläum! 🎉
Seit 2017 sind wir, das Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Teil dieses starken Forschungsverbundes.

#30JahreLeibniz #LeibnizGemeinschaft #ZMO #Forschung

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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · 10d

🎙️The latest episode in our #podcast "Justice & Minorities" has been released!

In der dritten Folge geht es um #Georgien in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Stefan Kirmse hat Oliver Reisner zu Gast, der seit vielen Jahren in #Tbilisi lebt und forscht.

open.spotify.com/episode/7F4n...

Episode 3: Der Kampf um die georgische Nation - Geschichte und Gegenwart

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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · 22d

We are happy to announce and invite you to the first #lecture of our winter colloquium #Disruption & #Survival by Nayera Soliman Abdelrahman on Thursday, 25 September at 5pm at ZMO or online via Zoom.

www.zmo.de/veranstaltun...

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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · 22d

Congratulations to @nourachalati.bsky.social who has been awarded the DAVO 2025 Best Dissertation Award!

A few months ago, Noura was guest of our kitchen talks podcast where she talked about her dissertation on the relations of the Stasi and the Syrian Mukhabarat: open.spotify.com/episode/2db7...

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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · 22d

Am Samstag waren wir Teil des #TagdesoffenenDenkmals und haben gemeinsam mit der Historischen Kommission die Pforten des #Mittelhofs geöffnet.

On Saturday, we took part in the #OpenHeritageDays and, together with the Historische Kommission, opened the doors of the #Mittelhof.

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · Sep 4

Join us on 18 September, 5 pm at ZMO for a book talk by Stephan Rindlisbacher on "Borders in Red - Managing Diversity in the Early Soviet Union", preceded by an introduction to ZMO’s Reinhard Eisener Collection (on Central Asia in the 1920s/30s).
The event is followed by a reception.

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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · Sep 2

Wir freuen uns, Euch unsere erste #digitale Ausstellung auf der ZMO-Website präsentieren zu dürfen. 🎉

Dr. Sonja Hegasy veröffentlicht gemeinsam mit Katharina Maria Raab und Julia Tieke die audiovisuelle Ausstellung “Hassan Heshmat – Ein Visionär seiner Zeit”. 👨🏼‍🎨🇪🇬

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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · Sep 1

🎙️A new 'ZMO kitchen talks' #podcast episode is out!

Saudi-Arabien im Wandel: Forschung, Tourismus und Giga-Projekte mit Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag, Direktorin am Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient und Professorin für Islamwissenschaft an der Freien Universität Berlin

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Saudi-Arabien im Wandel: Forschung, Tourismus und Giga-Projekte

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Leibniz-Gemeinschaft @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de · Aug 29

In der kirgisischen Stadt Mailuu-Suu förderte die sowjetische #Nuklearindustrie tausende Tonnen Uran. Der Anthropologe Nikolaos Olma vom @zmo-berlin.bsky.social forscht über die Folgen des Atomprogramms. Bis heute belasten die Hinterlassenschaften die Stadt. 👉 www.leibniz-magazin.de/alle-artikel...

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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · Aug 25

📣 Call for Applications 📣
The Research Unit #Lives and #Ecologies at ZMO seeks to recruit a #postdoctoral #scholar to develop a project in the field of #history of #human-environment relations.
Deadline: 15 September 2025

More info and full call: www.zmo.de/en/career/jo...

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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · Jul 29

📅Save the Date! 📢
The Open Day at ZMO will take place on September 13 from 1pm till 6pm.
Together with the Historic Commission of Berlin (HiKo), we open the doors of the "Mittelhof", the historic building that is home to ZMO.
Everyone is warmly welcome!
Full programme: www.zmo.de/en/events/ta...

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Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social · Jul 16

Are you a #PostDoc or #Professor seeking time to focus on your research in a vibrant, international community?
Apply now for the FRIAS Fellowship Programme 2026/27!
Deadline: 13 Sept 2025, 13:00
#Fellowship #AcademicJobs #CfA
🔗https://uni-freiburg.de/frias/funding/frias-fellowship-programmes/

Informational graphic for the FRIAS Fellowship Programmes 2026/27. It lists three types of fellowships:

Early Career Fellowships – 4 to 10 months for researchers with a doctoral degree and up to 8 years of postdoctoral experience.

Senior Fellowships – 3 to 8 months for researchers with a doctoral degree and at least 8 years of postdoctoral experience.

Sustainable Governance Senior Fellowship Programme for Researchers from Africa – 6 months for researchers with a doctoral degree, at least 8 years of postdoctoral experience, and affiliation with an institution in Africa.
Application deadline: 13 September 2025, 13:00.

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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · Jul 28

Finissage & Lecture: The People's Sculptor: The Porcelain Legacy of Hassan Heshmat by Nadine Nour el Din.

📍Friday, 1 August 2025, 6 pm at Der Divan - Das Arabische Kulturhaus, Schützallee 27, 14169 Berlin

Get your free tickets here: www.eventbrite.de/e/vortrag-vo...

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Leibniz-Forschungsverbund "Wert der Vergangenheit" @valuepast.bsky.social · Jul 22

50 years after the Angolan Liberation Struggle (1961–1974), Angola’s anti-colonial past remains deeply contested, its history shaped by partisan narratives, civil war legacies, and a fractured fight over national memory. Our Fellow João F. Ribeiro (@zmo-berlin.bsky.social) in our latest blogpost 👇

Fragmented Memories: The Struggle for the Anti-colonial Past in Modern-Day Angola

João Fusco Ribeiro writes about the contested memory of the anti-colonial liberation struggle in Angola.

valuepast.hypotheses.org

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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · Jul 15

On the occasion of the #World #Swahili #Day last week, Kai Kresse (ZMO & FU Berlin) and Lutz Diegner (HU Berlin) hosted the “Baraza la Kiswahili la Berlin” at ZMO that was honoured by the presence of His Excellency Hassan Iddi Mwamweta, the ambassador of Tanzania to Germany.

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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · Jul 15

📅 On Wednesday, July 16, at 4:15 pm, Andrea Behrends (Universität Leipzig) will give a lecture on Invisibilized Wars, Plantation Futures - Lifeworlds in Crisis in the Chad-Sudan Borderlands within the Berlin Anthropology Seminars.
You are warmly invited to join in-person at Ihnestr. 21 or via Webex

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Jana Hönke @janahoenke.bsky.social · Jul 8

Publication day for Practicing Pluriversalism! By Raoul Bunskoek @clingendael.bsky.social and @mariaketzmerick.bsky.social @zmo-berlin.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0002...
Kindly supported by
@africamultiple.bsky.social.

Practising Pluriversalism in Africa - Raoul Bunskoek, Maria Ketzmerick-Calandrino, 2025

This special section examines how African and non-African actors, including Chinese and Western, co-produce knowledge through pluralistic encounters. Emphasizin...

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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · Jul 1

🎙️A new 'ZMO kitchen talks' #podcast episode is out!

Wandel in Recht und Gesellschaft in Saudi-Arabien mit Nora Derbal (Universität Hamburg)
Wie beeinflussen rechtliche #Reformen die Gesellschaft? Und was sind die wichtigsten Fragen, die sich in Zukunft auftun?

open.spotify.com/episode/7uwW...

Wandel in Recht und Gesellschaft in Saudi-Arabien

ZMO kitchen talks · Episode

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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · Jun 30

Panel Discussion in cooperation with the ‘Araz’ Scholars’ Initiative:
Scholars, Academic Freedom and the Future of Armenian-Azerbaijani Relations

📅 Friday, July 11, 4 pm at ZMO. Followed by a reception. Please register at [email protected]

More: www.zmo.de/en/events/sc...

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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · Jun 27

Vernissage: Hassan Heshmat: Son of Egypt and Heir of the nahda

📅 4 July, 6 pm at the Divan - Das Arabische Kulturhaus

Get your free ticket here: www.eventbrite.de/e/vernissage...

More info: www.zmo.de/en/events/ha...

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · Jun 26

🔗 De:Link//Re:Link bei der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften am Samstag, den 28. Juni 2025!
Herzliche Einladung an einer Reise entlang der neuen chinesischen Seidenstraße(n) teilzunehmen.

www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/programm/det...
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Lange N8 der Wissenschaften

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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · Jun 24

📅 3 July 2025, 5pm, ZMO Summer Colloquium | Dr. Katharina Lange (ZMO)

📍The lecture will be hybrid. For on-site participation at ZMO no registration is needed. To attend online via Zoom, please register: www.zmo.de/en/events/i-...

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social · Jun 23

Ibrahim Traoré ist Staatschef von Burkina Faso. Im Netz wird er gerade gefeiert wie ein Popstar. Doch hinter dem Hype brodelt ein blutiger Konflikt. Was steckt wirklich hinter dem Mythos Traoré?
Unser ZMO-Kollege Abdoulaye Sounaye im Experteninterview mit ATLAS.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DakV...

Der absurde Hype um Burkina Fasos neuen Chef

YouTube video by ATLAS

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