Invitation to an online lecture   Dr. Jana Matuszak University of Tübingen   Parodying Songs of Praise: towards an understanding of Sumerian mock hymns   Wednesday, 6 April 2022, 19:00 (GMT +3)   Sumerian literature is recognized as the world’s oldest literature. It has only been recovered in the last century and this pioneering work […]

Festvortrag von Prof. Dr. em. Peter Zieme (Berlin): Barbara Kellner-Heinkele – ein Leben für die Turkologie   Der namhafte Iranist und Turkologe Prof. Dr. em. Peter Zieme, in Fachkreisen vor allem bekannt durch die fast 25-jährige Forschungstätigkeit im Rahmen des Akademievorhabens zur „Turfanforschung“ der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu den Textzeugnissen der alten Kulturen an […]

Polish Republic was founded in 1918 and was able to defend its independence against Bolsheviks in the following years. The Peace Treaty of Riga (1921) was, however, rather a cease-fire and the Soviet Union conducted multilevel pressure on Poland trying to import revolution and to back ethnic separatism. Warsaw’s answer was the strategy of Prometheanism, […]

Prof. Dr. Edhem Eldem (Boğaziçi University) The place of Islamic artefacts in Osman Hamdi Bey’s artistic and museological career Wednesday, 30 November 2022, 19:00 (Turkish time, GMT + 3) Abstract Osman Hamdi Bey (1842-1910), celebrated both for his talent as a painter and his achievements at the head of the Imperial Museum, has always had […]

The story of the rise of modern Arabic literature begins in the 19th century when the encounter with Europe instigates a far-reaching process of translation, adaptation, and transmutation against the backdrop of a wider move towards state-modernization on the one hand and incipient colonization on the other. In the throes of these sweeping changes, modern […]