The Red Sea is one of the world’s most enduring arteries of human trafficking. Building off earlier initiatives, this conference aims to consolidate the subfield of Red Sea slavery studies by expanding the scope of inquiry beyond the processes that enslaved people. www.zmo.de/veranstaltun...

📢 ZMO is pleased to announce 1 PhD Position on Traditional Courts and State Law in Central Asia. This is one of 17 fully-funded PhD positions in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network “Sociology of Authoritarian Law. Insights from Central Asia” (SOCIAL-DN). www.zmo.de/fileadmin/Ka...

The Timely Histories Project at ZMO is pleased to announce that it will be conducting the #workshop “Rhythms of Livelihood: Past and Present” in Delhi, India, this week, from November 6 to 8, 2025. In collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in Delhi.

New interview! Stefan B. Kirmse (@zmo-berlin.bsky.social) talked to us about his @erc.europa.eu-funded project, "In Pursuit of ‘Legality’ and ‘Justice’ – Minority Struggles in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union" #JUSTIMINO. Read the interview here: ceureviewofbooks.com/interview/le...

📱Digital Citizen Science and the Co-construction of Omani National and Cultural Identity: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis 📱 Lecture by Najma Al Zidjaly (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman) 📍Tuesday, 11 November at 5 pm at ZMO. No registration is required. Supported by Deutsche Oman Stiftung.

💻 Online-Workshop "Memory in Digital Spaces" ("Islam und Digitalität", #AIWG), u.a. mit M. Gharaibeh (@bit-humboldtuni.bsky.social), C. Günther (@unierfurt.bsky.social), F. G. Marei (@zmo-berlin.bsky.social) & A. Omerika (@goetheuni.bsky.social) 📅 5.–7.11.2025 ℹ️ Ohne Anmeldung - Zugang via QR-Code!

‼️ Time for #TakeOver: @mariamsalehi.bsky.social und @mariaketzmerick.bsky.social berichten vom Workshop #RethinkingViolence der AKs Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung und Internationale Politische Soziologie am @zmo-berlin.bsky.social! Folgt @dvpwkongress.bsky.social & stay tuned!

In den nächsten 2 Tagen berichten @mariamsalehi.bsky.social und @mariaketzmerick.bsky.social vom Workshop der DVPW-AKs Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung sowie Internationale Politische Soziologie am @zmo-berlin.bsky.social. Gemeinsam denken wir über Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft von Gewalt nach.

The #workshop “Rethinking the Past, Present and Future of Violence: Inputs from International Political Sociology” that is a joint initiative of the DVWP working groups on “orders of violence” and “sociology of international relations” will take place at ZMO, 29-30 Oct. www.zmo.de/veranstaltun...

On 28 Oct, Jean-Pierre Filiu will give a presentation of his book Un historien à Gaza (A Historian in Gaza), on the occasion of the publication of its German translation at @centremarcbloch.bsky.social. There will be a simultaneous translation French to German. www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

We are happy to announce and invite you to the second #lecture of our winter colloquium #Disruption & #Survival by Veronica Ferreri on Thursday, 23 October at 5pm at ZMO or online via Zoom. www.zmo.de/en/events/di...

Next Monday, 5pm at ZMO with the authors Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor. Join us for the book talk and for an exchange afterwards at a reception in our foyer. www.zmo.de/en/events/th...

Remembering What Was Forgotten: Language, Religion, and the City in Dinara Rasuleva’s Travmagochi. A 📖 review by our former Leibniz-Fellow Diliara Brileva (@zmo-berlin.bsky.social) 👇 via @dehypotheses.bsky.social

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/...

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...

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

🎙️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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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”. 👨🏼‍🎨🇪🇬 www.zmo.de/wissens.../h...

🎙️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 open.spotify.com/episode/57uj...

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...

📣 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...

📅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...

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/

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...

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 👇

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.

📅 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

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.

🎙️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...

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...

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...

🔗 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... www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/programm/det...

📅 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-...

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...

👏🏼Congratulations to Nitin Sinha who just published his new book "Against the Fetishisation of Plural Time. Rethinking Ways of Doing a Social History of Time" with De Gruyter Brill, 2025 🎉 📚The book is open access and can be downloaded/ordered here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

On Wednesday, June 18, Esra Özyürek (University of Cambridge) will be the speaker of the Berlin Anthropology Seminar. Her lecture is titled: Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Post-War Germany More: www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/ethnologie/f...

📢 The Timely Histories Project at ZMO in cooperation with the Centre for Studies of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi has opened a call for papers for its upcoming conference taking place in New Delhi in November 2025. 🔗 Full call: www.zmo.de/fileadmin/us...

You are invited to join the last online roundtable discussion of the series "Borders and Mobilities in Eurasia" next Tuesday, 10 June at 1 pm (Berlin time). This session will be on Academic Cooperation and Mobility. zfl-berlin-org.zoom.us/j/8692229946... Meeting-ID: 869 2229 9466 Kenncode: 779229

On Thursday, 12 June at 5 pm Ilya Gerasimov and Marina Mogilner will present their book A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600–1918: From Russian to Global History. The event takes place at ZMO in cooperation with @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social and will be followed by a reception.

We invite you to join the public keynote speech by Prof. Dr. Ayhan Kaya next Tuesday, June 10 at 5 pm at ZMO or via Zoom. The lecture is part of the conference "Highly Qualified Immigrants and Refugees: Europe & Türkiye" organized by our colleague Ergün Özgür. More info: www.zmo.de/en/events/co...

Heute findet am ZMO um 17h die Buchvorstellung von Tareq Sydiqs neuem Buch "Die neue Protestkultur" in Anwesenheit des Autoren statt. Wir laden herzlich dazu ein! Das Buch wird auf Deutsch vorgestellt, die Diskussion auf Englisch & Deutsch geführt. www.hanser-literaturverlage.de/buch/tareq-s...

Warm invitation to join the Berlin Anthropology Seminars on June 4th, with a talk by Arpan Roy (ZMO). Meeting point is at 4.15 in the FU lecture hall A, Ihnestr. 21, 14195 Berlin, and online on Webex: fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en...

📢 New blog entry 📢 Auf dem ZMO Blog werden Texte aus der Ich-Perspektive, die im und um den Forschungsprozess entstehen, Erfahrungen von Gästen und Studierenden am ZMO, Kommentare zu aktuellen Themen oder andere persönliche Textformen veröffentlicht. www.zmo.de/wissenstrans...

📚 Book a Scientist: Im Gespräch mit der Wissenschaft. Bei "Book a Scientist" der @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de habt ihr am 3.6. die Möglichkeit, mit ZMO Expert*innen in Einzelgesprächen all eure Fragen zu stellen. 🌎 🔗 Bucht euren slot ganz einfach unter www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/ueber-uns/ne...

Lecture by Kai Kresse (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient) & Abdilatif Abdallah (Leipzig University) that took place on May 8 at the Center for Advanced Studies, Hildesheim University in the framework of the lecture series "Philosophizing in a Globalized World". www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvM0...

📢 Stellenausschreibung 📢 Zum 15. Juli 2025 ist am ZMO eine Stelle als studentische Hilfskraft bei Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag (60 Stunden/Monat) zu besetzen. Die Bewerbungsfrist endet am 1. Juni 2025. Zur Ausschreibung: www.zmo.de/karriere/ste...