The OIB at the DOT

18. bis 22. September 2017

Jena

The DOT is the largest professional meeting of Oriental Studies in Germany, and generally takes place in intervals of three and five years. The OIB is participating at the DOT with a range of panels:

Torsten Wollina organised a panel together with Christopher Bahl (SOAS). Entitled “Reading the social world of medieval manuscripts: Cultural practices of transmission and their sociabilities”, this panel focuses on the social contexts and preconditions of manuscript use and production, exploring connections between reading and writing practices and their sociabilities across the medieval and early modern Islamicate world.

Tuesday, 19 September (4pm): Roundtable-discussion together with former OIB research associate Johann Büssow (Universität Tübingen) and Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf (Universität Bonn). “Between ‘close reading’ and ‘big data’: Archival and editorial practices in a digital age” explores digital techniques for the humanities by exchanging ideas among researchers about digital humanities projects in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and discussing strategies and methods to analyse large data collections. Participants include Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf, Boris Liebrenz, Astrid Meier, Christian Müller, Agnes Weiske and Johann Büssow.

Fouad Gehad Marei is taking part in two sessions. On Tuesday afternoon he is participating in the panel “(Trans-)Regionalising Shia Islam”, and on Thursday afternoon he will present his paper on “The Greater Jihad: Social change and mobilization strategies in Hizbullah’s Resistance Society”.

Research associates Monique Bellan and Nadia von Maltzahn are organising a panel within their research cluster Culture, Art and the Public Sphere. The panel, entitled “Circulations of Exhibition Practices between Asia and Europe and Mechanisms of Canon Building” examines circulations of artistic practices between Asia and Europe by focusing on the role of institutions in shaping practices of modern and contemporary art. Particular attention will be paid to exhibitions and canons of art, and interactions and networks of artists within Asia and with Europe. The panel will take place on Wednesday, 20 September, from 9am to 12.30pm. Participants include Wendy Shaw, Nadia von Maltzahn, Franziska Koch, Combiz Moussavi-Aghdam, Sonja Mejcher-Atassi and Monique Bellan.

On Wednesday afternoon between 2 and 3pm, our publication department will present the publication series of the OIB, Bibliotheca Islamica, Beiruter Texte und Studien, and Orient-Institut Studies. We will answer questions about how to publish your work in one of our series!