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International ITS-Colloquium “Islamic Feminism: Exploring Boundaries and Embracing Possibilities” (AIWG) explores Islamic feminism as one of the most discussed intellectual movements in the Islamic world and will be held at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, November 22–23, 2024, organized by the network members Mansooreh Khalilizand and Kata Moser
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The network organizes the international conference “Philosophy, the Political, and Politics of Translation in the Modern Islamic World” in Berlin, 10-13 March 2025 and calls for proposals concerning, among others, concepts in translation, historical approaches, educational aspects and philosophical dimensions.
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On 24 June 2024, the Colloquium for Philosophy in the MENA Region cordially invites to Dr. Fatemeh Sadeghi’s guest lecture on current changes in political imagination in Iran. The lecture is online at 6 pm (Berlin).
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On 11 June, the editor Dr. Mansooreh Khalilizand and authors of the recently published volume The Attributes of God in Islamic Thought: Contemplating Allah (Routledge) cordially invite to participate in the online live discussion and volume presentation.
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During this study-day, organised by the Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies (NISIS) and Radboud University (RU) in Nijmegen, we will introduce MA-students and PhD-candidates in Islamic studies, philosophy or related fields to Islamic philosophy and present them with some pressing questions in this field. Three network members are involved: Carool Kersten (Keynote), Harald Viersen, and Kata Moser.
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Islamic feminism is a highly controversial title of a vivid and productive discourse with an already long history. Not only does the term and its implications spark heated debates and touch upon boiling societal issues, but it also strikes a nerve for scholars and students interested in current socio-political challenges. In the winter semester 2023-24, Khalilizand and Moser chose “Islamic feminism” as the subject of their joint university course.
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The congress “Societies in Transition: Law, Culture and Politics in the Middle East” (also the 30th International DAVO Congress) will take place from September 26th to 28th, 2024 at University of Göttingen. This congress invites submissions on topics in the humanities and social sciences that deal with research on the Middle East, North Africa and other states influenced by Islam or their relations with other regions. There is a section dedicated to Philosophy and History of Ideas, among others.
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As part of the workshop “The Political in Philosophical Discourses of the Modern Islamic World,” the public keynote lecture by Zeynep Direk on “Heidegger and Atatürk: Existential Phenomenology and the Political” will take place on Tuesday, September 26, 2023, at 6:00 pm. Furthermore, on Wednesday, September 27, 2023, at 6:00 pm, there will be the public panel discussion “Exploring Philosophy and the Political in and with the Islamic World” featuring Zeynep Direk, Elizabeth Kassab, Salah Mosbah, Eliane Saadé, and Ali Reza Shomali. Both events are also transmitted in a live stream.
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From 26th to 28th of september the scholarly network Philosophy in the Modern Islamic World will hold and host the workshop on “The Political in Philosophical Discourses of the Modern Islamic World” at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Keynote and Panel discussion – on site and via live stream – are open to the public.
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Nacim Ghanbari bespricht in ihrem Beitrag How to Support a Revolution , erschienen in der Zeitschrift MERKUR (Heft 892, September 2023) auf die von Katajun Amirpur an der Univ. Köln veranstaltete öffentlichen Ringvorlesung “FRAU, LEBEN, FREIHEIT – EMANZIPATORISCHE POTENZIALE”. Dabei geht sie auch auf den Vortrag “Die Revolution denken. Zur subversiven Kraft der Philosophie auf dem Weg der iranischen Freiheitsbewegung” von Roman Seidel ein, der am 26.6.2023 in der Karl Rahner Akademie in Köln statt fand.
