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.
After Islamism – Political Imagination in Contemporary Iran, lecture by Fatemeh Sadeghi
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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).
NISIS Study Day “Islamic Philosophy?”, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 12 April 2024
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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.
How to Support a Revolution »Frau, Leben, Freiheit – emanzipatorische Potenziale« (Artikel von Nacim Ghanbari in der Zeitschrift MERKUR)
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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.
Online book launch – Thinking the Re-Thinking of the World
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On 13th of march the editors of the recently published open access volume
Thinking the Re-Thinking of the World, invite to an online book launch.
Most authors, including network coordiantor Roman Seidel, shall be present online and give a brief talk on their chapters before an open discussion.
Women Life Freedom: Philosophies, Histories, Possibilities
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This hybrid symposium, taking place on March 3, 2023 at the University of Dayton as an academic tribute to the Woman Life Freedom movement, will explore the philosophical, historical and contemporary dimensions and possibilities of the women’s human rights struggle in the Middle East, and its relationship with authoritarianism and decolonization.
Ibn Rushd Lecture – Deconstructing Authoritarianism? German-Arabic Perspectives
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Sarhan Dhouib will present the three volumes of the series “Experiences of Injustice in Transcultural Perspective” as part of the Ibn Rushd Lectures, discussing, among other things, the critical function of philosophy in general and in authoritarian states in particular, and how criticism can be formulated and expressed under authoritarian circumstances. (Event in Arabic and German)
Was ist postklassische Philosophie im Islam und wie ist sie entstanden?
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Öffentlicher Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Frank Griffel (Yale) am Mittwoch, 27. April 2022 um 18:15 Uhr, hybrid und an der Universität Göttingen
Forms and Functions of Islamic Philosophy
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The conference “Forms and Functions of Islamic Philosophy” – taking place online on Thursday, March 31, 2022 and Friday, April 1, 2022 – seeks to highlight how Islamic philosophy (falsafa/ḥikma) was practiced “in conversation”—between scholars, with various audiences, and with different disciplines, approaches, and rhetoric.
Zum Welt-Philosophie-Tag 2021
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Am Do. 19. November findet im Rahmen des „Tags der Philosophie“ 2021 eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung (online) der Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Philosophie (GIP, Sitz in Tübingen), der Wiener Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Philosophie (WIGIP) und des Reinhart-Koselleck-Projekts „Geschichten der Philosophie in globaler Perspektive“ (Hildesheim) statt.