Newsletter 2/2019
Events and News
WWC: Changing Neighbourhoods
WeberWorldCafé
Tuesday, 29 January 2019, 2.30-6pm, BERLIN, Werkstatt der Kulturen
 The Weber World Café Changing Neighbourhoods will deal with both mobility and transformation. How have neighbourhoods developed and changed over time, in particular in cities that have experienced or are experiencing conflicts? How have central institutions of a city like museums shaped the fabric of the neighbourhoods around them? Have they contributed to a spirit of neighbourliness? What do migrants bring to their new neighbourhoods? Do they reproduce neighbourhoods abroad? How are neighbourhoods organised, and what actually makes a neighbourhood a neighbourhood? These are some of the questions our next WeberWorldCafé will try to answer. It will take place in Berlin at the Werkstatt der Kulturen on 29 January in cooperation with our foundation, the Max Weber Stiftung, the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Zentrum Moderner Orient. Prior registration necessary, see here.
Vacancies
Research Associate (Islamwissenschaft)
Further details on our website (in German).
Deadline for applications: 18 February 2019
Research Coordinator
Further details on our website (in German).
Deadline for applications: 24 February 2019
Internship
An internship spot opened up for the period 14 September 2019 to 15 December 2019. If you are a student of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies or related fields and are interested in absolving an internship at the OIB for 2-3 months, please apply by 17 February 2019. Otherwise our internship places are taken until spring 2020. You can apply for a place starting in spring 2020 by 30 April 2019. Further information on our website (in German).
People
Meet our new doctoral visiting fellows
 Owain Lawson (January - February 2019) is a PhD candidate in History at Columbia University, focusing on the twentieth-century Middle East. He holds an MA and MPhil from Columbia, an MA from the American University in Cairo, and a BA from Concordia University (Montréal). He is senior editor of the Arab Studies Journal and website editor for the Lebanese Studies Association. His dissertation examines the history of the development of the Litani river between 1931 and 1975. By putting the Litani project at the centre of its historical narrative, the dissertation reexamines the history of modern Lebanon, postcolonial development, and interrelations among technology, society, and environment.
 Molly Oringer (January - August 2019) is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at UCLA. Her dissertation addresses the legacy of Lebanon’s Jewish community and their spaces after the Lebanese Civil War (1975–90) and the mobilization of concepts of Lebanese conviviality, everyday interactions with “otherness,” and the development of collective Lebanese national narrative as these concepts are embodied in the context of post-civil war spaces. In particular, she strives to better understand how so-called minority spaces - in this case, former Jewish spaces such as synagogues, neighborhoods, and cemeteries - are rehabilitated, ignored, or repurposed and the relation between these arenas and concepts of belonging as they are understood by the Lebanese public. Read more.
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