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May 14th – 15th 2024

Orient-Institut Istanbul (Galip Dede Cad. No 65, Beyoğlu-Istanbul)

MWS conference on »Harmful Entanglements«

The conference on »Harmful Entanglements« aims to answer to the unacknowledged conditions of entanglement’s conceptual ubiquity, or, with other words, its own ‘entanglement’ in a particular political context. Arguably, the study of and the various approaches to entanglements are products of an era of run-away globalisation and the heuristic possibilities it has enabled/unleashed. Entanglement has come to be considered a phenomenon that obeys a logic of accretion. Entanglement by default seems not to lead to disentanglement but to a new level of tighter entanglement.

Scholars have recently begun to ask questions that mirror the concerns and expectations of this kind of neo-liberal instability and acceleration. While many studies of entanglement were fed by general optimism in their transformative power, now significant research is also being conducted on problems created by entanglement that encompasses topics such as environmental history, international law and diplomacy, (post-) colonialism, and the position of racist and fascist cultural production in the history of modernity or the project of modernism. Contributions from history, anthropology, literary and art studies and postcolonial research will take issue with the concept and its limitations in a perspective that addresses assumptions such as the globality and incrementality of entanglements.

14th May 2024

13:00-13:30 Christoph K. Neumann (OI Istanbul): Welcome and Introduction

13:30-15:00 Keynote (Moderation: Christoph K. Neumann)

Monica Juneja (Heidelberg University): The Work of Art in the Crossfire between the ‘Aesthetic’ and the ‘Religious’: Potentialities and Limits of Concepts-as-Metaphors

15:15-17:00

Entanglement and Modernism/Modernities (Moderation: Peter Geimer)

Oluwafunminiyi W. Raheem (Osun State University Osogbo): Rejecting Colonial Entanglement: Ulli Beier and the Incorporation of ‘Art Brut’ in Nigerian Modernism, 1951-1964

Fatimaezzehra Abid (Mohammed V. University Rabat): Exploring Entanglements of Modernity in Moroccan Postcolonial Literature through Women’s Lives in Leila Abouzeid’s The Last Chapter

17:30-19:00

(Post)colonial Entanglements (Moderation: Simone Lässig)

Manuel Borutta (Konstanz University): (Post)colonial Entanglements: Algeria, France and the Mediterranean

Mikuláš Pešta (AVČR/Czech Academy of Science): Democratic International Organizations, Anti-Colonial Networks and Transformations at the End of the Cold War

15th May 2024

10:00-11:30, 11:45-13:15

Section A: (Harmful) Entanglements & the MENA-Region (1): Perspectives on Academic Research, Solidarity and the Art World (Moderation: Sebastian Schwecke)

Julius Dihstelhoff and Rachid Ouaissa (MECAM – Merian Center for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb): (Harmful) Entanglements? Images of the Maghreb in German Academic Research

Jens Hanssen (OI Beirut): Before Entanglement: Reflections on the Quiddity of “Solidarity”

Nadia von Maltzahn (OI Beirut): Validation and Labelling in an Entangled Art World: The Case of Lebanon

Natalie Rothman (University of Toronto): Trans-Imperial Entanglements: The Future of the Past

10:00-11:30

Section B: Entangled Knowledge Regimes (Moderation: Franz Waldenberger)

Projit Bihari Mukharji (Ashoka University): Disentanglement or Re-entanglement? Indian Cosmism, c.1947-1971

Fathun Karib (National University Singapore, in cooperation with Dana Listiana): Can the Geos Speak? Assembling State Formation and Southeast Asia as Regional Entanglement

11:45-13:15

Section B: Theorizing Entanglements (Moderation: Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska)

James D. Sidaway (National University Singapore, in cooperation with Chih Yuan Woon): Deglobalization and China’s Visions for Reconfiguring Development Space

Benjamin P. Davis (Saint Louis University): The Paradoxes of Relation: Harmful Entanglements in Édouard Glissant

14:15-16:00

Section A: (Harmful) Entanglements & the MENA-Region (2): Perspectives on Diplomacy and the Art World (Moderation: Klaus Oschema)

Christiane Czygan (OI Istanbul): Diplomatic Disentanglement: The Ottoman-Safavid Negotiations on Prince Bayezid’s Fate

Ipek Z. Ruacan (Yeditepe University): ‘Building’ New States in a Eurocentric International System: Resistance, Acquiescence and Architectural Diplomacy in the Middle East in the 1960s

Section B: Cross-border entanglements (Moderation: Sandra Dahlke)

Alexandre Bibert (DHI Paris): Reflections on the Perspective of Franco-German Rapprochement before the Second World War

Klaudia Kosicińska (Polish Academy of Science): Entangled Mobilities in South-East Georgia: Porosity of the Border and its Materialisation

16:30-18:15

Section A: Cultural Reactions against Harmful Entanglements (Moderation: Martin Baumeister)

Christoph Streb (DHI Paris): Imaginaries of Dark Networks and the Crisis of the Social around 1900

Pascale Siegrist (DHI London): Linguistic Disentanglement: Two Invented Languages as a Challenge to the Rise of Global English

Section B: Entangled Labour (Moderation: Christina von Hodenberg)

A. Ipek Türeli (McGill University): Industrial Workshops and Self-Help in the American Missionary-Educational Enterprise (online)

Indivar Kamtekar (JNU Delhi): The Indian Civil Service under British Colonialism: An Entangled History

19:00-20:00 Keynote (Moderation: Christoph K. Neumann)

Eugene Rogan (Oxford University): Eastern Question Entanglements: Containing European interventions after the 1860 Events in Syria and Lebanon

Venue

Orient-Institut Istanbul
Galip Dede Cad. No. 65
Şahkulu Mah., Beyoğlu
TR-34421 Istanbul

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21mai19:00Evening dedicated to German scholar-in-exile and artist Traugott Fuchs (1906-97) through FILM and EXHIBITIONFILM and EXHIBITION

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INVITATION to an

Evening dedicated to German scholar-in-exile and artist Traugott Fuchs (1906-97) through FILM and EXHIBITION

Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 19:00 at the

Orient-Institut Istanbul

In Cooperation with the Department of History of Boğaziçi Üniversitesi and with the Department of Literature of İstanbul Üniversitesi

Welcome and greetings

First public screening of the new documentary film

“Traugott” (Original German with subtitles in Turkish; director: Dirk Schäfer; producer: Richard Wittmann)

Guided tour through the exhibition “Gönülsüz Sürgün: Çorum Hatıraları, 1944-46” (Negligent Internment: Recollections of Çorum, 1944-46)

German Romance Studies scholar Traugott Fuchs arrived in Istanbul in 1934 together with his teacher Prof. Leo Spitzer who fled the persecution of Jewish scholars in Nazi Germany. Fuchs has taught German and French philology at İstanbul Üniversitesi and Boğaziçi Üniversitesi for more than forty years. In addition to his academic life he was also a prolific painter with close connections to Turkish artists of his time.

The documentary film “Traugott” (German with Turkish subtitles) by fim maker Dirk Schäfer and produced by Richard Wittmann introduces Traugott Fuchs as a multi-faceted individual who has inspired generations of colleagues and students across disciplinary boundaries and whose idealistic, romantic outlook on life has carried him through the ups and downs of life in his chosen home country Turkey. The film familiarizes us also with the rich estate consisting of philological studies, thousands of sketches, close to 400 paintings, a hundred diaries and a wealth of professional and private correspondence.

The Traugott Fuchs Archive at the Orient-Institut Istanbul

With the renovation of the historic Clubhouse Teutonia completed and the Orient-Institut Istanbul’s relocation to its new premises, we consider ourselves very fortunate to also be able to house the Traugott Fuchs Archive and make it accessible for research. For the first time, both, the text archive, which for many years was meticulously preserved as part of the Archive and Documentation Center of Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, and the extensive collection of artwork produced by Traugott Fuchs, which was kept with no less commitment and care at a private home for decades, are housed under one roof at the Orient-Institut Istanbul to serve the academic community.

The exhibition “Gönülsüz Sürgün: Çorum Hatıraları, 1944-46. Alman ve Avusturyalıların ben-anlatıları ışığında Traugott Fuchs’un Çorum resimleri” (Negligent Internment: Memories of Çorum, 1944-46. The Çorum paintings by Traugott Fuchs in light of the testimonies of Germans and Austrians) addresses the experience of being an “exile in exile” as an internee in Anatolia after fleeing Nazi Germany that Traugott Fuchs shared with hundreds other holders of German passports after Turkey’s termination of diplomatic relations with Germany in August 1944. Fuchs’ fascinating paintings of Çorum will be on display together with autobiographical accounts of Austrians and Germans that were written during their internment in Çorum between 1944 and 1946 to throw some light on an understudied period of Austro- and German-Turkish relations in the 20^th century.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to our program in honor of Traugott Fuchs and all who have contributed to the preservation of his memory!

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Orient-Institut Istanbul

Galip Dede Cad. 65, Şahkulu Mah., TR – 34421 Istanbul

Tel: +90 212 293 60 67 oiist@oiist.org www.oiist.org

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The Orient-Institut Istanbul Events are free of charge upon registration.

To attend, please register here:

https://www.oiist.org/registration-an-evening-dedicated-to-traugott-fuchs/

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