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We are pleased to welcome our participants for our Summer Academy "Language, Science and Aesthetics – Articulations of Subjectivity and Objectivity in the Modern Middle East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia", which will take place 11-19 September 2014 in Beirut.All participants (in alphabetical order):Hussein Abdulsater / Assistant Professor, Civilization Sequence Program, American University of BeirutThematic Discussion: Renewing Falsafa: Epistemic possibilities and methodological obstaclesHannah Baader / Permanent Senior Research Fellow Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut/Academic Program Director Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices, BerlinMonique Bellan / Research Associate, Orient-Institut BeirutResearch Seminar: Between Subjectivity and Objectivity: Talking about art in Lebanon (1920-1970)Nader el-Bizri / Associate Professor, Civilization Sequence Program, American University of BeirutLecture: Ontological-Epistemological Renewals within the Dialectics of Tradition and Modernity? Critical reflections on methodology in the field of ‘Arabic Sciences and Philosophy’Thematic Discussion: Renewing Falsafa: Epistemic possibilities and methodological obstaclesNadia Bou Ali / Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at American University of BeirutThematic Discussion: Of Mirrors and Words: Arabic and the questions of modernityDaniel Blanga-Gubbay / Lecturer Political Philosophy, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, BrusselsProject: The Experience of the Possible – The possible as an object in Western modernityEdna Bonhomme / Doctoral candidate, History of Science Program, Princeton UniversityProject: The Bubonic Plague, Death Rituals and Cemeteries in Eighteenth-Century Cairo and TunisRay Brassier / Associate Professor Of Philosphy, American University of BeirutLecture: Deleveling: Against “Flat Ontologies”Lawrence Chua / Visiting Assistant Professor, school of Architecture, Syracuse University, New YorkProject: The Aesthetic Citizen: Leisure architecture and fascism in mid-20th-century BangkokPankhuree Dube / Doctoral candidate, History of Modern South Asia, Emory University AtlantaProject: Pardhan Gond Aesthetics and the Politics of Authenticity, 1936-2001Christian Funke / Ph.D. candidate, Islamic Studies, University of HeidelbergProject: Aesthetic Formations of Political Protest in the Islamic Republic of Iran and its Diaspora (2009-2013)Jessica Gerschultz / Assistant Professor in the Dep. of African and African-American Studies,University of KansasProject: Decorative Arts of the Tunisian ÉcoleDahlia Gubara / Postdoc Fellow, Orient Institut BeirutResearch Seminar: “Situating Science”: the View from CairoHans Harder / Professor of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures, University of HeidelbergLecture: Lecture: Reading Paratexts: the significance of textual framesThematic Discussion: Textual/Artistic Genre, Modernity and Colonial GovernmentalityRattanamol Singh Johal / Doctoral candidate in Art History, Columbia UniversityProject: The Unresolved Modern in Indian ArtJoya John /Doctoral Candidate in the Dept. of South Asian Languages and Civilizations,University of ChicagoProject: Bhasa ki ansthirta (The Instability of Language)Monica Juneja / Professor of Global Art History, University of HeidelbergLecture: From the Religious to the Aesthetic image – or the Struggle over Art that offendsThematic Discussion: Global Art History and the Conceptions of the LocalGül Kale / School of Architecture, McGill University, MontrealProject: From Lived Experience to Emotional and Intellectual Knowledge in Early ModernOttoman ArchitectureBodhisattva Kar / Senior Lecturer, Dept. of History, University of Cape TownLecture: Modernity and Misplacement: A Curious History of AnachronismThematic Discussion: Textual/Artistic Genre, Modernity and Colonial GovernmentalitySiti Keo / Ph.D. candidate in the Dep. of History, University of California, BerkeleyProject: Understanding Change: Modernity and Urban Life in Sangkum Reastr NiyumPhnom Penh (1955-1970)Sami Khatib / Lecturer in media and cultural theory at Freie Universität BerlinProject: Marx and the Non-European. On the Grammar of ‘Commodity-LanguageStephanie Lämmert / Doctoral Researcher, European University, FlorenceProject: Creative Notions of ‘Modernity’ in Shambaa Colonial Court CultureStefan Leder / Director Orient-Institut BeirutSamir Mahmoud / Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at American University of BeirutResearch Seminar: Thematic Discussion: Towards a Phenomenology of Religious Experience in Islam: Issues, aporias and possibilities Anne-Marie McManus / Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic literature and Culture, Washington University in St. LouisProject: Unfinished Awakenings: Nahḍat al MaghribCombiz Moussavi-Aghdam / Lecturer at Art University Teheran; Researcher at Academy of Arts, TeheranProject: Art History and Modern Aesthetics in the Iranian ContextErtugrul Okten / Edebiyat Facultesi History, 29 Mayis University IstanbulThematic Discussion: Of Mirrors and Words: Arabic and the questions of modernityAbdur Rahoof Otthathingal / Erasmus Mundus graduate fellow, Colonial and Global History division of Institute for History, Leiden UniversityProject: Travel of Languages, Trans-Formations of Religion: Arabi-Malayalam and vernacular Islam in Malabar, South India, 17th to 20th C.Maria Elena Paniconi / Lecturer of Arabic Language and Literature, University of MarcerataProject: Self-portrait as a Young Man – Autobiography, modernity and the aesthetic apprenticeship in the Egyptian experienceJunaid Quadri / Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies, University of Illinois at ChicagoProject: Transformations of Tradition: Representationalism, the new science and Islamic lawDhruv Raina / Professor of History of Science and Education at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New DelhiResearch Seminar: Itineraries of Mathematical Knowledge in 19th Century South Asia: The universal and contextual in mathematical practiceKirsten Scheid / Associate Professor of Anthropology, American University of BeirutLecture: DhawqThematic Discussion: Global Art History and the Conceptions of the LocalMalek Sharif / Lecturer at Department of History and Archaeology, American University of BeirutResearch Seminar: Language, Objectivity and Aesthetics in an AutobiographyKutlughan Soyubol / Doctoral Candidate in History at The Graduate Center, The City University of New YorkProject: Possessed Souls, Medical Wars: Madness, religion and modernity in early republican TurkeyAdrien-Paul Zakar / Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University New YorkProject: Spiritualist Geographies and the Invention of Syria (1898-1928)Florian Zemmin / Ph.D. Candidate, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at University of BernProject: The Concept of ‘Society’ in the Mouthpiece of Islamic Modernism, al-Manar (Cairo, 1898–1940)Chuntian Zhang / Si-Mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, East China Normal UniversityProject: Subjectivity and Objectivity of Chinese Revolution Discourses: Transcultural Practices in the making of modern China, 1899-1927Contact:Dr. Monique Bellan (Orient-Institut Beirut)bellan@orient-institut.orgDr. Miriam Stock (Orient-Institut Beirut)summeracademy@orient-institut.orgDr. Melanie Hanif (Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin)melanie.hanif@trafo-berlin.deThe Summer Academy"Language, Science and Aesthetics – Articulations of Subjectivity and Objectivity in the Modern Middle East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia"is organized by theOrient-Institut Beirut (OIB)Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;