Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe (EUME) is a multi-disciplinary research program at the Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien. EUME seeks to rethink key concepts and premises that link and divide Europe and the Middle East. Within the framework of five research fields in the disciplines of Literature, Political Philosophy, Urban History, Philology-cum-Late Antiquity, and I
slamic Studies, the program attempts to recollect the legacies of Europe in the Middle East and of the Middle East in Europe in an inclusive way that aims to do justice to their entanglements. The program creates a platform that rests upon the idea of “learning communities” (Wolf Lepenies) and the principle of “research with, rather than research on”. It allows for the invitation of 10 post-doctoral researchers every year, the organization of annual summer academies, workshops, regular seminars and lectures that strengthen and modify existing research groups and contexts in Germany, beyond academic circles. The program draws on the international expertise of scholars in and outside of Germany and is embedded in university and extra-university research institutions in Berlin. EUME was initiated in 2006 by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and builds upon the previous work of the Working Group Modernity and Islam (1996-2006). Please find a short program description here:
http://www.eume-berlin.de/fileadmin/eume/pdf/profil/w-eume-short2.pdf
The guiding ideas of the program are explained in the following long description:
http://www.eume-berlin.de/fileadmin/pdf/EUME/texte_grundlagen/w-eume-long.pdf
