Workshop: On Theories and Methods in Arabic and Cultural Studies
How do theoretical concepts travel between languages, disciplines, and academic contexts? What happens when methods developed within one scholarly tradition are applied to materials and questions emerging from another? The project Entering Critical Conversation invites MA students and PhD candidates from universities across Egypt to participate in a two-day research workshop on theory and method in literary and cultural studies.
The workshop takes the Arabic translation of the textbook Arabistik: Eine literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Einführung (Albers, Braune, Junge, Lang, and Pannewick, 2021) as its point of departure. Translated by Dr. Anis Ben Amor and published by the Tunisian publishing house Dar Zeineb in 2026, the volume introduces central debates in contemporary German-language Arabic Studies. Its translation provides an opportunity to discuss how scholarly concepts circulate between German- and Arabic-speaking academic contexts—and how they may need to be translated, adapted, or critically revised.
Please find the call for applications here.
Date: 04 December - 05 December 2026
Venue:
American University Cairo, Old Campus
113 Kasr El Aini Street
Cairo, Egypt
Calendar: ICS/ICAl
Members: Christian Junge Anis Ben Amor Noran Amin Adam Talib