Heritage Beyond the National Frame
Advertisement
EUME Berliner Seminar & BEYONDREST Conversation Series
»Heritage Beyond the National Frame«
https://tinyurl.com/ywwjafry
Speaker: Pascale Ghazaleh (AUC / EUME Fellow 2017-19)
Chair: Georges Khalil (EUME / Forum Transregionale Studien)
This event will take place at the Forum Transregionale Studien (Wallotstraße 14, 14193 Berlin).
Please register in advance via [email protected]
_____________________________________________
In the past decade, discourse around heritage in Egypt has shifted its focus from comparative advantage within a nation-state framework to commodity value within a global marketplace. Debates about the meaning of heritage and the right to define it now also accommodate a truth acknowledged by various actors: heritage may serve as backdrop or as product in a widening quest for revenue. The nation-state, in this context, becomes a brand justifying the violence of dispossession and displacement; appreciating heritage comes to mean marketing it to the highest bidder. Taking three case studies – Ras al-Hikma, the waqf of Mustafa Abd al-Mannan, and Art d’Égypte – I propose to show how considerations related to national security and preservation of heritage have been elided to allow for the sale of state property, blurring boundaries between public funds and private profit.
• Pascale Ghazaleh is Associate Professor of history at the American University in Cairo. She teaches courses on family history, cultural heritage, and urban history, among others. Her research interests include property relations and state formation in the Ottoman Empire. She was a EUME Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien in 2017/18, and returned in 2019 as a EUME-FU Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Currently she is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Forum Transregionale Studien.
• Georges Khalil works for the Forum Transregionale Studien since 2009, has been the academic coordinator of Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME) since 2006, and of the Working Group Modernity and Islam at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin from 1998 - 2006. Khalil studied History, Political Science, Islamic, and European Studies in Hamburg and Cairo.
The event is part of the conversation series Restitution and its Vantage Points: Beyond the Preservation Paradigm of the BEYONDREST Research Group. “Beyond Restitution: Heritage, (Dis)Possession and the Politics of Knowledge” (BEYONDREST) is an ERC-funded, five-year research project at the Forum Transregionale Studien (Project No. 101045661). More information on the project and the conversation series can be found here.
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the speaker(s) and author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union, nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
»Heritage Beyond the National Frame«
https://tinyurl.com/ywwjafry
Speaker: Pascale Ghazaleh (AUC / EUME Fellow 2017-19)
Chair: Georges Khalil (EUME / Forum Transregionale Studien)
This event will take place at the Forum Transregionale Studien (Wallotstraße 14, 14193 Berlin).
Please register in advance via [email protected]
_____________________________________________
In the past decade, discourse around heritage in Egypt has shifted its focus from comparative advantage within a nation-state framework to commodity value within a global marketplace. Debates about the meaning of heritage and the right to define it now also accommodate a truth acknowledged by various actors: heritage may serve as backdrop or as product in a widening quest for revenue. The nation-state, in this context, becomes a brand justifying the violence of dispossession and displacement; appreciating heritage comes to mean marketing it to the highest bidder. Taking three case studies – Ras al-Hikma, the waqf of Mustafa Abd al-Mannan, and Art d’Égypte – I propose to show how considerations related to national security and preservation of heritage have been elided to allow for the sale of state property, blurring boundaries between public funds and private profit.
• Pascale Ghazaleh is Associate Professor of history at the American University in Cairo. She teaches courses on family history, cultural heritage, and urban history, among others. Her research interests include property relations and state formation in the Ottoman Empire. She was a EUME Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien in 2017/18, and returned in 2019 as a EUME-FU Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Currently she is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Forum Transregionale Studien.
• Georges Khalil works for the Forum Transregionale Studien since 2009, has been the academic coordinator of Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME) since 2006, and of the Working Group Modernity and Islam at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin from 1998 - 2006. Khalil studied History, Political Science, Islamic, and European Studies in Hamburg and Cairo.
The event is part of the conversation series Restitution and its Vantage Points: Beyond the Preservation Paradigm of the BEYONDREST Research Group. “Beyond Restitution: Heritage, (Dis)Possession and the Politics of Knowledge” (BEYONDREST) is an ERC-funded, five-year research project at the Forum Transregionale Studien (Project No. 101045661). More information on the project and the conversation series can be found here.
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the speaker(s) and author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union, nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
Advertisement
Where is it happening?
c/o Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin, Germany, Wallotstraße 14, 14193 Berlin, Deutschland, Berlin, Germany
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.
Host or PublisherEUME
