Salon Sophie Charlotte

Raum 113/114

... divers zu denken

 

1. OG

in English and German

Host: Verena Lepper, Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA)


Interactive Installation: Reflections of the Enlightened Individual

The audio-visual, interactive whole-room installation by AGYA member Rami Chahin (Musicology, Oldenburg) responds to the actions of its visitors. Experience yourself and your movements as fragmented and enlightened wall projections. Engage with the artwork and interact with the reflections of yourself.

 

AGYA Science Café – Infusions of Enlightenment

Coffee Tasting & Stand-up Science Talk

Coffee was the engine that helped drive the Enlightenment. As centres of Enlightenment thinking, coffee houses flourished over the whole of Europe. AGYA invites you to taste and experience Arab and German coffee pleasures in an exclusive combination with Stand-up Talks by AGYA members and alumni/ae with their enlightening takes on research. Come along, take a sip of cultural diversity and explore the hospitality of coffee cultures at the AGYA Science Café. Each Stand-up Science Talk is introduced with a presentation and tasting of a distinct coffee tradition.

19:00

Portraying the Botanical – Writing Plant Biographies

AGYA Co-President Konstantin M. Klein (History, Amsterdam) festively opens the AGYA Science Café and exchanges with Lebanese artist Abed Al Kadiri (Paris) on the creation of a modern herbarium of the Mediterranean.

20:00

Challenging the Grand Narrative – Feminist and Decolonial Perspectives on Enlightenment

AGYA members Luise Fischer (Human Geography, Leipzig) in debate with AGYA member Amro Ali (Political Philosophy, Cairo).

21:00

Faith Travels by Streetcar – Tolerance and Secularism

in German

AGYA member Stefan Maneval (Islamic Studies, Berlin) and AGYA alumnus Sarhan Dhouib (Philosophy, Hildesheim) in discussion with Schirin Amir-Moazami, (Islam in Europe, FU Berlin).

22:00

Blue-Green Awareness Raising

AGYA member Sonja Buxbaum-Conradi (Economic Geography, Hamburg) in exchange with AGYA alumnus Jan Friesen (Environmental Studies, Leipzig).

23:00

The Decolonial Construction Worker

AGYA member Amro Ali (Political Philosophy, Cairo).