“Healing” hospital graduation ceremony for students of the faculties of medicine at the universities in the Gaza Strip.
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The Palestinian universities and their special relationship with Germany: a lecture series
The land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean is a place that engenders deep yearning throughout the world. For Christians, it is the land where Christ was born, suffered and was resurrected. For Jews, it is the Promised Land, the land of Israel. For Muslims, it is the destination of Mohammed’s night journey and the venue of his ascension. For all three, it is the land of the resurrection at the end of days. In the secular understanding, it is in particular also the land of social justice.
Long an object of the yearnings of ever wider groups, this land is today possessed of global omnipresence, yet it is also strangely alien and unknown. The concepts referred to above remain accordingly unclear, undefined even. For all who are there or come from there, this global yearning for their land is both a promising opportunity and a heavy burden of debt.
Lectures
- Professor Andreas Kaplony (LMU Munich, Arabic and Islamic Studies): “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.”: 2,500 years of yearning for Palestine.
- Professor Tamar Novick (Technical University of Munich, History of Technology): “Palestine is a natural garden and must be restored to Its original condition”: Colonial visions and settler technologies in the 20th century.
- Dr. Stephan Milich (University of Cologne, Islamic Studies): Inhabit, with me, my body: Concepts of home in contemporary Palestinian poetry.
Organized by: Professor Andreas Kaplony (LMU Munich, Arabic and Islamic Studies)
For more information, please visit the website of the Institute for Near and Middle Eastern Studies.