The 'kitchen talks' are a podcast about the research done at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin: Historical as well as social- and cultural-anthropological fieldwork in the Middle East, Eurasia, South- and Southeast Asia. Over a cup of coffee or tea, we talk about research questions, regions, and methodologies. We also take a look behind the scenes of academic practice – at personal reflections, challenges, failures, and unexpected outcomes.
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The 'kitchen talks' are a podcast about the research done at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin: Historical as well as social- and cultural-anthropological fieldwork in the Middle East, Eurasia, South- and Southeast Asia. Over a cup of coffee or tea, we talk about research questions, regions, and methodologies. We also take a look behind the scenes of academic practice – at personal reflections, challenges, failures, and unexpected outcomes.
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April 15, 2026
Künstlerische und historische Forschung im Dialog
In dieser Folge spricht die Programmleiterin des Brandenburg Museums für Zukunft, Gegenwart und Geschichte, Dr. Katalin Krasznahorkai mit der Künstlerin Sonya Schönberger und der Südasienwissenschaftlerin Dr. Heike Liebau, die neben einer Forschungsgruppe am ZMO das Projekt „Das moderne Indien in deutschen Archiven, 1706–1989“ leitet. Sie sprechen über die gemeinsam entwickelte Gangaram Gurung Videoinstallation, dem Ergebnis einer mehrjährigen Spurensuche über die Lebensgeschichte eines nepalesischen Kolonialsoldaten, der im Ersten Weltkrieg im sogenannten „Halbmondlager Wünsdorf“ interniert war. Was passiert, wenn Archive und Ateliers zusammenkommen, wenn Biografien und historische Brüche aus zwei sehr unterschiedlichen Perspektiven gelesen werden?
December 11, 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in African and Islamic Studies
Dr. Frédérick Madore, postdoctoral research fellow at ZMO Berlin, works at the intersection of African Studies, Islamic Studies, and the digital humanities. Building on fieldwork and archival research conducted since 2013, he is developing the Islam West Africa Collection—an open-access digital archive of more than 14,500 documents on Islamic print culture and Muslim life in West Africa. In this episode, we explore how artificial intelligence is transforming research practices: How can AI support historical and anthropological research—and where are its limits? And how might AI change the future of the humanities—opening up new possibilities while also raising pressing questions about language equity, digitisation gaps, and academic responsibility?
August 29, 2025
Saudi-Arabien im Wandel: Forschung, Tourismus und Giga-Projekte
Die Nahosthistorikerin Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag, Direktorin am Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient und Professorin für Islamwissenschaft an der Freien Universität Berlin forscht und publiziert seit Anfang der 2000er Jahre in und zu Saudi-Arabien. In dieser Folge spricht sie darüber, wie sie dazu gekommen ist, zu Saudi-Arabien zu forschen und über die Veränderungen, die sie dort selbst erlebt hat. Außerdem geht es um die wachsende Tourismusbranche und die Entwicklung von sogenannten Giga-Projekten, wie der Transformation der historischen Oasenstadt Al-Ula zu einer touristischen Hochburg. Welche Akteure treiben solche Projekte voran und wie steht die lokale Bevölkerung dazu? Inwieweit geben Giga-Projekte wie dieses Einblicke in die Logik von Vision 2030 insgesamt?
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