Dr. Sevinç Yasargil Postdoc Fachbereich Mittlerer Osten und muslimische Gesellschaften E-Mail sevinc.yasargil@faculty.unibe.ch Postal Address University of Bern Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies SACS Lerchenweg 36 3012 Bern
Academic Career May 2024 – January 2025: Lecturer at MOMuG, University of Bern November 2022 – April 2024: Postdoctoral Research Associate in the SNSF-funded project : «Criticism of Religion in the Middle East and its transformation in the face of new spaces of experience and expectation horizons (1930s to 1990s» supervised by Prof. Dr. Serena Tolino und Prof. Dr. Anke von Kügelgen, University of Bern September 2022: PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Bern Dissertation: «Freedom and Self-Determination: ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān Badawī’s Project of an Arab Existential Philosophy in Context», supervised by Prof. Dr. Anke von Kügelgen (University of Bern) and Prof. Dr. Lutz Wingert (ETH Zürich) September 2017 – October 2022: Doctoral Research Associate in the SNSF-funded project «Philosophical Critique of Religion in the Middle East – Histories of Western-Eastern Entanglements», supervised by Prof. Dr. Anke von Kügelgen, University of Bern September 2013 – August 2017: Teaching and Research Assistant to Prof. Dr. Maurus Reinkowski, University of Basel Studies in Islamic and Religious Studies at the University of Basel. MA thesis (May 2013): The Hermeneutics of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī and its Relation to the Work of Ibn Sīnā: A History of Ideas Perspective on the Logical Treatise Asās al-iqtibās, supervised by Prof. Dr. Renate Würsch and Prof. Dr. Maurus Reinkowski
Research interests Modern and contemporary Arabic philosophy Existentialism 20th-century intellectual history of the MENA region Conceptual history of socio-philosophical ideas Application of digital methods in qualitative analysis
Completed projects Postdoctoral project: Critique of Religion in the Spirit of “Social Commitment” (iltizām), part of the SNSF project «Criticism of Religion in the Middle East and its transformation in the face of new spaces of experience and expectation horizons (1930s to 1990s» supervised by Prof. Dr. Serena Tolino und Prof. Dr. Anke von Kügelgen, University of Bern Project link Doctoral project: Freedom and Self-Determination: ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān Badawī’s Project of an Arab Existential Philosophy in Context, part of the SNSF project « Philosophical Critique of Religion in the Middle East – Histories of Western-Eastern Entanglements » supervised by Prof. Dr. Anke von Kügelgen, University of Bern Project link
