Giedre Šabasevičiute, Ph.D.

e-mail: saba@orient.cas.cz
tel.: 266 052 582

Former Researchers

AREAS OF INTEREST

EDUCATION

2015 Ph.D. in Sociology, EHESS (Paris) – Thesis: “Du littéraire au religieux en passant par le politique. Une trajectoire d’engagement intellectuel en contexte révolutionnaire. Le cas de Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966)”
2008 MA Sociology (EHESS, Paris)
2007 BA Arabic Language and Literature (Sorbonne IV, Paris)

ACADEMIC CAREER

2017 November-December – visiting fellow in the Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies.
Since 2015 – research fellow, Oriental Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
2015 – lecturer in sociology of the Middle East in Vilnius University and Vytautas Magnus University
2011-2013 – PhD fellow, CEDEJ (Cairo)

ACADEMIC EVENTS ORGANIZED (selected)

October 2019 - Beyond Text. Anthropological Approaches to Literature. Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (with Samuli Schielke).
May 2018 - A Talk and a Roundtable around Yoav Di-Capua’s book “No Exit. Existentialism, Sartre and Decolonization in the Middle East and Beyond”, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
July 2018 - Panel for WOCMES 2018, “Impervious to Humanities and Arts? Islamism and Cultural Production in Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Egypt“
September 2017 – Panel for the 5th International Congress ENIUGH "Translating the People's Will. Struggles around the Concept of Revolution", Budapest (co-organized)
May 2016 – International Conference "Talking about Arabs. Echoes from Different Europes, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (co-organized)

RECENT CONFERENCE TALKS

November 2019. "The High Art Unites Us. Dealing with Political Divisions in Cairo's Literary Clubs". MESA, New Orleans.
October 2018. “The People vs. Sayyid Qutb: The Media Campaigns in 1954, 1965 and 2013“.The 25th Annual Congress of Davo, Frankfurt.
July 2018. “A Reflection of the Soul: the Method for Islamic Literature in Sayyid’s and Muhammad Qutb’s Writings, WOCMES 2018, Sevilla, Spain.