kalimat | WORKSHOP | Writing Intellectual and/or Literary History? A Workshop on Methods for Islamicate Textual Traditions

Organized by Mahmoud Al-Zayed and Johannes Stephan

Ort: Freie Universität Berlin FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem, "Holzlaube", room 0.1063

kalimat | LAUNCH of the lexicon

Ort: Engler Villa, Altensteinstraße 2-4, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem

kalimat | TALK | Takhyīl between Literature and Psychology in Ibn Sina’s and Ibn Rushd’s Poetics, by Feriel Bouhafa and Johannes Stephan

Ort: INALCO Maison de la recherche, 2 Rue de Lille, Paris.

kalimat | WORKSHOP | ArabicStudies ×NLP: Sprache, Macht und Methode

Part of the series  Panorama Text: Maschinelle Erfassung, Verarbeitung und Kontextualisierung von geschriebener Sprache für die Geisteswissenschaften , FUB-IT. The workshop may be attended independently of other events in the series.

Ort: Fabeckstr. 32 Raum 106

❌Rescheduled! kalimat | TALK | Framing Wisdom. Kalila and Dimna and the Cognitive Dimension of adab, by Johannes Stephan

Rescheduled to fall 2026. 

Ort: American University of Sharjah, Sharjah

kalimat | PRESENTATION | Fifth OES Community Meeting

Poster presentation at the fifth OES Community Meeting at Freie Universität Berlin with the participation of Joudy Sido Bozan, Johannes Stephan, Jakob Supper and Alice Woolston.  Read further about The Open Encyclopedia System  here.   

kalimat | TALK | Comparing within adab and Poetics: A Case Study of Ibn Wahb al-Kātib's Nomenclature, by Johannes Stephan

Ort: Wolfson College, Oxford

kalimat | WORKSHOP | Rhetorical and Poetical Terms in the Arabic Tradition. Configuration and Transformation.

Convened by Beatrice Gruendler and Johannes Stephan

Ort: Freie Universität Berlin FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Institut für Arabistik Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem, "Holzlaube", room 1.1062, online

kalimat | CALL FOR PAPERS | Demarcating Literary Genres in Premodern Arabic Literature. Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Question of Fictionality (CANCELED!)

Workshop at the Orient-Institut Beirut, 3–5 June, 2026

kalimat | PRESENTATION | Poster Presentation at the Forth OES Community Meeting

With the participation of Oualid El Khattabi, Élise Rehbein, and Johannes Stephan.

Ort: Freie Universität Berlin | Gebäude des EXC "Temporal Communities", Otto-von-Simson-Str. 15, 14195 Berlin

kalimat | PRESENTATION | Qiyās as a Cognitive Basis for Writing Literature: The Case of Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ and Kalīla and Dimna, by J. Stephan

MESA 2025 Annual Meeting

Ort: Online presentation

kalimat | WRITING WORKSHOP | Discussing Contributions to kalimat

Ort: Freie Universität Berlin | Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Raum 0.1063

kalimat | TALK | Ein Online-Lexikon zu Begriffen aus der vormodernen arabischen Literatur — Johannes Stephan

A project presentation in the framework of the DFG funded Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 1391)  Andere Ästhetik  at the University of Tübingen, hosted by the annotation project B3 „Mittelhochdeutsche Semantiken des Ästhetischen. Ein digitales lexikologisches Informationssystem“ under the lead of Prof. Dr. Manuel Braun and Prof. Dr. Annette Gerok-Reiter.

Ort: Universität Tübingen (online presentation).

kalimat | READING & CONVERSATION | Jokha Alharthi: “Herrinnen des Mondes”

On 22 October, a conversation and reading of Jokha Alharthi’s novel  Herrinnen des Mondes  takes place at Literaturhaus Berlin . Her Booker Prize–winning novel is presented in conversation with the translators Sandra Hetzl and Claudia Ott. Jokha Alharthi speaks in Arabic and German about the genesis of her work, while the German translation is read by Alina Vimbai Strähler. As part of her time in Berlin, on 23 October Jokha Alharthi also meets with the kalimat team to discuss her contribution and her role as a board member.

Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, Research Colloquium Arabic Studies, Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem, room -1.1062 (souterrain).

kalimat | PRESENTATION | Poster presentation at International Open Access Week

Berlin – Stadt des offenen Wissens für Wissenschaft, Verwaltung, Zivilgesellschaft, Kultur

Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, Seminarzentrum Silberlaube, Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem

kalimat | PANEL | Reading Concepts, Theorizing Arabic Literature

Two-day panel at the DOT 2025 in Erlangen (September 8-12, 2025), convened by Colinda Lindermann, Oualid El Khattabi, and Johannes Stephan

kalimat | TALK | Construing Difference in Eighteenth Century Travel Narratives from Aleppo. On Texts Composed and Collected by Ḥannā Diyāb and Ḥannā al-Ṭabīb, by Johannes Stephan

Once, We Were Here. Traces of Mobility across the Ottoman Empire. Ludwig Maximilian Universität München

Ort: Senatssaal (E110), LMU Hauptgebäude, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 München

kalimat | ROUNDTABLE | Arabic Comparative Literature

Ort: Raum 0.1063, Fabeckstraße 23/25, Berlin-Dahlem

kalimat | CONFERENCE | South-South Comparativism: Histories, Methods, Repertoires

Organized by Mahmoud Al-Zayed, Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, Estefanía Bournot, Johannes Stephan. A joint event by Dahlem Junior Host Program, kalimat and the South-South research project.

Ort: Freie Universität Berlin Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem

kalimat | TALK | Presentation of the kalimat project, by Oualid El Khattabi

Hybrid participation, presentation in English; hosted by: Séminaire "Islamologie et humanités numériques", Université de Strasbourg

Ort: Hybrid

kalimat | PRESENTATION | Third OES Community Meeting

Project presentation at the third OES Community Meeting at Freie Universität Berlin with the participation of Oualid El Khattabi and Johannes Stephan. 

kalimat | PRESENTATION | kalimat – Key Words for the Study of the Arabic Literary and Manuscript Tradition

kalimat – First Steps Toward an Online Resource for Arabic Literary Terms . A new project of Open Encyclopedic System (OES) of Freie Universität Berlin

Ort: Raum 1.1062, Holzlaube, Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14105 Berlin-Dahlem WebEx: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php MTID=me944b648d8f3613dc2ffbfe6177d4dbd

kalimat | PANEL | Arabic Literary Terms – Changing Semantics between the Classical Period and Modernity, convened by Johannes Stephan

Panel at MESA 2024 Annual Meeting

Ort: MESA - Middle East Studies Organisation. Hybrid participation upon registration. Friday, November 15, at 17:30h CET (i.e. 11:30h local US time).

kalimat | PRESENTATION | Digital Humanities at Arabic Studies: Two new projects funded by BUA and DFG

Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gründler cordially invites to join her team for the presentation of the latest Digital Humanities projects at Arabic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.

Ort: Raum 1.1062 (Holzlaube), Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem oder Remote.