kalimat | WRITING WORKSHOP

Continuing the momentum built during its well attended panel in the 2025 DOT in Erlangen, the kalimat project invites Berlin based colleagues to a small writing workshop to discuss their contributions.This workshop is a working session for in-progress and prospective contributions to kalimat . Participants are invited to give a 5–10-minute presentation in which they (1) map out the semantics/contexts/function of a term of interest AND/OR (2) showcase or discuss one of the main sources they are working on, ideally a passage of central relevance to their keyword.

Ort: Freie Universität Berlin | Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Room 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 | 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 J. Stephan

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

Ort: Venue: Senatssaal (E110) Adress: LMU main building, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich

kalimat | ROUNDTABLE | Arabic Comparative Literature

Ort: Room 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 (hybrid), by Oualid El Khattabi

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

Ort: Hybrid participation

Third OES Community Meeting on 20.-21. March 2025

Project presentation at theThird OES Community Meeting at Freie Universität Berlin, March 20-21, 2025, with the participation of Oualid El Khattabi, Johannes Stephan.

kalimat | PROJECT 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: Duration: 2.5 hrs, brief interval. Room --1.1062, Holzlaube, Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14105 Berlin-Dahlem WebEx: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php MTID=me944b648d8f3613dc2ffbfe6177d4dbd

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

Panel at MESA 2024 Annual Meeting (hybrid participation)

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 | DIGITAL HUMANITIES at Arabic Studies: Two new DH 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: Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem. Remote participation via WebEx, or in person, room 1.1062 (Holzlaube 1st floor).