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Konferenzen 2025

Language, History and Collective Memory - Syriac Studies Conference (20-24 July 2025)

I:   3rd Arba’ilu International Conference on Syriac and Sureth Studies (3rd AICSSS)
II:  19th Century Turabdin in Syriac Sources — A Contribution to the History of Late Ottoman Empire (invited speakers only)
III: Sayfo 1915 — Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Genocide of Assyrians/Arameans

 

 

 

20 July 2025, Sunday

15:00

Registration and Coffee

16:20

Welcoming and Greetings

 

17:00

Gründler, Beatrice (FU Berlin): Kalila wa-Dimna and the Role of the Syriac Versions

17:25

Hartmann, Elke Shoghig(FU Berlin): The Ottoman Eastern Provinces in the 19th Century

17:50

Hölck, Lasse (FU Berlin): Natural Selection? Small Scale Indigenous Groups between Extermination, Genocide and Ethnocide. A Global View from Latin American History

18:15

Reception

 

 

21 July 2025, Monday

08:30

Registration

 

 

Section I: 3rd Arba’ilu International Conference on Syriac and Sureth Studies (3rd AICSSS)

 

Chair: Klimiuk, Maciej

09:30

Askar, Kawther Najeeb (SU Erbil): Deviation in Khamis Bar Qardahi’s Poem (ܢܲܦ̮ܫܵܐ ܣܲܘܝܵܐ ܘܲܪܓܼܝܼܓܼܵܐ): A Stylistic Study

الإنزياح في قصيدة (ܢܲܦ̮ܫܵܐ ܣܲܘܝܵܐ ܘܲܪܓܼܝܼܓܼܵܐ) لخاميس بر قرداحي :دراسة أسلوبية

10:00

Pritula, Anton (Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg): The Erbil Poetic Circle during the Syriac Renaissance Period: Manuscripts, Authors and General Features

10:30

Muraviev, Alexey (Moscow State University): Khizhniakova, Stanislava (HSE University): Eye Diseases in Syriac Medieval Medical Literature

11:00

Coffee Break

 

 

Chair: Furman, Yulia

11:30

Younansardaroud, Helen (FU Berlin): An Amulet Scroll with Incantations for an Assyrian Woman from Ardishay (Urmia)

12:00

Gross, Simcha (FU Berlin): Divorcing Demons in Jewish Aramaic and Syriac: Reflections on Transmission and Religious Contact in Late Antique Iraq

12:30

Abousamra, Gaby (Lebanese University Beirut): A Syriac Magical Bowl in Manichaean Script

13:00

Lunch (by Invitation Only)

 

 

Chair: Kuzin, Nikita

14:00

Furman, Yulia (FU Berlin): Šurṭē: Prisoners of War or Arabic Militia? Evidence from Syriac Sources

14:30

Čéplö, Slavomír (BBAW); DiRusso, Giovanni (Harvard University): Syriac Linguistics in the Age of AI

15:00

Grenert, Briana (Duke University); Čéplö, Slavomír (BBAW): Religion in Syriac: A Word Vector Analysis with Simtho Data

15:30

Coffee Break

 

 

Chair: Hakeem, Salam Neamah Hirmiz

16:00

Yohanna, Samer Soreshow (SU Erbil): Textual Study of ܠܟܬܼܵܒܼܵܐ ܕܲܙܡܝܼܖ̈ܬܼܵܐ by the Forgotten Author Father Elias Sher

دراسة نصّيّة لـ"ܟܬܼܵܒܼܵܐ ܕܲܙܡܝܼܖ̈ܬܼܵܐ" للكاتب المنسي الأب إلياس شير الراهب

16:30

Mustață, Radu (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): New Words in Syriac from South India: The Witness of Kadavil Chandy Kattanar’s Poetry

17:00

Eramia, Rony (FU Berlin): David Barzani — His Biography and Literary Works

17:30

Jasim, Anmar Abduljabbar (University of Al-Qadisiyya): Gravestone Inscriptions in the Church of the Monastery of Our Lady, Protector of the Crops, in Alqosh/Mosul

نقوش شواهد القبور في كنيسة دير السيدة العذراء حافظة الزروع في القوش/الموصل

 

 

22 July 2025, Tuesday

 

Chair: Kouriyhe, Yousef

09:30

Alhameedawi, Adnan Shibeeb Jasim (University of Baghdad); Baybuzi, Amel Adee Polus (University of Baghdad): The Semantic Overlap of Phonetically Similar Roots in Syriac, Hebrew and Arabic: A Comparative Study

التداخل الدلالي للجذور المتقاربة لفظاً في السريانية والعبرية والعربية: دراسة مقارنة

10:00

Muhammad, Himdad Abdulqahhar (SU Erbil); Hakeem, Salam Neamah Hirmiz (SU Erbil): A Stylistic Analysis of Symbolism in the Syriac-Kurdish Poem ‘Shuraya Daqyamta’

تحليل أسلوبي للرمزية في القصيدة السريانية الكردية "ܫܘܼܪܵܝܵܐ ܕܲܩܝܵܡܬܵܐ"

10:30

Al-Khailani, Laith Hasan Mohammed (University of Baghdad): Pseudo-Interrogative Sentences in Arabic and Syriac: A Comparative Study

الاسْتِفْهَام الغير حقيقي في الجملة العربية والسريانية: دراسة مقارنة

11:00

Coffee Break

 

 

Chair: Askar, Kawther Najeeb

11:30

Tawfeeq, Barween Badri (SU Erbil): Discovery of the Site of the Monastery of Sabrishoʿ in Adiabene: A Historical, Documentary and Archaeological Study

الكشف عن موقع دير سبريشوع في حدياب: دراسة تأريخية وثائقية – اثرية

12:00

Najm, Amer Abdullah (University of Mosul): The Book of Prelates by Thoma d-Marga as a Source for Urbanism and Monasteries: An Urbanistic Study and Investigation

كتاب الرؤساء لتوما المرجي مصدراً من مصادر البلدانيات والديارات: دراسة وتحقيق بلداني

13:00

Lunch (by Invitation Only)

 

 

Chair: Yohanna, Samer Soreshow

14:00

Voigt, Rainer (FU Berlin): On the Verbal Stem Morphology of Syriac

14:30

Khudher, Luma Aphraim (SU Erbil): The Debate Between Cain and Abel: A Comparative Study in Syriac and Mesopotamian Literature and Jewish Traditions

المناظرة بين قايين وهابيل: دراسة مقارنة في الأدب السرياني والرافديني والتقاليد اليهودية

15:00

Cherkashina, Anna (Tel Aviv University): New Textual Evidence for the ‘Syriac Treatise of Shem’

15:30

Coffee Break

 

 

Chair: Park, Grace

16:00

Birol, Simon (Universität Göttingen): Transmission and Reception of the Syriac Ahiqar Story

16:30

Rucki, Mirosław (Casimir Pulaski Radom University): References to Syriac in Talmud

17:00

Edmonds, Alexander (Universität Münster): The Last of Gilgāmeš. A Mesopotamian King in Theodore Bār Kōnay’s Kṯāḇā d-ˀeskōlyōn

17:30

Aho, Shemunkasho (University of Salzburg): 150th Anniversary of the Visit of Patriarch Peter IV to Queen Victoria

 

 

23 July 2025, Wednesday

 

Chair: Khudher, Luma Aphraim

09:30

Friestad, Kjetil (University of Agder): Pilgrimage Practices of the Christians of Beth Qatraye in the 6th–8th Centuries

10:00

Hager, Anna (University of Vienna): Defining the Terms ‘Assyrian’ and ‘Suryān’ in the Context of Modern Lebanon

10:30

BarAbraham, Abdulmesih (Munich): Regulation and Improvement of the Nestorian Districts in the Hakkari Region during the Late Ottoman Empire

11:00

Coffee Break

 

 

Section II: 19th Century Turabdin in Syriac Sources

 

Chair: van Ginkel, Jan

11:30

Turgut, Ramazan (Mardin Artuklu University): The Church of the East in Qudshanis: Ottoman Policies, Internal Rivalries, and Western Intervention (19th–20th Century)

12:00

Talay, Shabo (FU Berlin): Turabdin in the 19th Century — an Overview

12:30

Üzel, A.-S. Barbara (FU Berlin):Notable Figures of 19th Century Tur Abdin

13:00

Lunch (by Invitation Only)

 

 

Chair: Üzel, A.-S. Barbara

14:00

Atas, Nicolas (KU Leuven, BEL): Ṭuroyo Manuscripts from the Sachau Collection in Berlin as a Source for the History of the Turabdin Region in the 19th Century

14:30

Birol, Simon (Universität Göttingen): Echoes of Turmoil: Syriac Voices on Encroachments in 19th-Century Tur Abdin

15:00

Kouriyhe, Yousef (FU Berlin):Western Missionaries in 19th Century Turabdin and the Reaction of the Syriac Orthodox

15:30

Coffee Break

 

 

Chair: Yildiz, Efrem

16:00

Bcheiry, Iskandar (Chicago SOK): Sacred Places in Ṭūrʿabdīn in a Collection of Syriac Orthodox Archives from the Late Ottoman Period

16:30

van Ginkel, Jan (FU Berlin): On the Informal Connections between Syriac Orthodox Communities in Eastern Turkey and the Syriac Communities in India at the End of the 19th and Early 20th Century

17:00

Barthoma, Soner (Uppsala Universitet, SWE): Early Results from a Survey Study on Community Resilience among Assyrians in Turkey

17:30

Zeitoune, Abboud (Wiesbaden): Role of Naum Faiq in Documenting the Sayfo Period

 

 

24 July 2025, Thursday

 

 

Section III: Sayfo 1915

 

Chair: Barthoma, Soner

09:00

Al-Jeloo, Nicholas: The Story of the Massacre of Assyrians in the District of Cizre, 1915

09:30

Yildiz, Efrem (University of Salamanca): The Written and Oral Sources from the Botan Region on the Assyrian Genocide

10:00

Hofmann, Tessa (FU Berlin): Sayfo 1915 — Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Genocide of Assyrians/Arameans

10:30

Ninos, Sanherib (Frankfurt University): The Assyrian/Aramean Genocide of World War I: Memory, Identity and Recognition of the ‘Sayfo’ in the European Diaspora

11:00

Coffee Break

 

 

Chair: Birol, Simon

11:30

Binder, Matthias (Marburg University): Theology of the Sayfo? A Survey of Discourses within the Syriac Orthodox Church

12:00

Mor Polycarpus A. Aydin (Netherlands SOK): Faith, Liturgy, and Collective Memory: The Syriac Orthodox Church’s Response to Sayfo

12:30

Beth Turo, Yawsef (Enschede): New Eyewitness Accounts of the Sayfo Published in Turkiye

13:00

Lunch (by Invitation Only)

 

 

Chair: Mor Polycarpus A. Aydin

14:00

Abdalla, Michael (Poznań University): Nisibis and its Population at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries

14:30

Talay, Shabo (FU Berlin): Sayfo 1915: The Cultural and Linguistic Dimensions of Genocide

15:00

Mate, Parween Shamoon (Syriac Writers Union-Erbil): We Will not Forget Sayfo لن ننسى سيفو

15:30

Final Discussion

16:00

Coffee Break and Fingerfood

Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin

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Call for Papers

 

Semitic Dialectology Conference Cutting-Edge Research in Semitic Dialectology: Bridging Theory and Practice

Conference Program 

11 June 2025 (Wednesday)

Room: Holzlaube, 2.2059 (Fabeckstr. 23/25)

11:00–11:30

Registration and coffee break / Greetings

 

Grammatical and Lexical Peculiarities in Arabic Dialects

Chair: Werner Arnold

11:30–12:00

Maria Persson

Functions of bədd-/bidd-/badd- in Syrian Arabic

12:00–12:30

Gabriel M. Rosenbaum

Lexical Peculiarities in the Spoken Language of Christians in Egypt: What They Say and What They Don’t

12:30–13:00

Taku Kumakiri

Semantic Change of the Verb wallaː of Tunis Arabic

13:00–14:00

Lunch

 

Linguistic Variation and Contact in Arabic Varieties

Chair: Maria Persson

14:00–14:30

Volkan Bozkurt

Contact-Induced Linguistic Change in Khorasan and Khamse Arabic

14:30–15:00

Shomoukh Sami Alyami and Munira Ali Al-Azraqi

The Variation in the Usage of the 2nd Masculine Singular Suffix in Najrani Arabic

15:00–15:30

Julie Lowry and Andrea Boom

Notes on Salient Linguistic Variation in Harūb, Jazan, Saudi Arabia

15:30–16:00

Coffee break

 

Dialectology and Oral Traditions in Modern South Arabian Languages

Chair: Letizia Cerqueglini

16:00–16:30

Andrea Boom and Fatimah al-Mahri

Dialectology of Mehri, Contrasting Beit Thuwar and Zaabanot Linguistic Variations

16:30–17:00

Giuliano Castagna

Towards a Dialect Atlas of the Jibbali/Śḥerɛt Language

17:00–17:30

Saeed Al-Qumairi and Andrea Boom

Dialectal Comparison between Haswayn and Hawf Dialects of Mehri: An Analysis of Four Children’s Stories

17:30–18:00

Amir Azad Adli al-Kathiri and Anton Kungl

Šiʿr ar-Riǧāl (hēb iź-ʁāg): An Extinct Poetic Genre in Jibbali/Shahri. An Introduction to the Genre, Its Linguistic Peculiarities and Its Arabic and Mehri Influence

18:00

Dinner

 12 June 2025 (Thursday)

Room: Seminarzentrum, L116 (Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26)

 

Phonetic and Prosodic Structures in Semitic Languages and Dialects

Chair: Wiktor Gębski

9:30–10:00

Hammal al-Balushi

Pharyngealisation or Glottalisation: The Case of Ḥarsūsi Emphatic Stops

10:00–10:30

Maria Lipnicka

Juncture and Utterance in Arabic Dialects: Haim Blanc’s Prosodic Feature Theory Compared with Data from Gozo, Malta

10:30–11:00

Mahmut Ağbaht

New Findings on Pausal Phenomena: A Major Revision of Processes in Pausal Forms

11:00–11:30

Coffee break

 

Documenting Jewish Arabic Dialects

Chair: Maciej Klimiuk

11:30–12:00

Wiktor Gębski

Gender-Based Linguistic Variation in the Jewish Arabic Dialect of Ghardaïa (Saharan Algeria)

12:00–12:30

Ori Shachmon

Aden Arabic: A Mosaic of Archaisms and Linguistic Innovations

12:30–13:00

Assaf Bar Moshe

The Jewish Arabic Dialect of Mosul: Insights from New and Existing Data

13:00–14:00

Lunch

 

Studies in NENA and Turoyo Dialects

Chair: Mila Neishtadt

14:00–14:30

Geoffrey Khan

Progressive Constructions in NENA Dialects

14:30–15:00

Ablahad Lahdo

Adult Language Learners, the Case of Turoyo

15:00–15:30

Shabo Talay

Characteristics of the Turoyo Dialect of Bissorino

15:30–16:00

Coffee break

 

Bridging Dialectology and Semantics in the Semitic Languages

Chair: Assaf Bar Moshe

16:00–16:30

Mila Neishtadt

Integrating Dialectal Data: Reconstructing the Semantics of Semitic kmr

16:30–17:00

Anat Sageev and Letizia Cerqueglini

Language, Cognition, and Communal Dialects: Animal Taxonomy in Secular and Ḥaredi Israeli Hebrew

17:00–17:30

Yair Grossman and Letizia Cerqueglini

Late-Bronze Northwest Semitic Dialectology between Languages and Scribal Practices: A Corpus-Based Study of Formulaic Phraseology

17:30–18:00

Aharon Geva-Kleinberger

The Christian Transjordanian Arabic Dialect of as-Salṭ at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

18:00

Dinner (Profesorium/Terrace at the Institute of Semitic Studies)

13 June 2025 (Friday)

Room: Holzlaube, 2.2059 (Fabeckstr. 23/25)

 

Morphosyntactic and Phonological Features in Neo-Aramaic Dialects

Chair: Julia Furman

9:30–10:00

Nikita Kuzin

Quadriradical Verbs in Neo-Aramaic Revisited

10:00–10:30

Werner Arnold

Aki’o Nakanos Western Neo-Aramaic Text from Ǧubbʿadīn about Firewood

10:30–11:00

Lidia Napiórkowska

The Markedness of the Fronted Rounded Vowels in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic

11:00–11:30

Coffee break

 

Spoken Semitic Languages in Context

Chair: Nikita Kuzin

11:30–12:00

Letizia Cerqueglini

Ancient Futures, Future Passives: Upper Galilean and Muṯallaṯ Arabic Verbal Pragmatics and Their Elicitation

12:00–12:30

Rainer Voigt

Ethiosemitic Dialectology

12:30–13:00

Fabio Gasparini

Was I that Bad? Reflections upon Earlier Fieldwork

13:00–14:00

Discussion and closing of the conference / Lunch

 

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