Semitistisches Forschungskolloquium

Donnerstag 16.00 – 18.00, Raum 2.2058 und hybrid auf Webex.

• 16.04.2026 • Shabo Talay (Berlin), Hurməz of Šaqlawa: A NENA Poem (Durəkṯa) on the Hamidian Massacres 1895
• 23.04.2026 • Stephanie Schewe (Berlin), Rezitation Heiliger Texte: Koranrezitation – wie aus Worten Klang wird
• 30.04.2026 • Grace Park (Berlin): The Meaning of wayyālînû in Ps 59:16
• 5.05.2026 • Stephan Prochàzka (Wien): The Dialect of the Arabic Speaking Minority in the Harran-Urfa Region of Southeastern Turkey: Archaisms, Innovations and Language Contact on the Periphery of the Arabic-speaking World (Dienstag 16.00 – 18.00, Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics, Hörsaal L115, Seminarzentrum, Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26)
• 28.05.2026 • Wiktor Gębski (Berlin/Cambridge): Pausal Phenomena in the Modern Pronunciation Traditions of Biblical Hebrew
• 4.06.2026 • Paul Noorlander (Cambridge): Lexical Borrowing across Northeastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects: An Areal and Quantitative Approach
• 10.06.2026 • Abood Cohen (Enkel des Hohenpriesters der Samaritaner in Nablus/Sichem): The Samaritan Community from Antiquity to the Present (Mittwoch 18.00 – 20.00, gemeinsame Veranstaltung mit dem Institut für Judaistik FU Berlin)
• 11.06.2026 • Ophir Fofliger (Berlin): Masāfer Yaṭṭa: Community, History and Language
• 18.06.2026 • Reyhan Durmaz (University of Pennsylvania): Who Wrote the Life of Aḥo Aksnoyo? The Cross, Codex, and the Craft of Syriac Hagiography
• 25.06.2026 • Simcha Gross (University of Pennsylvania): Jews on the Roman-Sasanian Frontier: The Politics of Belonging
• 2.07.2026 • Michele Scarlassara (Jerusalem): In the Name of ‘Jesus the Life-Giver’: Three Newly Identified Middle Persian Lamellae in Manichaean Script
• 9.07.2026 • Simona Olivieri (Venedig): And All Is Arabic: From Transmission to Argument in Early Arabic Linguistic Thought