Events archive 2018/2019
Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: -1.1062
Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: -1.1062
Q&A Workshop: Among Digitized Manuscripts
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Campus Library, Meeting Room (Besprechungsraum) R. 406. Please use the staff entrance of Campus Library, via Otto-von-Simson-Straße 16, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem.
Talk: Anonymity and Authority: Authorship in an Arabic Encyclopedia of the Tenth Century – Isabel Toral
Anonymity and Temporality – a joint conference of EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" and King's College London
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Seminarzentrum, Room L 115 Habelschwerdter Allee 45 (entrance via Otto-von-Simson-Straße 28) 14195 Berlin
Talk: Anonymity, Obscurity, and Silent Co-Authorship in Kalīla and Dimna – Beatrice Gründler
Anonymity and Temporality – a joint conference of EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" and King's College London
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Seminarzentrum, Room L 115 Habelschwerdter Allee 45 (entrance via Otto-von-Simson-Straße 28) 14195 Berlin
Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: -1.1062
Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: -1.1062
Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: -1.1062
Werkstattgespräch im Rahmen der AG Manuskriptforschung am Kunsthistorischen Institut der Freien Universität Berlin – Rima Redwan
Location: Kunsthistorisches Institut Freie Universität Berlin
Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: -1.1062
Talk: Middle Arabic Prose as a Mediator between Texts and Traditions – Johannes Stephan
2019 Annual Meeting Middle East Studies Association – MESA, New Orleans
Location: Sheraton New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana
Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: -1.1062
Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: -1.1062
Introduction to the data of AnonymClassic – Beatrice Gruendler
Aktionstag Forschungsdaten, Freie Universität Berlin
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Seminarzentrum, Raum: L 115 und L 116 (Erdgeschoss), Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26 (Silberlaube), 14195 Berlin
Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: -1.1062
Talk: Der König Abdallah und seine Frauen – Isabel Toral
Dominant, verführend, ewig schuld ‒ Frauen im Umfeld des Herrschers. Herrschaft im interkulturellen Vergleich III., Mainz, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur (21.-22.10.2019)
Location: Mainz, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur
Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: -1.1062
Panel: Kalīla wa-Dimna – AnonymClassic – Khouloud Khalfallah, Mahmoud Kozae, Johannes Stephan
Workshop Arabic Pasts, Histories and Historiography, organised by the Aga Khan University and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London
Location: Aga Khan Centre 10 Handyside Street London N1C 4DN United Kingdom
Talk: Versions of Versions: Competing Factors in Analyzing the Kalila wa-Dimna Manuscript Tradition – Beatrice Gruendler, Khouloud Khalfallah, Rima Redwan
Textual Criticism of medieval Arabic geographic texts. The ‘Islam Atlas’ of al-Istakhri and Ibn Hawqal: Manuscripts, versions, and editions. Colloquium, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), Paris.
Location: EPHE, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations
Talk: Memory in Andalusian Historiography – Isabel Toral
Re-presented Pasts: Uses and Re-Uses of the Past in Pre-Modern Islam, convened by Peter Webb | Elena Paskaleva | Petra Sijpesteijn | Hans Theunissen @ Universiteit Leiden
Location: Universiteit Leiden
Talk: The Rayḥān-i nastaʾlīq (989-1581): A Little-Known Source on Calligraphers – Theodore Beers
9th European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS9)
Location: Room 0.2051 "Holzlaube" Fabeckstr. 23/25 14195 Berlin
Introduction to the project in the framework of the workshop "Arabic Manuscripts and Collaboration in the Digital Environment" by the Bibliotheca Arabica project
organised by Boris Liebrenz
Location: Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig
Talk: The Gentle Art of Safeguarding Secrets. Confidentiality in Arabic Advice Literature – Isabel Toral
Secrets and Secrecy in Late Antiquity, Byzantium, and Early Islam
Location: Oriental Studies Building, Schillerplatz 17, 96045 Bamberg, Room SP17/00.13
Keynote Lecture: Doing your PhD or PostDoc at the Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies – Isabel Toral
German Science Day for Outstanding PhD and Postdoc Candidates, Cairo
Location: Conrad Cairo Hotel
Talk: Literature Without Adab? Rethinking Arabic Literary History through a Scrutiny of Early Modern Self-Narratives – Johannes Stephan
Minor/Small Literature(s). Perspectives on World Literature from Elsewhere
Location: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin
Talk: Before Literature: Adab in an Age of Commentary – Matthew Keegan
Minor/Small Literature(s). Perspectives on World Literature from Elsewhere
Location: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin
Isabel Toral @ Deutsch-Irakisches Historikertreffen, Heidelberg
Location: Heidelberg
Talk: Towards a Versatile Open-Source Ecosystem for Computational Arabic Literary Studies – Mahmoud Kozae; Jan van Ginkel
ADHO DH2019 Workshop "Towards Multilingualism In Digital Humanities: Achievements, Failures And Good Practices In DH Projects With Non-Latin Scripts"
Location: TivoliVredenburg: Vredenburgkade 11, 3511 WC Utrecht
Chair: Concepts 1 – Beatrice Gruendler
Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation conference
Location: The conference will take place in the Main Conference Room of the MPIWG Main Building at Boltzmannstr. 22, 14195 Berlin.
Talk: Kalila wa Dimna. Ein einzigartiges Werk der Weltliteratur – Beatrice Gruendler
Exhibition Cinderella, Sindbad & Sinuhe - Arabisch-deutsche Erzähltraditionen
Location: Neues Museum
Talk: That's What Friends Are For … A close reading of the Fable of the Cat and the Mouse in Syriac Kalila and Dimna Collections – Jan van Ginkel
The Eighth North American Syriac Symposium – Syriac Worlds: Interactions, Exchanges, Contributions
Location: Friedman Hall Brown University, Providence
Talk: Adab Becoming Literary: Al-Hariri’s Maqamat in Modernity – Matthew L. Keegan
Workshop: " Conceptions and Configurations of the Arabic Literary Canon" (Columbia Global Centers, Paris)
Location: Paris Columbia Global Center, Reid Hall 4, rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris
Talk: The Boundaries of Adab in Eighteenth-Century Bilad al-Sham. A Contribution to the Rethinking of Literary History – Johannes Stephan
Workshop: " Conceptions and Configurations of the Arabic Literary Canon" (Columbia Global Centers, Paris)
Location: Paris Columbia Global Center, Reid Hall 4, rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris
AnonymClassic @ Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2019
Location: Ort: Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin Raum 1.2001 Hausnr. 9c auf Lageplan Buslinien: blau
AnonymClassic @ Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2019
Location: Venue: Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin Room 1.2001
Talk: "They Staged the Story as if It Was Real..." Fictionality in Arabic during the 18th Century – Johannes Stephan
The Society for the Study of Narrative annual conference at the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) from May 30–31 and June 1, 2019
Location: University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain
Talk: The Rhetoric of Unreality in 10th-century Arabic – Matthew L. Keegan
The Society for the Study of Narrative annual conference at the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) from May 30–31 and June 1, 2019
Location: University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain
Talk: Before History: Stories about the Arabic Past in the Past – Isabel Toral
The Society for the Study of Narrative annual conference at the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) from May 30–31 and June 1, 2019
Location: University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain
Talk: Narration by Redaction – Beatrice Gruendler
The Society for the Study of Narrative annual conference at the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) from May 30–31 and June 1, 2019
Location: University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain
Aristotle’s Poetics Close Reading Workshop
Location: 2.2051
Talk: In the Time of al-Fiṭaḥl when Stones Were still Moist and All Things Spoke: Very short Arabic animal fables and just-so stories – Jan Geert van Gelder; discussed by Guy Ron-Gilboa
Workshop: Animals, Adab, and Fictivity at Freie Universität Berlin, May 9 and 10, 2019
Location: "Holzlaube" Raum 2.2051 Fabeckstr. 23/25 14195 Berlin
Dahlem Junior Host Guest Lecture: al-Ma'arri's Anxious Menagerie: The Epistle of the Horse and the Mule – Kevin Blankinship; discussed by Francesca Bellino
Workshop: Animals, Adab, and Fictivity at Freie Universität Berlin, May 9 and 10, 2019
Location: "Holzlaube" Raum 2.2051 Fabeckstr. 23/25 14195 Berlin
Talk: How to Read Kalīla wa-Dimna through Multi-Text Manuscripts – Khouloud Khalfallah; discussed by Olly Akkerman
Workshop: Animals, Adab, and Fictivity at Freie Universität Berlin, May 9 and 10, 2019
Location: "Holzlaube" Raum 2.2051 Fabeckstr. 23/25 14195 Berlin
Talk: "Its Meaning Lies Elsewhere": A Meditation on Kalīla wa-Dimna’s Reception – Matthew L. Keegan; discussed by Johannes Stephan
Workshop: Animals, Adab, and Fictivity at Freie Universität Berlin, May 9 and 10, 2019
Location: "Holzlaube" Raum 2.2051 Fabeckstr. 23/25 14195 Berlin
Talk: Combining adab with Political Literature and Fluctuating between History and Fictivity in Advising the Ruler: Ibn Ẓafar’s Sulwān al-muṭā‘ – Francesca Bellino; discussed by Ignacio Sánchez
Workshop: Animals, Adab, and Fictivity at Freie Universität Berlin, May 9 and 10, 2019
Location: "Holzlaube" Raum 2.2051 Fabeckstr. 23/25 14195 Berlin
Talk: "Das Ṭāʾir, das es nicht gibt": ʿAnqāʾ Muġrib and the Poetics of Imaginary Beings – Guy Ron-Gilboa; discussed by Theodore S. Beers
Workshop: Animals, Adab, and Fictivity at Freie Universität Berlin, May 9 and 10, 2019
Location: "Holzlaube" Raum 2.2051 Fabeckstr. 23/25 14195 Berlin
Dahlem Junior Host Guest Lecture: al-Jahiz's Animals – Jeannie Miller; discussed by Geert Jan van Gelder
Workshop: Animals, Adab, and Fictivity at Freie Universität Berlin, May 9 and 10, 2019
Location: "Holzlaube" Raum 2.2051 Fabeckstr. 23/25 14195 Berlin
Talk: Giving Voice to the Beasts: the Ikhwan al-Ṣafāʾ and the Pragmatics of Fabulation – Ignacio Sánchez; discussed by Regula Forster
Workshop: Animals, Adab, and Fictivity at Freie Universität Berlin, May 9 and 10, 2019
Location: "Holzlaube" Raum 2.2051 Fabeckstr. 23/25 14195 Berlin
Talk: Avicenna on Fiction, or Why Kalīla wa-Dimna Is Not Poetry – Ali Adnan Sakr
Workshop: Animals, Adab, and Fictivity at Freie Universität Berlin, May 9 and 10, 2019
Location: "Holzlaube" Raum 2.2051 Fabeckstr. 23/25 14195 Berlin
Talk: What is Fictionality in Arabic before Fiction? – Johannes Stephan
Workshop: Animals, Adab, and Fictivity at Freie Universität Berlin, May 9 and 10, 2019
Location: "Holzlaube" Raum 2.2051 Fabeckstr. 23/25 14195 Berlin
Talk: AnonymClassic Web Platform Demonstration – Mahmoud Kozae
Workshop: Animals, Adab, and Fictivity at Freie Universität Berlin, May 9 and 10, 2019
Location: "Holzlaube" Raum 2.2051 Fabeckstr. 23/25 14195 Berlin
Talk: Kalila and Dimna: Indian Wisdom in Arabic Literature – Beatrice Gruendler
"Ad fontes. Celebrating Historical Philology" in Oslo May 6, 2019
Location: Nasjonalbiblioteket Henrik Ibsens gate 110, 0254 Oslo
Readings: Animals, Adab, and Fictivity – Matthew L. Keegan, Jeanie Miller, Kevin Blankinship
Dahlem Junior Host Program
Location: Holzlaube (Neubau Kleine Fächer) room -1.1062 (Souterrain) Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin
Introduction to the project in the framework of Berlin Ediert!
Presentation on the Kalīla wa-Dimna edition by Beatrice Gruendler, Jan van Ginkel, Matthew Keegan, Khouloud Khalfallah, Mahmoud Kozae, Johannes Stephan, Isabel Toral, Rima Redwan
Location: Sitzungsraum des Topoi-Hauses Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
AnonymClassic Research Colloquium – summer 2019
every Thursday
Location: Holzlaube (Neubau Kleine Fächer) room -1.1062 (Souterrain) Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin
Close reading workshop: The Mahābhārata Tales of Kalīla and Dimna – Beatrice Gründler, Florinda De Simini, University of Naples "L'Orientale"
Location: Holzlaube (Neubau Kleine Fächer) room -1.1062 (Souterrain) Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin
Workshop: Quotation Practices in Pre-modern Arabic: What Is an Isnād? – Isabel Toral
Location: St John's College Research Centre
Project presentation – Isabel Toral
Location: Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales – CSIC, Madrid
Project presentation – Isabel Toral
Kalila wa-Dimna conference in Buenos Aires
Location: Buenos Aires
Mahmoud Kozae @ Anneliese Maier Research Colloquium
Location: Max Planck Institute für the History of Science Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Chair: The Formation of Arabic Scholarship. Symposium in honor of Dimitri Gutas – Beatrice Gruendler
Location: Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall 120 High Street
Keynote Lecture: Formation of a Unitary Culture: The Leaven of Translation in the Rise of the Medieval West (of India) – Dimitri Gutas
Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic Project Opening: Iterative Translation, Indirect Transmission, and IT
Location: Seminarzentrum room L115 Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 14195 Berlin
Talk and Reading Session: Revisiting Dimna’s Trial: the Main Story in Nasrollah Monshi’s Persian Version – Christine van Ruymbeke
Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic Project Opening: Iterative Translation, Indirect Transmission, and IT
Location: Seminarzentrum, Room L115 Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Talk and Reading Session: Translated Sources: The Mahābhārata Tales of Kalīla and Dimna – Florinda De Simini
Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic Project Opening: Iterative Translation, Indirect Transmission, and IT
Location: Seminarzentrum, Room L115 Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Talk: Towards a Hermeneutics of Fiction in Classical Arabic Literature – Matthew L. Keegan
Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic Project Opening: Iterative Translation, Indirect Transmission, and IT
Location: Seminarzentrum, Room L115 Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Talk: Kalīla and Dimna, The Cat and Mouse Episode(s) – A LERA Sample Case Study – Marcus Pöckelmann
Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic Project Opening: Iterative Translation, Indirect Transmission, and IT
Location: Seminarzentrum, Room L115 Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Talk: The AnonymClassic project – Beatrice Gruendler
Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic Project Opening: Iterative Translation, Indirect Transmission, and IT
Location: Seminarzentrum, Room L115 Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Welcome Address – Oliver Janz
Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic Project Opening: Iterative Translation, Indirect Transmission, and IT
Location: Seminarzentrum room L115 Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 14195 Berlin
Project Opening Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Iterative Translation, Indirect Transmission, and IT – convened by Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gründler
Location: Seminarzentrum der Freien Universität Berlin 'Silberlaube' Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Opening Workshop: Iterative Translation, Indirect Transmission, and IT – convened by Principal Investigator Beatrice Gründler
Location: Seminarzentrum, Room L115 Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Close reading workshop: The Mahābhārata Tales of Kalīla and Dimna – Beatrice Gründler, Florinda De Simini, University of Naples "L'Orientale"
Location: Holzlaube (Neubau Kleine Fächer) room -1.1062 (Souterrain) Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin
AnonymClassic Research Colloquium – winter 2018
every Thursday
Location: Holzlaube (Neubau Kleine Fächer) room -1.1062 (Souterrain) Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin
Talk: Functions of the Book in Kalila wa-Dimna – Beatrice Gruendler
Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants meeting, Münster
Location: Fürstenberghaus, Universität Münster Domplatz 20-22, 48143 Münster
Talk: Syriac versions of the Kalila and Dimna – on the adaptation of Indian Literature in the Syriac Tradition – Jan van Ginkel
SEERI World Syriac Conference, Kottayam, India
Location: St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute (SEERI) Kurian Uthup Rd, Baker Hill, Kottayam, Kerala 686002, India
Lecture: How a Mirror of Princes Became a Handbook of Popular Philosophy – Beatrice Gruendler
The 6th European Congress of Medieval Studies of the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales (FIDEM), Basel, Switzerland
Location: Universität Basel Kollegienhaus der Universität Basel Petersplatz 1 4051 Basel, Switzerland
Talk: La poésie arabe comme tradition du Divan occidental-oriental – Beatrice Gruendler
conference "Goethe. L’actualité d’un intellectue", Cérisy Centre Cultural International
Location: Centre culturel international de Cerisy 2 Le Château, 50210 Cerisy-la-Salle, France
Talk: Variations of Difference – Challenges in Editing Kalīla wa-Dimna – Beatrice Gruendler
Anneliese Maier research colloquium
Location: TOPOI-Haus Hittorfstraße 18 14105 Berlin
Talk: A Rat and Its Redactors – Silent Co-Authorship in Kalīla wa-Dimna – Beatrice Gruendler
international conference "Making the impossible Possible: On the Methodology for Editing Medieval Works with Massive Manuscript Tradition", Pisa, Italy
Location: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
Talk: Adjusting LERA For The Comparison Of Arabic Manuscripts Of Kalīla wa-Dimna – Marcus Pöckelmann
Digital Humanities, DH2018, Mexico City, Mexico
Talk: Alexander died in Bagdad The Laments of the Philosophers over Alexander in Syriac Revisited – Jan van Ginkel
The Future of Syriac Studies and the Legacy of Sebastian P. Brock conference
Location: Sigtuna, Sweden
Talk: Ehekrach transkulturell – ein Kapitel aus dem Fabelbuch Kalila und Dimna – Beatrice Gruendler
Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2018
Location: "Holzlaube" room 0.2001 Fabeckstr. 23/25 14195 Berlin
Talk: Die syrischen Versionen des Kalīla und Dimna: eine Bestandsaufnahme der Forschung und neue Wege – Jan van Ginkel
10th meeting of German Syriac reseachers
Location: Seminarzentrum Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 14195 Berlin
Lecture: Der Koran als literarischer Text – Beatrice Gruendler
lecture series "Revelation and Language"
Location: Universität Osnabrück Institut für Islamische Theologie/Institut für Katholische Theologie room 52/E05 Neuer Graben 7-9, 49074 Osnabrück
Lecture: Indian Wisdom in Kalīla wa-Dimna – Beatrice Gruendler
conference "Approaches to the Study of Pre-modern Arabic Anthologies", Beirut, Lebanon
Location: American University of Beirut. Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages and Center for Arts and Humanities - Mellon Grant Conference organized by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn and Bilal Orfali. May 10 will be held in Collage Hall B1 at AUB. May 11 and 12 will be held in Bristol Hotel.
Talk: Indian Wisdom in Kalīla and Dimna – Beatrice Gruendler
The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Universität Hamburg
Location: Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures Warburgstraße 26, room 0001 20345 Hamburg
Presentation: Digital Approaches to a Mutable Textual Tradition – Kalīla wa-Dimna in Manuscripts from the 13th to 19th Centuries – Mahmoud Kozae, Rima Redwan, Samer Ben Brahim
Documents and Manuscripts in the Arab-Islamic works – The Seventh International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) Conference, Berlin. Programme link .
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Holzlaube, Lecture hall -1.2009 Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Opening: The Seventh International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) Conference – Beatrice Gruendler, Konrad Hirschler, Tonio Sebastian Richter
Documents and Manuscripts in the Arab-Islamic works – The Seventh International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) Conference, Berlin. Programme link .
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Holzlaube, Lecture hall -1.2009 Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Workshop: Manuscript Metadata
Location: "Holzlaube" room 1.1062 Fabeckstraße 23/25 14195 Berlin
Leibniz lecture: Three Copyists and a Rat – Anoymous redaction in manuscripts of Kalīla wa-Dimna – Beatrice Gruendler
University of Hyderabad, India
Location: University of Hyderabad. School of Humanities Auditorium
Leibniz lecture: Indian Wisdom in Kalīla wa-Dimna – Beatrice Gruendler
JNU, New Dehli
Location: Convention Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi