Events Archive 2020
Close Reading Session – Beatrice Gruendler
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Cross-cultural and cross-lingual narratological comparative analysis of Kalīla wa-Dimna and the Armenian Fox-Book – Ani Shahnazaryan
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Close Reading Session – Beatrice Gründler
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Close Reading Session – Beatrice Gruendler
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Online Workshop: Framing Narratives: New Perspectives on Premodern Textual Production in Arabic – Johannes Stephan, Beatrice Gruendler
Location: The workshop will be held online via Webex. For more information please contact johannes.stephan@fu-berlin.de
Public Lecture: The Frame Tale: Potentials and Limitations – Ulrich Marzolph
In the framework of "Framing Narratives: New Perspectives on Premodern Textual Production in Arabic".
Location: Please register via this link: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=edf786deb21d0504dbcdc7c90b5ba8298
Preparatory Session for the Framing Narratives Conference
Theory Reading Group Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
The Question of Utopian Thought in Arabic Literature – The example of Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān – Ruben Schenzle
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Online Talk: The Islamic Age of Communication – Beatrice Gruendler
NES Series #11, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton
Location: Online in Zoom (6 pm Berlin time!)
Close Reading Session – Beatrice Gründler
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Premodern Narratologies – Writings by E. van Contzen and S. Conermann
Theory Reading Group Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Talk: Touching the Manuscript in Materiality & Digitality – Beatrice Gruendler together with Michael Krewet and Philipp Hegel
What is the Digital Doing? A Workshop in the Interface (4–6 November 2020) – Temporal Communities
Location: If you wish to participate in the workshop online, please email l.drury@fu-berlin.de to gain access to our password-protected web-based workshop portal.
Introduction to the colloquium for new students – Beatrice Gründler
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Phenomenon of the Arabic Literary Formulae in Different Domains – Assia Soltani (Temporal Communities)
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Frame as Supplement II – “The Friction of the Frame”, by Simone Heller-Andrist
Theory Reading Group Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Close Reading Session – Beatrice Gründler
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Ottoman Versions of Kalīla wa-Dimna from the 14th to 19th century – Philip Bockholt
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Frame as Supplement I – Writings by Jacques Derrida
Theory Reading Group Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
POSTPONED Talk: Reconstructing the Geography of an Early Safavid Tazkirah: The Tuhfah-i Sami (ca. 957/1550) of Sam Mirza – Theodore Beers, James White
Middle East Studies Association annual meeting, scheduled for October 10–13, 2020. Th. S. Beers' talk is part of a panel titled "Mapping the Literary Corpus: The Geography of Early Modern Persian Tazkira s.", organized by James White, Univ. of Oxford and Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Fellow at Freie Universiät Berlin. The MESA annual conference of 2020 was cancelled, presentations are to be rescheduled for the 2021 meeting.
Location: Hotel Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC, USA
Close Reading Session – Beatrice Gründler
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
RESCHEDULED Talk: Familiarity with Persian among Early Modern Arabic Anthologists – Theodore Beers
The Ascendant Field: Critical Engagements with Ottoman Arabic Literature A workshop to be held at Harvard University, MA, USA October 2–3, 2020
Location: Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA
Close Reading Session – Beatrice Gründler
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Critical Perspectives on Analytical Concepts – “Narrative Poetics and Postmodern Transgression”, by B. Richardson
Theory Reading Group Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Talk: Von Hafis zu Goethe – Beatrice Gruendler
Goethes West-östlicher Divan @ Frankfurther Goethe-Haus
Location: Arkdadensaal im Frankfurter Goethe-Haus
Rentrée and Close Reading Session: Four versions of Two Kingfishers and Whimbrel II – Isabel Toral
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Elaborations on Genette's Distinctions – Writings by Mike Bal and William Nelles
Theory Reading Group Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Rentrée and Close Reading Session: Three versions of Dove, Fox and Heron II + Four versions of Two Kingfishers and Whimbrel I – Beatrice Gruendler
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Rentrée and Close Reading Session: Three versions of Dove, Fox and Heron I – Beatrice Gruendler
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
CANCELLED: Talk: The Siyar al-mulūk: An Arabic Retranslation of Munshī's Persian Kalīlah va Dimnah – Theodore Beers
The biennial conference of the Association for Iranian Studies (AIS), originally scheduled for August 25–28, 2020, was to have been held at the University of Salamanca.
Location: University of Salamanca
The Digital Kalīla wa-Dimna – Workshop 3: The Arabic Versions of Kalīla wa-Dimna
An Online Series [every Monday in July] held in cooperation with the Columbia Global Centers | Amman
Applying Genetteian categories to Kalīla and Dimna – “Das Fabelbuch als Rahmenerzählung“ by S. Obermaier
Theory Reading Group Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
The Digital Kalīla wa-Dimna – Workshop 2: The Adaptations and Translations of Kalīla wa-Dimna
An Online Series [every Monday in July] held in cooperation with the Columbia Global Centers | Amman
Open Mic Session
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
The Digital Kalīla wa-Dimna – Workshop 1: Digital Humanities and Digital Editions
An Online Series [every Monday in July] held in cooperation with the Columbia Global Centers | Amman
Stefanites kai Ichnelates: the Greek Tradition – Vasiliki Chamourgiotaki
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Framing and Embedding in Classical Narratology – Writings by Gérard Genette
Theory Reading Group Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
The Digital Kalīla wa-Dimna – Keynote Conversation: Editing an Unruly Classic
An Online Series [every Monday in July] held in cooperation with the Columbia Global Centers | Amman
POSTPONED Talk: The Syriac Life of Burzoy, the creator of Kalīla and Dimna – Jan van Ginkel
13th Symposium Syriacum and 11th Congress of Arab Christian Studies, Paris (France), July 6–11, 2020
Location: Inalco 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75214 Paris Cedex 13
As Clever as a Hare and as Chatty as a Bird – Teaching and Learning Arabic as a Foreign Language with Kalīla wa-Dimna – Claudia Päffgen
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Networks of Iranian and Arab Merchants in South East Asia between the 6th and 11th Centuries – Yoones Dehghani Farsani
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Translation Studies and Narrativity – Writings by Mona Baker and Sue Harding
Theory Reading Group Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Persian and Kalīla and Dimna: Together from the Start – Theodore S. Beers
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Findings and Comments on the Syriac Tradition – Jan J. van Ginkel
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Narrative Psychology – Writings by Donald E. Polkinhorne and Julia Vassilieva
Theory Reading Group Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Corpus Building: There Is a Lot to Say about Manuscripts – Khouloud Khalfallah
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
The Reading Group online: A Frame of Work for the Framing Narratives conference in November 2020 – Johannes Stephan
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Narrative Identity – "Life as Narrative", by Jerome Bruner
Theory Reading Group Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Introduction to the ‘digital’ Research Theory Reading Group summer term of 2020 – Isabel Toral & Johannes Stephan
Theory Reading Group Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Kalila ve-Dimna, Hebrew Versions II – Rachel Peled Cuartas (University of Alcala, Spain)
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Kalila ve-Dimna, Hebrew Versions I – Rachel Peled Cuartas (University of Alcala, Spain)
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
The AnonymClassic Preview Edition: Overview of web development and the Edition Database – Marwa M. Ahmed
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Introduction to the digital summer semester 2020 – Beatrice Gruendler & Isabel Toral
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
POSTPONED close reading workshop with Prof. em. François C. de Blois
Location: Freie Universität Berlin
POSTPONED Talk: Poetic Occasion as Reflected in a Sixteenth-Century Persian Anthology: The Tuḥfah-i Sāmī (ca. 1550) of Sām Mīrzā Ṣafavī – Theodore Beers
Workshop The Poetics of Occasional Literature in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond (11th to 17th c.): A Cross-Cultural Approach , Stockholm, Sweden, April 16–17, 2020
Location: The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities Villagatan 3, 114 32 Stockholm, Sweden
CANCELLED Talk: … mehr über Handschriften, weniger über Schakale. Die syrischen Kalīla-Handschriften aus dem 19.Jahrhundert – Jan van Ginkel
11. Deutsche Syrologentag in Halle (Saale) organized by Prof. Dr. Cornelia Horn
Location: Orientalisches Institut, Seminar Christlicher Orient und Byzanz, Martin- Luther- Universitat Halle – Wittenberg
CANCELLED Talk: Persian-Indian wisdom in Arabic garb: Structure, function and form of “exotic” wisdom in Andalusian “mirrors of princes” – Isabel Toral
one-day workshop at King´s College London for March 27, 2020
Location: King's College London
CANCELLED Seminar: Trayectorias discontinuas: viajes en el tiempo y el espacio del Iqd al-Farid y de la doctrina jurídica malikí – Isabel Toral
half-day colloquium in the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid
Location: CCHS Madrid
Talk: Between Manuscript and Print: The Bombay Edition of Āzād Bilgrāmī’s Subḥat al-marjān fī āthār hindustān – James White
Workshop: Global Technology in Local Contexts: Lithography in Asia
Location: University of Chicago Center at Delhi DLF Capitol Point, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, New Delhi 110-001
Framing Narratives – AnonymClassic Reading Group
Location: -1.1062 (Holzlaube, souterrain)
Talk: Ḥanna Diyāb’s Story Telling and 18th-Century Written Culture – Johannes Stephan
Location: Room RAA E-29 University of Zurich Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies Rämistrasse 59 8001 Zürich
Framing Narratives – AnonymClassic Reading Group
Location: -1.1062 (Holzlaube, souterrain)
Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: -1.1062
Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: -1.1062
Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: -1.1062
Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: -1.1062
Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: -1.1062
Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: -1.1062