Events Archive 2021

TALK Kalīla und Dimna und seine Koautoren (13.-19. Jh.) – Beatrice Gruendler

Location: Asien-Orient-Institut (AOI) der Universität Tübingen Abt. für Orient- und Islamwissenschaft Wilhelmstr. 113 (ÜR 01), 72074 Tübingen

Dec 23, 2021 | 04:00 PM c.t.

READING GROUP Narrative as Framing: Narratio and Exordium in Classical Rhetorics

AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Dec 15, 2021 | 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM

TALK The Cairo Genizah and Arabic Literature: Kalila wa-Dimna as an Example – Mohamed A. H. Ahmed (Trinity College Dublin)

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic

Location: hybrid setting (please inquire via email)

Dec 02, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 01:45 PM

TALK Reconstructing the Geography of an Early Safavid Tazkirah: The Tuhfah-i Sami (ca. 957/1550) of Sam Mirza – Theodore S. Beers

Middle East Studies Association annual meeting, 29 Nov. – 3 Dec. 2021. 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, University of Oxford. The 55th MESA annual meeting is held virtually; for programme see here.

Nov 27, 2021 - Dec 03, 2021

CLOSING STATEMENT to Symposium Challenges for Research Integrity: Diversity and Universalism, Evidence and Reflexivity

OFFICIAL CLOSING REMARKS by PI B. Gruendler

Nov 24, 2021 | 04:00 PM

READING GROUP Mustafa Kilani´s Contemporary Reverse Framing of Classical Texts

AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Nov 24, 2021 | 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM

LECTURE: Ruse and Guile in Classical Persian Prose Narratives: The Indian Heritage – Pegah Shahbaz (University of Toronto), Senior Fellow at Temporal Communities

The lecture is being presented in cooperation with Temporal Communities – Doing Literature in a Global Perspective, EXC 2020, organised by Beatrice Gründler (EXC 2020, Research Area 3: "Future Perfect") and Johannes Stephan "Kalila and Dimna – AnonymClassic", ERC). The lecture will be held as an in-person event. For further information please contact Johannes Stephan, johannes.stephan@fu-berlin.de .

Location: Fabeckstraße 23/25, room 2.2063

Nov 23, 2021 | 06:15 PM

CLOSE-READING SESSION Comparative Reading of The Lion and Jackal Chapter with Dr. Rachel Peled

Convened by Beatrice Gruendler and Isabel Toral

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Nov 22, 2021 | 12:00 PM c.t.

Conference: Framing Narratives: New Perspectives on Premodern Textual Production in Arabic

Convened by Johannes Stephan and Beatrice Gruendler

Location: Hybrid Event @ Villa Engler, Altensteinstraße 2, 14195 Berlin AND online

Nov 18, 2021 - Nov 19, 2021

TALK Scripture as Frame in Naṣr Allāh Munshī's Kalīla and Dimna – Theodore S. Beers

Framing Narratives: New Perspectives on Premodern Textual Production in Arabic, convened by Johannes Stephan and Beatrice Gruendler,

Location: Hybrid Event @ Villa Engler, Altensteinstraße 2, 14195 Berlin AND online

Nov 18, 2021 - Nov 19, 2021

Keynote by Beatrice Gruendler "Taking A Comprehensive View at a Massive Textual Tradition”

In the context of NISIS Autumn School 2021: “Islamic(ate) Classics: From Manuscript to the Digital Age”.

Location: online

Nov 09, 2021 | 02:00 PM - 03:15 PM

The Qatar National Library. Introduction to the Special Collection and the Restauration and Conservation Lab

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic

Location: hybrid setting (please inquire via email)

Nov 04, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 01:45 PM

POSTPONED Talk: How to Survive at Court. Confidentiality and the Arts of Intrigue in Arabic Advice Literature – Isabel Toral

The “Secrets and Secrecy II” meeting is the follow-up event to the Bamberg conference in July 2019: Secrets and Secrecy in Late Antiquity, Byzantium, and Early Islam.

Location: Tunis, Tunisia

Nov 01, 2021

TALK Flexibility vs. interoperability in manuscript metadata: Reflections from the AnonymClassic project – by Kh. Khalfallah and Th. S. Beers

Location: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz Simón-Bolívar-Saal, Potsdamer Straße 33, 10785 Berlin.

Oct 28, 2021 | 03:30 PM

Comparative Folk Narrative Research – Ulrich Marzolph

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic

Location: hybrid setting (please inquire via email)

Oct 28, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 01:45 PM

Living Handbook of Temporal Communities: Discussion of proposals to the Keyword entry "Framing Narratives"

AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Oct 27, 2021 | 03:00 PM

Talk: A King‘s Quest for a Book of Marvelous Knowledge: Anūshirwān and Kalīla wa-Dimna – Beatrice Gruendler

Wonder and Imagination in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Philosophy, and Art: Transcultural Perspectives –Interdisciplinary Workshop with Michelle Karnes (University of Notre Dame)

Location: See the details here: https://www.sfb-episteme.de/en/veranstaltungen/Vorschau/2021/B02_wonder-and-imagination.html

Oct 22, 2021 | 01:00 PM - 01:45 PM

Rudaki's Versification of Kalila wa-Dimna, session III – Francois de Blois

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Oct 07, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 04:30 PM

Talk: A Safavid Text Adapted for Ottoman Sensibilities: The Istanbul Manuscript of the Tuḥfah-i Sāmī – Theodore Beers

Conference organized by Philip Bockholt and Sacha Alsancakli: "Authorship and Textual Transmission in the Manuscript Age: Contextualizing Ideological Variants in Persian Texts from the 11th to 19th Centuries." Supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. The conference was postponed from April 2020.

Location: Leipzig University

Oct 02, 2021 | 10:35 AM

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Barlaam y Josafat en las versiones árabes. Modalidades de santitad transcultural”

The International Conference is organized by Ángel Narro (Universitat de València).

Location: Online presentation, pre-registration.

Sep 02, 2021 | 06:50 PM s.t.

Living Handbook of Temporal Communities: Discussion about the Keyword entry "Framing Narratives"

AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Jul 23, 2021 | 02:00 PM

Close-Reading Session – Isabel Toral

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Jul 08, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 01:45 PM

Close-Reading Session – Isabel Toral

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Jul 01, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 01:45 PM

Talk: Description du comportement, de Kalîla wa-Dimna à Stéphanites kai Ichnélates – Helene Condylis

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Jun 24, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 01:45 PM

Poetics of Temporality – Hennig, Avanessian

AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Jun 23, 2021 | 03:00 PM

Close-Reading Session – Isabel Toral

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Jun 17, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 01:45 PM

Talk: Ibn Taymiyya, Alchemy, and the History of Science – Alexandre Roberts

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Jun 10, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 01:45 PM

Stories from Elsewhere – Benjamin's Storyteller and Early Modern Travelogues

AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Jun 09, 2021 | 03:00 PM

Panel V "Narratives" – Beatrice Gruendler, Johannes Stephan, Theodore Beers

Conference "How to End Things in Arabic Literature", June 4–6, 2021, American University of Beirut

Location: Online via Zoom.

Jun 05, 2021 | 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Close-Reading Session – Isabel Toral

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Jun 03, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 01:45 PM

RESCHEDULED 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

Jun 03, 2021 - Jun 04, 2021

Rudaki's Versification of Kalila wa-Dimna, session II – Francois de Blois

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

May 27, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 04:30 PM

...before one's very eyes – on "Referential Verisimilitude" (Claude Calame)

AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

May 26, 2021 | 03:00 PM

Rudaki's Versification of Kalila wa-Dimna, session I – Francois de Blois

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

May 20, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 04:30 PM

Paratexts (as Frames?) – G. Genette's concept

AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

May 12, 2021 | 03:00 PM

Talk: Can We Really Talk about Popular Literature? An Intercultural Reading of Mishle Shualim (Fox Tales) of Berechiah ha-Nakdan and the Hebrew Versions of Kalila and Dimna – Racel Peled (Universidad Alcalá de Henares, Spain)

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

May 06, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 01:45 PM

Close-Reading Session – Isabel Toral

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Apr 29, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 01:45 PM

TALK Arabische Buchkultur im 9. Jahrhundert – Beatrice Gruendler

Webinar-Reihe der Forschungsbibliothek Gotha zu orientalischen Handschriften

Apr 28, 2021 | 05:00 PM

Modernity: Form and Content – S. Hafez' Arabic Narrative Discourse

AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Apr 28, 2021 | 03:00 PM

Talk: Writing Arabic Literary History in the Deccan, ca. 1650 - 1700: From the Jāhiliyya to Kalīla. – James White

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Apr 22, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 01:45 PM

Talk: "Ein gerechter Herrscher ist besser als fruchtbringender Regen". Arabische Fürstenspiegel als Textquelle für Herrscherkonstruktionen – Isabel Toral

Online workshop of Wissenschaftes Netzwerk "Kraftprobe Herrschaft. (Re)Konstruktionen von vormodernen Herrscherfiguren zwischen Herausforderung und Behauptung", 16.–17. April 2021.

Location: https://kraftprobe-herrschaft.uni-mainz.de/netzwerk

Apr 16, 2021 | 03:15 PM - 04:00 PM

Semester Introduction: How to translate a Saint: the Story of Budasaf in Arabic and Persian tradition – Isabel Toral

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Apr 15, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 01:45 PM

New Ancient Voices – J. Joyce and M. Messadi

AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Apr 14, 2021 | 03:00 PM

POSTPONED Talk: A Safavid Text Adapted for Ottoman Sensibilities: The Istanbul Manuscript of the Tuḥfah-i Sāmī – Theodore Beers

Location: Leipzig University

Apr 08, 2021 - Apr 10, 2021

International Online Workshop: The Umayyads from West to East: New Perspectives –

Organised by Javier Albarrán – Antonia Bosanquet – Elsa Cardoso – Isabel Toral; RomanIslam–Center for Comparative Empire andTranscultural StudiesUniversität Hamburg

Location: The conference will be transmitted online via ZOOM and external participants are welcome. Please contact Laura Donath (laura.donath@studium.uni-hamburg.de) by March 18/2021 to gain access to the link.

Mar 22, 2021 - Mar 23, 2021

POSTPONED Talk: Collecting copies: types and arrangement – Beatrice Gruendler, Khouloud Khalfallah

Annual Codicology of Arabic Manuscripts workshop at the Rawafed Center for Studies and Researches in Maghreb Civilisation and Mediterranean Heritage at Fez, Morocco .

Location: Fez, Morocco

Mar 18, 2021