Events Archive 2022
TALK: El género en la tradición del Barlaam — Isabel Toral
AnonymClassic Deputy PI, Prof. Dr. Isabel Toral, will be speaking on Barlaam and Josaphat , in the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CSIC , Madrid.
Location: Sala Julián Ribera 1 C, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CSIC, Madrid.
COLLOQUIUM: Scholarly Text Editing – Mahmoud Kozae
Focus Digital Humanities
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Fabeckstraße 23/25, Room -1.0053 (souterrain) or remote participation via WebEx.
TALK Parody, Reverence, and Anti-Parody in the Maqāmāt Genre — Devin Stewart (Emory University)
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Seminarzentrum, R. L115 Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26-28, 14195 Berlin Hybrid option available, registration via email
TALK What Is ‘Rhymed Prose’ in Arabic and How Does It Work?: An Introduction to Saj` — Devin Stewart (Emory University)
A guest lecture to be offered to the students of the "Arabic Rhetoric and Poetics" (Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gründler) and "Mirrors of Princes and Wisdom Literature" (Prof. Dr. Isabel Toral) seminars.
Location: Fabeckstraße 23/25, Holzlaube, Room 1.2001
PRESENTATION Eine uneigentliche Anthologie: Kalila und Dimna als philosophisches Hausbuch – Beatrice Gruendler
Keynote/Abendvortrag, Universität Innsbruck
Location: Universität Innsbruck, Österreich
TALK Four (or Five?) Translations of Stephanites and Ichnelates — Marc Lauxtermann (University of Oxford)
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting, registration via email
WORKSHOP (DJHP): Premodern Literary Exchange between Arabic and Persian — Theodore Beers
For his Dahlem Junior Host Project, Theodore Beers invited three scholars to Freie Universität Berlin for a week of discussions and collaborative research on the topic of premodern literary exchange between Persian and Arabic. The workshop is to be streamed via WebEx.
Location: Room 2.2051, Holzlaube, Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin
CSI'S MONDAY MAJLIS: Baghdad: Insights into a city (seven centuries) and the making of a book (eleven years) — Isabel Toral and Jens Scheiner
The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research.
Location: Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter (Online)
PRESENTATION: Collecting copies. Types and arrangement – Beatrice Gruendler, Khouloud Khalfallah and Oualid EL Khattabi
Annual “Codicology of Arabic Manuscripts and Critical Edition Publishing” workshop at the Rawafed Center for Studying and Researching the Civilization of the Maghreb and the Heritage of Mediterranean, Fez, Morocco.
Location: Fez, Morocco
PRESENTATION: How Kalīla and Dimna ended up in the Latin West? – Jan J. van Ginkel
"Fable between East and West" — An International conference convened by Prof. Caterina Mordeglia in University of Trento, Italy.
Location: Università di Trento, Italy
PANEL DISCUSSION: Is Arabic Literature a World Literature? — Beatrice Gründler
In the 2022 Riyadh International Book Fair , AnonymClassic PI, Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gründler, participates in a panel discussion entitled "Is Arabic Literature a World Literature?".
Location: Riyadh International Book Fair
TALK: OpenITI-SHARIAsource Experts Workshop — Theodore Beers
In September 29th-30th, 2022, Theodore S. Beers gives a talk on on digital infrastructure in the AnonymClassic project in the Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI) workshop convened by OpenITI AOCP and SHARIAsource projects principal investigators, Sarah Bowen Savant, Maxim Romanov, and Intisar Rabb, at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Location: OpenITI, Univ. of Maryland
PUBLIC EVENT: Transcultural Philological Encounters — A Public Dialogue
This public event is part of the Transtemporal Philologies workshop, organized, between September 22 and 24, by Anne Eusterschulte (FU Berlin; EXC 2020) and Glenn W. Most (Max Planck Institute Berlin/Committee on Social Thought Chicago; EXC 2020).
Location: Philosophical Institute, Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room 1
WORKSHOP: “How to think concepts from the global south?”— Johannes Stephan & Mahmoud Al-Zayed
In the framework of the BUA ( RePLITO ), AnonymClassic Research Fellow, Johannes Stephan, is co-organizing, with Mahmoud Al-Zayed , a workshop entitled “How to think concepts from the global south?” The workshop is hosting Dilip Menon , a historian of India from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (RSA), who has recently published a volume titled Changing Theory: Thinking Concepts from the Global South .
Location: Room 1.1062, Fabeckstraße 23-25
TALK: The Incipits in Manuscripts of Kalīla wa-Dimna (13th-19th Centuries) — Beatrice Gründler
At a symposium convened in honor of Prof. Etan Kohlberg , AnonymClassic PI, Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gründler, is giving a talk on the incipits found in the manuscript tradition of Kalīla wa-Dimna.
Location: Online
PRESENTATION (DOT): Digital humanities, or tools for digital humanists? — Theodore Beers
As part of the Digital Humanities panel, "Digital Workflows at Multiple Levels: Insights from the AnonymClassic Project," organized in the framework of the 100th anniversary of the Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT), AnonymClassic team member, Theodore Beers, is giving a presentation entitled "Digital humanities, or tools for digital humanists? "
Location: Room Singapore (L113), Freie Universität Berlin
PRESENTATION (DOT): A Preview Edition of Selected Textual Variants in Manuscripts of Kalīla and Dimna — Marwa M. Ahmed
As part of the Digital Humanities panel, "Digital Workflows at Multiple Levels: Insights from the AnonymClassic Project," organized in the framework of the 100th anniversary of the Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT), AnonymClassic team member, Marwa Ahmed, is giving a presentation entitled " A Preview Edition of Selected Textual Variants in Manuscripts of Kalīla and Dimna."
Location: Room Singapore (L113), Freie Universität Berlin
PRESENTATION (DOT): Software Use in AnonymClassic — Mahmoud Kozae
As part of the Digital Humanities panel, "Digital Workflows at Multiple Levels: Insights from the AnonymClassic Project," organized in the framework of the 100th anniversary of the Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT), AnonymClassic team member, Mahmoud Kozae, is giving a presentation entitled "Software Use in AnonymClassic" where he discusses the development of proprietry digital solution for the the needs of the AnonymClassic project.
Location: Room Singapore (L113), Freie Universität Berlin
PANEL (DOT): Digital Workflows at Multiple Levels: Insights from the AnonymClassic Project
"Digital Workflows at Multiple Levels: Insights from the AnonymClassic Project" is one of two panels Beatrice Gründler and her team are contributing to the 100 th anniversary of the Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT). Theodore Beers is chairing the panel, and Jonas Müller-Laackman is featured as a discussant.
Location: Room Singapore (L113), Freie Universität Berlin
PRESENTATION (DOT): The Performance of Arabic Fables in Historically Attested Situational Contexts — Ulrich Marzolph
As part of "The Multiple Journeys of the Book of Kalīla wa-Dimna" panel in 100th anniversary of the Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT), AnonymClassic project patner, Ulrich Marzolph (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), is giving a presentation entitled "The Performance of Arabic Fables in Historically Attested Situational Contexts."
Location: Room Basra (L116), Freie Universität Berlin
PRESENTATION (DOT): Collective Wisdom. The Readers of Kalīla wa-Dimna and Their Contribution to a Textual Tradition — Johannes Stephan
As part of "The Multiple Journeys of the Book of Kalīla wa-Dimna" panel in 100th anniversary of the Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT), AnonymClassic team member, Johannes Stephan, is giving a presentation entitled "Collective Wisdom. The Readers of Kalīla wa-Dimna and Their Contribution to a Textual Tradition ."
Location: Room Basra (L116), Freie Universität Berlin
PRESENTATION (DOT): On Wolves, Jackals, Panthers and Lions. Literary Responses to Kalīla and Dimna. — Isabel Toral
As part of "The Multiple Journeys of the Book of Kalīla wa-Dimna" panel in 100th anniversary of the Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT), AnonymClassic deputy PI, Prof. Dr. Isabel Toral, is giving a presentation entitled "On Wolves, Jackals, Panthers and Lions. Literary Responses to Kalīla and Dimna. "
Location: Room Basra (L116), Freie Universität Berlin
PRESENTATION (DOT): Cultural Closeness, Textual Distance: Naṣr Allāh Munshī’s Persian Translation of Kalīla and Dimna — Theodore Beers
As part of "The Multiple Journeys of the Book of Kalīla wa-Dimna" panel in 100th anniversary of the Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT), AnonymClassic team member, Theodore Beers, is giving a presentation entitled "Cultural Closeness, Textual Distance: Naṣr Allāh Munshī’s Persian Translation of Kalīla and Dimna."
Location: Room Basra (L116), Freie Universität Berlin
PRESENTATION (DOT): Royal Injustice and Its Echoes in Kalīla and Dimna — Beatrice Gruendler
As part of "The Multiple Journeys of the Book of Kalīla wa-Dimna" panel in 100th anniversary of the Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT), AnonymClassic PI, Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gruendler, is giving a presentation entitled " Royal Injustice and Its Echoes in Kalīla and Dimna ."
Location: Room Basra (L116), Freie Universität Berlin
PRESENTATION (DOT): Rare Chapters in the Kalīla wa-Dimna Tradition: A Comparison of the “King of the Mice” in Different Versions of the Book — Khouloud Khalfallah
As part of "The Multiple Journeys of the Book of Kalīla wa-Dimna" panel in 100th anniversary of the Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT), AnonymClassic team member Khouloud Khalfallah is giving a presentation entitled "Rare Chapters in the Kalīla wa-Dimna Tradition: A Comparison of the 'King of the Mice' in Different Versions of the Book."
Location: Room Basra (L116), Freie Universität Berlin
PANEL (DOT): Rewritings, Recensions, Relics. The Multiple Journeys of the Book of Kalīla wa-Dimna (Syriac, Arabic, Persian)
"The Multiple Journeys of the Book of Kalīla wa-Dimna" is one of two panels Beatrice Gründler and her team are contributing to the 100 th anniversary of the Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT). Johannes Stephan and Khouloud Khalfallah are chairing the panel, and AnonymClassic project partner István Kristó-Nagy is featured as a discussant.
Location: Room Basra (L116), Freie Universität Berlin
PRESENTATION (DOT): It’s All a Matter of Perception. The “Life of Burzoy” in the Second – or Younger - Syriac Version of Kalīla wa-Dimna and its Christian Context. — Jan van Ginkel
As part of "The Multiple Journeys of the Book of Kalīla wa-Dimna" panel in 100th anniversary of the Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT), Jan van Ginkel, AnonymClassic project patner, is giving a presentation entitled "It’s All a Matter of Perception. The “Life of Burzoy” in the Second – or Younger - Syriac Version of Kalīla wa-Dimna and its Christian Context."
Location: Room Basra (L116), Freie Universität Berlin
COLLOQUIUM: AnonymClassic Research Colloquium, summer break 2022
The AnonymClassic research colloquium summer break is scheduled for the month of August 2022; sessions resume on Thursday, September 1, 2022.
TALK Variants in the Arabic textual tradition – Beatrice Gruendler
Variants in Classical Textual Traditions: Errors, Innovations, Proliferation, Reception? International Conference, Anneliese Maier Research Award for Research on Practices of Textual Editing
Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
TALK: Ethical Education in the Syriac Life of Burzoy, the creator of Kalīla and Dimna – Jan van Ginkel
XIII Symposium Syriacum and the 11th Conference of Christian Arabic Studies
Location: Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO), Paris
TALK Gender and Sexuality in the Barlaam and Josaphat Textual Tradition: A Transcultural Exploration – Isabel Toral & Rachel Peled
International Congress on the Study of the Middle Ages
Location: University of Leeds
WORKSHOP: B. Gruendler at CSMC Manuscript workshop
Location: The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Studies (CSMC), Universität Hamburg.
TALK The Stakes of Editing "The Story of Ahiqar." Simon Birol (University of Bochum)
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting, registration via email
TALK (hybrid): Animals in the Barlaam Romance and in the Kalila-wa-Dimna Traditions: a Comparison – Isabel Toral
Animals in Islamic Theology and Literature
Location: Munich School of Ancient Philosophy
WORKSHOP: The Transfer of Knowledge via Verses and Sayings
Workshop of the Research Project C10 “Verses and Sayings. Impetus and Range of Scholarly and Popularising Discourses in the Arabic World” (headed by Beatrice Gründler)
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, SFB-Villa, Meeting Room Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
TALK Software Use in AnonymClassic – Mahmoud Kozae
Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch
Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
EXHIBITION Kalila wa Dimna – Ancient Tales for Troubled Times
Location: P21 GALLERY, 21 Chalton Street, London NW1
TALK Demonstration and Discussion of New KD Tools – Mahmoud Kozae
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 23/25, Room -1.1062 (souterrain), or remote participation via WebEx Online Meeting.
COLLOQUIUM: AnonymClassic Research Colloquium, summer semester 2022
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 23/25, Room -1.1062 (souterrain), or remote participation via WebEx.
READING GROUP LHTC Keyword Editorial Meeting “Framing Narratives” (hybrid)
AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: LHTC Keyword Editorial Meeting
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
READING GROUP Synonymity as a Collective Frame: Fourteen Premodern Tales from the Islamic West
AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives. Chair Enass Khansa
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
TALK Tales in Turkish Translation: Their Value for the Textual Histories of Arabic and Persian Story Collections (8th/14th and 9th/15th Centuries) — Johannes Thomann (University of Zürich)
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
READING GROUP Re/framing Narratives and the Promises of Reading: the Case of Bashai Tudu
AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives. Chair Mahmoud Al Zayed
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
PRESENTATION: Classifying the Variety of the Arabic Versions of Kalīla wa-Dimna, by Khouloud Khalfallah
Critical discussion of PhD project at Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies.
Location: Online presentation, pre-registration.
READING GROUP Ḥarīriyya’s Multiple Frames: Concealing, Traveling, and Exhortation
AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives. Chair Asmaa Essakouti
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
TALK AnonymClassic's Digital Tools – Marwa M. Ahmed & Theodore S. Beers
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
READING GROUP Poetry and Narrativity
AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives. Chair Johannes Stephan
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
TALK Poetry “Poetic Occasion as Reflected in a Sixteenth-Century Persian Anthology: The Tuḥfah-i Sāmī (ca. 1550) of Sām Mīrzā Ṣafavī” — Theodore S. Beers
Workshop : The Poetics of Occasional Literature in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond (11th to 17th c.): A Cross-Cultural Approach
Location: The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities Villagatan 3, 114 32 Stockholm, Sweden
TALK Translating “Kalīla wa-Dimna” into Greek – Symeon Seth and his successors. Lilli Hölzlhammer
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting, registration via email
TALK On Storytelling. Heba Tebakhi and Hanin Tarabay
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting, registration via email
READING GROUP Poetry Framing Prose (The Case of Nasr Allah Monshi’s Kalila wa Demna)
AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives, Chair Theodore S. Beers
Location: WebEx Online Meeting