Events Archive 2023
TALK: Kitāb Bilawhar wa-Būḏāsaf and Early Arabic Book Printing: Ms. 1633 of the Hamdani Collection Revisited, by Kirill Dmitriev
Dr. Kirill Dmitriev of the Department of Arabic and Persian, University of St Andrews, discusses his work on the book of Bilawhar wa-Būḏāsaf and early Arabic book printing with project partners, students and the Arabic Studies research team.
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem Room -1.1063 (souterrain), or remote participation via WebEx.
TALK: Anthologizing Kalīla wa-Dimna: The Incipit of the First Risāla, by Khouloud Khalfallah
WORKSHOP: Collecting, Fragmenting, Recomposing – Anthologies as textual processes. convened by RA3 „Future Perfect“, EXC 2020 Temporal Communities – Doing Literature in a Global Perspective.
Location: Temporal Communities – Doing Literature in a Global Perspective. Otto-von-Simson-Straße 15, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem Konferenzraum 00.05 WebEx link: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m64b1104244da07082bfc16690b507cd2
TALK: Überlegungen zu einer anthologischen Epistemologie in der klassischen arabischen Literatur, by Johannes Stephan
WORKSHOP: Collecting, Fragmenting, Recomposing – Anthologies as textual processes. convened by RA3 „Future Perfect“, EXC 2020 Temporal Communities – Doing Literature in a Global Perspective.
Location: Temporal Communities – Doing Literature in a Global Perspective. Otto-von-Simson-Straße 15, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem Konferenzraum 00.05 WebEx link: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m64b1104244da07082bfc16690b507cd2
TALK: Las traducciones de Calila y Dimna, by Isabel Toral
Escuela de Traductores de Toledo (Toledo School of Translators), University of Castilla-La Mancha (CCLM), Granada, Spain
Location: Escuela de Traductores de Toledo, Plaza de Sta. Isabel, 5 (Salón de actos)
TALK: The 'Ali ibn al-Shah Preface to Kalīla and Dimna between Persian and Arabic, by Theodore S. Beers
MESA / Middle East Studies Association, Montreal 2023: In Honor of Franklin Lewis II: Persian and Other Literatures: Multilingualism and Translation.
Location: Montreal, Canada
COLLOQUIUM Kalīla and Dimna – ALC/AnonymClassic
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – ALC/AnonymClassic
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 23/25, Dahlem Room -1.1062 (souterrain), or remote participation via WebEx.
Academic Summer Break
From August 1, 2023 until September 13, 2023
Location: During the summer break, colloquium and tutorium are paused. The first session day is Thursday, September 14, 2023.
TUTORING Scholarly Writing – Beatrice Gruendler and Jan J. van Ginkel
Focus Junior Researchers
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Fabeckstraße 23/25, Room -1.0063 (souterrain)
TALK Redacting Copyists and Enriching Translators: Creativity in the ‘KD-Field’ by Beatrice Gruendler
Institut national d'historie d'art (INHA), Paris; Workshop Entre Orient et Occident: voyages iconographiques des fables animalières de Kalila et Dimna.
Location: Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Galerie Colbert, salle Walter Benjamin 2, rue Vivienne ou 6, rue des Petits-Champs 75002 Paris
SOIREE: WORTE, SPRACHEN, TEXTE – the Ring Dove revisited, with B. Gruendler and team
In cooperation with the Spanish Embassy in Germany, and Mendelssohn Gesellschaft e.V., Berlin.
Location: Mendelssohn-Remise, Jägerstraße 51, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
TUTORING Scholarly Writing – Beatrice Gruendler and Jan J. van Ginkel
Focus Junior Researchers
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Fabeckstraße 23/25, Room -1.0063 (souterrain)
TALK Alexander in der Texttradition von Kalila und Dimna, Beatrice Gruendler
Offener Hörsaal: " Unterseeboote, Flugmaschinen und nackte Philosophen: Das Nachleben Alexanders des Großen zwischen Macht und Märchen "
Location: In person: Freie Universität Berlin, Hörsaal 2, "Rostlaube", Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin Online: Access livestream via the link in the program on the homepage.
WORKSHOP The Fable in Premodern Arabic 'Popular' Tradition, by U. Marzolph, Göttingen
Workshop within the research project Kalīla and Dimna – ALC/AnonymClassic
Location: Kleine Fächer/"Holzlaube" , Fabeckstraße 23/25, R.-1.1062 (souterrain)
TALK Persian Tales, Then and Now, by Pegah Khadish
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – ALC/AnonymClassic
TALK Träume: Imaginiertes Herrschaftswissen, by Rebecca Sauer, Zürich, and Beatrice Gruendler
Dahlem Humanities Center lecture series Offener Hörsaal: Was kommt? Projekte, Renaissancen, Latenzen.
Location: In person: Freie Universität Berlin, Hörsaal 1b, "Rostlaube", Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin Online: Access livestream via the link in the program on the DHC page.
TALK Scriptio buddhica, interpretatio islamica – Buddhist Sūtras Translated in Rašīd al-Dīn's Ǧāmiʿ al-Tawārīḫ by Chia-Wei LIN
Chia Wei LIN from Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Lehrstuhl für Indogermanistik, shares her research with the Berlin team in the Research Colloquium, "Kalīla and Dimna – ALC/AnonymClassic."
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.
COLLOQUIUM Kalīla and Dimna – ALC/AnonymClassic
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – ALC/AnonymClassic
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 23/25, Dahlem Room -1.1062 (souterrain), or remote participation via WebEx.
COLLOQUIUM/WORKSHOP Discussing Codicology in Kalīla and Dimna
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – ALC/AnonymClassic
TALK Calila e Dimna and Alfonso the Wise, by Ulrike Becker, Bonn
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 23/25, Room 1.1062, or remote participation via WebEx.
MOSUL 2023: Report on an Extraordinary Journey – Images and Impressions
Location: Freie Universität Berlin "Holzlaube", Kleine Fächer Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem Room 1.1062 (meeting room 1st floor) For hybrid participation please use our WebEx Link: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=mea81b754da30602a71c3aea60d37fc96 No registration is required.
TALK On the History of Arabic Narrative, by Said Yaktine, Rabat
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – ALC/AnonymClassic
CSI'S MONDAY MAJLIS: "Prosimetrum in Naṣr Allāh Munshī’s Kalīla and Dimna" — Theodore Beers
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)
CSI'S MONDAY MAJLIS: "Kalīla and Dimna and the Anthological Epistemology of adab" — Johannes Stephan
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)
CSI'S MONDAY MAJLIS: "Miscarriage of Justice and Dissenting Re(d)actions in Kalīla wa-Dimna" — Beatrice Gründler
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)
TALK The Anonymous Anthologist, by Beatrice Gruendler
Leiden University (hybrid).
CONFERENCE: Wisdom literature in the Islamicate Middle Ages
The conference is organized on the occasion of the bestowing of an honorary doctorate in Oriental Manuscript Studies on AnonymClassic PI, Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gruendler.
Location: Gravesteen (Room), Pieterskerkhof 6, 2311 SR Leiden
"Wisdom between Practice and Philosophy in 'Kalila and Dimna'" — Beatrice Gründler
AnonymClassic PI, Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gründler presents a paper entitled "Wisdom between Practice and Philosophy in 'Kalila and Dimna'" in the "Early Science in Conversation" seminar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science .
Location: SR 215, MPIWG, Boltzmannstr. 22 (Hybrid)
TALK Seriality, Plot Similarity, and Transmission History. A Textstatistical Approach to the Analysis of the German Sieben Weise Meister – Nico Kunkel
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – ALC/AnonymClassic
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 23/25, Room 1.1062, or remote participation via WebEx.
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 Opportunist or Subversive: Women’s “Wiles” vs. “Agency” in Ottoman Prose Fiction – N. İpek Hüner Cora
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 23/25, Room 1.1062, or remote participation via WebEx.