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TALK Kalīla wa-Dimna: Book or Textual Tradition? (lecture in two parts) — B. Gruendler, Kh. Khalfallah

CONFERENCE: Emerging Book Cultures in Asia and the Middle East: Materiality, Paratexts, Practices. University of Colorado, Boulder/Texas, USA

Location: in person presentation, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder/Texas

Apr 05, 2024 - Apr 07, 2024

TALK: Manuscript Sources for the Early Modern Orientalist Reception of Kalīla wa-Dimna — Paul M. Babinski

Research colloquium Beatrice Gruendler

Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Seminar for Semitic and Arabic Studies Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem Room –1.1062 (souterrain), or remote participation via WebEx.

Apr 25, 2024 | 12:15 PM

Overview Past Events

For all events since project start, visit yearly event archives here.

Jan 01, 2030 - Dec 31, 2030

TALK: LLM‐Enhanced Software Development for Overcoming the Multi‐Decade Digital Disruption of (Arabic) Textual Scholarship – Th. S. Beers & M. Kozae

Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, workshop "Scholarly Editions of Right-to-Left script Texts"

Location: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, hybrid participation.

Mar 22, 2024 | 06:30 PM

TALK: Versions of “Dimna’s Trial” in Kalīla and Dimna as a spectrum of legal and ethical positions — Beatrice Gruendler

American Oriental Society, AOS annual conference 2024, Chicago.

Location: in person presentation, AOS annual conference 2024, Chicago.

Mar 22, 2024

TALK: Owls and Crows in Naṣr Allāh Munshī’s Kalīla and Dimna, by Theodore S. Beers

Location: AAS 2024 annual conference, Seattle, Wisconsin/USA Sessions scheduled to take place March 14-17 2024, Seattle Convention Center and Sheraton Grand Seattle Hotel.

Mar 16, 2024

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.

Dec 07, 2023 | 12:00 PM c.t.

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

Nov 30, 2023 - Dec 01, 2023

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

Nov 30, 2023 - Dec 01, 2023

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)

Nov 21, 2023 | 06:00 PM s.t.

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

Nov 03, 2023 | 11:00 AM s.t.

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.

Sep 14, 2023 - Feb 29, 2024

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.

Sep 14, 2023 - Feb 16, 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)

Sep 14, 2023 - Feb 16, 2024

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

Jun 29, 2023 - Jun 30, 2023

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

Jun 19, 2023 | 07:00 PM

TUTORING Scholarly Writing – Beatrice Gruendler and Jan J. van Ginkel

Focus Junior Researchers

Location: Freie Universität Berlin Fabeckstraße 23/25, Room -1.0063 (souterrain)

Jun 01, 2023 - Jul 20, 2023

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.

May 25, 2023 | 06:00 PM c.t.

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)

May 25, 2023 | 12:00 PM c.t. - 04:00 PM

TALK Persian Tales, Then and Now, by Pegah Khadish

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – ALC/AnonymClassic

May 11, 2023 | 12:00 PM c.t.

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.

May 10, 2023 | 04:00 PM c.t.

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."

Apr 27, 2023 | 12:00 PM c.t.

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.

Apr 19, 2023 - Jul 26, 2023

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.

Apr 17, 2023 - Jul 27, 2023

COLLOQUIUM/WORKSHOP Discussing Codicology in Kalīla and Dimna

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – ALC/AnonymClassic

Mar 30, 2023 - Mar 31, 2023

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.

Mar 16, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM

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.

Mar 09, 2023 | 06:00 PM c.t.

TALK On the History of Arabic Narrative, by Said Yaktine, Rabat

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – ALC/AnonymClassic

Mar 09, 2023 | 12:00 PM c.t.

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)

Feb 27, 2023 | 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM

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)

Feb 20, 2023 | 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM

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)

Feb 13, 2023 | 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Feb 09, 2023 | 05:15 PM

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

Feb 09, 2023 | 09:30 AM - 06:30 PM

"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)

Jan 27, 2023 | 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM

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.

Jan 26, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM

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.

Jan 25, 2023 - Mar 01, 2023

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.

Jan 19, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM

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.

Dec 16, 2022 | 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM

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.

Dec 05, 2022 - Jan 16, 2023

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

Dec 01, 2022 | 12:00 PM c.t.

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

Nov 30, 2022 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 08:00 PM

PRESENTATION Eine uneigentliche Anthologie: Kalila und Dimna als philosophisches Hausbuch – Beatrice Gruendler

Keynote/Abendvortrag, Universität Innsbruck

Location: Universität Innsbruck, Österreich

Nov 24, 2022 | 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM

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

Nov 10, 2022 | 12:00 PM c.t. - 02:00 PM

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

Oct 27, 2022 - Oct 28, 2022

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)

Oct 24, 2022 | 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM

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

Oct 14, 2022 - Oct 16, 2022

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

Oct 11, 2022 - Oct 14, 2022

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

Oct 02, 2022 | 06:00 PM

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

Sep 29, 2022 - Sep 30, 2022

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

Sep 23, 2022 | 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM

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

Sep 22, 2022 | 04:00 PM s.t.

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

Sep 19, 2022 | 03:00 PM - 09:00 PM

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

Sep 15, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM

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

Sep 15, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

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

Sep 15, 2022 | 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM

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

Sep 15, 2022 | 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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

Sep 13, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM

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

Sep 13, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

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

Sep 13, 2022 | 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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

Sep 13, 2022 | 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

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

Sep 13, 2022 | 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

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

Sep 13, 2022 | 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM

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

Sep 13, 2022 | 09:00 AM - 01:00 PM

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

Sep 13, 2022 | 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM

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.

Aug 01, 2022 - Aug 31, 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

Jul 07, 2022 - Jul 09, 2022

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

Jul 06, 2022 | 11:05 AM - 11:25 AM
Jul 04, 2022 | 11:15 AM - 12:45 PM

WORKSHOP: B. Gruendler at CSMC Manuscript workshop

Location: The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Studies (CSMC), Universität Hamburg.

Jun 16, 2022 - Jun 18, 2022

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

Jun 09, 2022 | 12:00 PM

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

May 20, 2022 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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

May 19, 2022 | 11:15 AM - 02:00 PM

TALK Software Use in AnonymClassic – Mahmoud Kozae

Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch

Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

May 17, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM

EXHIBITION Kalila wa Dimna – Ancient Tales for Troubled Times

Location: P21 GALLERY, 21 Chalton Street, London NW1

May 12, 2022 - Jun 11, 2022

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.

May 05, 2022 | 12:00 PM

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.

Apr 21, 2022 - Jul 28, 2022

READING GROUP LHTC Keyword Editorial Meeting “Framing Narratives” (hybrid)

AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: LHTC Keyword Editorial Meeting

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Apr 14, 2022 | 01:00 PM - 07:00 PM

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

Mar 09, 2022 | 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM

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

Feb 23, 2022 | 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM

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.

Feb 18, 2022 | 05:00 PM s.t.

READING GROUP Ḥarīriyya’s Multiple Frames: Concealing, Traveling, and Exhortation

AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives. Chair Asmaa Essakouti

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Feb 09, 2022 | 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM

TALK AnonymClassic's Digital Tools – Marwa M. Ahmed & Theodore S. Beers

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Feb 03, 2022 | 12:00 PM c.t.

READING GROUP Poetry and Narrativity

AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives. Chair Johannes Stephan

Location: WebEx Online Meeting

Jan 26, 2022 | 04:30 PM

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

Jan 20, 2022 | 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM

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

Jan 20, 2022 | 12:00 PM

TALK On Storytelling. Heba Tebakhi and Hanin Tarabay

Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic

Location: WebEx Online Meeting, registration via email

Jan 13, 2022 | 12:00 PM

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

Jan 12, 2022 | 04:30 PM

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

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