Events
TUTORING Scholarly Writing – Beatrice Gruendler and Jan J. van Ginkel
Focus Junior Researchers
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Fabeckstraße 23/25, Room -1.0063 (souterrain)
COLLOQUIUM Kalīla and Dimna – ALC/AnonymClassic
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – ALC/AnonymClassic
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 23/25, Dahlem Room -1.1063 (souterrain), or remote participation via WebEx.
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 hist work in 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, Dahlem Room -1.1063 (souterrain), or remote participation via WebEx.
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.
Overview Past Events
For all events since project start, visit yearly event archives here.
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: 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
LECTURE: “Las traducciones de Calila y Dimna”, by Isabel Toral
Prof. Dr. Isabel Toral, deputy PI of the AnonymClassic project, presents the first lecture in the The Toledo School of Translators (University of Castilla-La Mancha) lecture series about the study and dessimination of Kalila and Dimna.
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
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.
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.
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
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
READING GROUP Narrative as Framing: Narratio and Exordium in Classical Rhetorics
AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
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)
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.
CLOSING STATEMENT to Symposium Challenges for Research Integrity: Diversity and Universalism, Evidence and Reflexivity
OFFICIAL CLOSING REMARKS by PI B. Gruendler
READING GROUP Mustafa Kilani´s Contemporary Reverse Framing of Classical Texts
AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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.
Comparative Folk Narrative Research – Ulrich Marzolph
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: hybrid setting (please inquire via email)
Living Handbook of Temporal Communities: Discussion of proposals to the Keyword entry "Framing Narratives"
AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
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
Rudaki's Versification of Kalila wa-Dimna, session III – Francois de Blois
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
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
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.
Living Handbook of Temporal Communities: Discussion about the Keyword entry "Framing Narratives"
AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives
Location: WebEx Online Meeting