Past events
Anteilnahme und gegenseitiges Zuhören im Safe Space
mit Beatrice Gründler, Isabel Toral und Ruben Schenzle
Location: Studentischer Aufenthaltsaum Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik Holzlaube, Fabeckstraße 23/25, Raum 1.1015 (1. OG)
Klausur Geschichte und Gesellschaft II (Arabistik)
Location: 1.2001
"Raum" in der arabischen Literatur
Location: Im Salon der Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek – Blücherplatz 1 (U Hallesches Tor)
48h Neukölln – Postmigrantische Schreibwerkstatt
Location: In den Räumen von falschrum books – Böhmische Str. 16, 12055 Berlin
Lesung + Diskussion: Wie arabisch sind wir?
Location: Salon in der Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek Blücherplatz 1, 10961 Berlin (U Hallesches Tor)
Abschlusssitzung des Seminars "Arabischsein in Deutschland"
Location: großer Hörsaal -1.2009
musikalischen Abend von und mit Thaer Ayoub und Valérie Suty (CD- und Buchvorstellung)
Location: 2.2058
Talk: Ibn Wahbs Burhān: Philosophie zwischen falsafa und balāgha – Nadja Germann (Freiburg)
Location: 1.2001
Beatrice Gründler @ Promoting Open Science and Quality in Research. Examples of Good Practice and their Theoretical Background
Location: hybrid
Closing Remarks: Symposium Challenges for Research Integrity: Diversity and Universalism, Evidence and Reflexivity – Beatrice Gründler
Location: 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
MA Arabic Studies @ Master's Fair 2021
Location: You can log in to our presentation and Q&A session on April 23, 1:30 PM here: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=m6644b9e15f9a9e9a0e0b71f0a026ab49
Application period MA Arabic Studies (Arabistik)
start of studies 2021/22
Application period for the MA Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East (ISME)
start of studies 2021/22
Guest lecture: Mapping ʿUlūm al-Qurʾān
Samer Rashwani (University of Tübingen)
Location: ***The guest lecture is part of the course on “Practices of Arabic-Islamic Scholarship” given by Prof. Islam Dayeh (Winter Semester 20-21). If you would like to attend and receive the Webex link and reading material, please write to Prof. Islam Dayeh (islam.dayeh@fu-berlin.de). Only those who have registered will be allowed to attend. All lectures are in English.***
Guest lecture: Qur’anic hermeneutics and the logic of philology: Discovery and omission
Ahmad Khan (American University in Cairo)
Location: ***The guest lecture is part of the course on “Practices of Arabic-Islamic Scholarship” given by Prof. Islam Dayeh (Winter Semester 20-21). If you would like to attend and receive the Webex link and reading material, please write to Prof. Islam Dayeh (islam.dayeh@fu-berlin.de). Only those who have registered will be allowed to attend. All lectures are in English.***
Guest lecture: Arabic book culture in West Africa: on the Timbuktu writers and readers, 16th - 20th centuries
Shamil Jeppie (University of Cape Town / Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2020-21)
Location: ***The guest lecture is part of the course on “Practices of Arabic-Islamic Scholarship” given by Prof. Islam Dayeh (Winter Semester 20-21). If you would like to attend and receive the Webex link and reading material, please write to Prof. Islam Dayeh (islam.dayeh@fu-berlin.de). Only those who have registered will be allowed to attend. All lectures are in English.***
Vortrag: Wunsch und Zeit in Ibn Ṭufails Inselroman Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān – Ruben Schenzle
Workshop | Utopia and Idyll - Temporality of non-space and locus amoenus, 3./4.12.2020 – an online-workshop organized by Simon Godart (EXC2020, RA 3) and Andreas Strasser (Princeton University)
Location: The conference will be held online on the platform Webex.If you want to join in, please register with simon.godart@fu-berlin.de by 30 November 2020.
Online Talk: The Islamic Age of Communication – Beatrice Gruendler
NES Series #11, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton
Location: Online in Zoom (6 pm Berlin time!)
Q&A session as introduction to the master's programme Arabic Studies
Location: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=ma008bbc97131093eba5748c73d0238b8
Talk: Von Hafis zu Goethe – Beatrice Gruendler
Goethes West-östlicher Divan @ Frankfurther Goethe-Haus
Location: Akdadensaal im Frankfurter Goethe-Haus
Bewerbungsfrist BA Geschichte und Kultur des Vorderen Orients, Schwerpunkt Arabistik
mit Studienstart zum Wintersemester 2020/21
MA Arabic Studies @ Master's Fair 2020
Location: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=m82704b29fe0f56da0a14ae25cfff9d4b
Application period for the master's programme Arabic Studies
start of studies winter 2020/21
Framing Narratives – AnonymClassic Reading Group
Location: -1.1062 (Holzlaube, souterrain)
Framing Narratives – AnonymClassic Reading Group
Location: -1.1062 (Holzlaube, souterrain)
Lecture in German: "Der Philosoph als Autodidakt: Ibn Ṭufails Inselroman" (Patric O. Schaerer)
Location: 'Holzlaube' 1.2001
Lecture "Magical Realisim in Arabic Literature" (Prof. Dr. Xavier Luffin)
Location: KL 29/135
Reading Workshop Aristotle's Poetics
Location: -1.1062
Introduction to the MA Arabic Studies
Location: 1.1062
Introduction BA Arabic Studies
Location: 2.2063
Introduction eLearning platform for Arab media
Location: Raum L113 im Seminarzentrum der Silberlaube (Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26)
AnonymClassic @ Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2019
Location: Venue: Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin Room 1.2001
PalREAD @ Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2019
Location: Venue: Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin Room 1.2001
Lecture "Introduction to the study of Arabic medical manuscripts" (Dr. Ayman Yasin Atat)
Location: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Potsdamer Straße 33 Treffpunkt: Foyer, 14:25 Uhr
Bewerbungsfrist BA Geschichte und Kultur des Vorderen Orients, Schwerpunkt Arabistik
start of studies: winter 2019
Workshop: Jewish and Muslim Entangled Histories in Arabia, Yemen and the Indian Ocean (Islam Dayeh)
Location: 1.2052
Aristotle’s Poetics Close Reading Workshop
Location: 2.2051
Arabistik @ inFU:tage 2019
Location: Konferenzraum II Henry-Ford-Bau Garystr. 35 14195 Berlin
Lecture "Materialität und Lokalität post-kanonischer Hadith-Manuskripte" (Konrad Hirschler, Freie Universität Berlin)
Ein Vortrag der Veranstaltungsreihe "WissensFragen. Der SFB 980 im Gespräch mit ..." auf Einladung des Teilprojekts A08 "Frühislamische Koranwissenschaft im Licht spätantiker Kommentarkulturen" (Leitung: Dr. Nora Schmidt)
Location: Sitzungsraum der SFB-Villa, Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Lecture-cum-Seminar "The Lunar Zodiac in Arab Tradition" (Dan Varisco)
When Folk Astronomy crosses Paths with Formal Islamic Astronomy
Location: Room 2.2059 "Holzlaube" (2. OG) Fabeckstr. 23/25 14195 Berlin
Reading Iraqi poetry with Nada Al-Khawam
Location: 2.2059 2. OG Holzlaube Fabeckstr. 23/25 14195 Berlin
Application period master's programme Arabic Studies
start of studies: winter 2019
Corpus Coranicum Lecture: The origins and modifications of the blue Qur'an – Marcus Fraser (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
Location: BBAW Academy Building – Gendarmenmarkt Einstein Hall Jägerstraße 22-23 10117 Berlin
Evening lecture: The Leaven of Translation in the Rise of the Medieval West (of India) – Dimitri Gutas (Yale University / Einstein Visiting Fellow)
Keynote Lecture in the framework of the Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic project opening
Location: -1.2009 lecture hall 'Holzlaube' Fabeckstraße 23/25 14195 Berlin
Project Opening Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Iterative Translation, Indirect Transmission, and IT – convened by Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gruendler
Location: Seminarzentrum of Freien Universität Berlin 'Silberlaube' Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
MA Arabic Studies – introductory event
Location: 2.2051
BA Arabic Studies – introductory event
Location: 2.2058
Ahmad S. Dallal - "Islam without Europe. Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought" (Seminar)
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Fabeckstr. 23-25 14195 Berlin R. 2058
"Islam without Europe" - Public Lecture with Ahmad S. Dallal
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Fabeckstr. 23-25 14195 Berlin R. 2051
Lecture with Devin Stewart
Mapping the Transmission of Knowledge in Tenth-Century Baghdad: An Investigation of the Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim
Location: Holzlaube 1.2051
Public lecture "Unpacking Saadallah Wannous’ Private Library: On the (After)Lives of Books" (Sonja Mejcher-Atassi)
Location: 1.2051 "Holzlaube" Fabeckstr. 23–25 14195 Berlin
Public lecture "Lyrik als Fluchthelferin" (Stefan Weidner)
Location: 0.2051 "Holzlaube" Fabeckstr. 23–25 14195 Berlin
Learn Arabic in Cairo
Deadline!
ISAP VII Conference
Documents and Manuscripts of the Arab-Islamic World
Location: Tuesday: Bodemuseum - Gobelinsaal Wednesday: FU Berlin - Großer Hörsaal -1.2009 Thursday: Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, Auditorium Friday: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Einsteinsaal
Public lecture "War and Migration in the Contemporary Arabic Graphic Novel" (Rasha Chatta - EUME Fellow)
Location: 1.2051 "Holzlaube" Fabeckstr. 23/25
Public Lecture "From Forced Conversion to Marranism: Crypto-Jews (bildiyyīn) in Morocco and Their Fate" (Prof. Dr. Paul Fenton)
Location: Room 2.2063 "Holzlaube" Fabeckstr. 23–25
Public Lecture "Weaving Cultural Fragments: The Case of Palestinian Literature" (Refqa Abu Remaileh - FU Berlin)
Location: 1.2051 "Holzlaube" Fabeckstr. 23/25
Public Lecture "A Journey into Arab Children's Literature" (Esmail Nashif - Doha Institute of Graduate Studies)
Location: 1.2052
Public Lecture "Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary across a Millennium" (Joel Blecher - George Washington University)
Location: 2.2063 "Holzlaube" Fabeckstr. 23/25
Workshop "A Walter Benjamin Moment in Arab Thought?"
Location: Forum Transregionale Studien
Public Lecture "The socio-cultural life of Arabic manuscripts. Textual mobilities across the early modern Western Indian Ocean" (Christopher Bahl - SOAS)
Location: 2.2063 "Holzlaube" Fabeckstr. 23/25
Public Lecture "In Search of Orality within the Text" (Carl Davila)
Location: "Holzlaube" Raum 2.2059 (2. Obergeschoss) Fabeckstr. 23-25
Public Screening and Discussion "When Animals Appear"
Location: 2.2063 "Holzlaube" Fabeckstr. 23/25
Guest lecture "Preliminary Steps in Studying Late Ottoman-Arabic manuscripts" (Mykhaylo Yakubovych)
Location: 2.2063
Introduction to the BA programme History and Culture of the Near East, focus Area Arabic Studies winter term 2017/18
Location: 0.2001 Holzlaube Fabeckstr. 23-25
General introduction to BA History and Culture of the Near East (ALL focus areas) winter term 2017/18
Location: Lecture Hall A Henry Ford Building Gary-Str. 35-37
Introduction to the MA programme Arabic Studies winter term 2017/18
Location: 1.1062 (meeting room in the corridor of the Institute of Islamic Studies)
Introduction Arabic I for all BA-students of the first semester (Arabic Studies, Islamic Studies, Semitic Studies)
Location: Hörsaal 2 Silberlaube Habelschwerdter Allee 45 L29 Straße, in Nähe der Mensa 14195 Berlin
Exam "History and Societyx II"
Location: 0.2001
33rd German Oriental Studies Conference in Jena
With Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gruendler, Prof. Dr. Regula Forster, Colinda Lindermann and Ignacio Sanchez from the Seminar of Semitic and Arabic Studies.
Location: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Panel discussion Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gruendler
Location: Denkerei, Oranienplatz 2, 10999 Berlin
Department HistCult Semester Closing Ceremony Summer 2017
Hosted by the Institute of Islamic Studies!
Location: -1.2009 "großer Hörsaal"
International Conference "Arabic-Islamic Textual Practices in the Early Modern World"
Location: großer Hörsaal -1.2009 "Holzlaube" Fabeckstr. 23-25 14195 Berlin
Workshop "Nicephoris' Al-Qasida Al-Arminiyya" (Nizar F. Hermes)
Location: 2.2051 "Holzlaube" Fabeckstr. 23-25 12203 Berlin
Tutoring GeschKult's Night of Procrastinated Seminar Papers and Theses
Location: "Holzlaube" Fabeckstr. 23/25 14195 Berlin
International Week 2017
Location: Seminarzentrum "Rost- und Silberlaube"
Arabic Studies @ Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2017
Location: FU Berlin
Graduation celebration Middle East 2016/17
Location: Room 2.2058 (2nd floor) "Holzlaube" Fabeckstr. 23-25 14195 Berlin
Public lecture “Landscaping al-Ṣāliḥiyya: Arabic Prose Topographies 16th-18th Centuries” (Dana Sadji)
Location: 0.2051 "Holzlaube" Fabeckstr. 23/25 14195 Berlin
Reading session with Arab poets (18th Poetry Festival Berlin)
Location: 1.2001 "Holzlaube" Fabeckstr. 23/25 14195 Berlin
Two-week project with Dana Sajdi “Texts as Objects and Images”
Location: See description
Public Lecture "Thingness versus Substance: Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Metaphysics of Representation and the Problem of Identity and Difference" (Ahmed Abdel Meguid)
Location: 2.2063 "Holzlaube" Fabeckstr. 23-25 14195 Berlin
Public Lecture "The Qur’ān: A Book of Renaissance Europe" (Pier Mattia Tommasino)
Location: 2.2059 "Holzlaube" Fabeckstr. 23-25 14195 Berlin