The AnonymClassic research colloquium goes on during summer 2020, in very much the same spirit. 

The format stays quite unchanged, albeit a little shortened in time. Team, students and guests shall meet on the screen every Thursday from 13:00 to 14:00 hrs (CEST, no academic quarter) to focus their work on manuscript editing and research topics. Both AnonymClassic team members and project guests present their ongoing research for critical discussion, while also reflecting on methodological approaches and DH issues. Colleagues, visiting scholars, and students of Arabic studies or related disciplines are cordially invited to participate. 

The current situation provides us with quite a unique and unexpected chance: we especially welcome researchers based elsewhere than Berlin to join this term’s sessions. This, we hope, may partly make up for many a personal encounter that had to be postponed. And we might just use this makeshift pilot experiment to find out about digital exchange formats to adopt in the future. Please be heartily invited to join us for any one (or more) sessions – and to maybe then regularly visit us after this summer, too. 

For registration link and reading materials, kindly write a message to: isabel.toral@fu-berlin.de.

For the option of students’ credits and registration to Blackboard, please see 
https://www.fu-berlin.de/vv/de/lv/605811?query=gruendler+beatrice&sm=528624)

Calendar

Session 1, Thurs, April 23, 2020, 12.15hrs

Beatrice Gruendler & Isabel Toral – introduction to a digital summer term.

James C. White (Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship Literary Migrations: Arabic and Persian Poetry around the Arabian Sea, 1600 – 1700) – Travelling in India: report on Indian libraries. 

Session 2, Thurs, April 30, 2020

Marwa M. Ahmed – The AnonymClassic Preview Edition: Overview of web development and the Edition Database " 
[update 16.6.2020, MA]

Ruslan Pavlyshyn – Some Notes on the Slavic Versions of Kalīla and Dimna. 

Session 3, Thurs, May 07, 2020

Rachel Peled Cuartas (University of Alcala, Spain) – Kalila ve-Dimna, Hebrew Versions I.

A rigorous investigation of Kalila ve-Dimna’s Hebrew sheds light on the evolution of this collection of frame-stories in other languages, both oriental and occidental. A pioneer critical edition is currently in development by the Alcala team under the guidance of R. Peled Cuartas. Much work remains to be done in reconstructing the transmission history of the Hebrew Kalila ve-Dimna, in addition to recapturing information concerning the two versions of the text and manuscript copies of them.

Session 4, Thurs, May 14, 2020

Rachel Peled Cuartas – Kalila ve-Dimna, Hebrew Versions II. Q&A: follow-up discussion of session I and outlook on further research.

Session 5, Thurs, May 28, 2020

Johannes Stephan – The Reading Group online: a Frame of Work for the Framing Narratives conference in November 2020. 

Session 6, Thurs, June 4, 2020

Khouloud Khalfallah – Corpus Building: there is a lot to say about manuscripts – and there are a lot of them, too.

Rima Redwan – How Images Tell Tales.

Session 7: Thurs, June 11, 2020

Jan J. van Ginkel – Findings and Comments on the Syriac Tradition.

Session 8: Thurs, June 18, 2020

Theodore S. Beers – Persian and Kalīla and Dimna: Together from the Start. 

Session 9: Thurs, June 25, 2020

Yoones Dehghani Farsani – Networks of Iranian and Arab Merchants in South East Asia between the 6th and 11th Centuries.

Session 10: Thurs, July 2, 2020

Claudia Päffgen – As clever as a hare and as chatty as a bird – Teaching and Learning Arabic as a Foreign Language with Kalīla wa-Dimna.

Session 11: Thurs, July 9, 2020

Vasiliki Chamourgiotaki – Stefanites kai Ichnelates: the Greek Tradition.

Session 12: Thurs, July 16, 2020

AnonymClassic Team – Open Mic Session. Critical evaluation on the Digital Semester, future formats and old school skills.

Session 13: Thurs, Sept 10, 2020

Beatrice Gruendler – Close Reading Session: Three versions of Dove, Fox and Heron I

Session 14: Thurs, Sept 17, 2020

Beatrice Gruendler – Close Reading Session: Three versions of Dove, Fox and Heron II + Four versions of Two Kingfishers and Whimbrel I

Session 15: Thurs, Sept 24, 2020

Isabel Toral – Close Reading Session: Four versions of Two Kingfishers and Whimbrel II