Events Archive 2021
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
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
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
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
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
Close-Reading Session – Isabel Toral
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Close-Reading Session – Isabel Toral
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Talk: Description du comportement, de Kalîla wa-Dimna à Stéphanites kai Ichnélates – Helene Condylis
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Poetics of Temporality – Hennig, Avanessian
AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Close-Reading Session – Isabel Toral
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Talk: Ibn Taymiyya, Alchemy, and the History of Science – Alexandre Roberts
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Stories from Elsewhere – Benjamin's Storyteller and Early Modern Travelogues
AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Panel V "Narratives" – Beatrice Gruendler, Johannes Stephan, Theodore Beers
Conference "How to End Things in Arabic Literature", June 4–6, 2021, American University of Beirut
Location: Online via Zoom.
Panel V "Narratives" – Beatrice Gruendler, Johannes Stephan, Theodore Beers
Conference "How to End Things in Arabic Literature", June 4–6, 2021, American University of Beirut
Location: Online via Zoom.
Close-Reading Session – Isabel Toral
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
RESCHEDULED Talk: Poetic Occasion as Reflected in a Sixteenth-Century Persian Anthology: The Tuḥfah-i Sāmī (ca. 1550) of Sām Mīrzā Ṣafavī – Theodore Beers
Workshop The Poetics of Occasional Literature in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond (11th to 17th c.): A Cross-Cultural Approach , Stockholm, Sweden, April 16–17, 2020
Location: The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities Villagatan 3, 114 32 Stockholm, Sweden
Rudaki's Versification of Kalila wa-Dimna, session II – Francois de Blois
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
...before one's very eyes – on "Referential Verisimilitude" (Claude Calame)
AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Rudaki's Versification of Kalila wa-Dimna, session I – Francois de Blois
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Paratexts (as Frames?) – G. Genette's concept
AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Talk: Can We Really Talk about Popular Literature? An Intercultural Reading of Mishle Shualim (Fox Tales) of Berechiah ha-Nakdan and the Hebrew Versions of Kalila and Dimna – Racel Peled (Universidad Alcalá de Henares, Spain)
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Close-Reading Session – Isabel Toral
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
TALK Arabische Buchkultur im 9. Jahrhundert – Beatrice Gruendler
Webinar-Reihe der Forschungsbibliothek Gotha zu orientalischen Handschriften
Modernity: Form and Content – S. Hafez' Arabic Narrative Discourse
AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Talk: Writing Arabic Literary History in the Deccan, ca. 1650 - 1700: From the Jāhiliyya to Kalīla. – James White
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Talk: "Ein gerechter Herrscher ist besser als fruchtbringender Regen". Arabische Fürstenspiegel als Textquelle für Herrscherkonstruktionen – Isabel Toral
Online workshop of Wissenschaftes Netzwerk "Kraftprobe Herrschaft. (Re)Konstruktionen von vormodernen Herrscherfiguren zwischen Herausforderung und Behauptung", 16.–17. April 2021.
Location: https://kraftprobe-herrschaft.uni-mainz.de/netzwerk
Semester Introduction: How to translate a Saint: the Story of Budasaf in Arabic and Persian tradition – Isabel Toral
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
New Ancient Voices – J. Joyce and M. Messadi
AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
POSTPONED 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 to October 2021.
Location: Leipzig University
International Online Workshop: The Umayyads from West to East: New Perspectives –
Organised by Javier Albarrán – Antonia Bosanquet – Elsa Cardoso – Isabel Toral; RomanIslam–Center for Comparative Empire andTranscultural StudiesUniversität Hamburg
Location: The conference will be transmitted online via ZOOM and external participants are welcome. Please contact Laura Donath (laura.donath@studium.uni-hamburg.de) by March 18/2021 to gain access to the link.
POSTPONED Talk: Collecting copies: types and arrangement – Beatrice Gruendler, Khouloud Khalfallah
Annual Codicology of Arabic Manuscripts workshop at the Rawafed Center for Studies and Researches in Maghreb Civilisation and Mediterranean Heritage at Fez, Morocco .
Location: Fez, Morocco
Multiple Framings – Bakhtin's Polyphony and Heteroglossia
AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Talk: The Perpetually Translated Kalīla and Dimna – Isabel Toral, Theo Beers
Retracing Connections, Greek and Byzantine Studies, Uppsala Universitet, spring semester 2021
Location: Via Zoom, contact milan.vukasinovic@lingfil.uu.se for details.
Panel: The Circulation of Knowledge between the Islamic Near East and India – Beatrice Gruendler
American Oriental Society 230th annual conference
Talk: Avicenna On the Relation between Poetry and Practical Philosophy – Ali Sakr
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Close Reading Session – Beatrice Gruendler
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Archetypes/Mythoi as Frames? – "Archetypical Criticism" by Northrop Frye
AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Talk: Once, when Seventy-Two Sects Met in an Indian Coffee House. How Mīrzā Āqā Khān Kermānī (d.1896) Reshaped Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s “Le café de Surate” into a Trans-Iranian Narrative – Roman Seidel
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Close Reading Session – Beatrice Gruendler
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
I needn't say anything... -- "Telling and Showing" by Wayne Booth
AnonymClassic Theory Reading Group: Framing Narratives
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Close Reading Session – Beatrice Gruendler
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Close Reading Session – Beatrice Gruendler
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
"Dieses Nebeneinanderhafte..." -- Order and Framing in al-Andalus (10th c.) and Paris (20th c.) Theory Reading Group Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Theory Reading Group Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
TALK: Catching a Text on the Move: Digital Philology in Kalila wa-Dimna, A Multiligual Work of Wisdom, by Beatrice Gruendler & AnonymClassic team
Lecture series "Digital Humanities im Gespräch" by the Dahlem Humanities Center
Talk: Tracing Kalila-wa Dimna tales in the Indian traditions – Florinda de Simini (University of Naples)
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Mise en x -- "Mise en cadre", by Werner Wolf
Theory Reading Group Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Another Text mouvant - the Futuh al-Sham ascribed to al-Waqidi – Yoones Farsani Dehghani
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting
Close Reading Session – Beatrice Gruendler
Research Colloquium Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
Location: WebEx Online Meeting