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.
The research week culminates in a two-day-workshop on October 27–28, 2022. For details see the following website: https://www.theobeers.com/ajam-session/about/.
DJHP guests:
The guests for this DJHP project are Prof. Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila of the University of Edinburgh, Dr. James White of the University of Oxford, and Dr. Yoones Dehghani Farsani of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
Prof. J. Hämeen-Anttila is a major figure in the fields of classical Arabic literature and Islamic studies. One of his areas of specialization is translation and textual transmission from Middle Persian to Arabic to New Persian in the medieval period.
Dr. J. White held a lectureship in Persian language and literature at Oxford, and pusues a specialization in literary networks bridging Arabic and Persian, especially in the early modern period.
Dr. Y. Dehghani Farsani is an Arabic and Persian philologist, as well as an experienced codicologist, whose research focuses on “flexible textual traditions” across the medieval Near East and Central Asia. His interests also include literary cross-pollination between Chinese and Arabic.
The Dahlem Junior Host Program (DJHP)
With its Dahlem Junior Host Program, the Dahlem Humanities Center supports young humanities scholars who would like to invite guest researchers from Germany or abroad to Freie Universität Berlin. The program enables them to host scholars whose research is of central interest to their own projects. The guests can be researchers at the same career level as their hosts or senior scholars. Read more...
Time & Location
Oct 27, 2022 - Oct 28, 2022
Room 2.2051, Holzlaube, Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin
Further Information
A link to an online meeting will be available upon request. Please contact Theodore Beers to be added to the list of guests/remote participants. The meeting link will be generated a few days ahead of the event.