Prof. Dr. Anne Eusterschulte (Philosophy) and Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gründler (Arabic Studies) co-host the event on anthological types of text production. The workshop explores various textual procedures within a comparative context experts specializing in pre-modern, classical, and modern text cultures revise anthological formats that incorporate both images and text. Close case studies aim to examine these formats across different cultures and time periods.

The event is organized within RA3 „Future Perfect“, EXC 2020 Temporal Communities – Doing Literature in a Global Perspective, Research Project: Premodern Anthologies and the Selective Fictions of Tradition Building.

The explorative workshop is open to the general public, and may also be attended via WebEx

Link: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m64b1104244da07082bfc16690b507cd2

See here for the full programme.

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Speakers

Anne Eusterschulte / Beatrice Gründler: Opening and Introduction

Elisabeth Décultot / Martin Dönike (Halle): Exzerpte. Zur digitalen Erschließung und Edition einer besonderen Text-Bild-Konstellation – am Beispiel Johann Joachim Winckelmanns.

Johannes Stephan (FUB): Überlegungen zu einer anthologischen Epistemologie in der klassischen arabischen Literatur.

Theodore S. Beers (FUB): Arabic Anthologists' Discussion of Persian Poets.

Khouloud Khalfallah (FUB): Anthologizing Kalīla wa-Dimna: The Incipit of the First Risāla.

Jacqueline Vaintrub (Yale): The Character’s Voice in Anthologizing Practices in Biblical Poetry.

Eva Kiesele (FUB): Reading »anthology« dynamically. A workshop report from the talmudic laws of damages.

Glenn W. Most (Chicago/Berlin): Processes of Fragmentation and Collection of Ancient Greek Philosophy.

Christian Mauder (FUB): Collecting as a Social Practice: Reading the Accounts of the Salons of the Egyptian Sultan Qanisawh al-Ghawri (r. 1501-1516) as Anthologies.

Stefan Luckscheiter (BBAW): Schreibendes Lesen – lesendes Schreiben. Marginalien und Lesefrüchte bei Leibniz.

Eva-Maria Engelen (BBAW): Kurt Gödels Kunst des Notizbuchschreibens. Ein Werkstattbericht.

Ingrid Austveg Evans (Heidelberg, FUB): Updating the Canon in Fourteenth-Century Damascus: The Case of Ibn Nubāta al-Miṣrī's Debut Anthology.

Florentina Badalanova Geller (London): Tracing Flavius Josephus’ Writings in the Slavonic Intellectual Landscape (The Case of Judaean Antiquites).

Markham J. Geller (London): Physiognomic omens: a cryptic and unique Dead Sea Scroll as an example of transcultural perspective.

Isabel Toral (FUB): The Mutrib and other Anthologies in Al-Andalus.

Andreas Schmid (FSGS): Wann ist Afrika? Anthologien und die Literatur der kolonisierten Welt.