Events Archive 2024
TALK: To Render Fables Poetic: On the sources of Qāni‘ī Ṭūsī’s Versification of Kalīla and Dimna — Theodore S. Beers
Premodern Islamicate World Series, Kevorkian Center, New York University
Location: Dept. of New Eastern Studies, Hagop Kevorkian Center, NYU online participation via ZOOM; 12.30pm local time/18:30pm MET
*KALIMAT EVENT* MESA PANEL: Arabic Literary Terms – Changing Semantics between the Classical Period and Modernity, convened by J. Stephan
Panel at MESA 2024 Annual Meeting (hybrid participation)
Location: MESA - Middle East Studies Organisation. Hybrid participation upon registration. Friday, November 15, at 17:30h CET (i.e. 11:30h local US time).
TALK: “Tell me a parable about kings and their assistants”. Political Allegories and Statecraft in Kalīla wa-Dimna. — Isabel Toral
Stories to Connect: Stories and History in the Islamicate World . A workshop in honour of Robert Irwin; Corpus Christi College, Oxford. 27 September 2024.
TALK The King of the Mice — B. Gruendler, Kh. Khalfallah
GLOBAL FABLES, online workshop University of Kent
Location: Online workshop. Registration and link: k.nagai@kent.ac.uk
TALK: Mind your table-manners! Social etiquette and disgusting food consumption in adab literature — Isabel Toral
UEAI-Panel: Senses and Perception in the Premodern Islamic World
Location: 31st Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI 31), 9-14 September 2024. Granada, Spain
TALK: The Textual Tradition of Kalīla and Dimna: Impulses and Differences — Beatrice Gruendler
31st Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI 31) Granada, 9-14 September 2024
Location: 31st Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI 31), 9-14 September 2024. Granada, Spain
TALK The Muslim and Christian Arabic Versions of the Buddha Legend and its Trans-Religious Reception History — Isabel Toral
Textual Transmission in the Islamic Manuscript Age. On the Variance, Reception, and Usage of Arabic and Persian Works from the Middle East to the Indian Subcontinent. Convenors: Ph. Bockholt, Univ. Münster and Yul Kanda, Univ. Tokyo. Panel 3: Transmission of Religious Texts.
Location: Der Vortrag findet in Präsenz statt. Universität Münster Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft: www.uni-muenster.de/arabistikislam
TALK: An Arabic “Book” That Moves: Kalīla and Dimna — Beatrice Gruendler
"From Practices to Things: First Books in the Ancient World" , conference convened by the International Center for the Study of Ancient Text Cultures, Renmin University of China, Suzhou campus, August 28–29, 2024
Location: in person presentation, Suzhou, China
TALK: Reassessing the Sources of Qāni‘ī Ṭūsī’s Versification of Kalīla and Dimna (ca. 658/1260) — Theodore S. Beers
Fourteenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City
Location: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Mexico City, Mexico
TALK: Elusive Justice: Rewriting the Chapter of ‘Dimna’s Trial’ in Kalīla and Dimna — Beatrice Gruendler
Fourteenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City
Location: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Mexico City, Mexico
WORKSHOP: Jackals/Foxes at Court – French, Arabic, Persian
Three-hour workshop, hybdrid (attendance in presence or online)
Location: Department of History and Cultural Studies, Arabic Studies. "Holzlaube", Fabeckstrasse 23/25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem. Room 1.1062 (first floor, central corridor)
VORTRAG: Die "Nabatäische Landwirtschaft" (Bagdad, 10. Jh.) und andere Pseudoübersetzungen: Was sie uns zu Übersetzungen sagen — Isabel Toral
Der verschobene Termin aus Januar 2024 wird jetzt nachgeholt. Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft Universität Münster
Location: Der Vortrag findet in Präsenz statt. Universität Münster Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft: www.uni-muenster.de/arabistikislam
TALK: Ghosts in the Archive: Recordings of North African Prisoners of War (1916-18), by Taoufik Ben Amor
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Faculty of History and Cultural Studies, Seminar of Semitic and Arabic Studies. "Holzlaube" building, Fabeckstr. 23/l25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem. Room: 1.1062
Wissenschaftsdiplomatie – Was kann Universität in Zeiten von sich verschärfenden Konflikten leisten? Prof. Dr. H. Wendt, Univ. Graz
Vortrag mit anschließender kritischer Diskussion
Location: Raum -1.2009 (Großer Hörsaal) FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Arabistik. Holzlaube, Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
TALK The Manuscript Corpus of the Majmaʿ al-Gharāʾib: A Case Study in Textual Transmission — Guglielmo Zucconi
Research colloquium Beatrice Gruendler
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Seminar for Semitic and Arabic Studies Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem Room –1.1062 (souterrain), or remote participation via WebEx.
TALK Arabische Fürstentümer im Spannungsfeld zwischen Rom und Iran: Ein Fall von Konfliktmanagement? — Isabel Toral
STREIT UND GEWALT - Öffentliche Ringvorlesung der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen und Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
Location: August-Wilhelm-Universität Göttingen Aula am Wilhelmsplatz und per Videomitschnitt/Mediathek
DJHP WORKSHOP: Chrysopoetic Recipes and Chemical Theory in Medieval Greek and Arabic Texts, convened by L. Rau and A.M. Roberts
DJHP - Dahlem Junior Host Program 2024
Location: Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums Arnimallee 10, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem in person participation
TALK Chrysopoetic Hermeneutics in Byzantium and the Islamic World and Their Place in the History of Chemistry - Alexandre M. Roberts
Keynote of the first CEREAE annual conference 2024, hybrid
Location: Hybrid participation, registration fee 15 Australian Dollars.
TALK: Manuscript Sources for the Early Modern Orientalist Reception of Kalīla wa-Dimna — Paul M. Babinski
Research colloquium Beatrice Gruendler
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Seminar for Semitic and Arabic Studies Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem Room –1.1062 (souterrain), or remote participation via WebEx.
CHRYSOPOETICS: The Commentary of Olympiodoros the Alchemist: A Puzzle to be Assembled. by Cristina Viano, CNRS/Sorbonne, Paris (prequel)
CHRYSOPOETICS: Workshop with the Dahlem Junior Host Program, convened by Leonie Rau and Alexandre Roberts
Location: Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums Arnimallee 10, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem in person and hybrid participation via WebEx
TALK Das Maß des Ungesagten. Die klassische Qaside — Beatrice Gründler
Ruhm. Transformationen eines antiken Ideals in der Literatur und Kultur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit. Tagung LMU München, 11.-13. April 2024.
Location: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Veranstaltung in Präsenz.
TALK Kalīla wa-Dimna: Book or Textual Tradition? (lecture in two parts) — B. Gruendler, Kh. Khalfallah
CONFERENCE: Emerging Book Cultures in Asia and the Middle East: Materiality, Paratexts, Practices. University of Colorado, Boulder/Texas, USA
Location: in person presentation, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder/Texas
TALK: LLM‐Enhanced Software Development for Overcoming the Multi‐Decade Digital Disruption of (Arabic) Textual Scholarship – Th. S. Beers & M. Kozae
Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, workshop "Scholarly Editions of Right-to-Left script Texts"
Location: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, hybrid participation.
TALK: Versions of “Dimna’s Trial” in Kalīla and Dimna as a spectrum of legal and ethical positions — Beatrice Gruendler
American Oriental Society, AOS annual conference 2024, Chicago.
Location: in person presentation, AOS annual conference 2024, Chicago.
TALK: Owls and Crows in Naṣr Allāh Munshī’s Kalīla and Dimna, by Theodore S. Beers
Location: AAS 2024 annual conference, Seattle, Wisconsin/USA Sessions scheduled to take place March 14-17 2024, Seattle Convention Center and Sheraton Grand Seattle Hotel.
TALK: The Political Fairytale: Little Red Riding Hood in Palestine, by Loaay Wattad
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 23/25, Dahlem Room -1.1062 (souterrain), or remote participation via WebEx.
TALK: Al-Jildaki, the Hierotechnical Tradition, and the Rhetoric of a Chemical Commentary, by Alexandre M. Roberts
Dr. Alexandre M. Roberts gives a talk on Nihāyat al-ṭalab fī sharḥ al-Muktasab , a commentary on a single, concise treatise on gold-making, by the fourteenth-century scholar ʿIzz al-Dīn Aydamir ibn ʿAlī ibn Aydamir al-Jildakī.
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 23/25, Dahlem Room -1.1062 (souterrain), or remote participation via WebEx.
TALK: The Poetry of Arab Women in the Modern Era — a prosodical inquiry into the reasons WHY?, by Maysoon Shibi
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik, Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem Room -1.1062 (souterrain), or remote participation via WebEx.
TALK: An Adīb and His Poet of Choice: Naṣr Allāh Munshī’s (fl. ca. 540/1145–6) Quotations of Sanāʾī Ghaznavī (d. ca. 525/1131), by Theodore S. Beers
Location: Hybrid event, please see flyer for registration link
NEUER TERMIN / VORTRAG: Die "Nabatäische Landwirtschaft" (Bagdad, 10. Jh.) und andere Pseudoübersetzungen: Was sie uns zu Übersetzungen sagen — Isabel Toral
Der Termin ist verschoben auf voraussichtlich Sommersemester 2024. Wintervortragsreihe, Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft Universität Münster
Location: Der Vortrag findet in Präsenz statt. Universität Münster Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft: www.uni-muenster.de/arabistikislam
+++CtG EVENT+++ ROUND TABLE: Book Objects at the Crossroads of Bibliography and Philology
Location: online event, see flyer for registration link
TALK: Al-Fārābī’s Kitāb al-šiʿr. Preliminary remarks on the Arabic text and its Hebrew translation — M. Zarantonello and V. Chamourgiotaki
Research Colloquium – ALC/AnonymClassic
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 23/25, Dahlem Room -1.1063 (souterrain), or remote participation via WebEx.
RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gründler und Team
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 23/25, Dahlem Room -1.1062 (souterrain), or remote participation via WebEx.
TALK: What Was Fictionality in Arabic? Answers from Ibn Sīnā, Ibn Rushd, and Ibn Ṭumlūs — Johannes Stephan
MLA 2024 convention, Philadelphia
Location: in person presentation, MLA convention 2024, Philadelphia.
TALK: Kitāb Bilawhar wa-Būḏāsaf and Early Arabic Book Printing: Ms. 1633 of the Hamdani Collection Revisited, by Kirill Dmitriev
Dr. Kirill Dmitriev of the Department of Arabic and Persian, University of St Andrews, discusses his work on the book of Bilawhar wa-Būḏāsaf and early Arabic book printing with project partners, students and the Arabic Studies research team.
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 23/25, Dahlem Room -1.1063 (souterrain), or remote participation via WebEx.
WORKSHOP: Dimitri Gutas zur arabischen Weisheitsliteratur
Location: FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik "Holzlaube", Raum 1.1062 (1. OG) Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin
VORTRAG Alexander in der Texttradition von Kalila und Dimna, Beatrice Gründler
Offener Hörsaal: " Unterseeboote, Flugmaschinen und nackte Philosophen: Das Nachleben Alexanders des Großen zwischen Macht und Märchen "
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Hörsaal 2, "Rostlaube", Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin; für Livestream und Mediathek siehe Homepage
TALK Träume: Imaginiertes Herrschaftswissen, by Rebecca Sauer, Zürich, and Beatrice Gruendler
Dahlem Humanities Center lecture series Offener Hörsaal: Was kommt? Projekte, Renaissancen, Latenzen.
Location: In person: Freie Universität Berlin, Hörsaal 1b, "Rostlaube", Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin Online: Access livestream via the link in the program on the DHC page.