All lectures start at 16:15.

Program:

28.04.2021

Arabic and Aramaic in Anatolia

• Otto Jastrow (Tallinn University): "Periphery of the Periphery - Remarks on qǝltu-Arabic dialects of Anatolia"
• Gabriel Biţună (University of Bucharest): "Siirti Arabic – A prolific Anatolian dialect"
• Paul M. Noorlander (University of Cambridge): "Neo-Aramaic and Neo-Arabic dialects entangled in Southeastern Anatolia and Northwestern Mesopotamia"

https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=ma7bba2df10e0507f40e903516530d57e
Meeting number: 121 181 5479
Password: swCM442Marb

05.05.2021
Insubordination in Semitic Languages

• Michael Waltisberg (Heidelberg University): "Assessing insubordination for Semitic linguistics"
• Grace Park (FU Berlin): "Stand-alone nominalization in Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic"
• Fabio Gasparini (FU Berlin): "Stand-alone nominalization in Modern South Arabian"

https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m67732e8086e452c85a976c476a48ab98
Meeting number: 121 592 7084
Password: uiYDPpCk283

12.05.2021
Romance languages and Maghrebi Arabic dialects in contact

• Ángeles Vicente (University of Zaragoza): "The interaction between Spanish and Moroccan Arabic: A relationship of several centuries"
• Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (University of Vienna): "it-tǟlīfūn ysōni w-il-firšēṭa fi-l-kūžīna: Romance influence on the Tunisian lexicon"
• Felipe Francisco (FU Berlin): "A quest for Portuguese loanwords in Moroccan Arabic"

https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m86ffc4c685d5a9476a8f140284381440
Meeting number: 121 818 6436
Password: eWgzZdeX842

19.05.2021
Grammatical traditions in contact: Studies on the Arabic, Greek and Syriac traditions

• Margherita Farina (CNRS): "Syriac metalinguistic terminology between 6th and 9th cent.: Some open issues"
• Simona Olivieri (FU Berlin): "Assessing influences in the early Arabic linguistic tradition"
• Nadia Vidro (University College London): "A book on Arabic inflexion according to the system of the Greeks: A lost work by Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq"

https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m014a384d1604e0890c0630ff96676e7f
Meeting number: 121 928 7329
Password: pSvg6BYnU53

02.06.2021
Lexikographie und Wörterbucharbeit in der Semitistik

• Werner Arnold (Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg): "Alphabetisch oder nach Wurzeln? Überlegungen zum Ordnen des Neuwestaramäischen"
• Zafer Youssef (FU Berlin): "Korpusbasiertes Wörterbuch der syrisch-arabischen Dialekte - Bericht über den Stand"
• Stephan Procházka (University of Vienna) & Karlheinz Mörth (ACDH-CH): "The VICAV Damascus dictionary: Compiling a multi-purpose digital dictionary"

https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m6814a1cef8533c8bd871636f4dfe533a
Meeting number: 121 721 0704
Password: CHyiDjEe533

09.06.2021
Jacob of Serugh and his reception in non-Syriac traditions

• Tamara Pataridze (University of Louvain): "Crossing boundaries: The reception of Jacob of Serugh in Georgian milieus"
• Andy Hilkens (Goethe University Frankfurt): "Jacob of Serugh in the Armenian tradition"
• Ted Erho (LMU Munich): "Jacob of Serugh's homilies in medieval and modern Ethiopia"
• Vasiliki Chamourgiotaki (FU Berlin): "The Arabic reception of Jacob of Serugh. A focus on the Sinaitic manuscripts"

https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m6b31bac0a45e1f8b957cceaa34b42427
Meeting number: 121 428 2032
Password: uFMQMqBP229

16.06.2021
Syriac and Aramaic Studies in the Digital Age

• Anna-Simona Barbara Üzel (FU Berlin): "The first treatise of Bar Ṣalībī against the Nestorians"
• Nikita Kuzin (FU Berlin): "Corpus and lexicography tools for the Ṭuroyo studies"
• Nicolas Atas (FU Berlin): "The PoS-tagged Syriac Corpus of the GREgORI Project"

https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m8441126ada0cac8a1e3c5c517cc2e030
Meeting number: 121 821 2352
Password: G3tmadUUP26

07.07.2021
Die Sprachpolitik der aramäischen/assyrischen Organisationen in Deutschland bezüglich des Neuaramäischen

• Aziz Said (Berlin): "Die Position des Zentralverbands der Assyrischen Vereinigungen in Deutschland (ZAVD)"
• Fadi Korkes (Würzburg): "Die Position der Föderation Suryoye Deutschland (HSA)"

https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=mfe0603b5fa8974290c27d5665a4bfe90
Meeting number: 121 719 4646
Password: WAhtDJyq938

Participation

All sessions will take place via Cisco Webex, for which we recommend using the desktop application (Cisco Webex Meetings) rather than the browser application.

Lectures start at 16.15 CEST. Each presentation will be of 20 minutes (15 minutes for the presentations on June 9th, 2021), and at the end of the session we will open the floor for a general Q&A session.

Contact:
Simona Olivieri
Grace Jeongyeon Park