Events
Events
Zukunftsphilologie is characterized by a multitude of event formats, such as the World Philologies seminar series, winter academies as well as conferences and workshops. You will find a collection of the program's events below. In the future, Zukunftsphilologie will host the World Philology Academy. Under different thematic scopes, the World Philology Academy aims at offering a forum for discussing critical and comparative perspectives while integrating textual scholarship and linguistic research from all over the world.
Thu 16 Jan 2014 | 15:00–17:00
Insistent Philological Reading: Concepts and History since Friedrich Schlegel
Christoph König (Universität Osnabrück); Chair: Markus Messling (Universität Potsdam)
Thu 16 Jan 2014 | 13:00–14:30
Critical Philology Reading Group
Text: Maurice Olender’s “The Languages of Paradise: Race, Religion and Philology in the 19th Century”
Sat 07 Dec 2013 | 09:00–19:00
Erudition and Commitment: A Celebration in Honor of Angelika Neuwirth
Islam Dayeh, Christian Junge, Georges Khalil, Barbara Winckler
Thu 05 Dec 2013 | 15:00–17:00
Linguistic Justice v. Linguistic Diversity
Jürgen Trabant (Freie Universität Berlin), Chair: Markus Messling (Universität Potsdam)
Wed 04 Dec 2013 | 10:00–12:00
Critical Philology Reading Group
Text: Gil Anidjar: Semites, Race, Religion, Language, Stanford University Press, 2007
Thu 21 Nov 2013 | 15:00–17:00
Die Semitische Unterscheidung
Gil Anidjar (Columbia University); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 07 Nov 2013 | 15:00–17:00
The Postcolonial Middle Ages: Problems and Perspectives
Andrew James Johnston (Freie Universität Berlin); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 31 Oct 2013 | 15:00–18:00
The Social Life of the Upanishads: Re-Transmissions and Re-Contextualisations, 1800-1939
Rajeshwari Mishka Sinha (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-2014); Chair: Thibaut d'Hubert (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-2014/ University of Chicago)
Thu 24 Oct 2013 | 16:00–19:00
The Bengal-Arakan Continuum and Cultural Awareness, 17th-18th CE
Thibaut d'Hubert (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-2014/University of Chicago); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 17 Oct 2013 | 19:00–21:00
Thu 27 Jun 2013 | 17:00–19:00
The Workings of Writing: Transitions to Literacy in 16th-17th Century Mesoamerican and Andean Historical Traditions
Federico Navarrete (National Autonomous University of Mexico); Chair: Murat Inan (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2012-2013)
Wed 19 Jun 2013 | 18:15–20:00
La fabrique des origines: philologies européennes entre science et religion | The Fabrication of Origins. European Philology Between Science and Religion
Maurice Olender (EHESS, Paris); Welcome by Joachim Küpper (Dahlem Humanities Center/Freie Universität Berlin); Introduction by Markus Messling (Universität …
Wed 19 Jun 2013 | 18:15–20:00
La fabrique des origines: philologies européennes entre science et religion | The Fabrication of Origins. European Philology Between Science and Religion
Maurice Olender (EHESS, Paris); Welcome by Joachim Küpper (Dahlem Humanities Center/Freie Universität Berlin); Introduction by Markus Messling (Universität …
Wed 19 Jun 2013 – Fri 21 Jun 2013
Semitic Philology within European Intellectual History: Constructions of Race, Religion and Language in Scholarly Practice
Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin), Ya'ar Hever and Elizabeth Johnston (both Zukunftsphilologie Fellows 2012-2013), Markus Messling (Universität …
Mon 17 Jun 2013 | 09:00–16:00
At the Threshold of Rabbinic Law: Textuality and Liminality in Jewish and Islamic Legal Cultures
Daniel Boyarin (Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg 2012/2013/Berkeley) and Islam Dayeh (Zukunftsphilologie/Freie Universität Berlin)
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