Program Summer Term 2014

3 Apr 2014
Adrien Delmas
(Institut Français d'Afrique du Sud)
The Discovery of Writing. European Encounters with the Codex Mendoza, 16th-18th Century
Chair: Islam Dayeh 
(Zukunftsphilologie/Freie Universität Berlin)

8 May 2014
Gyburg Uhlmann
(Freie Universität Berlin)
Aristotle in motion: The ancient commentaries on Aristotle's metaphysics
Chair: Islam Dayeh 
(Zukunftsphilologie/Freie Universität Berlin)

15 May 2014
Roy Tzohar
(Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-2014/
Tel Aviv University)
The Biographical Imperative: the Life of the Historical Buddha in Nineteenth Century Scholarship
Chair: Esha Sil
(Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-2014)

22 May 2014
Luciana Villas Bôas
(Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2013-2015/Freie Universität Berlin)
Colonial Translation and the Early Modern Atlantic
Chair: Rajeshwari Mishka Sinha
(Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-2014)

12 Jun 2014
Amr Osman
(Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-2014/Qatar University)
Zahirism between Literalism and Textualism
Chair: Sonam Kachru
(Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-2014)

19 Jun 2014
Esha Sil
(Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-2014)
Folktales, Nonsense Rhymes, and the Translated Text of the Bengal Partition
Chair: Thibaut d'Hubert
(Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-2014/University of Chicago)

26 Jun 2014
Sonam Kachru
(Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-2014)
“Know, then, Yourself”:  An Invitation to Extend a Brief History of a Weighty Imperative
Chair: Roy Tzohar
(Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-2014/Tel Aviv University)