Program Winter Term 2016/2017

The World Philologies Seminar will continue this winter term. We are looking forward to welcoming:

October 27, 2016
Markus Messling
(Centre Marc Bloch/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Inflected Spirit. Philology and Universalism

November 3, 2016
Konrad Hirschler
(Freie Universität Berlin)
Of Catalogues and Endowments: How to Transmit Your Private Library in 15th-Century Damascus

December 8, 2016
Adam Talib
(American University in Cairo)
How Do You Say 'Epigram' in Arabic?

January 12, 2017
Olivier Remaud
(EHESS Paris)
Provincializing Human History?
Chair: Markus Messling (Centre Marc Bloch/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

January 19, 2017 - cancelled
Laura Moretti
(University of Cambridge)
Palaeographic Notes on Early-Modern Children's Literature in Japan
Chair: Michael Facius (Freie Universität Berlin)

Chair: Islam Dayeh (Zukunftsphilologie/Freie Universität Berlin)

When und where?
4-7 p.m.
Freie Universität Berlin, Holzlaube, Room 2.2051, Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin