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.
Tue 24 May 2022 – Wed 25 May 2022

»Philology and Archaeology: On Manuscript Collections Unearthed by Archaeology«
Adrien Delmas (Centre Jacques-Berque, Rabat), Islam Dayeh (FU Berlin)
Tue 17 Jul 2018 | 09:00–12:00

Islam without Europe: Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought
Ahmad Dallal (Georgetown University Qatar)
Mon 16 Jul 2018 | 18:00–20:00

Islam without Europe: Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought
Ahmad Dallal (Georgetown University Qatar)
Tue 05 Dec 2017 | 14:00–16:00

June’s Childhood: A Journey into Arab Children’s Literature
Esmail Nashif (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies)
Mon 04 Dec 2017 | 14:00–16:00

Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary across a Millenium
Joel Blecher (George Washington University)
Thu 13 Jul 2017 – Sat 15 Jul 2017

What was Philology in Arabic? Arabic-Islamic Textual Practices in the Early Modern World
Prof. Dr. Islam Dayeh, Colinda Lindermann, Rossella De Luca, Katharina Kloss (all Dahlem International Network Junior Research Group “Arabic Philology and …
Thu 22 Jun 2017 | 16:00–18:00

Cityscaping al-Ṣāliḥiyya: Arabic Prose Topographies 16th-18th Centuries
Dana Sajdi (Boston College); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 15 Jun 2017 | 16:00–18:00

Thingness versus Substance: Ibn al-'Arabī's Metaphysics of Representation and the Problem of Identity and Difference
Ahmed Abdel Meguid (Syracuse University); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 01 Jun 2017 | 16:00–18:00

The Qur'ān: A Book of Renaissance Europe
Pier Mattia Tommasino (Columbia University); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 19 Jan 2017 | 15:00–18:00

Palaeographic Notes on Early-Modern Children’s Literature in Japan – cancelled!
Laura Moretti (University of Cambridge); Chair: Michael Facius (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 12 Jan 2017 | 15:00–18:00

Provincializing Human History?
Olivier Remaud (EHESS Paris); Chair: Markus Messling (Centre Marc Bloch, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Thu 08 Dec 2016 | 15:00–18:00

How Do You Say ‘Epigram’ in Arabic?
Adam Talib (American University in Cairo); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 03 Nov 2016 | 15:00–18:00

Of Catalogues and Endowments: How to Transmit Your Private Library in 15th-Century Damascus
Konrad Hirschler (Freie Universität Berlin); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 27 Oct 2016 | 16:00–19:00

Inflected Spirit: Philology and Universalism
Markus Messling (Centre Marc Bloch, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 30 Jun 2016 | 16:00–19:00

Why Some Scripts Fail and Others Succeed
Piers Kelly (Australian National University/Max-Planck-Institut für Menschheitsgeschichte Jena), Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)