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 09 Jun 2016 | 16:00–19:00
On Logopolitics. After Their Tongues, After Their Nations.
Elad Lapidot (Freie Universität Berlin/ Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg), Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 02 Jun 2016 | 16:00–19:00
The Concept of Cultural Translation in American Religious Studies
Daniel Boyarin (University of California, Berkeley), Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 19 May 2016 | 16:00–19:00
Language Ideology: Arabic, the Arabs and Language Anxiety
Yasir Suleiman (University of Cambridge/Doha Institute for Graduate Studies), Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Fri 04 Sep 2015 – Mon 14 Sep 2015
World Scripts: Concepts and Practices of Writing from a Comparative Perspective
Organized by Zukunftsphilologie, Forum Transregionale Studien, Max Weber Stiftung, University of Cape Town, French Institute South Africa
Thu 04 Jun 2015 – Fri 05 Jun 2015
Law, History and Philology
Exploring the Congruities between the Muqaddima of Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406) and the Scienza Nuova of Giambattista Vico (d. 1744)
Thu 07 May 2015 – Fri 08 May 2015
Expressing the Ineffable in South Asian Literary Traditions
Joydeep Bagchee, Lewis Doney, Hajnalka Kovacs (Zukunftsphilologie Fellows 2014-2015)
Thu 26 Jun 2014 | 16:00–18:00
“Know, then, Yourself”: An Invitation to Extend a Brief History of a Weighty Imperative
Sonam Kachru (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-2014); Chair: Roy Tzohar (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-2014/Tel Aviv University)
Thu 19 Jun 2014 | 16:00–18:00
Folktales, Nonsense Rhymes, and the Translated Text of the Bengal Partition
Esha Sil (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-2014); Chair: Thibaut d'Hubert (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-2014/University of Chicago)
Thu 12 Jun 2014 | 16:00–18:00
Zahirism between Literalism and Textualism
Amr Osman (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-2014/Qatar University); Chair: Sonam Kachru (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-2014)
Wed 04 Jun 2014 – Thu 05 Jun 2014
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Philological Encounters
Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin), Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn (CNRS Paris), Umar Ryad (University of Leiden)
Thu 22 May 2014 | 16:00–18:00
Colonial Translation and the Early Modern Atlantic
Luciana Villas Boas (Fellow der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung/FU Berlin); Chair: Mishka Sinha (Zukunftsphilologie-Fellow 2013-14)
Thu 15 May 2014 | 16:00–18:00
The Biographical Imperative: the Life of the Historical Buddha in Nineteenth Century Scholarship
Roy Tzohar (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-2014/Tel Aviv University); Chair: Esha Sil (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2013-2014)
Thu 08 May 2014 | 16:00–18:00
Aristotle in Motion: The Ancient Commentaries on Aristotle’s Metaphysics
Gyburg Uhlmann (Freie Universität Berlin); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 03 Apr 2014 | 16:00–18:00
The Discovery of Writing. European Encounters with the Codex Mendoza, 16th-18th Century
Adrien Delmas (Institut Français d'Afrique du Sud); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Mon 20 Jan 2014 | 15:00–17:00
Philology as the Study of Concepts: The Case of “Likeness”
Convened by the Fellows of Zukunftsphilologie 2013/14
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