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 06 Jun 2013 | 16:00–19:00
Between Local and Transregional: Community in 18th-Century Indo-Persian Commemorative Texts
Mana Kia (Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development); Chair: Mudasir Mufti (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2012-2013/ University of Kashmir)
Thu 30 May 2013 | 10:00–19:00
Was there “Antiquarianism” in the Islamic World? European and Arabic-Islamic Historiographical Traditions in Conversation
Martin Mulsow (Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg 2012-2013/Universität Erfurt), Peter Miller (Bard Graduate Center), Islam Dayeh (Zukunftsphilologie/FU Berlin)
Thu 23 May 2013 | 16:00–19:00
Philology and the Politics of Tradition Among Arab Intellectuals
Ridwan al-Sayyid (Lebanese University, Beirut); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 16 May 2013 – Fri 17 May 2013
Commentary Cultures: Technologies of Medieval Reading
Whitney Cox (SOAS), Islam Dayeh (Zukunftsphilologie/FU), Matthias Schemmel (MPIWG), Nicolai Sinai (Oxford)
Thu 18 Apr 2013 | 16:00–19:00
Style at the Scale of the Sentence
Franco Moretti (Stanford University / Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg 2012-2013); Chair: Markus Messling (Universität Potsdam)
Wed 20 Feb 2013 | 15:00–18:00
On Sponges and Lost Love: Three Poems and a Few Comments on Iraqi Jewish History
Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 31 Jan 2013 | 16:00–19:00
Is Modern Hebrew a Semitic Language? A Political-Linguistic Debate
Ya'ar Hever (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2012-2013) and Yair Adiel (Hebrew University Jerusalem); Chair: Ronny Vollandt (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2012-2013)
Thu 17 Jan 2013 | 15:00–18:00
Rishi/Sufi Narratives and the Emergence of Muslim Identity in Medieval Kashmir
Mudasir Mufti (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2012-2013); Chair: Murat Inan (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2012-2013)
Wed 19 Dec 2012 | 19:00–20:30
Wed 19 Dec 2012 | 14:30–16:00
Reading Local Poetry in a Global World
Prashant Keshavmurthy (McGill), Mudita Mohile (Delhi University), Mudasir Mufti (ZP Fellow 2012-2013): Panel discussion
Wed 19 Dec 2012 | 12:00–13:30
Interasian Poetics: Arabic, Persian, Braj Basha, Sanskrit, Malay and Javanese
Thibaut d’Hubert (University of Chicago), Rajeev Kinra (NU), Prashant Keshavmurthy (McGill), Islam Dayeh (Zukunftsphilologie/FU Berlin), Ronit Ricci (ANU), …
Tue 18 Dec 2012 | 19:00–20:30
Legitimate Power and Just Rule in Pre-Constitutional Thought. Migrating Concepts and Historical Paradigms in Islamic Asia
Stefan Leder (Orient Institute Beirut, Director)
Tue 18 Dec 2012 | 12:00–13:30
Textual Practices across Manuscript Cultures
Whitney Cox (SOAS), Ronny Vollandt (ZP Fellow 2012-2013), Andrea Acri (National University of Singapore), Andrew Ollett (Columbia): Panel Discussion as part of …
Fri 14 Dec 2012 | 16:30–18:00
Historiography and Imagination
Rajeev Kinra (NU), Aparna Kapadia (Ambedkar University), Maya Petrovich (Princeton), Shalin Jain (Delhi University), Srinayani Reddy (Jawaharlal Nehru …
Thu 13 Dec 2012 | 14:30–16:00
Decolonization and the Entangled History of Science and Philosophy in India
Dhruv Raina (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi)
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