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.
Wed 12 Dec 2012 | 17:00–18:30
Wed 12 Dec 2012 | 12:00–13:30
The Globalisation of Knowledge: The Role of Scholarly Practice and Scientific Travel
Muzaffar Alam (University of Chicago), Dhruv Raina (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Matthias Schemmel (MPIWG), Rajeev Kinra (NU), Hasan Siddiqui (University of …
Mon 10 Dec 2012 – Fri 21 Dec 2012
Philologies Across the Asias: The Translation, Transmission and Transformation of Knowledge in the Early Modern World
Muzaffar Alam (U Chicago), Rajeev Bhargava (CSDS), Whitney Cox (Zukunftsphilologie/SOAS), Islam Dayeh (Zukunftsphilologie/FU), Rajeev Kinra (NU), Stefan Leder …
Thu 15 Nov 2012 | 16:00–19:00
Is Internationality Synonymous with Interculturality? 19th Century Orientalist Congresses and East-West Intellectual Encounters
Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn (CNRS Paris); Chair: Elizabeth Eva Johnston (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2012-2013/ Columbia University)
Thu 08 Nov 2012 | 16:00–19:00
Old Words, New Worlds: The Philologist, In and Out of Empire
Ananya Jahanara Kabir (University of Leeds); Chair: Mudasir Mufti (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2012-2013/ University of Kashmir)
Thu 25 Oct 2012 | 16:00–19:00
Roots, Nets, and Trees: Future Comparative Philology
Marcel Lepper (Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach); Chair: Markus Messling (Universität Potsdam)
Thu 21 Jun 2012 | 16:00–19:00
Arabic Grammatical Theory and Modern Linguistics (in Arabic)
Hafid Ismaili Alaoui (Zukunftsphilologie-Fellow 2011-2012 am Forum Transregionale Studien/ Agadir University, Morocco); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität …
Thu 14 Jun 2012 | 16:00–19:00
A Salafi Student of Orientalist Philology in Nazi Germany: Taqi al-Din al-Hilali and His Academic Experience in Germany 1930-194
Umar Ryad (Leiden University); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 07 Jun 2012 | 16:00–19:00
An Ottoman Slavophone City Between Orality and Literacy: Book-ownership in Late Eighteenth Century Sarajevo
Asim Zubcevic (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia); Chair: Lejla Demiri (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2011-2012 am Forum Transregionale Studien/ Universität Tübingen)
Thu 24 May 2012 – Sat 26 May 2012
Lingua Franca: Explorations of the Literary Geography of the Mediterranean World (May 24-26)
Elisabetta Benigni (Zukunftsphilologie-Fellow 2011-2012 am Forum Transregionale Studien) and Michael Allan (EUME-Fellow 2011-2012 am Forum Transregionale …
Fri 11 May 2012 – Sat 12 May 2012
Reading Wittgenstein in Arabic (May 11-12)
Hafid Ismaili Alaoui (Zukunfsphilologie-Fellow 2011-2012 am Forum Transregionale Studien/ Agadir University, Morocco) and Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 03 May 2012 | 16:00–19:00
Metaphors for Heaven: Oe Masafusa's (1041-1111) Buddhist Prayers for the Japanese Aristocracy
Saeko Shibayama (Zukunftsphilologie-Fellow 2011-2012 am Forum Transregionale Studien/ Columbia University)
Thu 26 Apr 2012 | 16:00–19:00
The Time of Literary History: Reconsidering Modernity in an Indian Vernacular
Farina Mir (University of Michigan); Chair: Manan Ahmed (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 19 Apr 2012 | 16:00–19:00
Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean: Terminologies and the Politics of (Un)Naming
Basem Ra'ad (Al-Quds University, Jerusalem); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 09 Feb 2012 | 16:00–19:00