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 26 Jan 2012 | 16:00–19:00
Livestock, Lexical Stock --- cancelled ---
Joshua Berson (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
Thu 12 Jan 2012 | 16:00–19:00
The Local Universality of Poetic Pleasure: Sirājuddin ‘Ali Khān Ārzū and Persian Literary Theory
Prashant Keshavmurthy (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2011/12 / McGill University); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 08 Dec 2011 | 16:00–19:00
The Two Gaze Directly into One Another's Face: Avot Yeshurun (1904-1992) between the Nakba and the Shoah
Hannan Hever (Hebrew University, Jerusalem); Chair: Ihab Saloul (EUME Fellow 2011‐12 / Maastricht University)
Thu 24 Nov 2011 – Sat 26 Nov 2011
Global Conjunctions in the Indian Ocean: Malay World Trajectories
Sumit Mandal (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Thu 17 Nov 2011 | 16:00–19:00
Ferdinand de Saussure and Modern Phonemics: The Role of Sanskrit
Ananya Vajpeyi (University Massachusetts Boston/ Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi); Chair: Prashant Keshavmurthy (Zukunftsphilologie …
Thu 27 Oct 2011 | 16:00–19:00
Empire and Etymons: The Philological Problematic of Nationalisms in Colonial South Asia
Bodhisattva Kar (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta/Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam); Chair: Manan Ahmed (Freie Universität Berlin)
Fri 15 Jul 2011 – Sat 16 Jul 2011
How Different is the "Other"? Eighteenth Century Perceptions of Religious and Racial Differences in Ottoman Lands
Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin, Zukunftsphilologie), Lejla Demiri (Fellow of Europe in the Middle East ‐ The Middle East in Europe 2011-12), Feras …
Thu 30 Jun 2011 | 16:00–19:00
Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Formation of Medieval Andalusian Music
Dwight Reynolds (University of California, Santa Barbara); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 16 Jun 2011 | 16:00–19:00
Global Conjunctions in the Indian Ocean? A Creole Arab Writer in the Malay Wold in the Early 1800s
Sumit Mandal (Humboldt‐Universität zu Berlin / Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia); Chair: Manan Ahmed (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 26 May 2011 | 16:00–19:00
Communicative Choices in Early Arabic-Islamic Book Culture
Beatrice Gründler (Fellow des Wissenschaftskollegs zu Berlin 2010/2011, Yale University); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Tue 24 May 2011 | 16:00–18:00
What is a Gītā? Textuality and Authority in Indian Philosophy
Andrew J. Nicholson (Stone Brook University); Chair: Travis Smith (University of Florida, Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2010-11)
Thu 19 May 2011 | 16:00–19:00
European Translations of the Koran: Christian Interpretations of Islamic Terminoloy from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Alastair Hamilton (Warburg Institute, London); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
Fri 06 May 2011 | 10:00–16:00
Historiographic Frontiers: Site and Spatial Imagination in medieval and postmedieval Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit Texts
Anubhuti Maurya (Bharati College, Delhi University), Luther Obrock (University of California, Berkeley), Bodhisattva Kar (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, …
Thu 05 May 2011 | 16:00–19:00
Of Palimpsets and Acephalous Texts: Tracing the Limits of Early Abbasid Geography
Travis Zadeh (Haverford College, USA); Chair: Manan Ahmed (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 21 Apr 2011 | 16:00–19:00
Reassessing the Textuality of the Sanskrit Purāņas
Travis L. Smith (University of Florida, Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2010/11); Chair: Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin)
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