Zukunftsphilologie Berlin

27/01/2022

Call for Papers:

The journal Philological Encounters invites article submissions for its workshop:

Philology and archaeology. On manuscript collections unearthed by archaeology

Accepted proposals will be presented and discussed in a workshop to be held at the Centre Jacques Berque (Rabat, Morocco) on 24-25 May 2022 and, upon positive review, published in Philological Encounters.

Deadline for submission of proposals: 25 February 2022

Please find more information here:
https://www.zukunftsphilologie.de/news/news-detail/call-for-papers-philology-and-archaeology-on-manuscript-collections-unearthed-by-archaeology.html

This event is convened by Adrien Delmas (Centre Jacques-Berque, Rabat) and Islam Dayeh (FU Berlin), and is sponsored by Centre Jacques Berque (Rabat), Freie Universität Berlin, Zukunftsphilologie/ Forum Transregionale Studien and Middle East, Islamic, and African Studies - Brill Publishing.

»Philological Encounters« invites article submissions for the workshop »Philology and Archaeology: On Manuscript Collections Unearthed by Archaeology«, 24-25 May 2022, Rabat (Morocco)

20/12/2021

We are happy to announce the publication of a new issue of Philological Encounters (vol. 6, issues 3-4). The special issue, entitled “The Past and its Possibilities in Nahḍa Scholarship,“ edited by Feras Krimsti and John-Paul Ghobrial includes articles by Feras Krimsti, John-Paul Ghobrial, Peter Hill, Anthony Edwards, Nora K. Schmid, Hilary Kilpatrick, Salam Rassi, Torsten Wollina, and Rossella De Luca.

Take a look at the articles here:
https://www.zukunftsphilologie.de/en/publications/all-publications/details/the-past-and-its-possibilities-in-nahda-scholarship.html

Happy reading!
Image: Celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the death of Jirmānūs Farḥāt, on 20 May 1934 in Aleppo (before the unveiling of the statute). Photograph published in al-Shahbāʾ 9, no. 1, 2, 3 (1934), after p. 24. Digital image courtesy of La Bibliothèque Spirtuelle d’Alep.

07/12/2021

We are pleased to announce our new blog series Philological Conversations on the TRAFO blog (Forum Transregionale Studien). Our first post offers a preview of our first Philological Conversation published in vol. 6, issue 1-2 of "Philological Encounters":

Heterodox Philology – Michael Allan in conversation with Gauri Viswanathan: https://trafo.hypotheses.org/31611

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In this conversation Michael Allan and Gauri Viswanathan discuss connections among philology, literary history, and religion, drawing from writers such as Edward Said, B.R. Ambedkar, Zora Neale Hurston, Louis Massignon, and Kumud Pawde.

17/09/2021

​The 37th edition of Tabayyun has been published by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. This Special Issue on "Reading Wittgenstein in Arabic" begins with guest editor Islam Dayeh's introduction and includes the following articles: "Wittgenstein: Language Forms, Life Forms" by Abderr...

14/08/2021

We are happy to announce the publication of a new issue of Philological Encounters (vol. 6, issues 1-2). The special issue, entitled “Print Cultures in the Making in 19th and 20th-Century South Asia: Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries,“ edited by Cristina Pecchia, Johanna Buss, and Alaka A. Chudal includes articles by Cristina Pecchia, Johanna Buss, Alaka A. Chudal, Borayin Larios, Martin Gaenszle, Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Richard S. Weiss.
The issue also features articles by Gretchen Head, Aslıhan Gürbüzel, and our first Philological Conversation with Gauri Viswanathan and Michael Allan.

Take a look at the articles here:
https://www.zukunftsphilologie.de/en/publications/all-publications/details/print-cultures-in-the-making-in-19th-and-20th-century-south-asia-beyond-disciplinary-boundaries.html

Happy reading!

Philological Encounters

13/08/2021

We are happy to announce the publication of a new issue of Philological Encounters (vol. 6, issues 1-2). The special issue, entitled “Print Cultures in the Making in 19th and 20th-Century South Asia: Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries,“ edited by Cristina Pecchia, Johanna Buss and Alaka A. Chudal includes articles by Cristina Pecchia, Johanna Buss, Alaka A. Chudal, Borayin Larios, Martin Gaenszle, Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Richard S. Weiss.
The issue also features articles by Gretchen Head, Aslıhan Gürbüzel and our first Philological Conversation with Gauri Viswanathan and Michael Allan.

Take a look at the articles here:
https://www.zukunftsphilologie.de/en/publications/all-publications/details/print-cultures-in-the-making-in-19th-and-20th-century-south-asia-beyond-disciplinary-boundaries.html
Happy reading!

Philological Encounters

10/04/2021

By Christian Junge (Arabic Studies, University of Marburg, Germany). English is, without doubt, the dominant academic language of our time, especially in the natural sciences, where materials are often taught and published in English. On the contrary, in European humanities, scholars of literary and...

31/03/2021

EUME Berliner Seminar Program | Summer Term 2021
»Universals and Fragments II«

with contributions by Fadi A. Bardawil, Sana Tannoury-Karam, Leyla Dakhli, Banu Karaca, Oraib Toukan, Michael Allan, Georges Khalil, Mohammed Bamyeh, Cilja Harders, Ivan Kozachenko, Omar Al-Ghazzi, Andrii Portnov, Nurcin Ileri, Erol Ülker, Deniz Yonucu, İlkay Yılmaz, Zahiye Kundos, Rasha Chatta, Friederike Pannewick, Anne-Marie McManus, Amal Eqeiq, Amro Ali, Rim Naguib, Filiz Tütüncü Çağlar, Wendy Meryem Kural Shaw, Hanan Toukan, Diana Abbani, Malak Labib, Tarek Yamani, and Önder Çelik.

The seminar series will start on April 7, 2021 with a conversation between Fadi Bardawil (Duke Trinity College of Arts & Sciences / EUME Fellow 2010/11), Sana Tannoury-Karam (EUME Fellow 2020/21) and Leyla Dakhli (CNRS / Centre Marc Bloch) on the theme »Reckoning with Universals in Times of Revolution and Disenchantment«.

In the Summer Term 2021, the EUME Berliner Seminar will take place virtually. Please register in advance via [email protected] to receive the login details.

On some occasions, an on-site component might be available for a limited number of pre-registered participants. Details on the format of each session will be made available soon via our website: https://www.eume-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/eume-berliner-seminar.html

Complete program (PDF): https://bit.ly/3sElkgt

10/03/2021

Join us in celebrating the publication of the recent issue of "Philological Encounters," publicizing the contents and importance of Columbia’s collection of manuscripts from the Islamic world. The event will feature the authors from the special issue as well as two discussants, Evyn Kropf (University of Michigan) and Konrad Hirschler (Freie Universität Berlin).

12 March 2021 01:00 PM in Eastern Time (USA und Kanada)
Please register here: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vNsF_LQtSH-fQQOH15cqHg

Take a look at the articles here: https://www.zukunftsphilologie.de/en/publications/all-publications/details/making-a-hidden-collection-visible-columbias-collection-of-muslim-world-manuscripts.html

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Join us in celebrating the publication of this special issue of the Journal of Philological Encounters, publicizing the contents and importance of Columbia’s collection of manuscripts from the Islamic world. The event will feature the authors from the special issue as well as two discussants, Evyn...

07/12/2020

We are happy to announce the publication of a new issue of Philological Encounters. The special issue, entitled “Making a Hidden Collection Visible: Columbia’s Collection of Muslim World Manuscripts,” edited by Zeinab Azarbadegan and Mohammad Sadegh Ansari, includes articles by Kaoukab Chebaro, Jane Rodgers Siegel, Avinoam Shalem, Alexandre M. Roberts, A. Tunç Şen, Trevor Brabyn, Mohammad Sadegh Ansari, Zeinab Azarbadegan and Marwa Elshakry.

Take a look at the articles here:
https://www.zukunftsphilologie.de/en/publications/all-publications/details/making-a-hidden-collection-visible-columbias-collection-of-muslim-world-manuscripts.html

Happy reading!

19/10/2020

In October 2019, Wendy M.K. Shaw (Professor of the Art History of Islamic Cultures at Freie Universität Berlin) published her new book, What Is “Islamic” Art? Between Religion and Perception,...

02/08/2020

Audrey Truschke, a philologist and historian of encounters and entanglements in early modern South Asia at Rutgers University – in an essay published in the online magazine The Revealer on July...