Doing Things with Lists: Philology as Cultural and Social Critique
By Christian Junge How can philology turn into cultural and social critique? What are the epistemic and aesthetic functions of its word lists? And what was the role of Arabic...
By Christian Junge How can philology turn into cultural and social critique? What are the epistemic and aesthetic functions of its word lists? And what was the role of Arabic...
Editorial Introduction to Philological Encounters, Vol. 4.1-4. By Islam Dayeh If philology—as a set of conceptual tools and material practices concerned with the care for texts—came into being as a...
Nachiket Chanchani (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2012) is a tenured associate professor jointly appointed in the Department of the History of Art and in the Department of Asian Languages and...
Sheldon Pollock is amongst today’s most important philologists. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the South Asian Languages and Civilizations department in Chicago, he discussed some of the...
by Islam Dayeh, the journal’s executive editor (Freie Universität Berlin / Zukunftsphilologie) Philological Encounters is both the title of this journal and a scholarly perspective. If we agree that...
By Piers Kelly, participant of the Winter Academy. Republished from his blog Brave New Words. It’s been some time now since the World Scripts Winter Academy at the University...
The Winter Academy “World Scripts: Concepts and Practices of Writing from a Comparative Perspective” currently takes place at the University of Cape Town (September 4—14, 2015). Our new blog “Transregional...
What does it mean to understand the pre-modern past in a globalized perspective? How can we open the traditional canon? What does the concept of Globalizing Classics mean for the...
Joydeep Bagchee (Zukunftsphilologie Fellow 2014/2015) received his PhD in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research in New York. Following research work at Humboldt–Universität zu Berlin and at Albert–Ludwigs–Universität, Freiburg i. Breisgau,...
Hajnalka Kovacs is currently Zukunftsphilologie Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien. Her research centers around Persian poetry of the so-called “fresh style” produced on the Indian subcontinent between the 16th...