“Philological Encounters” – Introduction
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 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...
In the framework of the research program Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship, Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Foundation – German Humanities Institutes Abroad in cooperation with the University...
By Refqa Abu-Remaileh “Is my trust to be shaken in our freedom to long for this land in this land – for Haifa in Haifa?” wrote Emile Habibi (1922-1996),...
The International Summer Academy “Language, Science and Aesthetics – Articulations of Subjectivity and Objectivity in the Modern Middle East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia” is organized by the Orient-Institut...
by Hannah Klaubert (Zukunftsphilologie/Freie Universität Berlin) German Abstract: Die Konferenz „Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Philological Encounters” des Forschungsprogramms Zukunftsphilologie fand von 4. bis 5. Juni 2014 in Leiden, Niederlande,...