[Andalusi Studies] International Conference: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Philological Encounters 4 - 5 June 2014, Leiden (NL)

[islam dayeh]

*International Conference:*

*Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Philological Encounters*

4 - 5 June 2014, Leiden (NL)

The research program Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual
Scholarship (Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin) and the Leiden
University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS), in
cooperation with Leiden University Library, organize a joint international
conference which will take place at the University of Leiden, 4-5 June
2014. The event is funded by the LUCIS, the Center for International
Cooperation, FU Berlin, the CNRS Paris and Utrecht University.



*Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Philological Encounters*


Convened by *Islam Dayeh* (Zukunftsphilologie/Freie Universität Berlin), *Umar
Ryad* (Utrecht University) and *Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn* (CNRS Paris)



As a result of colonial expansion and the technologies that made
long-distance communication and travel possible, the 19th and 20th
centuries witnessed an accelerated rate of individual interactions across
the globe, including scholarly encounters. Individual scholars became more
conscious of the commonalities that they shared with fellow humans all over
the world, which they expressed in universalistic projects in philosophy,
philology, the life sciences and other fields of human inquiry. Yet the
encounter also brought about an articulation of differences.  Nineteenth
and Twentieth Century Philological Encounters is a conference dedicated to
exploring the personal (and especially self-reflective) dimensions of
academic knowledge production by studying scholars (i.e., producers) and
their contexts (i.e., institutions and societies) in relation to their
objects of study.
Knowledge is always embedded in institutions and is produced by individual
scholars whose choices are shaped by their biographies as much as by the
subjects they study.  Thus, Philological Encounters refers to the discovery
of difference that came about due to the real-life encounters between
professionals and interpreters of texts, languages and cultures across the
globe. This conference outlines an avenue of research dedicated to the
study of tensions, antagonisms and polemics – as well as fascination,
cooperation, appropriation and friendship – that transpired as a
consequence of the meetings of different scholars and their dissimilar
modes of textual scholarship, made possible through international
cooperation in the form of conferences, journals, academic associations and
student exchange.
The conference objective is not hagiography, but rather historicizing
seemingly monolithic categories – such as 'orientalism', 'philology' and
'history' – by localizing the role of individual actors in the process of
knowledge formation, in the colonial and post-colonial periods. The
conference addresses this by looking at first-person accounts of
conferences, reports, travel writing, correspondences, memoirs,
auto/biographies, polemical essays, and translations, among other writings.



For schedule and names of participants, please visit:
http://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/revisiting-the-canons-of-textual-scholarship/konferenzenworkshops/konferenzen-und-workshops/philological-encounters-leiden.html





-- 
Islam Dayeh, PhD
Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship
Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies
Freie Universitaet Berlin
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
14195 Berlin islam.dayeh at zukunftsphilologie.dewww.zukunftsphilologie.dewww.facebook.com/Zukunftsphilologie
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.uoregon.edu/pipermail/andalusi_studies/attachments/20140507/bedc9c78/attachment.html>