<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt">Dear friends and colleagues,</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><br></span></div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.284;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in 0in 8pt;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I hope this message finds you and your loved ones in excellent health.</div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.284;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in 0in 8pt;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">With only one week left until our conference begins, we are excited to welcome you in person to Berlin soon. You can view the final conference program on the Berlin University website using the following link:</div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.284;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in 0in 8pt;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><u style="color:blue;font-size:14pt"><a class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" id="gmail-OWAea0538d6-8d2e-2e07-2020-1b7198756d8c" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/islamwiss/aktuelles/Conference_-Translation-and-Multilingualism-in-the-Premodern-Islamic-World_s_.html" title="https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/islamwiss/aktuelles/Conference_-Translation-and-Multilingualism-in-the-Premodern-Islamic-World_s_.html" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:blue">https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/islamwiss/aktuelles/Conference_-Translation-and-Multilingualism-in-the-Premodern-Islamic-World_s_.html</a></u><br></div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.284;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in 0in 8pt;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77)"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77)">Here are the keynote lectures: </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><br></div><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px">15 November 2024</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></span><span style="font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px">09:30 – 10:15</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px">Arabic Lingua Franca and Popular Philosophy</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px;background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">Beatrice Gründler, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></span><span style="font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px">13:00 – 13:45</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px">Wild Birds Cannot be Sold: Rumi on Translating Wordlessness and Speech</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px;background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">Fatemeh Keshavarz, University of Maryland, USA</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px">16:45 – 17:30</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px">Language Politics and Translation in Multilingual Near East in Early Islam</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px;background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">Dimitri Gutas, Yale University, USA</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px">16 November 2024</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px">09:00 – 09:45</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px">Arabic-Persian Bilingualism and Translation in Ilkhanid Iran</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px;background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">Louise Marlow, Wellesley College, USA</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px">12:30 – 13:15</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px">Islamicate Jewish Religious and Literary Intellectuals on the Status of Arabic and Hebrew</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px;background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">Ross Brann, Cornell University, USA</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px">17:00 -17:45</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px">The Ultimate Domesticising Translation into Arabic</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><span style="font-family:SourceSansPro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Geert Jan van Gelder, University of Oxford, United Kingdom</span>  </span></div><br></div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.284;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in 0in 8pt;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77)">The conference presents 27 excellent papers that cover several overlooked aspects of premodern multilingualism and the role of translation in Islamic cultures.  </div><br></div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.284;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in 0in 8pt;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">We've received many inquiries from those interested in attending, and we’re pleased to confirm that the conference is open to the public, with no fees or prior registration required.</div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.284;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in 0in 8pt;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit">The conference will be held at <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Islamic Studies</span>:</span></div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.284;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in 0in 8pt;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Conference Venue</div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.284;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in 0in 8pt;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Freie Universität Berlin</div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.284;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in 0in 8pt;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Institute of Islamic Studies</div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.284;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in 0in 8pt;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Fabeckstraße 23 – 25</div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.284;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in 0in 8pt;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">14195 Berlin</div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.284;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in 0in 8pt;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Seminar Room 2.2058 (second floor)</div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.284;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in 0in 8pt;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="font-size:18.6667px"></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.284;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in 0in 8pt;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helv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