Day 0: Wednesday, Oct. 26

Day 1: Thursday, Oct. 27

In the main workshop sessions, forty-five minutes will be set aside for each participant—roughly twenty minutes for the presentation itself, and the remainder for discussion.

  • 10:00–11:30: Primary source reading session (for those interested), in the downstairs room (see venues); coffee at least will be available
  • 12:00–12:30: Opening remarks by Beatrice Gründler and Theodore Beers
  • Session 1, chaired by Theodore Beers
    • 12:30–13:15: James White, “Medieval Persian Court Poets as Readers of the Arabic Corpus: Bilingual Approaches to the Ghaznavid Nasīb”
  • 13:15–14:00: Lunch, catered on site
  • Session 2, chaired by Isabel Toral
    • 14:00–14:45: Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, “Jawidan Khirad and Its Translation into Arabic and Persian”
    • 14:45–15:30: Philip Bockholt, “Introducing a New Research Project on Knowledge Transfer and Translation among Arabic, Persian, and Turkish in the Ottoman World”
  • 15:30–15:45: Coffee break (with snacks)
  • Session 3, chaired by Jan van Ginkel
    • 15:45–16:30: Tobias Sick, “On the Ottoman Reception and Adaption of the Pandnāma-yi ‘Aṭṭār: Translation as Process and Product in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire”
    • 16:30–17:15: Pegah Shahbaz, “A Medieval Literary Jigsaw: The Persian Corpus as a Reservoir for Arabic Literature”
  • 19:00: For those interested, there will be a Spanish Embassy-sponsored event about Kalīla and Dimna at the Topoi House, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin. Food and drink will be served. This will be another good opportunity to visit with Profs. Isabel Toral and Beatrice Gründler.

Day 2: Friday, Oct. 28

  • 10:00–11:30: Primary source reading session (for those interested), in the downstairs room (see venues); coffee at least will be available
  • Session 4, chaired by Johannes Stephan
    • 12:00–12:45: Theodore Beers, “Naṣr Allāh Munshī’s Bilingual Persian-Arabic Rendition of Kalīla and Dimna”
    • 12:45–13:30: Khouloud Khalfallah, “A Quasi-Plagiaristic Translation of Kalīla and Dimna: The Siyar al-mulūk of ‘Umar ibn Dāwūd al-Fārisī”
  • 13:30–14:15: Lunch, catered on site
  • Session 5, chaired by James White
    • 14:15–15:00: Yoones Dehghani Farsani, “Two Medieval Commentaries on Naṣr Allāh Munshī’s Kalīla va Dimna”
    • 15:00–15:45: Mohsen Zakeri, “From Kalilah and Dimnah to Panchatantra, Once Again”
  • 15:45–16:00: Coffee break (with snacks)
  • Session 6, chaired by Theodore Beers
    • 16:00–16:45: Vahid Behmardi, “The Transmission of Arabic Metrics into Poetry in Persian”
  • 16:45–17:30: Plenary discussion
  • 18:30: Concluding dinner, probably at Piaggio, Königin-Luise-Straße 44, 14195 Berlin