Accommodation
Participants who are coming from out of town will be staying at the Seminaris CampusHotel, just a few minutes’ walk from the building in which our meetings will be held. The address of the hotel is Takustraße 39, 14195 Berlin.
Main workshop sessions
All of our meetings on the FU campus will be held in the “Holzlaube” building, whose street address is Fabeckstraße 23–25, 14195 Berlin. There is a corner entrance at the intersection of Fabeckstraße and Arnimallee that should be convenient to use. You may also find it helpful to look at a PDF map of the building.
The core sessions of the workshop, which will take place between ca. 12:00 and 17:00 on Oct. 27 and 28, will be in room 2.2051.
Morning reading sessions
On the mornings of Oct. 27 and 28, from 10:00 to 11:30, we will hold informal “reading sessions,” where participants are welcome to bring their own selections of texts in Persian and/or Arabic, to be read by the group. (This will be a good opportunity, for example, to examine directly source materials that will be discussed in a more general manner in workshop presentations.)
These reading sessions will be held on the lower level of the Holzlaube, in room -1.1062. Please note that printing and photocopying can be done on-site. Those who wish to contribute need only send documents to Theodore Beers by email or other means.
StaBi visit / manuscript viewing
On Wednesday, Oct. 26—the day before the workshop formally begins—those who are already in town will have the opportunity to visit the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and to view up close a handful of Persian and Arabic manuscripts from their excellent collections. A room has been reserved for us for 14:30–17:00. This visit has been arranged thanks to Dr. Yoones Dehghani Farsani.
Please note that the StaBi has two main branches. The relevant one for our purposes is at Potsdamer Straße 33, 10785 Berlin.