10 – 14 September 2018: Conference Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, Münster
Project Presentation Verena Klemm: "Bibliotheca Arabica. Towards a new history of Arabic Literatures" at the 29th Conference of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, Münster
10 – 11 September 2018: Workshop "Text-as-Graph" of the DHd working group on graph technologies
Contributions on graph schema integration and on text data and metadata modeling by Thomas Efer
8 September 2018: Symposium on Ottoman-Era Manuscript Libraries, Istanbul
Symposium “New Research on Ottoman-Era Manuscript Libraries”, Orient-Institute Istanbul,organised by Stefanie Brinkmann and Boris Liebrenz in cooperation with the Orient-Institute Istanbul and The Islamic Manuscript Association (Cambridge, UK).
Paper presented by Boris Liebrenz: “Exploring the roots of Ottoman libraries: A case study of the Fazil Ahmet Pasha Manuscripts and the Bibliotheca Arabica Project”
A Medieval Muslim Scholar’s Legacy. Ibn Ṭāwūs and the Afterlife of his Library
“A Medieval Muslim Scholar’s Legacy. Ibn Ṭāwūs and the Afterlife of His Library”, in: Boris Liebrenz (ed.): “The History of Books and Collections through Manuscript Notes”, (Leiden: Brill, 2018), S. 218-224.
16 August 2018: Work Session on Marginal Commentaries, Leipzig
One-day Work Session on Marginal Commentaries & Glosses in Manuscripts, organised by Stefanie Brinkmann, Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Leipzig
Participants: Paul Babinski (Princeton University), Stefanie Brinkmann (SAW Leipzig), Boris Liebrenz (SAW Leipzig), Christian Mauder (University of Leipzig, Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies: Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities), Darya Ogorodnikova (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg University (Islamic Manuscripts with a Wide Spaced Layout as Mediators of Teaching Practices in West Africa), Walid Saleh (University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion & Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations), Ronny Vollandt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Ali Zaherinezhad (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg University (The Leipzig Manuscript B. or. 227: Paratexts as witnesses of Islamic Ḥadīṯ scholarship)
9 August 2018: "Fachtag Digital Humanities in Thüringen"
Project Presentation by Thomas Efer at the Thuringian Digital Humanities Day in Gotha, organized by the research group "Netzwerk für digitale Geisteswissenschaften und Citizen Science" of the University of Erfurt, together with the Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Research Association and the DHnet Jena
18 – 20 July 2018: "Modeling Travels in History: an ORBIS-esque Hackathon"
Thomas Efer as participant in a hackathon on historical geo-temporal data of the arabic world organized by Maxim Romanov (University of Vienna).
