1 1 1 Zukunftsphilologie EUME 1 Europa im Nahen Osten Der Nahe Osten in Europa 1 1 1 1 Erudition and Commitment A conference in honour of Angelika Neuwirth 1 Gelehrsamkeit und Engagement Eine Festveranstaltung zu Ehren von Angelika Neuwirth 1 7 December 2013 Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstr. 22/23, 10117 Berlin 1 1 In an increasingly connected yet fragmented world, the relationship of scholarly erudition to eth- ical commitment has never been more relevant. While the notion of erudition may appear out- moded, its various manifestations, such as self-detachment, comprehensiveness and care for difference remain significant strategies in reading texts and the human experiences they embody. Yet this devotion to texts should not be understood as a mode of self-absorption or indifference to societal and political concerns but rather, as Angelika Neuwirth's impressive oeuvre reminds us, reading is a genuine act of compassion and responsibility to the world in which we live. 1 1 1 On the occasion of the seventieth birthday of the Arabist and Qur'an scholar Angelika Neuwirth, friends and colleagues gather together to celebrate a scholarly career that has left its impressions on various fields of scholarship, ranging from her efforts to integrate Arabic literature into com- parative literary studies in European universities to her pursuit of a European reading of the Qur'an, which dispels long-held notions of alterity and foreignness and explores the potential for a collective reading of sacred scripture. Dwelling throughout her scholarly life on the cultural and intellectual thresholds between the Islamic-Jewish-Christian worlds of Europe and the Middle East, Angelika Neuwirth's intellectual career serves as an emblem of a scholarship that binds to- gether the pursuit of knowledge with ethical commitment. 1 1 1 1 This conference is organized in the framework of two programs at the Forum Transregionale Studien, "Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe (EUME)" and "Zukunftsphilolo- gie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Practice" in cooperation with Dahlem Humanities Center, Corpus Coranicum / Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Zentrum für Litera- tur- und Kulturforschung Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin. 1 1 1 1 In coorperation with: 1 Dahlem Humanities Center 1 1 Freie Universität Berlin Zentrum für Literatur- und ZH Kulturforschung Berlin berlin-brandenburgische AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN 1 : : :
Erudition and Commitment A conference in honour of Angelika Neuwirth Saturday, 7 December 2013 Venue: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstr. 22/23, 10117 Berlin 10.00 Welcome Georges Khalil (EUME / Forum Transregionale Studien) Erika Fischer-Lichte (Freie Universität Berlin) 10.15 - 10.45 Laudatio Stefan Wild (Universität Bonn) Notes of a Travelling Companion - A Retrospective View 10.45 - 11.00 Coffee Break 11.00 - 12.30 Moderation: Barbara Winckler (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) 12.30 - 14.00 14.00 - 15.30 Moderation: Islam Dayeh (Zukunftsphilologie / Freie Universität Berlin) Daniel Boyarin (University of California, Berkeley) The Task of the Untranslator: Philology and Interpretation in four Maccabees Klaus von Stosch (Universität Paderborn) Herausforderung Islamische Theologie in Deutschland. Erwartungen an Philologie und Komparative Theologie Martin Treml (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin) In