25 – 29 March 2019: Workshop on Manuscript Notes, Scriptorium workshop series, Berlin
Boris Liebrenz was an instructor at the international workshop “Codicological and Paleographical Aspects of Islamic Manuscripts, with a Special Focus on Manuscript Notes” within the Scriptorium workshop series at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, organized with al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation, London
22 – 23 February 2019: Workshop Ḥadīth Manuscripts, Hamburg
International Workshop ”Prophetic Traditions Materialised: Dimensions of Ḥadīth Manuscripts”, Center for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC Hamburg), organised within the scope of the A11-project at the CSMC by Stefanie Brinkmann and Ali Zaherinezhad, with the support of the Bibliotheca Arabica Project
Paper presented by Stefanie Brinkmann: Two Bukhārī Manuscripts from Timurid Shiraz – Marginal Commentaries
30 January 2019: Invited lecture by Prof. Dr. Maribel Fierro, Madrid
Invited lecture by Prof. Dr. Maribel Fierro, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid: “The Medieval Islamic West in the East, intellectual connections and cultural impact – The project AMOI”
22 January 2019: Bibliography Week, Columbia University, New York
Keynote lecture given by Boris Liebrenz: “Bibliotheca Arabica: The Past and Future of Arabic Bibliography”, Columbia University, New York City, Bibliography Week, organized with the Grolier Club
20 – 21 December 2018: Congress “The Maghrib in the Mashriq”, Madrid
Project Presentation by Verena Klemm “Presentation of the Project Bibliotheca Arabica”, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid
13 – 14 December 2018: Colloqium Digital Islamicate Humanities, Amsterdam
Project Presentation by Daniel Kinitz at the Academy Colloqium „Wither Digital Islamicate Humanities“, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam
10 – 11 December 2018: Conference “Theory and Practices of Commentary”, Frankfurt
International Conference “Theory and Practices of Commentary”, Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M. , paper presented by Stefanie Brinkmann: “Marginal Commentaries in Hadith Manuscripts”
6 – 7 December 2018: Conference "Connected Past 2018 - People, Networks and Complexity in Archaeology and History"
Poster presentation with short talk on "Uncovering Networks within 700 years of material textual culture in the Arabic world" held by Thomas Efer
23 – 29 September 2018: Summerschool Islamic Manuscripts, Leipzig
Summerschool on Islamic Manuscripts: Zweiter Alfried-Krupp Sommerkurs für Islamische Handschriftenkultur in Leipzig 2018, Leipzig University Library
Organised by Prof. Dr. Verena Klemm (Institute of Oriental Studies, Leipzig University), the Bibliotheca Arabica team, and Leipzig University Library; instructors: Cornelius Berthold, Stefanie Brinkmann, Claudia Colini, Boris Liebrenz, Helga Rebhan, Beate Wiesmüller
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).
Das Open Access (Online-)Journal der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften:
Interdisziplinäres Online Journal für Diffusionstheorie in Kooperation mit der Universität Leipzig: