Events

Future events

09/07/2026, 01:00 PM

Political Unions in European History (10th–18th Centuries) and Their Perception in the Cultures of Remembrance (19th–21st Centuries)

International conference in Brussels , in cooperation with the Polish Academy of Sciences

Geschnitzte Holzplatte mit zwei Figuren, die sich berühren

09/14/2026, 09:00 AM(Closed Event)

Famous and Infamous: Rumours, Slander and Reputation in the Middle Ages

The Czech Academy of Sciences and the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities invite PhD students to apply for a five-day September School in Medieval Studies that will explore the phenomenon of good and bad reputation in the Middle Ages in a Central European context from the perspectives of political use, legal definitions and protections as well as religious polemic.

Zeichnung eines Engels, in dessen Flügel lauter Augen enthalten sind

03/03/2027, 02:00 PM

A New Order permeates the World. Social Relevance and Spatial Impact of the Premonstratensians in Medieval Europe

International conference, organised by the Academy project St Mary at Helfta

A medieval illuminated manuscript depicts a bustling outdoor building site where labourers are constructing a church or a monastery. In the foreground, carpenters are working on wooden beams with tools, whilst a man in a monk’s habit gives instructions. In the centre, a labourer is transporting stones in a wooden wheelbarrow, another is chiselling stones with a pickaxe, and labourers on ramps are carrying loads upwards. A large wooden crane lifts stones onto the unfinished stone building. Above the scene, suspended in a white cloud, is a depiction of Jesus Christ on the cross, from which red cords or lines lead downwards towards the building site. In the background, a hilly landscape stretches out with blue mountains beneath a bright sky.

07/11/2027, 12:00 AM

Diffusion Fundamentals XII

The next instalment of the biannual international conference series Diffusion Fundamentals will take place in Leuven, Belgium. More information will be published in due time.

Past events

04/28/2026, 05:00 PM

Alevi Archive: Ethnohistory of Alevi Communities in Anatolia, 16th to 20th Centuries

Presentation of the new long-term project

The interior of a mausoleum, with green walls, carpets on the floor and a tapestry on the wall; two coffins are draped in colourful cloths.

04/10/2026, 10:00 AM

From an old national writing to a universal means of communication. The transmutation of the Egyptian hieroglyphs in the Renaissance

Ahead of the Spring Public Session, Prof. Dr Jean Winand , who is to be admitted to the Academy as a Corresponding Member in the afternoon, will give a lecture in English.

06/30/2025, 08:15 AM

Diffusion Fundamentals XI

11th conference of the series "Spreading in Nature, Technology, and Society"

Northwestern University is hosting the Diffusion Fundamentals XI conference from June 30-July 2 (2025) in Evanston, Illinois (USA).

10/07/2024, 01:00 PM

Texttransfer and intertextual references in inscriptions in Medieval and Early Modern Times

09/17/2024, 04:00 PM,

"Buddhism and Sanskrit Turn"

09/16/2024, 09:40 AM,

Ethics of archaeology and post-colonial Asia

Prof. Dr. Pierfrancesco Callieri (University of Bologna) is keynote speaker at the 26th International Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art. It takes place from 16–20 September 2024 in Leipzig, Germany.

09/16/2024, 06:30 AM

26th International Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art

From 16 to 20 September 2024, the 26th International Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA) will take place in Leipzig – a first for Saxony – under the auspices of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The conference has already been hosted by colleagues in Vienna, Paris, Stockholm and other cities, and was last held in Barcelona in 2022. About 170 to 200 participants from Europe, North America and Asia regularly attend.

09/30/2021, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

30 September 2021: Thomas Efer and Konrad Hirschler, “The Audition Certificates Database”

09/29/2021, 06:30 PMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

29 September 2021: Stefanie Brinkmann and Nadine Löhr, Working Session on Prefaces

08/05/2021, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

5 August 2021: Boris Liebrenz, “Abraham Yahuda and the Globalisation of the Middle Eastern Manuscript Market”

07/26/2021, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

26 July 2021: Nadine Löhr, “An Almost Forgotten Contribution to the Arabic Tetrabiblos”

07/16/2021, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

16 July 2021: Daniel Kinitz, “Integrating heterogeneous data on Arabic manuscripts”

07/15/2021, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

15 July 2021: Stefanie Brinkmann, “Analysis of Marginal Commentaries in Bukhari Manuscripts of the Timurid Period”

04/14/2021, 06:00 PMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

14 April 2021: Bibliotheca Arabica Webinar Hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study

03/26/2021, 02:00 PMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

26 March 2021: Stefanie Brinkmann, “What’s in Genre? Defining Hadith Commentary”

03/25/2021, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

25-28 March 2021: Edin Muftic, series of lectures on the Arab civilization

03/19/2021, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

19 March 2021: Boris Liebrenz, “Of Waqfs and Worms”

11/24/2020, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

24 November 2020: Nadine Löhr, “Networks of Lost Arabic Books”

10/08/2020, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

8 October 2020: Verena Klemm, “Bibliotheca Arabica and Transottomanica”

10/05/2020, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

5 October 2020: Boris Liebrenz, “What's in a Seal”

03/06/2020, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

6 March 2020: Verena Klemm, Keynote Lecture “Eine neue Blütezeit der Arabistik”

02/25/2020, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_activitiesbibarab_news

25–26 February 2020: Boris Liebrenz and Daniel Kinitz, Digitization of Books and Manuscripts

12/02/2019, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

2–3 December 2019: Stefanie Brinkmann, “Marginal Commentaries in Arabic Manuscripts”

09/04/2019, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

4–5 September 2019: Boris Liebrenz, Workshop Manuscripts in the Digital Environment, Leipzig

07/15/2019, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

15 July 2019: Daniel Kinitz, Presentation at Joint Science Conference (GWK)

06/28/2019, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

28 June 2019: What Manuscripts Can Tell us on the History of Arabic Literature (Academy-Colloquium)

06/06/2019, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_activitiesbibarab_news

6–7 June 2019: Stefanie Brinkmann, “Marginal Commentaries in Hadith Manuscripts”

05/08/2019, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

8 May 2019: Visit of Egyptian Delegation

04/24/2019, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

24 April 2019: Boris Liebrenz, „Bibliotheca Arabica – Was Handschriften und über die arabische Literatur verraten”

04/01/2019, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_activitiesbibarab_news

1 April 2019: Boris Liebrenz, “Aḍwā’ ǧadīda ʽalā maktabat al-ḥāǧǧ Aḥmad al-Rabbāṭ (New Light on the Library of Aḥmad al-Rabbāṭ)”

03/25/2019, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_activitiesbibarab_news

25–29 March 2019: Boris Liebrenz, Workshop on Manuscript Notes, Scriptorium workshop series, Berlin

02/22/2019, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_activitiesbibarab_news

22–23 February 2019: Stefanie Brinkmann, “Two Bukhārī Manuscripts from Timurid Shiraz – Marginal Commentaries”

01/30/2019, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_activitiesbibarab_news

30 January 2019: Prof. Dr. Maribel Fierro,“The Medieval Islamic West in the East”

01/22/2019, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_activitiesbibarab_news

22 January 2019: Boris Liebrenz, “Bibliotheca Arabica: The Past and Future of Arabic Bibliography”

12/20/2018, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_activitiesbibarab_news

20–21 December 2018: Verena Klemm, “Presentation of the Project Bibliotheca Arabica”

12/13/2018, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_activitiesbibarab_news

13–14 December 2018: Daniel Kinitz, Colloqium Digital Islamicate Humanities, Amsterdam

12/10/2018, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_activitiesbibarab_news

10–11 December 2018: Stefanie Brinkmann, “Marginal Commentaries in Hadith Manuscripts”

12/06/2018, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_activitiesbibarab_news

6–7 December 2018: Thomas Efer, “Uncovering Networks within 700 years of Material Textual Culture in the Arabic world”

09/23/2018, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_activitiesbibarab_news

23–29 September 2018: Summer School Islamic Manuscripts, Leipzig

09/10/2018, 12:00 AMEventbibarab_newsbibarab_activities

10–14 September 2018: Verena Klemm, Conference Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, Münster