Activities

International Workshop | Re-Designing the Modern Religious Bookshelf – A Faculty-Library Dialogue on (Re-)Classifying Religious Literature

Organised by Cosima Wagner (Freie Universität Berlin) and Christian Meyer (Freie Universität Berlin/EXC 2020)
Thursday, 24 July - Friday, 25 July 2025

Workshop | Arabic Magical Realisms – Foundations, Concepts and Manifestations

Organised by Beatrice Gründler, Sophie Schmid and Hanan Natour
Thursday, 22 May - Friday, 23 May 2025

Workshop | Dekonstruktion und Dialog. Derrida in Kontroversen

Organisiert von Simon Godart, Research Area 3: "Future Perfect" and Nicola Zambon (Freie Universität Berlin)
Freitag, 09 Mai - Samstag, 10 Mai 2025

Guest Lecture by Tarek El-Ariss | War, Trauma, Memory - Magical Realisms in Lebanese Diasporic Writing

Organised by Beatrice Gründler and Hanan Natour (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
Tuesday, 10 December 2024

International Workshop | Anthologies Across Cultures: Textual Methods - Aesthetic Practices - Temporal Entanglements

Organised by Anne Eusterschulte (Freie Universität Berlin) and Beatrice Gründler (Freie Universität Berlin).
Monday, 2 December 2024 - Wednesday, 4 December 2024

EXC 2020 Jour Fixe #18 | Metaphoric Journaling

Organised by Till Kadritzke (Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies"), Michail Leivadiotis (Research Area 1: "Competing Communities"), Friederike Schäfer (Research Area 2: "Travelling Matters") and Sebastian Tränkle (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
Friday, 1 November 2024

International Workshop | Towards a Theory of the Modern Religious Bookshelf

Organised by Christian Meyer (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
Thursday, 24 October 2024

Talk | Ghosts in the Archive: Recordings of North African Prisoners of War (1916-18), by Taoufik Ben Amor

Organised by Research Area 3: "Future Perfect".
Tuesday, 16 July 2024

RA 3 Meeting | Roy Tzohar (Tel Aviv University) "Time tears up this world all the time": Temporality in First Millennium Indian Buddhist Literature

Organised by Research Area 3, "Future Perfect".
Monday, 15 July 2024

RA 3 Meeting | "Etwas spricht mich an - Zum Verstehen der Kreativität literarischer Werke." (Michel Chaouli und Christoph König)

Organised by Research Area 3, "Future Perfect".
Montag, 8. Juli 2024

EXC 2020 Jour Fixe #17 | Modernism vs. Modernity? Zum Verhältnis zwischen ästhetischer und sozialer Moderne

Organisiert von Till Kadritzke (Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies"), Michail Leivadiotis (Research Area 1: "Competing Communities"), Friederike Schäfer (Research Area 2: "Travelling Matters") und Sebastian Tränkle (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
28. Juni 2024

EXC 2020 Jour Fixe #16 | Tag-a-thon of 'Articulations' (LHTC)

Symposium | Philosophie und Philologie. Denken in Edition, Translation und Kritik

Organisiert von Simon Godart (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect"), Andrew James Johnston (Freie Universität Berlin), Hanna Trauer (SFB 980) und Sebastian Tränkle (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
19. April - 20. April 2024

EXC 2020 Jour Fixe #15 | Theory Forum - Activism and Literature

Workshop | Homer, the Balkans, and the World: Milman Parry, Albert Bates Lord, and the Oral-Formulaic Imaginary

Organised by Research Area 3, "Future Perfect".
Tuesday, 5 March 2024

RA 3 Meeting | National Epic, Nationalepos: Problematics and Difficult Cases

Organised by Research Area 3, "Future Perfect".
Monday, 4 March 2024

Lecture Series: The Invention of the Modern Religious Bookshelf | Cosima Wagner: Challenging Classification Systems of the 'Global North': The Modern Religious Bookshelf from an Area Studies Librarian's Perspective

Organised by Christian Meyer (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
Wednesday, 24 January 2024

EXC 2020 Jour Fixe #13 | Theory as Film? 5 (Very) Short Films and a Discussion

Lecture Series: The Invention of the Modern Religious Bookshelf | Franz Winter: How the Upanishads Became Part of the Religious Bookshelf (and What This Has to Do With Islam)

Organised by Christian Meyer (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
Wednesday, 20 December 2023

Workshop | Peripherien der Moderne. Walter Benjamins historischer Materialismus als literarisches Verfahren der Geschichtskritik

Organisiert von Anne Eusterschulte (Freie Universität Berlin) und Simon Godart (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
5. Dezember - 6. Dezember 2023

Workshop | Sammeln, Fragmentieren, Rekomponieren. Anthologien als Textverfahren in transkultureller Perspektive

Organisiert von Anne Eusterschulte (Freie Universität Berlin) und Beatrice Gründler (Freie Universität Berlin).
30. November - 1. Dezember 2023

Lecture Series: The Invention of the Modern Religious Bookshelf | Angus Nicholls: Max Müller's Sacred Books and the Prehistory of Comparative Literature

Organised by Christian Meyer (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
Wednesday, 1 November 2023

Lecture Series: The Invention of the Modern Religious Bookshelf | Julian Strube: Hinduism, Tantra, and the Question of an 'Esoteric Corpus'

Organised by Christian Meyer (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
Wednesday, 18 October 2023

Workshop | Die letzte Lücke schliessen

Organisiert von Anne Eusterschulte (Freie Universität Berlin) und Wenchao Li (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften).
4. Oktober - 5. Oktober 2023

Lecture Series: The Invention of the Modern Religious Bookshelf | Stefanie Burkhardt: Mircea Eliade and the Function of Reading for Religion in Modernity

Organised by Christian Meyer (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
Wednesday, 12 July 2023

Lecture Series: The Invention of the Modern Religious Bookshelf | Katja Triplett: What if Christian saints turn out to be Buddhists? The Barlaam and Josaphat legend in Japan and its afterlives

Organised by Christian Meyer (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
Wednesday, 21 June 2023

Ringvorlesung | Prof. Dr. Wolfram Keller: Kyng Alisaunder und Co: Alexander im englischen Spätmittelalter

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Wolfram Keller (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
Donnerstag, 8. Juni 2023

Ringvorlesung | Prof. Dr. Andrew James Johnston: Alexander - schwul und postkolonial (?): Mary Renaults Antikenfantasien

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Andrew James Johnston (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
Donnerstag, 1. Juni 2023

Ringvorlesung | Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gründler: Alexander in der Texttradition von Kalīla wa-Dimna

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gründler (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
Donnerstag, 25. Mai 2023

International Workshop | Imperial Fictions. The Cultural Entanglements and Multiple Temporalities of Alexander’s Afterlives

Organised by Andrew James Johnston, Wolfram Keller, and Jan-Peer Hartmann, project "Imperial Fictions", Research Area 3: "Future Perfect" in cooperation with Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit".
Thursday, 25 May – Saturday, 27 May 2023

Lecture Series: The Invention of the Modern Religious Bookshelf | Laurent Mignon: From Huysmans to Crowley: The Devil in Turkey

Organised by Christian Meyer (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
Wednesday, 17 May 2023

Ringvorlesung | Prof. Dr. Andrew James Johnston: Alexander und die Monster: Der Nowell Codex, Beowulf und die Wunder des Orients

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Andrew James Johnston (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
Donnerstag, 4. Mai 2023

Ringvorlesung | Prof. Dr. Anne Eusterschulte: Alexanders Himmelsreise - Hochfahrt oder Hybris des Wissens?

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Anne Eusterschulte (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
Donnerstag, 27. April 2023

Workshop | Autosociobiography: Global Entanglements of a Literary Phenomenon

Organised by Johanna Bundschuh-van Duikeren (Freie Universität Berlin), Marie Jacquier (Freie Universität Berlin), and Peter Löffelbein (Freie Universität Berlin), Research Area 3: "Future Perfect" and Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Thursday, 23 March – Saturday, 25 March 2023

Conference | "To Be Continued": The Novel and Forms of Narrative Continuation

Organised by Ulla Haselstein (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect") in cooperation with the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies.
Friday, 17 February – Saturday, 18 February 2023

Workshop | Temporalität, Leiblichkeit, Technik. Hans Blumenberg und die Phänomenologie

Organised by Nicola Zambon (Freie Universität Berlin) and Robert Buch (Universität Halle), Research Area 3: "Future Perfect".
Friday, 3 February - Saturday, 4 February 2023

Lecture Series: The Invention of the Modern Religious Bookshelf | Mark Sedgwick: Universalism, Perennialism, and the Modern Religious Bookshelf

Organised by Christian Meyer (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
Wednesday, 1 February 2023

Workshop | A Conversation with Mark Sedgwick on Universalism, Perennialism, and the Modern Religious Bookshelf

Organised by Christian Meyer (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
Wednesday, 1 February 2023

Lecture Series: The Invention of the Modern Religious Bookshelf | Christian Meyer & Anton Terhechte: Introduction

Organised by Christian Meyer (Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
Wednesday, 11 January 2023

Summer School | Edition Practices/Editionspraktiken

Conceived and organised by Anne Eusterschulte (Freie Universität Berlin; Research Area 3: "Future Perfect"), Glenn W. Most (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin; Committee on Social Thought, Univ. Chicago; Research Area 3: "Future Perfect") and Gerald Hartung (Univ. Wuppertal; AG Philosophical Editions).
Monday, 26 September – Friday, 7 October 2022

Public Dialogue | Transcultural Philological Encounters

Organised by Anne Eusterschulte and Glenn W. Most, Research Area 3: "Future Perfect".
Friday, 23 September 2022

Figurationen des Erbe(n)s in der Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit

Organisiert von Patrick Hohlweck and Stefan Willer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Research Area 3: "Future Perfect"
20. September - 22. September 2023

Workshop | Transtemporal Philologies: Philological Practices in a Cross Cultural Perspective

Conceived and organised by Anne Eusterschulte (Freie Universität Berlin; Research Area 3: "Future Perfect") and Glenn W. Most (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin; Committee on Social Thought, Univ. Chicago; Research Area 3: "Future Perfect").
Thursday, 22 September – Saturday, 24 September 2022

Workshop | Towards a “New Type of Human Being”? Conceptualizing Anthropological Deformation

Organised by Sebastian Tränkle (Freie Universität Berlin/EXC 2020) and Eric-John Russell (University of Potsdam), Research Area 3: "Future Perfect".
Thursday, 27 July - Saturday, 29 July 2023

Workshop | Spectral Temporalities/Spectral Communities. Thinking Hauntologically about Premodern Literature and Culture

Organised by Simon Godart, Research Area 3: "Future Perfect", and Henry Ravenhall (University of Cambridge).
Thursday, 1 September - Saturday, 3 September 2022

Annual Conference 2022 | Anticipating Modernities

Organised by Research Area 3: "Future Perfect"
Wednesday, 6 July – Friday, 8 July 2022

Tagung | Liminale Temporalität in der Frühen Neuzeit

Organised by Patrick Hohlweck and Stefan Willer, Research Area 3: "Future Perfect".
Thursday, 9 December - Saturday, 11 December 2021

Lecture | Pegah Shahbaz: Ruse and Guile in Classical Persian Prose Narratives – The Indian Heritage

Organised by Beatrice Gründler (EXC 2020, Research Area 3: "Future Perfect") and Johannes Stephan (Freie Universität Berlin, "Kalila and Dimna – AnonymClassic", ERC).
Tuesday, 23 November 2021

Conference | Framing Narratives. New Perspectives on Premodern Textual Production in Arabic

Organised by Beatrice Gründler (EXC 2020, Research Area 3: "Future Perfect") and Johannes Stephan (Freie Universität Berlin, "Kalīla and Dimna - AnonymClassic", ERC).
Thursday, 18 November - Friday, 19 November 2021

Workshop | Tempestuous Times: Multiple Temporalities and Topographies in William Shakespeare's The Tempest

Organised by Andrew James Johnston and Wolfram Keller, Research Area 3: "Future Perfect".
Thursday, 4 November - Saturday, 6 November 2021

Workshop | Transforming Communities of ‘Spirits’ and ‘Souls’: The Term Ling in Religious, Medical and Secular Literatures in Premodern and Modern China (and East Asia)

Organised by Christian Meyer, Research Area 3: "Future Perfect".
Friday, 18 June - Saturday, 19 June 2021

Workshop | "Temporal Communities" in der vormodernen Kleinepik

Organised by Hans Jürgen Scheuer, Research Area 3: "Future Perfect".
Thursday, 18 March - Friday, 19 March 2021

Workshop | Utopia and Idyll - Temporality of non-space and locus amoneus

Organised by Simon Godart, Research Area 3: "Future Perfect", and Andreas Strasser, Princeton University.
Thursday, 3 December - Friday, 4 December 2020

Conference | Framing Narratives: New Perspectives on Premodern Textual Production in Arabic

Organised by Beatrice Gründler, Research Area 3: "Future Perfect", and Johannes Stephan (FUB, "Kalīla and Dimna - AnonymClassic", ERC).
Wednesday, 25 November - Friday, 27 November 2020

Workshop | Weltenphilologie. Modelle, Konstitutionen, Figurationen globaler Lesbarkeit

Organised by Simon Godart, Research Area 3: "Future Perfect".
Thursday, 3 September - Friday, 4 September 2020

Conference | Anonymity and Temporality

Organised by the Cluster of Excellence 2020 "Temporal Communities" in cooperation with King's College London.
Thursday, 5 December - Saturday, 7 December, 2019

Workshop | Philologie und Temporalität: Schriften klassischer Textkulturen aus transkultureller Perspektive

Organised by Anne Eusterschulte, Research Area 3: "Future Perfect", and Glenn W. Most.
Friday, 29 November - Saturday, 30 November 2019

Workshop | Philologie und Zeit

Organised by Melanie Möller, Research Area 2: "Travelling Matters", with Jürgen Paul Schwindt.
Monday, 16 September - Wednesday, 18 September 2019

EXC 2020 Temporal Communities