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The Learning and Teaching of Arabic in Early Modern Europe
One-day Symposium at the National Museum of Antiquities


Date 16 November 2013
Location Leemanszaal, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden
Organised by Jan Loop (London), Charles Burnett (London) and Arnoud Vrolijk (Leiden)
Convenor Jan Loop

About
This is a one-day launch symposium of the collaborative European research project Encounters with the Orient in Early Modern European Scholarship (EOS), funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) - a partnership between 21 Humanities Research Councils across Europe and the European Science Foundation (ESF).

This international symposium will explore and celebrate the methods, the scholarly significance and the institutional background of Arabic teaching and learning at early modern European academies and universities.  Two keynote lectures on the Learning of Arabic in the Netherlands and in England will frame a series of presentations by leading authorities in the history of European Arabic studies.

Speakers
Speakers include; Asaph Ben-Tov (Erfurt), Alexander Bevilacqua (Princeton), Mordechai Feingold (Caltech), Mercedes García-Arenal (Madrid), Aurélien Girard (Reims) and Arnoud Vrolijk (Leiden)

Registration
[email protected] (free)

CONFERENCE POSTER
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PROGRAMME

10:30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
11:00 Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute, London), Opening Remarks

Panel 1
Chair: Martin Mulsow (University of Erfurt)*
11:15 Arnoud Vrolijk (University Library, Leiden), ‘The usefulness of Arabic'ʹ - The impact of social relevance on the history of Arabic studies in the Netherlands
12:15 Asaph Ben Tov (University of Erfurt), Johann Zechendorff (1580-­1662) and Arabic Studies at Zwickau’s Latin School.

13:00 LUNCH

Panel 2
Chair: Outi Merisalo (University of Jyväskylä)
14:00 Alexander Bevilacqua (Princeton University), Arabic in the Classroom of  Johann David Michaelis
14:45 Aurélien Girard (Université de Reims Champagne-­Ardenne), Is there a Franciscan Arabic? Teaching Arabic in the Order of saint Francis (Rome, 17th century)

15:30 COFFEE BREAK

Panel 3
Chair: Gerard Wiegers (University of Amsterdam)
16:00 Mercedes García-­Arenal (Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid), Teaching and Learning Arabic in Early Modern Spain
16:45 Mordechai Feingold (California Institute of Technology), Learning Arabic in Early Modern England

17:45 Jan Loop (University of Kent), Concluding Remarks

18:00 DRINKS RECEPTION


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