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CALL FOR PAPERS (DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION 14 JULY 2013)CfP_Leiden_ConferenceInternational Conference: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Philological Encounters 5 - 7 June 2014, Leiden (NL)The research program Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of TextualScholarship (Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin) and the Leiden UniversityCentre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS), in cooperation with LeidenUniversity Library, invite papers for their joint international conferenceNineteenth and Twentieth Century Philological Encounters which will take placeat the University of Leiden, 5-7 June 2014.Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Philological EncountersConvened by Islam Dayeh (Zukunftsphilologie/Freie Universität Berlin), Umar Ryad(Leiden University) and Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn (CNRS Paris)As a result of colonial expansion and the technologies that made long-distancecommunication and travel possible, the 19th and 20th centuries witnessed anaccelerated rate of individual interactions across the globe, includingscholarly encounters. Individual scholars became more conscious of thecommonalities that they shared with fellow humans all over the world, whichthey expressed in universalistic projects in philosophy, philology, the lifesciences and other fields of human inquiry. Yet the encounter also broughtabout an articulation of differences.  Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturyPhilological Encounters is a conference dedicated to exploring the personal(and especially self-reflective) dimensions of academic knowledge production bystudying scholars (i.e., producers) and their contexts (i.e., institutions andsocieties) in relation to their objects of study.Knowledge is always embedded in institutions and is produced by individualscholars whose choices are shaped by their biographies as much as by thesubjects they study.  Thus, Philological Encounters refers to the discovery ofdifference that came about due to the real-life encounters betweenprofessionals and interpreters of texts, languages and cultures across theglobe. This conference outlines an avenue of research dedicated to the study oftensions, antagonisms and polemics – as well as fascination, cooperation,appropriation and friendship – that transpired as a consequence of the meetingsof different scholars and their dissimilar modes of textual scholarship, madepossible through international cooperation in the form of conferences,journals, academic associations and student exchange.The conference objective is not hagiography, but rather historicizing seeminglymonolithic categories – such as 'orientalism', 'philology' and 'history' – bylocalizing the role of individual actors in the process of knowledge formation,in the colonial and post-colonial periods. The conference addresses this bylooking at first-person accounts of conferences, reports, travel writing,correspondences, memoirs, auto/biographies, polemical essays, and translations,among other writings.ApplicationIf you are interested in participating, please send us your short CV and a 300word abstract (sent by e-mail as one pdf file) by 14 July 2013 tozukunftsphilologie@trafo-berlin.de. Accepted proposals will be notified by theend of September 2013. The final date for the submission of the full paper willbe 9 March 2014. It is expected that papers will be published in apeer-reviewed edited volume.For accepted papers, we will be happy to fund your return flight/train (economyclass/second class) and your hotel accommodation (from 4 to 7 June 2014).ContactZUKUNFTSPHILOLOGIEc/o Forum Transregionale StudienWallotstrasse 1414193 BerlinGermanyzukunftsphilologie@trafo-berlin.de&#160;&#160;