9:00-10:20 OpeningSeSSiOn[engliSh]

Barbara Schneider-Kempf, Director General of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin:“OpeningWelcome”Sabine Schmidtke: “YemeniManuscriptsinEuropeanlibraries”Christoph Rauch:“YemeniManuscriptsinBerlin”David Hollenberg:“YMDI:ProgressandProspects”David Magier:“YMDIatPrinceton”

10:30-11:30 ManuScriptSinthedigitalhuManitieS[engliSh]

David Magier (chair)Stephanie Wood:“YMDIDistanceResearchEnvironment”Cliff Wulfman:“TheRoadtotheWeb:DigitizingManuscriptsfromYemen”Gregory Crane:[tba]

12:00-13:30 lunch (art-library/OldpaintingSgallery,juStacrOSStheStaatSbibliOthek)*

13:45-15:45 ZaydīStudieSi[engliSh]

Gregor Schwarb (chair)Jan Thiele:“ZaydīScholarshipasreflectedinManuscriptGlosses”Aron Zysow:“KalāmworksbyIbnal-Murtaḍā”Eirik Hovden:“Zaydiendowmentfiqhbetweendoctrinesandlegalpractice”Christoph Rauch:“Zaydischolarshipin16thcenturyYemen:Wadial-Sirrasanexample”

16:00-18:00 ZaydīStudieSii[engliSh/French]

Bernard Haykel (chair and discussant)Hassan Ansari:“al-Kaššāfd’al-ZamaḫšarīetlesZayditesduYémen”Sabine Schmidtke: “ThedoctrinalthoughtofʿAbdAllāhb.Zaydal-ʿAnsī(d.667/1268)”Brinkley Messick:“ReadingsinaSystemofTexts”Gregor Schwarb:“SomeobservationsonFakhral-Dīnal-Najrī’sK. Mirqāt al-anzār”

19:00 grOupdinner (caFÉMÖhring,iMWeinhauShuth,altepOtSdaMerStr.5,10785berlin [http://potsdamerplatz.de/de/restaurants-bars/restaurants/deutsche-spezialitaeten/cafe-moehring/])*

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StaatSbibliOthekZuberlin,hauSpOtSdaMerStraSSe,9-10May2012

May9th

           

9:00-11:00 theprivatelibrarieSOFManuScriptSinyeMen[arabic]

Bernard Haykel (chair)Ahmed Ishaq: “IZBACFandtheYMDIProject–ObstaclesandChallenges”ʿAbd al-Salām b. ʿAbbās al-Wajīh:“Turāthal-Yamanal-makhṭūṭbaynal-ihmālwa-muḥāwalātal-inqādh”Hassan Ansari:“Al-Maktabātal-khāṣṣafīl-Yamanwa-ahammiyyatuhāfīl-dirāsātal-muʿtaziliyya muqāranatanbi-dawral-maktabātal-ʿāmmafīṢanʿāʾ”

11:15-12:30 arabicManuScriptdigitiZatiOnandcatalOgingprOjectS[engliSh]

David Hollenberg (chair)Cécile Bonmariage: “Beyondtexts:Digitalcollections,codicologyandpaleography(or:themissinglinks)”Anne Regourd:“Preservingthematerialbook,virtually: theimportanceof paperindigitizingtheprivate librariesofZabīd”Joyce Bell: “Beyondcataloging:dataconversionandstructuresforpresentingadigitizedmanuscript”Thoralf Hanstein:“Berlinactivitiesinthefieldofcataloguinganddigitization”

12:30-13:30 lunch (art-library/OldpaintingSgallery,juStacrOSStheStaatSbibliOthek)*

13:45-15:45 breakOutgrOupdiScuSSiOnS:“Yemenimanuscripts&thedigitalhumanities: Prospectsforanewmanuscriptage”

16:00-17:30 tOurOFtheManuScriptcOllectiOnOFStaatSbibliOthekZuberlin (chriStOphrauch)

19:00 grOupdinner (OSteriacaruSO,kÖthenerStr.38,10936berlin [http://www.osteria-caruso.de])*

*Sincefundsarelimitedparticipantswillhavetopaythemselvesforallmeals.Still,theorganizersbelievethatitwouldbeniceifweallwentouttogetherforlunchesanddinnertocontinueourdiscussions,andwehavethereforemadereservationsintheindicatedplaces.Participationis,ofcourse,purelyvoluntary.

theyeMeniManuScriptdigitiZatiOninitiative(yMdi)internatiOnalWOrkShOp

StaatSbibliOthekZuberlin,hauSpOtSdaMerStraSSe,9-10May2012

May10th