BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:32158@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240223T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240224T150000 DTSTAMP:20240131T234541Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/redefining-arabic-new-approaches-to -the-study-of-arabics-past-and-present/ SUMMARY:Redefining Arabic: New Approaches to the Study of Arabic's Past and Present DESCRIPTION: \;\n\nAUSTIN\, TEXAS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe study of Arabic is characterized by certain classificatory terminology used to distinguish v arious kinds (usually called registers) of the Arabic language\, such as c olloquial/dialectal Arabic (Arabic al-ʿāmiyyah) and Classical/Modern Sta ndard Arabic (Arabic al-fuṣḥā). This distinction is as old as the nat ive Arabic grammatical tradition\, and this distinction serves as the bedr ock of the scholarly framework within which scholars have worked until tod ay. However\, much recent scholarly work on corpora ranging from pre-Islam ic inscriptions\, medieval texts\, and modern dialects\, has demonstrated that this paradigm is problematic in many respects. For example\, pre-Isla mic inscriptions attest varieties of Arabic that are not like either Class ical Arabic or the modern dialects. Medieval texts written in non-Classica l forms of Arabic\, typically called 'Middle Arabic\,' strongly suggest th e presence of prestigious varieties of Arabic other than Classical Arabic. And in fact\, Classical Arabic itself is turning out to have evolved and\ , depending on time and place\, to have included many features not typical ly considered 'standard' today. While each of these claims is by now rathe r uncontroversial\, due to the unfortunately typical siloing of scholars w orking on different corpora from different time periods\, the degree to wh ich the implications of these developments have been brought to bear on wo rk in each is rather minimal and haphazard.\n\nThis symposium brings toget her scholars from a number of sub-fields\, working on corpora from all per iods of Arabic's attested history\, in order to bring the latest developme nts in each into conversation with each other. Special focus will be on qu estions surrounding how the various corpora might be brought into conversa tion\, methodological issues in comparing the varieties of Arabic on which each works\, and especially on the usefulness – or lack thereof – of the regnant terminology used in the field.\n\nAll are welcome to come and listen in to what is sure to be a very interesting and fruitful set of con versations.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsored by the Donald D. Harrington Fellows Pro gram\, Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, Schusterman Center for Jewish S tudies\, Department of Religious Studies\, and Institute for the Study of Antiquity and Christian Origins\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n LOCATION:University of Texas at Austin\, 2515 Speedway\, Austin\, Texas\, 7 8712 \, United States GEO:30.289062;-97.736493 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2515 Speedway\, Austin\, Te xas\, 78712 \, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=University of Texa s at Austin:geo:30.289062,-97.736493 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR