Name: CARMe "Comparative Analysis of Religious Metaphors"
Start: 2025-03-17
End: 2025-03-21
Location: unknown

Spring School

CARMe "Comparative Analysis of Religious Metaphors"

The CRC 1475 “Metaphors of Religion” offers a spring school on “Comparative Analysis of Religious Metaphors (CARMe)”.

08:30 – 09:30	Welcoming participants and introduction (Introduction to the CRC by Tim Karis)
09:30 – 09:45	Coffee break
09:45 – 11:15	Introductory lecture on the “Bible and Qurʾān” by Abdulla Galadari
11:15 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 12:15	Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) by Volkhard Krech
12:15 – 13:30	Lunch break
13:30 – 14:15	Metaphor Identification Procedure Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (MIPVU) by Sebastian Reimann
14:15 – 15:00	CRC annotation guideline by Sebastian Reimann and Vicky Ziegler
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00	Introduction to Mapping Metaphors with first examples of metaphor analysis and exercises

09:00 – 09:45	Metaphor and Metonymy by Nikita Artemov
09:45 – 10:30	Conceptual Blending Theory (CBT) by Elsa Küppers and Vicky Ziegler
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45	Deliberate Metaphor Theory (DMT) by Frederik Elwert
11:45 – 12:30	Introduction to the annotation tool tAkita by Lina Rodenhausen
12:30 – 14:30	Lunch break with preparation for the excursion to Münster
14:30 – 16:00	Way Metaphors in the Qurʾān with sample annotations and discussion

08:30	Departure for the excursion to Münster from Bochum Central Station
10:30 – 14:00	Excursion to Münster with lunch (including a visit of the manuscript collection of the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Münster University)
14:30	Arrival at the ZIT (Zentrum für Islamische Theologie – Centre of Islamic Theology)
15:00 – 16:00	Visit of the ZIT (Zentrum für Islamische Theologie – Centre of Islamic Theology)
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00	Round table discussion at the ZIT on the significance of Biblical references, allusions and parallels for Qurʾānic exegesis
18:30 – 20:00	Dinner at the restaurant “Indian Ocean” (Alter Steinweg 34, Münster)

09:00 – 10:00	Metaphor analysis and its challenges by Nikita Artemov and Vicky Ziegler
10:00 – 10:15	Coffee break
10:15 – 11:45	Collaborative analysis and annotation
11:45 – 14:00	Lunch break at the Mensa
14:00 – 15:30	Collaborative analysis and annotation, part II
15:30 – 15:45	Coffee break
15:45 – 17:00	Discussion of the results

09:00 – 09:45	Introdcution by Nikita Artemov and Vicky Ziegler
09:45 – 10:00	Coffee break
10:00 – 11:30	Individual analysis and annotation work – Finding shared metaphors, linguistic and conceptual parallels in Biblical and Qurʾānic texts
11:30 – 11:45	Coffee break
11:45 – 13:15	Annotation work
13:15 – 14:30	Lunch break
14:30 – 16:00	Annotation work
16:00 – 16:15	Coffee break
16:15 – 17:00	Final discussion
19:00 – 21:00	Dinner with further discussions at the restaurant “Viva la Mamma”