Selected talks, conference presentations, and invited lectures by Michel Kabalan.
Envisioning Diagrammatic Practices within the Arabic Medieval Manuscript Tradition: The Circle of Justice in the Sirr al-Asrār (Porto, 2026)
Event Doctoral defense
Type PhD defense
Date 22 April 2026
Location Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Portuga
A Quadratura do Círculo: Leituras Diagramáticas dos Tratados de Filosofia Árabe Medieval (Lisbon, 2025)
Event Seminário Permanente de Estudos Islâmicos, Ciência das Religiões
Type Invited lecture
Date 28 August 2025
Location Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon, Portugal
Theorising Rewriting Practices in Arabic Literature and Thought: The Concepts of adab al-Ṭurūs (أدب الطروس) and bi-taṣarruf (بتصرف) (Geneva, 2025)
Event Seminar “Réécrire, un geste contemporain ?”
Type Invited lecture
Date 2 May 2025
Location Université de Genève, Switzerland
Arabists from Northern Portugal: The Case of Pereira Leite Neto, Librarian of the Biblioteca Pública do Porto (Nantes, 2024)
Event Lecture at Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Ange-Guépin
Type Lecture
Date October 2024
Location Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Ange-Guépin, Nantes, France
Pictorial Descriptions of the Silk Road: Orientalist Gazes between the Lusíadas of Camões and the Codice Casanatense (Évora, 2023)
Event Congress of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Filosofia
Type Conference presentation
Date 15 September 2023
Location Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Between Textual Centers and Peripheries: The Premises of Diagrammatic Thought in Arabic Philosophical Medieval Manuscripts(Évora, 2023)
Event Congress of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Filosofia
Type Conference presentation
Date 14 September 2023
Location Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Espelhos Ardentes, Espelhos Enferrujados: Leitura das Teorias de Visão na Obra de al-Kindī e Ibn Ṭufayl (Covilhã, 2023)
Event Congress “De Imagine”, SOFIME
Type Conference presentation
Date 7 September 2023
Location Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal
The Proselytism of the Near: The Portuguese Franciscans and Semitic Languages Teaching, 14th-18th Century (Porto, 2022)
Event Conference “As ordens monásticas na emergência das línguas vernáculas: filosofia, espiritualidade, história, literatura, sermonística”, Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto
Type Conference presentation
Date 24 September 2022
Location FLUP, Porto, Portugal
Round Diagrams in Medieval Islamic Philosophy (Munich, 2021)
Event Workshop “The Concept of Motion in Late Medieval Philosophy”, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
No Limiar da Impossibilidade: Traduzir Historiografia Árabe Clássica nos Dias de Hoje (Porto, 2021)
Event International Congress “Medieval Metamorphosis: Rewritings, Tradition and Translation”
Type Conference presentation
Date 27 May 2021
Location Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto · NOVA FCSH, Porto, Portugal
Entre Orientalismo e Filologia: Os Arabistas da Biblioteca Pública do Porto (Porto, 2020)
Event OIC Series 2020/21 (4th session), CITCEM
Type Seminar presentation
Date 2020
Location CITCEM, Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar Cultura, Espaço e Memória, Porto, Portugal
Serious and Yet Satirical: Political Caricatures in the 20th-Century Lebanese Press (Lisbon, 2019)
Event Workshop “Representations of the Self and the Other in the Satiric Image: From the French Revolution to Today”, Instituto de História Contemporânea
Type Workshop presentation
Date 27 June 2019
Location NOVA FCSH Institute of Contemporary History, Lisbon, Portugal
A House of Many ‘Cuisines’: Lebanese Cookbooks and Culinary Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Washington DC, 2019)
Event Conference on Levantine Food Studies, Georgetown University
Type Conference presentation
Date 7 June 2019
Location Georgetown University, Washington DC
Transmission of Arabic Medical Vocabulary through Latin Hagiographies: The Case of Vita Tellonis, c. 1165 (Morella, 2019)
Event International Conference “Traductio et Traditio Mediaevales: Science, Knowledge and Ideology”, Universitat Jaume I
Type Conference presentation
Date 13 March 2019
Location Universitat Jaume I, Morella, Spain
Presenças lusas e ibero-islâmicas na obra de Dante (Porto, 2017)
Event International Conferene organized by ASCIP Dante Alighieri
Type Conference presentation
Date 2 June 2017
Location Casa do Infante, Porto, Portugal
The Qur’an in My Notebook (Philadelphia, 2017)
Event Project “American and Muslim Worlds: ca. 1500–1900”, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Type Lecture
Date March 2017
Location University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
“O Destino / al-Maṣīr” (Youssef Chahine, 1997): film presentation and moderated discussion (Porto, 2013)
Event Ciclo Imagens de um certo Oriente
Type Public lecture and moderated discussion
Date 10 April 2013
Location FLUP, Porto
Encyclopedic Blueprints of the Nahda: Buṭrus al-Bustānī and his Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif” (Berlin, 2012)
Event Conference “Língua Franca no Mediterrâneo”, Zukunftsphilologie – Forum Transregionale Studien ·
Type Conference presentation
Date May 2012
Location
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany
Ibn al-Baṣṣām al-Shantarīnī no seu contexto português (Porto, 2009)
Event Seminário Medieval de Literatura, Pensamento e Sociedade (SMELPS)
Type Seminar presentation
Date January 2009
Location Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Mechanics of the Disquiet: Some Thoughts on Arab Cultural Integration in Berlin (Berlin, 2008)
Event International Interdisciplinary Working Group for Philosophical Reflection
Type Seminar presentation
Date October 2008
Location Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Marxism and Islam: A Critical Reading of Laroui’s The Arabs and the Historical Thinking” (Berlin, 2008)
Event Lecture
Type Lecture
Date June 2008
Location Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany
Abū al-Wafāʾ al-Mubashshir Ibn Fātik e a sua obra sapiencial (Porto, 2008)
Event Seminário Medieval de Literatura, Pensamento e Sociedade (SMELPS)
Type Seminar presentation
Date January 2008
Location Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Oriental Democracy as a Case of Cultural Essentialism (Berlin, 2007)
Event DAAD Fellows Conference
Type Conference presentation
Date December 2007
Location Berlin, Germany
On the Dilemmas of the Lebanese Freedom of Press (Berlin, 2007)
