Wright Lecture Series

Lent Term 2012

William Wright (1830-1889) was Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge and was renowned as a Semiticist and a philologist. The Wright Lecture Series, named in his honour, is run by the Department of Middle Eastern Studies in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in association with the Centre of Islamic Studies. Reflecting the spread of the Department's academic interests, the Wright Lecture Series addresses topics of relevance to the study and understanding of the Middle East, Iran and India, ancient and modern.

Programme

Lectures take place on Thursdays, at 5pm in Rooms 8 & 9 at the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Wright Lectures PosterThursday, 2nd February, 2012
Byzantium in the Cairo Genizah
Professor Nicholas de Lange, University of Cambridge

Thursday, 23rd February, 2012
The Compulsions of Language or the Choice of Poets?: A Tamil Perspective on the Study of Islamic Literatures in South Asia
Dr Torsten Tschacher, University of Göttingen

Thursday, 15th March, 2012
The Moral Values of pre-Islamic Arabia
Professor Adel Gamal, University of Arizona

The Wright Lecture Series is run by the Department of Middle Eastern Studies in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in association with the Centre of Islamic Studies.

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