Middle Eastern Linguistics & Philology

Talks start at 17:00 in Room 9 at the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

Program for Easter Term, 2024

• Monday, 26th January, 2024
  How do languages die? The case of the Jewish dialects of North African Arabic
  Dr Wiktor Gębski, Postdoctoral Fellow, AMES, Cambridge
   

• Monday, 6th, May, 2024
  Reciting in Clear Arabic Speech: Reconstruction of Dialectal Phonology from Medieval Judaeo-Arabic Targum Traditions
  Dr Nick Posegay, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, AMES, Cambridge
   

• Monday, 27th May, 2024
  The Genetics of Medieval Liturgical Targums: A New Digital Method for Studying Textual and Linguistic Evolution
  Dr Estara J. Arrant, AMES & Genizah Research Unit, University Library, Cambridge
   

For further information, contact:

Professor Geoffrey Khan, e-mail: gk101@cam.ac.uk
Dr Paul Noorlander, e-mail: pmn32@cam.ac.uk