FAMES Annual Research Day 2022
Tuesday 31 May
Rooms 8-9, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
9.45-11.15: Panel 1: Linguistics
9.45-10.15: Professor Geoffrey Khan, “Current team projects in Hebrew and Semitic Studies”
10.15-10.45: Dr Paul Noorlander, “Interdisciplinary approaches to Aramaic and Kurdish”
10.45-11.15: Dr Saussan Khalil, “Creating and disseminating the Arabic phonics teaching approach: an impact project.”
11.15-11.30: Coffee and Tea
11.30-1: Panel 2: Literature
11.30-12: Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, “"What does Turandot want?" Cracking the Silent Riddle in Nezami's Haft Paykar.”
12-12.30: Dr Heather Inwood, ““(Im)possible Worlds in Online Chinese Popular Fiction”
12.30-1: Dr Po-hsi Chen, “Betrayal for Revolution: A Leftist-Eschatological Reading of Chen Yingzhen's 'The Story of Judas Iscariot'.”
1-2: Lunch
2-3.30: Panel 3: History and Art
2-2.30: Professor Amira Bennison, “Holiday Snaps: Travellers’ tales from medieval North Africa”
2.30-3: Dr Hajni Elias, “Laughter and Lamentation: Eastern Han (25 - 220 C.E.) Entertainers from Southwest China”
3-3.30: Professor Barak Kushner, “Afterlives of the Damned – the Commemoration of Justice in East Asia, 1990s to the Present”
3.30pm: Refreshments
| Contact |
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| Dr Paul Anderson: psa27@cam.ac.uk |