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Open Language Classes
Department-wide Events
Urban diversity and conflict resolution: Mega cities and the future of integration
Woolf Institute & Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Panel Series: Muslim-Jewish Relations
- Tuesday, 8th November, 2016 at 5pm
Rooms 8 & 9, Faculty of Asian & Middle eastern Studies
Haim Yacobi, Visiting Fellow, Woolf Institute
“Separated but not quite: the making of a Jewish-Arab mixed city”
Yuval Evri, SOAS
“Possibilities of Arab-Jewish thought: revealing political and cultural options at the turn of the 10th centry, based on reviving Judaeo-Muslim heritage”
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Jews, Muslims and Christians in the Musical Life of Medieval Iberia
- Tuesday, 1st November, 2016 at 5pm
Rooms 8 & 9, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Prof. Dwight Reynolds, Professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Lecture presented by the University of Cambridge faculty of Music
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Hebrew & Semitic Studies Events
Arabic & Persian Studies Events
Graduate Research Seminars
Persian Music Lessons
Persian Calligraphy Workshops
Iranian Film Screenings
Indian Studies Events
From Word Meanings to Sentence Meaning: Different Perspectives in Indian Philosophy of Language
- Friday, 11th November, 2016 - 9:30 - 18:00
Room 213, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
International Sanskrit Studies Colloquium
Middle-Eastern Related Events in Cambridge
Cambridge Lectures in Islamic Art
Cambridge Shahnama Centre for Persian Studies, Pembroke College
Turbulent World seminar series
Centre of Islamic Studies
Muslims and Zoroastrians in the Early Islamic Period: New Approaches using Old Sources
Woolf Institute Seminar given by Dr Christian Sahner
- Tuesday, 30th May, 2017 at 3pm in Room 9
Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Site
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International Law and the Ottoman Empire
The Cambridge Middle East History Group and King’s in the Middle East are pleased to announce that Mostafa Minawi (Cornell) will give a seminar on this topic as below:
- Monday, 20th February, 2017 at 5.30pm
Sir Arthur Quiller Couch Room, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.
Drinks will be served after the seminar.
For further information, contact Andrew Arsan aka25@cam.ac.uk
The Arabs in the 21st Century
The Cambridge University Middle East Society invite you to a talk by Professor Eugene Rogan, University of Oxford.
- Wednesday, 22nd February, 2017 at 5:30pm
Room G.19, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Site
Grotesque Bodies, Divine Words
Body of the Text Series
Given by: Dr Tali Artman-Partock, Affiliated Researcher in Israeli Studies, University of Cambridge
- Tuesday, 16th February, 2017 at 12:15pm
The Cambridge Lehrhaus, 3 Trinity Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Further details (on the Lehrhaus website)
Syriac as a Crossroads of Cultures: The Role of Translations
Aradin Charitable Trust Winter Lecture, 2017
Given by: Dr Sebastian Brock, emeritus Reader in Syriac Studies, University of Oxford
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Wednesday, 8th February, 2017, at 5.30pm
Room 7, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
From the time of the earliest translation of the Gospels into Syriac, right up to the present day, translation into, and out of, Syriac has played a very important role in the history of the transmission of certain ancient texts to the modern world. The talk will consider a selection of specific cases.
RSVP by 6th February: admin@aradin.org.uk
Language Contact and Language Change in Cross-Border Kurdistan (CLiCK)
- Friday, 9th - Saturday, 10th December, 2016
Old Combination Room, Wolfson College
Further details of programme & registration
CUMES Film Night: Wadjda
- Friday, 4th November, 2016 at 6:30pm
The Elton Bowring Room, Clare College (Memorial Court)
Come and join CUMES as we watch the award winning film Wadjda (2012). This Saudi Arabian film was directed by Haifaa al-Mansour and is the first feature-length film made by a female Saudi director. The film follows the struggles of the a young girl in a society that refuses to grant her what she desires - a new bicycle. The film explores some of the issues that are pertinent to contemporary Saudi culture, namely, women's rights, education and feminism.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Please see our Facebook event for more details or e-mail Arthur John Bickersteth.
World History Lecture Series
Between the Mediterranean and Africa: Berber Empires of the Medieval Maghrib
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Thursday, 3rd November, 2016 at 5pm
Seminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College
Dr Amira K. Bennison, University of Cambridge
A talk which will consider the ways in which the Almoravid and Almohad empires of North Africa have been understood and how we might think about these two important but little known Islamic empires.
Related events elsewhere
Re-writing a best-seller
A talk on the Kalila wa-Dimna rewriting phenomenon in pre-modern Persian.
- Wednesday, 9th November, 2016 at 7pm
The Mosaic Rooms, London
Dr Christine van Ruymbeke, Ali Reza and Mohamed Soudavar Senior Lecturer in Persian Studies, University of Cambridge
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Scholars have identified no less than six Persian versions of the fables of Kalila wa Dimna, produced for different courts through the medieval period, while poets such as Ferdowsi, Rumi and Nezami make references to the fables in their own works. This talk will examine this singular rewriting phenomenon and attempt to highlight the reasons for the remarkable success of this text in the Persian cultural area.
More information about this event…
Earlier Events
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