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Mahbod Ghafari - 2024 Pilkington Prizewinner
4th International Conference on Teaching Persian Language and Literature
All-comers Hindi Classes
Book Culture in Buddhism and Beyond, 2023-24
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Reprinting the Buddhist Āgama Collection in Khara-Khoto
The Cult of Children Haunting and Protecting deities in Medieval Dunhuang and Japanese Buddhist Manuscripts: A Preliminary Comparison
Star-Averting: Ritualisation for Adaptation in the Xiyou ji and Two Chuanqi Plays
Manuscripts and Print Among Chan Buddhists During the Song Dynasty
Daoist Investiture and the Structure of The Journey to the West
The Merit Economy of Buddhist Publishing in Republican China
The Most Popular Buddhist Book Printed in Ming Beijing circa 1450
CIS Public Talks, Lent 2024
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Traitor, hero, man of destiny? Sultan Muhammad XI and the fall of the Islamic empire in the west
Muslim Mental Health – Then and Now
Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counter-histories in Southern Oman
China Research Seminar, Lent 2024
China Research Seminar, Lent 2024 overview
Speaking Truth to Power: China’s Artists, Poets and Netizens on the Russo-Ukrainian War, 2022-Present
R&R: Overseas Rest and Recreation during the Vietnam War, 1965–72
House of Goddesses: The Living Need Light, The Goddesses Need Meat
Chuan Lyu Lectures 2024
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Spectral Infrastructure: Bridge in Suspension and Marine Technopolitics on the New Cold War Frontline
Gambling and Affect in the Cold War Matsu Islands
East Asia Seminar Series, Lent 2024
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East Asia Seminar - Dr Iza Kavedžija
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John And Mary Bennett Lecture 2024
MES Seminar Series, Lent & Easter 2024
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Codifying a Linguistic Heritage: The Standard Language Ideology of the Hebrew and Arabic Grammarians of the ʿAbbasid Period (750–1258)
How to Repel Snakes from Istanbul? The Serpent Talisman and Ottoman Historians (15th–19th Centuries)
Haunting Energies in the Arabic Novel
“The Sage of the Heavenly Abode”: Articulating Islam in Early Modern China
Relations between Fatimid Egypt and Nubia as Reflected by the Arabic Documents Discovered at Qasr Ibrim
Arabic Poetry as a Weapon of Jihad
New Approaches to Hebrew Philology, Lent 2024
New Approaches to Hebrew Philology, Lent 2024 overview
Remarks on the Biblical Hebrew Yiqtol Form
The Importance of the Ancient Versions for the Description of Biblical Hebrew
Syntax and Hermeneutics: Relative Clauses and the Tiberian Accents
Linguistic Variety in Qumran and the Quest for a Literary Standard Language
Notes on Tense Shifting in the Psalms
Word Order: Stylistic, Dialectal and Diachronic Variation
Poetic Structures and Word Order in Biblical Hebrew
New Approaches to Hebrew Philology - Roundtable Discussion
The Fourth Biennial Arabic Language Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Conference
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Ullendorff Lectures in Semitic Philology
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The Semitic perfect/stative and the problem of the zero morpheme
How to borrow pattern morphology
The Grammar of Classical Ethiopic: its history and problems
Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series (印證高端佛學演講系列)
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The Indian Buddhist Origins of the Chinese Beef Taboo
Space, Place and Religious Identities in Sichuan: Two Case Studies of the Chunyang Guan 純陽觀 and the Yuwang Gong 禹王宮
From Disciples to Student-Monks: Educational Modernization and Identity Production in Chinese Buddhism
Buddhist Art for the 21st Century: What Might It Look Like?
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Cross-Points: A Cambridge–Stanford Graduate Conference in Arabic Literature
The Role of the SAT Buddhist Scripture Database Project in Japanese Digital Humanities
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13th International Indology Graduate Research Symposium
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AMES Faculty General Research Day
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CIS Public Talks, Lent 2021
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Genealogy, Critique, and Decolonization:Ibn Khaldun and Moving Beyond Filling the Gaps
"Policing Infitah": Economic Liberalisation, Security and Social Order in Egypt
Inter-Asia through Inland Eyes: Afghan Trading Networks across Land and Sea
China Careers: Opportunity and the Middle Kingdom
China Research Seminar, Easter 2019
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Confucius Unearthed: New Perspectives on the Master from the Shanghai Museum Manuscripts
Other Cosmopolitans: China and Beyond
Making China Modern
China Research Seminar, Easter 2021
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Sinophobia and Spiritual Warfare in Contemporary Vietnam
Panel Discussion - Chinese Communist Party: a Century in Ten Lives
Chinese Grammatology - Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916–1958
China Research Seminar, Easter 2022
China Research Seminar, Easter 2022 overview
On Translation, Rewriting, and the Dynamics of Yanyi (演義): A Perspective from Yu Xuelun’s Xixiang ji yanyi (喻血輪著《西廂記演義》) (1918)
Minority Warfare: The Late Tang Border Conflict with Nanzhao and the Rise of Vietnam
China Research Seminar, Easter 2023
China Research Seminar, Easter 2023 overview
In Melon Time: Rethinking Cultural History with the Humble Gua 瓜
Friends in Far Places: Foreigners and the Making of the Chinese Diplomat
China Research Seminar, Lent 2019
China Research Seminar, Lent 2019 overview
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Social Stratification through Human-Animal Metamorphosis on the Sino-Russian Border
Vaccination and Immunology in the PRC as Part of a World Wide Discourse
A Review of China’s Early Modern and Modern Transition and Growth Performance
Chen Di’s Record of Formosa: A Chinese Anti-Imperial Text in Comparative Perspective
Toward a Comprehensive Map of Power: A Panoramic Overview of Female Emperor Wu Zhao’s Political Authority
Elegant and Militarized: Ceremonial Volunteers and Gendered Nationalism in China
Transformations Manifested: Foxes and Shape-shifters in Early Imperial Literature
China Research Seminar, Lent 2020
China Research Seminar, Lent 2020 overview
Legal Liberal Resistance: The Experience of China's Human Rights Lawyers
Legal Mutilation and Moral Exclusion: Disputes on Integrity and Deformity in Early China
Back to Cambridge again: Translating The Verse of Shao Xunmei
The Great Cataclysm: Reconstructing Buddhist Monasteries in the Wake of the Taiping War
Divine Landscapes: Hagiography as Geography in the Zhenwu Cult
Crowning China’s “Hog Bristle King”: American Demand for Bristles and the Wartime Transformation of the Chinese Countryside
Déjà Vu? Photography as Metaphor: Repurposing Archival Photographs of Mao
China Research Seminar, Lent 2021
China Research Seminar, Lent 2021 overview
Not Dreaming and Other Techniques of the Body
A Scroll for One or Two?
Reclaiming Autonomy and Diplomatic Agency
Plan, manage, track: Resource Management in a Sixteenth-Century Porcelain Kiln
Tracing Japanese Influence in Chinese Revolutionary Ballet
Blue Is Where the Message Is
A Million Madmen Storm the Palace
Resisting Spirits
China Research Seminar, Lent 2022
China Research Seminar, Lent 2022 overview
Staging Diaoyutai: Overseas Taiwanese Students and the Spoken Drama Movement in 1970s U.S
Trying History in China
The Fraught Marriage of Lin Ying and Han Xiangzi
The Chinese Gazette in European Sources
China Research Seminar, Lent 2023
China Research Seminar, Lent 2023 overview
Reading the Sky Divining the Flood: Predicting the Weather in Late Imperial China
Li Bai and Du Fu: A Challenge Left Unfulfilled
Smelly Ghosts and Mutton-Reeking Barbarians: he Olfactory Imagination of the Other in Medieval China
United Fronts and the Second World War
Xiyou ji (西遊記) and the Netherworld
The Making of ‘Public Opinion’ — Media and Open Diplomacy in China’s Strategy at Versailles and the May Fourth Movement
China Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2018
China Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2018 overview
The Politics of Financialization in East Asia: Preliminary Observations from the Field
Telluric Currency Flows: The Coin, the Party, and the Jianghu
From the needle to the sword: Chinese heroines and exemplar women before and after the May fourth Movement
Building Anshan: Factory, City, and Countryside in the early PRC
Beyond Rebels and Sages: Islam and Muslims in the Landscape of Popular Religion in China
Religious Change and Social Change in Contemporary China
The changing moral economy of diasporic relations in a former emigrant village (Shenzhen, China)
The Politics of Chinese Media: Consensus and Contestation
China Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2019
China Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2019 overview
The ‘Old Man of Ten Victories’ (shiquan laoren 十全老人) Makes His Case: Qianlong 乾隆 as Frontier Conqueror and Self-Publicist
Debating the China Dream in the Age of Xi Jinping
From Miserable Patients to Competent Organizers: An Ethnographic Study on the Role of Women in the Confucian Congregation
The Politics of Illness in Early China
Is the Soul Coming Back? Confucianism in Contemporary China
Below the Summit: How Physicists, Acrobats, and Seismologists Remade US-China Relations, 1969-78
China Research Seminar: title TBA
Divine Landscapes: Hagiography as Geography in the Zhenwu Cult
Crowning China's 'Hog Bristle King': American Demand for Bristles and the Wartime Transformation of the Chinese Countryside
China Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2020
China Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2020 overview
A Chinese Novel from the Wilhelmine Empire: Alfred Döblin's The Three Leaps of Wang Lun
‘The Most Expensive Item in the World’ Online Marketing and the E-commercialisation of Charitable Projects in Contemporary China
Transmission Along the Southwest Silk Road: The Cultures of Sanxingdui, Jinsha and Dian
Please Don’t Laugh: Learning to Speak the “Common Language” in 1950s China
A Multitude of Objects: re-materialising the study of Chinese religious life
Materials, Design and Revolution in the Early People's Republic of China
Protestant Christian Names, Naming and Religious Legitimacy in Contemporary China
The Divine Ox: The Draft Animal as Incarnate Deity in Chinese Religion and Literature
China Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2021
China Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2021 overview
The Greatest Spring in all the World: Place-making and Imperial Presence in High Qing Jinan
The Mysteries of Mahākāla: Dali-Kingdom Buddhism on the Southern Silk Road
Forever China: The Significance of KMT Material Culture in the Chinese Cultural Sphere
Korea's Great Ming: Chosŏn and the Imperial Tradition in East Asia
China Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2022
China Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2022 overview
‘Eating Sheep Shit’ Gender, Politics and Chen Hengzhe’s Visit to Warlord Sichuan
The Environmental History of the Yangzi River Valley Wetlands
Neighbours: Chinese-Language Images of Indonesia in the Early Cold War
Go West - Arabo-Persian Textuality in Late Imperial China
Civilian women operatives for the Chinese Communist Party, 1937-1959
Plague Fighter and Conference Diplomacy
China Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2023
China Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2023 overview
Institutional Politics and Social Change through Multiple Lenses: Looking at Labour, Law & Land in Contemporary China
Readings from A Journal of My Misgivings: Liang Yusheng, Sima Qian, and the History of Qin
Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society
Outbreak City: Undead and Online in Hong Kong Popular Fiction
Concrete Emptiness: New Possibilities for Sculpture in Contemporary China Sui Jianguo 隋建国 and His Garden in Data Cloud: Forty Instants《云中花园/40个瞬间》
Chinese Calligraphy Workshop
Chinese Painting Workshop
Chuan Lyu Lectures 2019
Chuan Lyu Lectures 2019 overview
Religion and Resistance in Colonial Taiwan: The Ta-pa-ni Incident of 1915
Judicial Rituals in Postwar Taiwan
Chuan Lyu Lectures 2022
Chuan Lyu Lectures 2022 overview
Religious Museums in Taiwan: Intermediate Spaces between Sacred and Secular Spheres?
The Gods as Agony Aunts: Divination, Individual Problem-Solving, and Popular Religion in Contemporary Taiwan
Chuan Lyu Lectures 2023
Chuan Lyu Lectures 2023 overview
Making Sense of the Taiwanese Religious Scene
Listening to Marginal Female Experiences
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, 2018
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Easter 2021
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Easter 2021 overview
Dunhuang and the Modern Study of Ancient Language Contact (ca. 1870 -ca. 1970)
How Much Do We Know about How Dunhuang Art Was Made?
Human and Animal Waste: From Dunhuang back to Laozi
14th-Century Goryeo Water-moon Avalokiteshvara Paintings
The Birth of Popular Confucianism: Evidence from Dunhuang of the Creation of the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars
The Old Uyghur Documents and Their Relevance: A Bottom-up Perspective on the Imperial Infrastructure of the Mongol Empire along the Silk Roads
Traces in Ink and Colour: Additional Reading Marks in the Mogao Ritual Manuscripts
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Easter 2022
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Easter 2022 overview
From Quanzhou to Dunhuang: A Multifaceted Approach to Wendeng’s 文僜 (d. 972) Praise Verses for the Patriarchs and Early Masters of the Southern Chan Tradition
Old Uyghur's Use of Chinese
Slaves in Khotan and Khotanese
On the Margins: Early Tibetan Buddhist Practice Reflected in Some Dhāraṇī Texts from Dunhuang
Writing Chinese Horizontally: A Millennium of Interaction between Chinese and Western Scripts
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Easter 2023
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Easter 2023 overview
Buddha-nature Between India and China: Analysing the Creative Trans- lation Work of Dharmaksema in the Early Fifth Century
Polyglossia, Trans-local Materialities and Textual Performability: Jewish Texts in Early Modern China
How “Public” was Buddhism’s Engagement with Medicine? Sketches from Pre-1400s Asia
The Encounter of Hellenism with Buddhism: A Tale of Conversion and Cultural Diffusion
The Sogdian Christian Presence along the Silk Roads
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Lent 2020
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Lent 2020 overview
Spread of Paper-making Technology along the Silk Road
The pre-Islamic Sogdian Painted Program at Afrasyab (Samarkand, Uzbekistan)
The Scripture of Laozi Ascending in the West and Reforming the Aliens: Taoism, Manichaeism and Imperial Propaganda in Two Tang Manuscripts from Dunhuang
Do we (mis)understand "iconic images" from Dunhuang? The “Sogdian deities” Reexamined
Revisiting the “Whirlwind Binding”: Evidence from the Dunhuang Manuscripts
Reading the Shi (Verses) Manuscripts of Anhui Daxue
Strange Gods and Strange Objects: Dice Divination along the Silk Roads
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Lent 2021
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Lent 2021 overview
Contours of Early Sogdian History as Revealed by Recent Numismatic and Archaeological Research (4th century BCE-6th century CE)
Beyond the Silk Road: Yiwu and Commercial Connectivities across Eurasia
A Han Primer in Jingjue Kingdom: Its Identification and Contextualization
Remnants of Old Uyghur Literature in the Berlin Turfan Collection
Silk Roads seen from Kroraina: The Economic Landscape of an Oasis Kingdom in the Tarim Basin in the Third and Fourth Centuries CE
Chang’an, Damascus, and Venice: Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Tang Spherical Incense Burners
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Lent 2022
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Lent 2022 overview
An Epic Journey: The Tibetan Rāma story from Dunhuang in its Literary Context
Trading Silk – Negotiating Religion: Buddhist Stories and Discourses about Silk
Syriac Prayer-amulets from Turfan: Form and Function
Lay Religious Beliefs and Rituals in the Guanzhong Region
Old Uyghur Poetry
Fragments of Lost Communities: Textual Remains from the Christians of Turfan
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Lent 2023
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Lent 2023 overview
Dunhuang, Khotan and Barikot: Reconstructing a Buddhist City
Ancestral memories of Prommi among the Tibetans of Southwest China
Research on the Possible Buddhist School Attribution of the Jamal Garhi Monestary in Mardan
Aurel Stein, Desert Ruins, and Climate Change
Dunhuang in the History of Heritage Conservation in Modern China
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2019
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2019 overview
The Topos of the World Upside Down Turned Rightside Up: Liu Xiang and the Evolution of Political Rhetoric in Early China
Letters from and to Xuanzang (602-664), Famous Chinese Pilgrim and Translator
Sogdian Manuscripts and the Religions of the Silk Road
Pure Land Paintings of the Silk Road: Medium and Materiality
Dunhuang Seminar - title TBA
Fun and Funerals: Acrobatic Entertainments on Eastern Han Stone Sarcophagi from the Southwest
Towards Building A Typology of Chos grub's Calligraphy: Paleographical Studies of Several Tibetan Manuscripts found in Dunhuang
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2020
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2020 overview
The Silk Road and Erya
Afterlife of a Poem from Dunhuang
Han and Qiang Interactions in the Hexi Region as visible in Texts from Xuanquanzhi
Travelling on the Buddhist Road: Aspects of a Research Programme to Explore the Spread of Buddhism in Eastern Central Asian
Maitreya dwelling on the top of Mt. Sanwei: Transmission of a Buddhist image of the Song Dynasty
Textual Bonding in Early Chinese Manuscripts
Elite Uighurs as Cultural Middlemen of Buddhist Books and Woodcuts in the Mongol Empire
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2021
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2021 overview
In Search of the Author: Multiple-text Manuscripts from Dunhuang containing Wang Fanzhi Poems
Is the Date of the Founding of the Western Han Dunhuang Imperial Commandery Really Solved
At the Fringes of the Silk Road: Rugs and Rattan in Medieval China
The Human-Thing Symbiosis on the Silk Road
Chen Cheng, the Life of a Scholarly Official and Imperial Envoy in Early Ming China
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2022
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2022 overview
What one needs to know about Tangut Buddhism?
Brahmi writing culture on the Eastern Silk Road
The Achievements of Rabban Sauma: Medieval Remains of the Church of the East in Inner Mongolia
Dunhuang Daoist Manuscripts and Daoism in early Tang Chang’an
Dunhuang Studies Conference 2019
East Asia Seminar Series, Lent 2019
East Asia Seminar Series, Lent 2019 overview
East Asia Seminar Series - Professor Annmaria Shimabuku
East Asia Seminar Series - Professor Araragi Shinzo
East Asia Seminar Series - Dr Daniel Schley
East Asia Seminar Series - Professor David Ambaras
East Asia Seminar Series, Lent 2021
East Asia Seminar Series, Lent 2021 overview
Book launch: Pleasure in Profit | Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan
East Asia Seminar - Dr Chelsea Szendi Schieder
East Asia Seminar - Dr David Atherton
East Asia Seminar - Dr Will Bridges
East Asia Seminar - Prof Thomas Conlan
Rakugo Performance by Tatekawa Shinoharu
East Asia Seminar Series, Lent 2022
East Asia Seminar Series, Lent 2022 overview
East Asia Seminar - Dr Birgit Tremml-Werner
East Asia Seminar - Dr Nuri Kim
East Asia Seminar - Dr Sherzod Muminov
East Asia Seminar - Dr Tara McGowan
East Asia Seminar - Prof Beverley Yamamoto
East Asia Seminar - Prof Mire Koikari
East Asia Seminar Series, Lent 2023
East Asia Seminar Series, Lent 2023 overview
East Asia Seminar - Dr Filippo Cervelli
East Asia Seminar - Dr Helena Hof
East Asia Seminar - Dr Pia Jolliffe
East Asia Seminar - Polly Barton
East Asia Seminar - Prof Danny Orbach
East Asia Seminar - Prof Guibourg Delamotte
East Asia Seminar - Prof Robert Hellyer
East Asia Seminar - Prof Takashi Okamoto
East Asia Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2018
East Asia Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2018 overview
East Asia Seminar - Dr Alessandro Bianchi
East Asia Seminar - Dr Chris Tso
East Asia Seminar - Dr Janet Borland
East Asia Seminar - Dr Ruselle Meade
East Asia Seminar - Prof Adam Clulow
East Asia Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2020
East Asia Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2021
East Asia Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2022
East Asia Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2023
East Asia Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2023 overview
East Asia Seminar - Prof Joshua Mostow
East Asia Seminar - Dr Igor Prusa
East Asia Seminar - Prof Gabriele Vogt
East Asia Seminar - Prof Toshihiko Aono
East Asia Seminar Series - Prof Mickey Adolphson
Faculty Research Day, 2019
Global Humanities Workshop - Decolonising East Asian Studies
Hebrew Studies Seminar Series, Easter, 2019
Hebrew Studies Seminar Series, Easter, 2019 overview
Desert in the Promised Land: the politics and semiotics of space in Israeli culture
Between Stereotyping and Objectivity: the Image of Jews in Egyptian Film and Television
Hebrew Studies Seminar Series, Lent & Easter, 2020
Hebrew Studies Seminar Series, Lent & Easter, 2020 overview
The First Hebrew Gay Detective: Sexuality, Identity Politics and the Enigma of the Self in the Detective Novel
Modern Hebrew Annual Lecture 2020 and Short Film Festival
Shall we call it Shoah? The politics behind the name
Sad Zionists: The Mental Cost of State Building
Graffiti on the Western Wall
Hebrew Studies Seminar Series, Lent, 2019
Hebrew Studies Seminar Series, Lent, 2019 overview
The Glow that Illuminates and the Glare that Obscures: Habitual Media As Warfare In Israel And Palestine
Sweet Capitalism: Hebrew Poetry Readings and Discussions with the Israeli Poet Tahel Frosh
The Halakha of Unheard voices: Jewish law Between Acceptance, Rejection and Ignorance
Hebrew Studies Seminar Series, Michaelmas, 2018
Hebrew Studies Seminar Series, Michaelmas, 2018 overview
National alternatives to Zionism: the case of the Young Hebrews, 1939-1976
The Yehuda Amichai Poetry Festival
Removing the Mask: Women-Only Haredi Arts as Spaces of Female Empowerment and Social Change in Israel
In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt
L2 Chinese Linguistics Seminar, Easter 2019
L2 Chinese Linguistics Seminar, Easter 2019 overview
Transfer at initial stages of L3 Mandarin: the acquisition of temporal-aspectual sentence final particles by English-Cantonese bilinguals
Encoding of anaphoric and associational definiteness in English speakers’ L2 Mandarin grammars
L3 acquisition of Mandarin sentence-final question particles ba and ne by Cantonese-English bilinguals
Indefinite NPs as Subjects in L2 and L3 Mandarin Grammars: Empirical Evidence for the Sources of Transfer in L3A
A processing problem or a representational problem? L2 acquisition of syntax-semantics interface in the Chinese ba construction by English-speaking learners
Covert subjects and objects resulting from TP ellipsis in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence of the declarative/procedural model
Cinese L2 Linguistics Seminar 7 - title TBC
Cinese L2 Linguistics Seminar 8 - title TBC
L2 Chinese Linguistics Seminar, Lent 2019
L2 Chinese Linguistics Seminar, Lent 2019 overview
L3 acquisition of Mandarin sentence-final question particles by Cantonese-English bilinguals
Interfaces in the Chinese Ba Construction and Their Representations in English-Speaking Learners’ L2 Chinese Grammars
Covert objects and VP ellipsis in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence of the incremental model of L2 speech production mechanisms
Definiteness in Heritage, L2 and L3 Mandarin grammars: Empirical evidence for the source of transfer in L3A
Absence of L1 transfer of ellipsis at L2 Chinese initial stages: Evidence from L2 Chinese oral production by English and Korean speakers
Temporal-Aspectual Sentence Final Particles in English and Cantonese Speakers’ L3 Mandarin Chinese
L2 acquisition of gapping constructions in Mandarin Chinese by English speakers
L2 Chinese Linguistics Seminar, Michaelmas 2018
L2 Chinese Linguistics Seminar, Michaelmas 2018 overview
The processing of mandarin Chinese reflexive dependency structures in bilingual contexts
Interfaces in the Chinese Ba Construction and Their Representations in English-Speaking Learners’ L2 Chinese Grammars
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Easter 2021
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Easter 2021 overview
Home and Exile in New Palestinian Film and Television Dramas in Israel
The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Easter 2022
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Easter 2022 overview
The ʿĀmirid Regency c. 970-1010 AD: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Lent 2020
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Lent 2020 overview
Arabic and Romance influences on late Judaeo-Arabic orthography
MES Public Talk (title TBC)
Freedom Fields
The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor
Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda
Mimesis and the Representation of Reality in the Qurʾan
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Lent 2021
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Lent 2021 overview
Collections Within Collections: A Study of Tipu Sultan’s Library
[CANCELLED] MES Public Talk by Sussan Babaie
The King is Dead. Long Live the King! Stories of Succession and Accession in the Medieval Islamic West
The Thousand and One Nights and World Literature in the Twentieth Century
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Lent 2022
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Lent 2022 overview
Marginal Words: The Local and the Cosmopolitan in an Eighteenth-century Indian Dictionary in Persian
Ruler Bodies in the Long Late Antiquity: Rome, Persia and early Islam
Loving Letters to the Friend in early modern Isfahan
A new translation of and commentary on al-Balādhurī’s Futūh al-Buldān
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2019
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2019 overview
‘Let Me Take Your Pain Away’: Female Shamanism and Music in Central Asia
Queer Writing and Cultural Production in Palestine Today
British Orientalism from an Iraqi perspective: the work of H.A.R. Gibb
Post-Partition and the Predicament of Individual and Collective Rights in Israel/Palestine
Re-discovering a Literary Treasure: The Anvar-e Sohayli written by Vaʿez Kashefi in Fifteenth- Century Herat
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2020
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2020 overview
Agents of the Hidden Imam between Myth and History
Why Hebrew ‘Shoah’? A Conceptual History and Two Narratives of Antisemitism
Afterlife of a Poem from Dunhuang
Land, Law, and Identity in the Late Ottoman Gulf
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2021
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2021 overview
Money, Merchants, and the State in Fatimid Egypt
Rituals of Coercion: Power, Masculinity, and the Rites of Punishment in Post-colonial Egypt
MES Seminar Series, Easter 2023
MES Seminar Series, Easter 2023 overview
Fabrics of Sainthood: Making and Experiencing Inscribed Tomb Covers in Nineteenth-Century Morocco
Azhdahа̄: The Chimeric Monster in Ferdowsi and Beyond
MES Seminar Series, Lent 2019
MES Seminar Series, Lent 2019 overview
History of the Ottoman Public Education and Paradigm Shifts
The Rise oft he Egyptian Middle Class: Economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat
The Classical Arabic Hunting Poem
Defining a Minority: the Construction of the Copts in the Earliest Arabic Historical Texts
MES Seminar Series, Lent 2023
MES Seminar Series, Lent 2023 overview
Perspectives on the Umayyad Empire: Ecology, Dynasty, and Identity
Enchanting Ottoman Istanbul: Fifteenth-Century Historians and Urban Talismans
The disintegration of the Abbasid Empire or was the early Islamic Caliphate ever integrated?
Prison Narrative as Data: Archives and Approaches to the Contemporary Syrian Prison Field
MES Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2018
MES Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2018 overview
The development of Israel Studies in the Arab world: Cairo University as a Test Case
City Chauvinism and Eroto-panegyrics: the profane poetics of post-Mongol Shiraz
Arabic Language Ideology: A Case of Language Anxiety?
Literature as Magic, Magic as Literature
MES Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2022
MES Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2022 overview
Precarious Prestige: Representation and Social Reality of the tujjār in Baghdad (892-945)
Men Loving Men in Nasrid Granada: Male Bonding in the Writings of Ibn al-Khatib (d. 1374 CE) and his Contemporaries
Persian's Eastern Frontier: Arabo-Persian Texts in Late Imperial China, 14th-18th Centuries
Writing Arabic Literature in a Persianate World: The Case of Ibn Maʿṣūm al-Madanī (d. 1119/1707)
MES Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2023
MES Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2023 overview
Translational Justice: The Arabic Novel and the Legal Archive
Remaking Empire in Qajar Iran
Racializing the Cosmos: Godly Planets from Anatolia to Hind
Arabic Poetry and Neoplatonic Poetics
Middle Eastern Linguistics & Philology Seminar, Easter 2022
Middle Eastern Linguistics & Philology Seminar, Easter 2022 overview
An overview of the Armenian dialects
The Horse that said W: Ugaritic ssw, Hebrew sûs, a Luwian Plural, and a Strange Semivowel
How language documentation informs language typology
When Vowels Change Everything: ‘Reading Tradition Criticism’ and Interpreting the Hebrew Bible
Aspect and argument structure in East Caucasian
Middle Eastern Linguistics & Philology Seminar, Lent 2022
Middle Eastern Linguistics & Philology Seminar, Lent 2022 overview
Marking Stress and Pitch Contour: An Introduction to the Function of Dots in East Syriac Bible Manuscripts
Who Wrote Acrostic Signatures in Masoretic Bibles? The Case of EVR II B 56
The origin of the first Latin translations of the Bible
Adverbial conjunctions in Northwest Semitic: Some Diachronic Observations
Ergativity in Neo-Aramaic: What It Is and What It Is Not
Early Modern Judaeo-Arabic Medical Manuscripts of Matenadaran Collection
Middle Eastern Linguistics & Philology Seminar, Michaelmas 2021
Middle Eastern Linguistics & Philology Seminar, Michaelmas 2021 overview
An overview of Neo-Aramaic
The Medieval Hebrew Tradition of the Maqama
Greek Grammar, Syriac Translation, Arabic Acoustics, and the Tiberian Masoretes
The Ventive in Semitic
An overview of Kurdish languages
A Handbook of Ottoman Arabic
Modern Hebrew Studies: Public Talks Seminar Series, Lent and Easter Terms 2022
Modern Hebrew Studies: Public Talks Seminar Series, Lent and Easter Terms 2022 overview
Green Line, Black Panther: Radical Politics and the Jerusalem No Man’s Land
Modern Hebrew Annual Lecture | 20th Century Jewish Music
The Politics of Revival in Modern Hebrew Literature
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism on the Mediterranean Shore: Haifa During the British Mandate.
Civil War, Total War, or a War of Partition? Reassessing the 1948 War in Palestine from a Global Perspective
Persian Calligraphy Workshops, Lent 2023
Persian Calligraphy Workshops, Lent 2023 overview
Persian Calligraphy Workshops, Lent 2023, Week 1
Persian Calligraphy Workshops, Lent 2023, Week 2
Persian Calligraphy Workshops, Lent 2023, Week 3
Persian Calligraphy Workshops, Lent 2023, Week 4
Repatriations of Ancestral Remains of Indigenous Peoples: Through a Comparison with the Case of Australia and Japan
Summer Modern Hebrew Ulpan, 2019
Summer Modern Hebrew Ulpan, 2022
The Digital Turn in Early Modern Japanese Studies
Transgressive Beasts: Animals Challenging Boundaries in Chinese History
Vedāntic Perspectives on Birth, Death, and Rebirth
Workshop: Occupied by Play Rethinking Reading and Learning in Japan
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