Public Talks Seminar Series, Lent Term 2020
Middle Eastern Studies
Except where otherwise noted, all talks take place at 5:15pm in Rooms 8 & 9 at the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies on the SIdgwick Site with tea and bisuits served from 5pm.
ALL WELCOME
Programme of talks
- Thursday, 16th January, 2020
Arabic and Romance influences on late Judaeo-Arabic orthography
Dr Magdalen Connolly, University of Cambridge
- Thursday, 30th January, 2020
(Title TBC)
Dr Sussan Babaie, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
- Tuesday, 11th February, 2020 at 6pm in the Cripps Auditorium, Magdalene Street
Freedom Fields — film screening plus director Q&A
Naziha Arebi, director
Event run in conjunction with the Ahbab Festival, and supported by the Society for Libyan Studies
- Thursday, 13th February, 2020
The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor — discussion and readings with the author
Rana Haddad, author
Event run in conjunction with the Ahbab Festival
- Tuesday, 18th February, 2020
Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda
Dr Peter Hill, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Thursday, 27th February, 2020
Mimesis and the Representation of Reality in the Qurʾan
Dr Bruce Fudge, University of Geneva
For further information, contact:
Dr Assef Ashraf
Lecturer in Eastern Islamic Lands and the Persian-speaking world
Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
E-mail: aa2098@cam.ac.uk
Dr Charis Olszok
University Lecturer in Modern Arabic Literature and Culture
Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
E-mail: co383@cam.ac.uk
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