Public Talks Seminar Series, Lent Term 2022
Middle Eastern Studies
All talks will be on Thursdays at 5.30pm GMT.
The talks will be run in a ‘hybrid’ format this term (with the exception of the final talk on 3 March). Advance registration is required whether you will be joining in person or via Zoom.
In-person attendance is limited to Faculty members and affiliates. If you wish to attend in person, please contact Dr Assef Ashraf (aa2098@cam.ac.uk) to reserve a space. Other members of the public are welcome to join by Zoom, for which a registration link will be provided.
Programme of talks
- Thursday, 20th January, 2022
Marginal Words: The Local and the Cosmopolitan in an Eighteenth-century Indian Dictionary in Persian
Dr Arthur Dudney, University of Cambridge
- Thursday, 3rd February, 2022
Ruler Bodies in the Long Late Antiquity: Rome, Persia and early Islam
Dr Jonas Borsch and Alexander Thies MA, University of Bern
- Thursday, 3rd March, 2022
Loving Letters to the Friend in early modern Isfahan
Prof. Kathryn Babayan, University of Michigan
- Friday, 11th March, 2022
A new translation of and commentary on al-Balādhurī’s Futūh al-Buldān
Prof. Hugh Kennedy, SOAS, University of London
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