Seminar Series, Lent & Easter Terms, 2024
Middle Eastern Studies
Programme of talks
Except as noted below, talks begin at 5:15pm in Teaching Room 10 (The Old Common Room)
Refreshments will be served from 5pm
Lent Term
- Thursday, 18th January, 2024
Codifying a Linguistic Heritage: The Standard Language Ideology of the Hebrew and Arabic Grammarians of the ʿAbbasid Period (750–1258)
Benjamin Kantor, University of Cambridge
- Thursday, 1st February, 2024
How to Repel Snakes from Istanbul? The Serpent Talisman and Ottoman Historians (15th–19th Centuries)
Aslı Niyazioğlu, University of Oxford
- Thursday, 15th February, 2024
Haunting Energies in the Arabic Novel
Charis Olszok, University of Cambridge
- Thursday, 29th February, 2024
“The Sage of the Heavenly Abode”: Articulating Islam in Early Modern China
Dror Weil, University of Cambridge
Easter Term
- Thursday, 25th April, 2024 at 6pm in the Auditorium, Pembroke College, Cambridge
John Bennett Memorial Lecture
Arabic Poetry as a Weapon of Jihad
Elisabeth Kendall, Girton College Cambridge
Please register online to attend the lecture
- Thursday, 9th May, 2024
Relations between Fatimid Egypt and Nubia as Reflected by the Arabic Documents Discovered at Qasr Ibrim
Geoffrey Khan, University of Cambridge
For further information, contact:
Sam Martin (E-mail: sjm289@cam.ac.uk)
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