The Oriental Institute at University of Oxford is hosting a conference on ‘The Aramaeans B.C.: History, Literature, and Archaeology‘ from 9-11 July 2018. The Call for Papers is open.
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The Oriental Institute at University of Oxford is hosting a conference on ‘The Aramaeans B.C.: History, Literature, and Archaeology‘ from 9-11 July 2018. The Call for Papers is open.
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The British Library is hosting a series of lectures on literature from 15-16 July 2017 titled ‘Shubbak at the British Library‘. You can find the full Programme here:
Volume 66 of the Beiruter Texte und Studien [Beiruter Texte und Studien/ Türkische Welten 2] ‘Kurtuluş Yolunda : a work on Central Asian literature in a Turkish-Uzbek mixed language‘ by Settar Cabbar, ed., translated and linguistically revisited by A. Sumru Özsoy, Claus Schönig and Esra Karabacak is now available Open Access on MENAdoc.
The Virgin and Child with the Archangels Gabriel and Michael, late 15th-early 16th century.
Tempera on parchment. Gospel manuscript from the Monastery of Gunda Gunde (Tigray, Ethiopia); digital image courtesy of the DSU, UTSC Library (©M. Gervers, 2002)
The Centre for Medieval Studies at the Universtiy of Toronto is hosting a colloquium on ‘Medieval Ethiopia‘ from 10-11 March 2017. You can find the colloquium poster here.
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The University of Leiden is holding a workshop ‘On the Meanings of Hair in Medieval Islam‘ from 9-10 December 2016. The Programme is available here.
Volume 72 of the Beiruter Texte und Studien, ‘Conscious voices : concepts of writing in the Middle East ; proceedings of the Berne Symposium, July 1997‘ ed. by Stephan Guth, Priska Furrer and Johann Christoph Bürgel is now available Open Access on MENAdoc.
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute is holding a conference on ‘Salonica: a multi-cultural city in the Ottoman Empire and the Greek state between the World Wars‘ from 22-23 May 2017. The Call for Papers is open until 31 October 2016. (Call for Papers on MENALIB)
Core Topics are:
• The formation of Salonica as an Ottoman city – cultural, social, economical and demographic ramifications.
• Salonica’s languages – Greek, Ottoman Turkish, Ladino, Armenian, Italian, French and interlingual encounters.
• Material culture and visual art: architecture, plastic arts, dress, tombstone engravings, manuscripts etc.
• Mystical traditions in Salonica: Sufi groups, Sabbateans, Kabbalistic and Christian beliefs.
• Conversion and interreligious crossings.
• Literature in and about Salonica: popular literature, poetry, journalism, travelogues and modern literary genres.
• The voices of Salonica: the city’s various musical traditions.
• Educational institutions and textbooks.
• The image of multi-cultural coexistence.
• The rise of Greek nationalism in Salonica.
• The economy as a sphere of inter-communal encounters and competition.
• Significant historical events and their influence on cultural trends among the local population, such as the arrival of the exiles from Spain, the Great Fire of 1917, the Greek-Turkish exchange of populations and the influx of refugees from Anatolia.
• The tanzimat and processes of modernization and change in Salonica at the turn of the 20th century.
• The shaping of Salonica-related myths.
• Intercultural trends in Salonica between the wars.
Volume 44 of the Beiruter Texte und Studien ‘Myths, historical archetypes and symbolic figures in Arabic literature : towards a new hermeneutic approach ; proceedings of the International Symposium in Beirut, June 25th – June 30th, 1996‘ ed. by Angelika Neuwirth, Birgit Embaló, Sebastian Günther and Maher Jarrar is now available Open Access on MENAdoc.
Volume 6 of Istanbuler Texte und Studien, ‘Autobiographical themes in Turkish literature : theoretical and comparative perspectives‘, ed. by Olcay Akyıldız, Halim Kara and Börte Sagaster is now available Open Access on MENAdoc.
Durham University is hosting a workshop on 7 May 2016 on Thema Muslim Responses to Gender : Representations, Discourses and Realities. Participation is free of charge. The programme will be added as soon as it is available.