The Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford
Meetings:
Weekly online sessions every Tuesday of Michaelmas Term 2020 of up to 90 mins, each on a new document or set of documents from one part of the Islamicate world. Each session has 2 parts. 1) Speakers in the first 45 minutes give a historiographical, historical, and/or literary context to the texts. Participants to do not need to know the primary source language (first 45 minutes). 2) The subsequent 45 minutes are devoted to a close, group reading of the text (s) by participants familiar with the source language. Participants need not attend both parts, and can join whichever part they prefer.
Convenor: Dr Arezou Azad, Programme Director, Invisible East, Oriental Institue; with Tommy Benfey and Dr Zhan Zhang, ERC-Go.Local Post-doctoral Researchers.
