Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Network 2009-10
Convenors
Bruno De-Nicola (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
Phoebe Luckyn-Malone (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
Ignacio Sánchez (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
Alice Wilson (Social Anthropology)
Committee
Lejla Demiri (Divinity)
Heba Mostafa (Architecture)
Will Smiley (Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies)
Ronny Vollandt (Middle Eastern Studies)
Clare Vernon (History of Art)
James Weaver (Middle Eastern Studies)
Andreea Weisl-Shaw (Spanish and French)
Seminar Series 2009-10
During Michaelmas and Lent Term, we are hosting a seminar series focusing on the theme The Text and Beyond.
- Production of the ‘text’: codicology, printing, archives, inscriptions in architecture and the plastic arts
- Transmission: authorship, translation, cultural transmission, transformation of artistic idioms
- Reception: hermeneutics, textual and cultural appropriation
- Beyond the text: modern media, unusual cases of textual sources, non-textual evidence
We will also be holding workshops for graduate students on themes to be confirmed.
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Administrative contact: Esther Lamb (Grad/Fac Programme and Office Manager)
Programme 2009-10
Theme: The Text and Beyond
Easter Term 2010
* The Group did not meet during this term.
Monday 24 May, 14:30
Administrative meeting to plan next year events.
Lent Term 2010
*Thursday 17 December 2009, 4-6pm*
Film screening: Men of Words
Venue: Room 2.3, Social Anthropology, Free School Lane
Followed by a discussion with the Director, Johanne Ihle
Monday 18 January 2010, 2.30pm
Alex Metcalfe (Lancaster University)
The Earliest Written Records After The Norman Conquest of Sicily. Which Came First: Latin, Greek or Arabic?
Monday 1st February, 2.30pm
Dr Alessandro Vanoli, University of Bologna
The Philosopher and the Volcano: memory of the Ancient World in Muslim Sicily
Reading
Monday 15 February, 2.30pm
Dr Vivian Ibrahim, University College, Cork
'Ode to the Fezzed Shaykh': Coptic poetry and resistance against the Muslim Brotherhood in 1940s Egypt
Monday 1st March, 2.30pm
Barbara Worley, University of Massachusetts
Beyond the Text: The Internet as a Literary Space for Exploration of New Trends in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Cultures. Case Study, the Tuareg People of the Sahara
Monday 8 March, 2.30pm
Professor Sir Jack R Goody, Emeritus William Wyse Prof of Social Anthropology, St John's College, University of Cambridge
Renaissances. The One or the Many?
Michaelmas Term 2009
Monday 12 October, 2.30pm
Dr Christian Lange (University of Edinburgh)
Rituals of punishment and the
Muslim imaginaire: attitudes toward state violence in medieval Islam
Monday 26 October, 2.30pm
Dr Pedram Khosronejad (University of St Andrews)
To Whom It May Concern:
War Material Culture and Constructing the Past in Post-war Iran
Click this link to see the Readings
Friday 30 October 2.00-3.30pm Invitation *
(Faculty of English, Room GR 06/07)
Dr Saad Eskander, Director of Iraq National Library and Archive, Baghdad
Iraq National Library and Archives in Transition: Old Tasks and New Responsibilities
* Event organised by the Postcolonial Empires: Institutions & Historiographies Group
Monday 9 November, 2.30pm
Dr Ashraf Abdelhay (University of Cambridge)
A Critical Commentary on the Discourse of Language Rights in the Naivasha
Language Policy in Sudan Using Habitus as a Method
Wednesday 11 November 2009, 5.00pm Additional session *
Yoni Mendel (PhD, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge)
Museums in the Battlefield: Two Examples from Israel and Palestine
Reading TBC.
* (Joint seminar with Postcolonial Empires: Institutions & Historiographies Group)
Monday 23 November, 2.30pm
Dr Cesar Merchan-Hamann (Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies)
Medieval Hebrew and Spanish
Translations of Tale Collections from the Arabic
