Alain George, BSc LSE, MSt DPhil Oxf, Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art at the University of Edinburgh, has been appointed to the Ieoh Ming Pei Professorship of Islamic Art and Architecture in the Faculty of Oriental Studies. Professor George will take up the post with effect from 1 August 2017 and will be a fellow of Wolfson College.
A report on the most recent seminar in the Research in Oriental Studies series by Flair Donglai Shi, entitled ‘From Chineseness to Sinophonicity: Reading non-Chinese texts in the Chinese/world literature debate’.
Eugene Rogan, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. The Faculty congratulates Professor Rogan on this well-deserved honour.
We are pleased to report that the University has confirmed and announced that EU students who begin their studies at the University in 2018/19 will be charged the home rate for tuition fees for all years of their programme of study.
The results of the 2017 Recognition of Distinction Exercise have just been announced. Three members of the Faculty of Oriental Studies have been recognised and awarded the title of Professor.
On June 22, 2017, Professor Erie participated in an Author Meets Reader session for his book China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law (CUP, 2016) at the 2017 Law and Society Association meeting in Mexico City.
The Faculty of Oriental Studies would like to congratulate Dr Sebastian Brock on being awarded the Edward Ullendorff Medal for Semitic Languages and Ethiopian Studies.
