Jewish Treasures in Oxford

This talk will take place online on 27 October and will be delivered by Dr César Merchán-Hamann, Director of the Leopold Muller Memorial Library. Entitled ‘Jewish Treasures in Oxford’, the talk will illuminate the stories behind some of the most treasured Hebrew and Jewish manuscripts in the Bodleian’s collections.

The talk is sponsored by the Friends of the Bodleian Libraries, and it is open to the public. More information, including how to book, can be found here.

Georgian

Georgian language is taught in the School of Russian and East European Studies at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies.

Dr David Washbrook

It is with great sadness that the Faculty has learned of the death of our member and colleague Dr David Washbrook, who passed away on 24 January.

The Gerald Averay Wainwright Fund Research Grants

The Gerald Averay Wainwright Fund is accepting applications for research grants of up to £4,000.

Islamicate Manuscripts and Texts Colloquium

In this colloquium, we will read texts from the Islamicate world, from Nile to Oxus and beyond, written in different languages and scripts of the pre-modern Islamicate world, including Arabic, New Persian, Middle Persian, Pāzand, and Hebrew.

Margaret Hillenbrand awarded British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and Leverhulme Research Fellowship

Margaret Hillenbrand has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for her new research project.

Dominic Brookshaw awarded the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award

Dominic Brookshaw has been awarded the 2020 Saidi-Sirjani Book Award for his book Hafiz and His Contemporaries - Poetry, Performance and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Iran.