Professor Jacob Dahl interviewed for BBC Future article

A BBC Future article, for which Jacob Dahl, Professor of Assyriology, was interviewed, discusses how technology can help translate some of the world’s oldest writing systems, and how Dahl and his colleagues have been digitising tablets and seals stored in collections in Teheran, Paris and Oxford for a project known as the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative.

You can read the full article 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.

Jewish Treasures in Oxford

Online event supported by Friends of the Bodleian.

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.