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.
It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of our dear colleague Stefano Zacchetti (1968-2020), the Yehan Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies.
Taube Philanthropies/OCHJS Doctoral Scholarship in Hebrew and Jewish Studies
The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies has been awarded a grant by Taube Philanthropies toward the Taube Family Doctoral Student Scholarship Fund.
John Lowe has been awarded a five-year European Research Council Starting Grant for the project LINGUINDIC - Linguistics from India: new ideas for modern linguistics from ancient India.
