• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: John-Paul Ghobrial (History) , Joanna Weinberg (Oriental Studies)
• Timing: Thursdays, 2:15pm, followed by tea.

Thursday 19 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - Not what the Buddhists did: Matteo Ricci’s Chinese Translation of Epictetus
  Stefano Zacchetti (Balliol College, Oxford)

Thursday 26 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - Johann Michael Wansleben: an early use of Arabic sources in Ottoman Egypt
  Alastair Hamilton (American University in Cairo)

Thursday 2 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - Trans-cultural Sectarians: The Messianic Cult of Jacob Frank and His Daughter in Eighteenth-Century Poland
  Ada Rapoport-Albert (University College, London)

Thursday 9 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - The First Arabic Translations of Enlightenment Literature: Syrians, Greeks and Franks in Damietta, 1808-1818
  Peter Hill (Christ Church College, Oxford)

Thursday 23 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - A Sixteenth-Century Hebrew Catechism by a Convert from Judaism, and its Use by Modern Missionaries
  TBA

Thursday 2 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - Thomas Smith (1638-1710) and His Journey to the Levant: Continuities and Transformations in Oriental Scholarship
  Thomas Roebuck (University of East Anglia)

Thursday 9 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - The Story of ‘Antar in Jewish and Christian Manuscripts
  Krisztina Szilágyi (University of Cambridge)