Traditions in Motion: The Circulation of Texts, 1100-1900 - Oxford Talks

Traditions in Motion: The Circulation of Texts, 1100-1900

Quarrell Room, Exeter College
Thursdays, 2:15pm, followed by tea.
All are welcome.

This seminar is supported by funding from the Oxford Unit for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and the Programme in Eastern Mediterranean Studies in the History Faculty.

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

Thursday 19 January 2017

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

Thursday 26 January 2017

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

Thursday 2 February 2017

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

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

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

Thursday 2 March 2017

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

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

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