📚 Series launch for 'The Islamicate East' and 'Ancient and Medieval Afghanistan', both published by @edinburghup.bsky.social
📅 Wednesday 17 June, 6.30pm
📍 Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme (FMSH) at 54 boulevard Raspail, Paris
🔗 For full info & to book: bit.ly/ParisSeriesLaunch
V LECTIO Interdisciplinary Summer School “Translations in the Premodern and Early Modern World”
8-9 September 2026, Old Abbey of Kortenberg.
Masterclasses, research pitches, and a lot of conversations across disciplines!
Program and registration (until 30 June): www.kuleuven.be/lectio/event...
Dr. Josh Mugler, curator of Eastern Christian & Islamic manuscripts at HMML, presents today at a workshop in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Details: https://bit.ly/4nHQst1.
Learn more about HMML's projects to preserve manuscripts located in Bosnia and Herzegovina: https://bit.ly/4wAxM2t
A potluck farewell party for Team #Qalamos, phase 2: As the first Qalamos team member marks his final day of work today, an early farewell party was held yesterday. .../1
.....who built and maintain the entire Qalamos infrastructure. The remaining phase 2 team members will be leaving #Qalamos at the end of September.
Last week, I gave a guest lecture on Jewish-Arabic Bible translations. I began with a series of examples of their physical form to illustrate the diversity of the Arabic Bible. I’m sharing the images here for your viewing pleasure in this thread, along with a few notes. 1/n
The photos feature team members from phases 1 (2020-2023) and 2 (2023-2026)—from @stabiberlin.bsky.social and the Bavarian State Library—as well as permanent Stabi staff members involved with #Qalamos, and, last but certainly not least, employees from Leipzig University Computing Centre..../2
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Invisible East
Was passiert mit Gegenständen nach der Trennung? Das Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb sammelt Alltagsgegenstände – von Föhnen bis zu Büchern – und ihre emotionalen Geschichten. Ein Ort der Trauer, Heilung und neuen Verbindungen. ↩️
HMML
Qalamos: Connecting Manuscript Traditions
Qalamos: Connecting Manuscript Traditions
Qalamos: Connecting Manuscript Traditions
Peter Tarras
dehypotheses
Rostige Föhne, alte Armbanduhren, zurückgelassene Kaffeemaschinen – alltägliche Gegenstände. Was denken wir, wenn wir solche Objekte sehen? Können sie auch in einem Museum ausgestellt werden? Solche Gegenstände verweisen auf Beziehungen; separierte Beziehungen, zerstörte Beziehungen, Beziehungen – die uns umgeben und überall präsent sind. Was passiert mit den Objekten, wenn eine Beziehung unterbrochen wird? Lässt sich…