A webinar on the themes of Chaucer Here and Now will take place on Thursday 14 March 2024 at 5pm–6pm GMT (6pm-7pm CET) via Zoom. Professor Marion Turner will talk about manuscripts and printed books from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first and discuss some of the ways in which readers of Chaucer have responded to and reimagined Chaucer’s works. The webinar will feature some of the Bodleian’s treasures shown under the visualiser. This event takes place online via Zoom. Tickets are free, and booking is required via Bodleian Library events.
“Heaven and Hell and What Lies Between: Representing the Afterlife from Central Asia to the Himalayas” – an international conference of the European Association for the Study of Asian Civilizations from the Himalayas to Central Asia (SEECHAC) will take place in Warsaw on 13-15 November 2023. This time the conference is co-organized by the Faculty of Oriental Studies and the Faculty of Information Journalism and Bibliology of the University of Warsaw. Some of the papers are concerned with the manuscript culture of Asia. The conference will take place in the Column Hall of the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw. […]
17th International Congress of Turkish Art will be held between 18-21 September 2023 in Warsaw, at the Museum of King Jan III’s Palace at Wilanów and the University of Warsaw. This year’s Congress coincides with the centenary of the Republic of Turkey. The Congress is a forum for the development of research on Turkish artistic culture and for expanding research areas and methods. Thematic strands of this year’s Congress in Warsaw will cover traditional subjects within the scope of Turkish art (architecture, painting, art of the book, ceramics, textiles), as well as the art at war (metalwork, textiles, miniatures, iconography), […]
Registration for Summer Schools 2023 is now open for the following programmes: Digital Palaeography Summer School at the University of Göttingen: 24 July – 4 August. Deadline for applications and registration: 31 March. For further details, see Digital Palaeography. The Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School offers several courses from 3 to 7 July. For further details and registration form, see Digital Humanities. The annual Collection Security Summer School organised by the Consortium of European Research Libraries will take place this year in Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid from 6 to 8 Spetember. For further details, see CERL. Diagnosis in Heritage Science: 5. […]