Arabic
Philosophy in Context: Arabic and Syriac Manuscript Transmissions in the Mediterranean
NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThis European funded project aims at understanding the conditions of the reception and transmission of philosophy of Greek tradition in the Arabic and Syriac languages in the geographical frame of the Mediterranean World, and describing the vast amount of philosophical works preserved in libraries around the Mediterranean in a systematic way. The codicological description is...
I Can Hear The Barbarians
NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities , Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt
NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesPresented by Omnia El Shakry, Associate Professor of History at UC Davis What might it mean to think through psychoanalysis and Islam together, not as a problem, but as a creative encounter of ethical engagement? Traversing literatures minor and major, Omnia El Shakry shows how postwar thinkers in Egypt translated and blended psychoanalytic theories with...
Using Documents in the Study of Early Islam: A Brief Introduction
Kaplan 365Come hear papyrologist Dr. Naïm Vanthieghem discuss the use of documents, particularly papyri, in the field of Islamic Studies. This informal talk is designed with graduate students in mind and will include ample time for discussion, Q & A, and even trying your hand at deciphering documentary sources. Dr Vantheighem brings experience working directly on...
Multilingualism in Early Islamic Egypt: The View from Papyri
Kaplan 365After Arab armies conquered Egypt in the mid-seventh century, the country's linguistic landscape changed only gradually. Greek, preeminent for centuries as a language of high culture and governance, faded as Arabic advanced to fill these niches. Coptic, which until then had functioned largely as a vernacular, became in its turn a language of culture and...
Applying for Jobs and Life After the Dissertation
Kaplan Hall 365Join NELC faculty Dr. Cate Bonesho, Dr. Kara Cooney, and Dr. Bill Schniedewind for a workshop and discussion of applying for jobs and life after the dissertation. Event Flyer RSVP Below:
The Arabicization of Christian Egypt: Reframing the Debate
365 Kaplan HallThe linguistic evolution of Egypt has been studied at some length, and with the invaluable evidence offered by the papyrological sources it has been possible to make very fine and detailed observations on the chronology and distribution of linguistic change. The different linguistic balance established by the Egyptian language with the two imperial languages that...