Medieval and Byzantine History / Studies

Dear colleagues,

I would like to share with you that a new translation of al-Mas`udi's Muruj al-dhahab wa-ma`adin al-jawhar has just been concluded by Tarif Khalidi and the massive text can be found on the webpage of the Khalidi Library, Jerusalem (https://www.khalidilibrary.org/en).  Here is a direct link to access the pdf file: https://www.khalidilibrary.org//public/files/server/masudi.pdf.

Dear H-Net Readers,

I want to invite you to join us for the first interview of our ‘Publication Success Interview Series’, where we will discuss how publishers really decide whether to publish your manuscript.

Armenian School of Languages and Cultures - ASPIRANTUM is organizing Classical Armenian (Grabar) online school. The 9 weeks Grabar online school will start on February 9, 2021, and will last till April 9, 2021. 2021 Old Armenian language online school will help the participants to become skillful in reading and interpreting Grabar texts.

This 9 weeks Classical Armenian online school will be organized on Tuesdays and Fridays each week (18 days) and will include 54 hours of intensive Armenian language teaching (3 hours during each day). 

For the third year in a row, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies (SNF CHS) at Simon Fraser University invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship focused on Hellenisms Past and Present, Local and Global. Our search committee welcomes applications that span disciplinary boundaries from candidates working on comparative approaches to the advertised fellowship theme.

CALL FOR PANELS AND PAPERS

This grant is new in 2021-2022. It is designed for scholars with limited time or limited institutional support for their research. It is open to U.S. citizen postdoctoral, adjunct, community college, HBCU/MSI faculty, and visiting or independent scholars whose access to institutional funding for research travel may be limited. For these scholars, ARCE will offer a short-term travel grant designed to support research travel to Egypt.

It is our great pleasure to invite you to submit your research papers for publication in the next issue of Historical Yearbook., Volume XVIII/2021.

For more than six decades the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) has supported American scholars to undertake research in Egypt through its Fellowship Program. Doctoral candidates (ABD), postdoctoral scholars, independent scholars and faculty in humanities and social science disciplines are invited to apply.

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