Mediterranean Studies

Happy New Year for 2022. 

Dear Medieval Studies List Members,

Just to inform you that a new peer-reviewed paper has been published, in Academia Letters, explaining the methodology for deciphering the language and writing system for the Medieval manuscript MS408 (Ischia, Voynich). The paper is titled: The Manuscript and the Meandering Mind. There are many pages of useful historical information yet to be translated. The mansucript includes much information about the Medieval culture of Ischia, Vulcano and Lipari. 

Happy New Year for 2022. 

Dear Folk Research List Members,

Just to inform you that a new peer-reviewed paper has been published, in Academia Letters, explaining the methodology for deciphering the language and writing system for the Medieval midwifery manuscript MS408 (Ischia, Voynich). The paper is titled: The Manuscript and the Meandering Mind. There are many pages of useful historical information yet to be translated. The mansucript includes folk beliefs and folklore relating to foods and medicines. 

Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World invites submissions for the forthcoming volumes 40 and 41, to be published in 2022 and 2023.

Dear colleagues,

Please find here the January 2022 Newletter of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient:

and the latest issue of Orient Bulletin (December 2021):

ZMO_Bulletin_40_December_2021.pdf

Best regards and happy 2022

n.

CALL FOR PAPERS

To attend online (apologies for cross-posting)

Please join us for a roundtable discussion at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Thursday, December 2nd, 11:30 AM

"Pathways of Portability," 20 Years On: A New Frontier for Scholars of the Medieval Mediterranean 

Respondent: Eva Hoffman, Tufts University

Speakers: 

Arielle Winnik, Bryn Mawr College

Peter Boudreau, McGill University

Sarah Mathiesen, Florida State University

Virtual roundtable at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Sponsored by the Middle East Medievalists (MEM)

Organized by Bihter Esener and Michelle Al-Ferzly

Discusant: Eva Hoffman, Professor Emerita, Tufts University

Speakers: 

Bihter Esener, Koç University/University of Michigan 

Arielle Winnik, Bryn Mawr College

Peter Boudreau, McGill University

Sarah Mathiesen, Florida State University

Michelle Al-Ferzly, University of Michigan

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