AMES Graduate Methodology Seminars, University of Oxford

Fellow in Egyptology awarded Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship - The Queen's College, Oxford The College congratulates Professor Richard B. Parkinson who has been awarded one of 11 Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships by the British Academy for the year 2023-24. The Senior Research Fellowships enables established scholars to focus on research, away from the normal demands of their academi...

From our last seminar. A very interesting research shared by Prof Jabob L.Dahl.

Many thanks to Prof Sondra Hausner for joining our second seminar of term last Tuesday. We talked about methods for the study of culture, Prof Hausner’s notes on ethnography and its afterlives. In the photo you can see Prof Hausner!

The first graduate training seminar of Trinity Term was on Writing for Publication. We thank Dr Fitzroy Morrissey and Dr Umberto Bongianino for this interactive seminar!

TRINITY TERM CARD & 1ST GRADUATE TRAINING SEMINAR WEEK2 TUESDAY 2-4pm (read for more)

We invite you to this term's 3 Graduate Training Seminars on Tuesdays 2-4pm, weeks 2, 3, & 6 in Lecture Room 1. Tea, coffee, and biscuits will be provided.

THIS WEEK 2:
Please join us this upcoming week 2 on Tuesday 30th April, 2-4pm, LR1, for GTS1:

– ‘Academic Writing for Publication’ –
featuring a conversation between Dr Fitzroy Morrissey (Associate Professor of Islamic Studies & Law)
& Dr Umberto Bongianino (Lecturer in Islamic Art & Architecture)

that aims to support graduate students working on long-format writing like theses & monographs.

Fitzroy Morrissey is associate professor of Islamic studies and law at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and tutorial fellow in Arabic at Pembroke College. His main areas of research are Sufism, Islamic law, and modern Islamic thought. He has written three books and numerous articles and book chapters aimed at both scholarly and general readerships.

Umberto Bongianino is departmental lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. His research interest focuses on the architecture and material culture of the Islamic dynasties that ruled across the mediaeval Mediterranean between the 10th and the 15th centuries.

Please find the seminar poster and our Trinity Term card for additional details.

Thanks for joining us for CommuniTea last Friday!! ☕️

Dear all,
Following up on Hilary Term's first Graduate Seminar with Dr Charlotte Hemmings in Week 3, I would like to share the following event with you.

The event will take place tomorrow (February 29th) at 2 pm.

Please see the details following the link below.

Tea/coffee will be provided for those who might be interested in forming an informal network of people interested in Language Documentation.

www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk

Moments from our last Graduate Training Seminar of Hilary. We thank Dr Victor D’Avella (Departmental Lecturer in Sanskrit) for delivering this seminar on techniques and tips for language learning. Also, many thanks to everyone for attending the seminar last Monday.

We had the longest and most practical Graduate Training Seminar, today. Many thanks to Mr Nicholas Kontovas for this extremely informative and fascinating session which lasted two and a half hours.

Thank you for your interest and participation, and hopefully we will see you in our following seminar in Week 7! Stay tuned for more information from us!

Bodleian Libraries The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford

Thank you, Dr Charlotte Hemmings for this extensive seminar on the methods of language documentation and description.

The first GTS will take place at Spalding Room, tomorrow. See the details below! See you there!