Unless noted, all meetings are in the Memorial Room, The Queen’s College, 5.15pm

7 May (2^nd week) — Global Manuscript and Text Cultures Seminar:

Shaahin Pishbin (Queen’s) & Thomas Newbold (Asian University for Women, Chittagong): Muhajir manuscripts: Field notes from the Alia Madrasa Library in Dhaka

Jaimee Comstock-Skipp (New College): What’s in a nisba? Manuscript makers and migrations in 16th-century Central Asia

20 May (4^th week)  — Provenance Unknown:

Roberta Mazza (University of Bologna): Beyond Provenance: Publishing Papyri and Other Manuscripts from Egypt in 2026

26 May (5^th week) — Trinity Term Lecture:

Gunnar Seelentag (Hannover & Münster): Monumentalising Norms, not Names:  cartelisation and colossality in Archaic Crete

28 May (5^th week) — Global Manuscript and Text Cultures Seminar

Lauren Dogaer (Univ): How the Greek Text Culture Has Shaped Modern Views of Ptolemaic Egyptian Priests

Fergus Bovill (Merton): Rebuilding the Medieval, Preserving the 19th Century: Littifredi Corbizzi, Johann Anton Ramboux, and the making and breaking of a choirbook in Gubbio

16–17 June (8^th week)  — International Workshop “Forgotten Libraries”. For more information: clement.salah@queens.ox.ac.uk or shaahin.pishbin@queens.ox.ac.uk

18 June (8^th week) — Global Manuscript and Text Cultures Seminar

Jessica Rahardjo (Khalili Research Centre), A Critical Edition and Translation of Ṣirāṭ al-Mustaqīm: a 17thc Malay Shāfi’ī Legal Text

Shane Patrick (Wolfson), The Debate of Abu Qurrah and its Manuscript Circulation

24–25 June (9^th week) — International Conference “The Text and Thought of Early Chinese Manuscripts: Tsinghua Bamboo Slips and Beyond /出土简帛的文本与思想国际学术研讨会：清华简及其延伸” in conjunction with Tsinghua University, Beijing.  Held at the China Centre, St Hugh’s College, Oxford. Papers in English (24^th), in Chinese (25^th). For more information:  dirk.meyer@queens.ox.ac.uk

Advance Notice — International Conference: “Lost Docs: recalling the material foundations of forgetting” (1–2 October 2026) in conjunction with Nanjing University. More information:  dirk.meyer@queens.ox.ac.uk