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John P. Clay Career Development Fellow in Sanskrit
Thanks to the generous support of the Clay Foundation, the Queen’s College proposes to elect a fixed-term Career Development Fellow in Sanskrit for three years with effect from 1st…
JJC Foundation makes landmark gift to establish Sanskrit Fellowship at Queen’s
The Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures (CMTC) at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford, is delighted to announce the latest stage in its partnership with the Clay Sanskrit…
Workshop: Joseph Schacht at Oxford, Eighty Years On. Rethinking a Scholarly Legacy
Friday, 4 December 2026 Memorial Room, The Queen’s College, University of Oxford Eighty years after Joseph Schacht’s arrival in Oxford in 1946, this workshop revisits the scholarly legacy of…
Screening of “CallFront: Calligraphic Journeys”
17:00 – Tuesday November 10th 2026 Weston Library Lecture Theatre Join us for the presentation and screening of Antoine Brendlen’s documentary on Arabic calligraphy in China, Morocco, and West…
Term card – Michaelmas Term 2026
21 October (2nd week) — Chinese Special Collections Materclasse Mamtimyn Sunuodula (Head of East Asian Materials, Bodleian Libraries): “Upside down books, imperial editions and fake scrolls: some characteristics of…
International Conference: The Text and Thought of Early Chinese Manuscripts: Tsinghua Bamboo Slips and Beyond
Wednesday 24 June: Lecture Hall, China Centre, Oxford, OX2 6LU 6 月 24 日（星期三）牛津大学中国中心报告厅 OPENING 开幕式 Chair 主持人 — Prof Dirk Meyer, Director of CMTC 麦笛 9:00–9:15 Prof Dan…
Workshop: Forgotten Libraries – Lost, Dispersed, and Marginalised Manuscript Collections
This workshop brings together scholars working across linguistic traditions, regions, and historical periods to reflect on manuscript collections that have been lost, dispersed, marginalised, or rendered invisible by cataloguing…
Approaching Manuscripts: Perspectives from Arabic and and Chinese Traditions
As part of the 2025–26 Graduate Training Seminar series (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies), this session brings into conversation scholars working on Arabic and Chinese manuscript traditions…
Termcard — Trinity Term 2026
Unless noted, all meetings are in the Memorial Room, The Queen’s College, 5.15pm 7 May (2nd week) — Global Manuscript and Text Cultures Seminar: Shaahin Pishbin (Queen’s) & Thomas…