the early modern to the modern period. The programme is open to students and scholars from all relevant fields.
The application deadline is 31 December 2026.
This is the link to the event page:
https://t.co/NeFkKqR3F9
Call for Applications: Reading Persian Documents in Münster
From 5 to 9 July 2027, the summer school “Reading Persian Documents” will take place at the University of Münster. Organised jointly by Philip Bockholt and Stanisław Adam Jaśkowski (University of Warsaw), the ...
summer school will offer a week of intensive instruction in reading a wide range of handwritten Persian source materials, including royal correspondence, munshaʾāt, seals, tughras, chronology, and siyāq materials dating from ...
Philip Bockholt, Fan Rong, Zhang Kaiyue, Shu Jian, Chen Xinyuan and Qiu Yihao, with papers ranging from Ottoman accounts of China and multilingual Yuan documents to Jurchen-Dongzhen intermediaries, Islamicate divination, Rashid al-Din and Kalīla wa-Dimna.
Across Languages and Empires: Translation in Mongol Eurasia
How did texts, ideas and diplomatic messages travel across Eurasia? On 31 October 2026, Fudan University in Shanghai will host "Multilingualism and Translation in Mongol and Post-Mongol Eurasia". Organised by ...
Qiu Yihao and chaired by Liu Haiwei, Chen Chunxiao and Zhang Xiaohui, the workshop will explore archives along the Silk Road, translation for non-Chinese peoples and the meanings that emerge beyond translation. Speakers include ...
Beijing, Philip Bockholt also met with Chen Chunxiao (陈春晓) of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to discuss possibilities for future collaboration.
Lecture and Academic Exchange in Beijing
As part of his academic visit to China, Philip Bockholt spoke at the School of Foreign Languages, Peking University, on 23 October. Hosted by Wang Yidan (王一丹), his lecture, ...
“One Chronicle, Many Empires: Rewriting and Translating Khvāndamīr’s Ḥabīb al-siyar,” examined how historical narratives were adapted and translated across different political and cultural contexts. During his visit to ...
New Publication: Two Medical Recipes in a Mamluk Manuscript
TRANSLAPT researcher Kristof D’hulster has published “Two Medical Recipes in a Late-Fifteenth-Century Mamluk Manuscript” in the open-access journal Keshif. The article presents ...
two previously unnoticed Turkic medical recipes preserved in a manuscript copied in Cairo in 1484 for Sultan Qāytbāy by one of his mamluks. A small but valuable addition to the corpus of Mamluk-Turkic writing and the history of practical medicine.
the International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization. He looks forward to continuing the exchange and exploring further opportunities for collaboration at Fudan and other academic institutions in China.
Link: https://t.co/Ktl0VnO47J
TRANSLAPT Lecture at Fudan University, Shanghai
On 14 October, Philip Bockholt delivered a lecture at Fudan University in Shanghai, organised by his host, Qiu Yihao (邱轶皓). Entitled “Translating the Past at the Ottoman Court: Historiography, Patronage, and Politics under ...
Dāmād İbrāhīm Pasha,” the lecture explored the intersections of historical writing, translation, and courtly politics in the Ottoman Empire. Philip Bockholt is spending four weeks at Fudan as a visiting scholar at ...
Cochrane Fellowship at Chester Beatty, Dublin
TRANSLAPT researcher Kristof D’hulster is currently conducting research at Chester Beatty in Dublin as a Cochrane Fellow. His project explores the literary culture of the late Mamluk Sultanate, focusing on ...
Sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516) and the role of poetry in the representation of royal authority.
On 18 November, he will present his findings in a public lecture at Trinity College Dublin, also accessible via Zoom.
From 3 to 5 October 2026, Hicham Bouhadi participated in the fifth Conference for Arab Graduate Students in Western Universities, organized by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Doha, Qatar. He presented a paper entitled
“Tracing the Dynamics of Readership through Paratexts: Rodosīzāde’s Ottoman-Turkish Translation of Wafayāt al-Aʿyān as a Case Study,” followed by comments from Professor Abderrahim Benhadda and a discussion with the audience. The conference brought together doctoral researchers