More Upcoming Conferences and Job Opportunities

More conferences and jobs to consider from the COMSt email list:

Dear COMSt members and subscribers,

 

as usual, I would like to share with you some information/announcements that could be useful or interesting to some of you:

 

Conferences and calls

- Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: British Library and Beyond, London, 21 November 2016: http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2016/10/digitised-hebrew-manuscripts-conference-at-the-british-library-21-november-2016.html

- The 50th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, 25-27 March 2017, http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/bomgs/events/2017/global-byzantium.aspx

- The Discoveries of Manuscripts from Late Antiquity: Their Impact on Patristic Studies and the Contemporary World, San Juan, 28-31 March 2017, Cfp open until 30 October 2016, http://www.congresodemanuscrito.com/

- 19th International Conference on Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, Lisbon, 16-17 April 2017, Cfp open up to 31 October 2016 https://www.waset.org/conference/2017/04/lisbon/ICGRBS

- Modulations and transpositions: the contexts and boundaries of ‘minor’ and ‘major’ genres in late antique Christian poetry, Lisbon 1-2 June 2017, and Heidelberg 15-16 December 2017, Cfp open up to 16 January 2017 https://www.mommsen-gesellschaft.de/call-for-papers/1924-modulations-and-transpositions-the-contexts-and-boundaries-of-minor-and-major-genres-in-late-antique-christian-poetry

- Ninth Enoch Seminar “From tôrāh to Torah: Variegated Notions of Torah from the First Temple Period to Late Antiquity”, Camaldoli, 18-23 June 2017, http://www.4enoch.org/wiki4/index.php?title=Ninth_Enoch_Seminar_(2017_Camaldoli),_conference

 

Positions and fellowships

- PhD scholarship in theology and religious studies: Jewish, Christian and Islamic Origins, Groningen, deadline 31 October 2016, http://www.rug.nl/ggw/organization/profile/vacancies/phd-scholarship-in-faculty-theology-and-religious-studies-jewish-christian-and-islamic-origins

- research fellow in Early Christianity, Melbourne, deadline 30 November 2016, http://careers.acu.edu.au/caw/en/job/971107/research-fellowsenior-research-fellow-early-christianity

- job in digital humanities: Pelagios community manager, Lancaster, deadline 28 October 2016, https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A1683

- 2017 incoming fellowship in Ethiopian manuscript studies, Hamburg, deadline 30 November 2016, https://www.betamasaheft.uni-hamburg.de/en/news/2016call.html

 

COMSt Bulletin

I would like to use the opportunity to remind you that the deadline for the forthcoming issue of the COMSt Bulletin is 31 October 2016, and we look forward to get text versions of the papers from the latest COMSt conference (do let me know if you may need some more days to finalize your contribution).

 

With my very best wishes to everyone

 

Eugenia

 

Eugenia Sokolinski
Project Coordinator
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies
Universität Hamburg
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg

Tel. +49 40 42838 7777
Fax +49 40 42828 3330
Mob. +49 1632879120
eugenia.sokolinski@uni-hamburg.de
https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/en/ethiostudies/