Short course on Islamic manuscript collections in conflict zones

Short course

"Islamic Manuscript Collections in Conflict Zones: Safeguarding
    Written Heritage"
University of Cambridge
5-7 October 2015.

The Islamic Manuscript Association, in cooperation with the
Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation and the University of Cambridge and
with the support of Harvard University, is pleased to announce an
inaugural short course entitled "Islamic Manuscript Collections in
Conflict Zones: Safeguarding Written Heritage".

This intensive, three-day course is intended for academics, policy
makers, cultural experts, lawyers and military experts, and will
also be of interest to conservators, librarians, art historians, and
other researchers working with Islamic manuscripts and documentary
heritage in conflict areas.  Ten speakers will introduce the
concepts and mechanisms that underpin cultural property protection
in the present day and educate participants in best practices of
managing, protecting, and preserving manuscript collections at risk.
Individual case studies will concentrate on Bosnia, Iraq, Libya, and
Mali, while presentations and roundtables will be structured around
the themes of the legal aspects of cultural property protection,
military involvement in cultural property protection, and the
destruction of memory.

To register your interest, please fill the application form found at

    <URL:http://goo.gl/qBDlIK>.

Scholarship Opportunity: The Islamic Manuscript Association is also
pleased to offer a scholarship for a place on the course.  Sponsored
by the Barakat Trust, this scholarship will enable a senior
conservator, codicologist, librarian, art historian, curator,
researcher, or any other scholar or specialist of Islamic
manuscripts who resides in the Islamic world to attend the full
course.

Armin Yavari
Assistant Director
The Islamic Manuscript Association
c/o 33 Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1QY
United Kingdom
+44 1223 303 177
Fax: +44 1223 302 218


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