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On Tuesday, the 30th of September, I attended the first seminar of the 2025/2026 LAMPS Seminar Series, entitled “Coins and Consequences: The Impact of Monetised Taxation on Medieval…
Today marks the last day of the 35th Deutscher Orientalistentag, which this year took place in Erlangen and was organised by the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. This yearly week-long conference…
The Caliphal Finances Team organised a panel at a major academic event for scholars studying papyri, a conference organised every three years by the Association Internationale de Papyrologues…
From the 24th to the 27th of June, the French Research Consortium “Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies” hold his sixth Congress at the University of Strasbourg. In this…
A few weeks ago, a hybrid workshop took place between Princeton and Edinburgh, organized by the ‘Balzan Seminar on the Formation, Maintenance, and Failure of States in the…
On 11th December last year, PI Marie Legendre and I, postdoc Eline Scheerlinck, left before sunrise for a three-hour train journey north to the Sir Duncan Rice Library…
At the end of November, I, postdoc Eline Scheerlinck, embarked on a two-day research trip to Manchester to study a fascinating Coptic document on papyrus housed in the…
Recently, our postdoctoral researcher, Noëmie Lucas, spent a few days in Paris for research, visiting the BULAC library and meeting with colleagues. Every researcher knows how isolating research…
Recently, our postdoctoral researcher Eline Scheerlinck dedicated a week to research at the library of the Papyrological Institute at Leiden University in the Netherlands. One of the primary…
The sixteenth Conference of the School of Abbasid Studies (SAS) took place in Venice from July 9th to 13th. I (Noëmie Lucas) was among the participants. I presented…