PHILIP SCHEFFNER: THE HALFMOON FILES TUE 3 DEC 2013, 7PM, GOETHE-INSITUT LONDON Germany 2007, colour, 87mins, with English subtitles. Dir: Philip Scheffner. “There once was a man. This man came into the European war. Germany captured this man. He wishes to return to India. If God has mercy, he will make peace soon. This man will go away from here.” These are the words that Mall Singh spoke into the
Following its ten years project entitled The integral study of the Silk Roads, Roads of Dialogue and following its consultation with member states, UNESCO has worked at establishing an online platform on the Silk Road in order to promote the outcomes of that former project. The UNESCO Silk Road Platform for Dialogue, Diversity and Development has been recently released. It is to be UNESCO’s unique platform for global exchange about
Join the UK Data Service for an hour-long webinar on 5 December 2013 showcasing the data available from the Service. The webinar will give an overview of the types of survey data available and how they can be accessed. It will be of interest to anyone who wants to know more about the range of data available from the UK Data Service and why these datasets are useful. There will
The Diachronic Corpus of Sumerian Literature (DCSL) project seeks to establish a web-based corpus of Sumerian literature spanning the entire history of Mesopotamian civilization, over a range of 2500 years. It will make this corpus accessible and searchable on the model now provided by the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL). The ultimate research aim of the project is to make the corpus available for analysis in terms of
Have you just started your PhD? The British Library Doctoral Open Days are a chance for new PhD students to discover unique research materials. From newspapers to maps, datasets to manuscripts, ships’ logs to websites, the collections cover every format and language and span the last 3,000 years. You will learn about the BL collections, find out how to access them, and meet expert staff and other researchers in your
Thomson Reuters Foundation has published its third annual poll of gender experts, focusing on women’s rights in Arab League states. It used over 300 experts to review assess the extent to which states adhered to key provisions of the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The website has rankings, graphs and a full methodology.
Kami ways in nationalist territory : Shinto studies in prewar Japan and the west / edited by Bernhard Scheid, with Kate Wildman Nakai. Anarchist modernity : cooperatism and Japanese-Russian intellectual relations in modern Japan / Sho Konishi. Japan, the US, and regional institution-building in the new Asia : when identity matters / Kuniko Ashizawa. Japanese/Korean linguistics. Vol. 20 / edited by Bjarke Frellesvig and Peter Sells. Fighting for the enemy
The making of Korean Christianity : Protestant encounters with Korean religions, 1876-1915 / Sung-Deuk Oak. Practising feminism in South Korea / Kyungja Jung. Korean political and economic development : crisis, security, and institutional rebalancing / Jongryn Mo and Barry R. Weingast. Japanese/Korean linguistics. Vol. 20 / edited by Bjarke Frellesvig and Peter Sells. A resource for Korean grammar instruction / Mee-Jeong Park and Sung-Ock S. Sohn. Hwang Byungki : traditional
Cultural encounters during the Crusades / edited by Kurt Villads Jensen, Kirsi Salonen, Helle Vogt. Monarchy and modernity in Egypt: politics, Islam and neo-colonialism between the wars / James Whidden. The military collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty, 1618-44 / by Kenneth M. Swope. Not even my name: from a death march in Turkey to a new home in America, a young girl’s true story of genocide and survival /
e-books Violence, nonviolence, and the Palestinian national movement / Wendy Pearlman. [e-book via Cambridge Books Online] Struggle and survival in Palestine/Israel / edited by Mark LeVine and Gershon Shafir. [e-book via ebrary] Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations De Hattusa à Memphis: Jacques Freu in honorem / Michel Mazoyer. Les religieuses et le culte de Marduk dans le royaume de Babylone / Lucile Barberon. Neo-Babylonian documents from Sippar pertaining to the cult
