3 Petra Kappert Fellows join CSMC

1 April 2021, by Webmaster

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CSMC welcomes back three Petra Kappert Fellows for a second stay.

William G. Boltz and Ulfat Abdurasulov will join the Centre from April to June, albeit remotely. Professor William G. Boltz specialises in the origin and early development of the Chinese writing system, on the philological analysis and textual criticism of Classical Chinese texts and manuscripts and on Chinese lexicology and etymology. He will also give a series of online seminars titled ‘Early Chinese Manuscripts and the Chinese Writing System’ beginning on 21 April 2021.

Dr Ulfat Abdurasulov specialises in the history of Islamic Central Asia (seventeenth to early twentieth century), the history of the Russian protectorates in Central Asia, early modern diplomatic history as well as the history of early modern record-keeping and archiving.

Additionally, CSMC extends a warm, although belated, welcome to Dr Hagos Abrha Abay. A specialist in the digitisation and description of valuable manuscript collections in the core area of the northern Ethiopian highlands as well as non-codex written artefacts in the Ethiopian (Gǝʿǝz) manuscript culture, Dr Abay joined CSMC as a Petra Kappert Fellow in March 2021 and will stay until the end of February 2022.