Arabic-L:GEN:Modern Syriac Literature Last Call

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Date: 17 Jan 2007
From:shafiq.abouzayd at orinst.ox.ac.uk
Subject:Modern Syriac Literature Last Call

Dear Colleague,
I am writing to you about the ARAM Conference on “Modern Syriac  
Literature”, which will be held at the Oriental Institute, University  
of Chicago (USA), 10-12 April 2007.
This our last call for those who have not yet registered for the  
above ARAM conference, and we hope to get your answer before mid- 
February 2007.
Find attached the list of speakers.
Yours sincerely,

Shafiq Abouzayd

ARAM Twenty Third International Conference: List of Speakers

At the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 10-12 April 2007

Rev. Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (Oxford University):

“Maronite contribution to modern Syriac literature.”

Mr. Youel A. Baaba (Baaba Library):

“The evolution of short story in modern Assyrian literature.”

Mr. Daniel Benjamin (Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies):

“The Assyrian printing presses in Iraq during 20th Century.”

Dr. Sebastian Brock, (Oxford University):

“'The use of Modern Literary Syriac in Qolo Suryoyo over the years.”

Dr. J.F. Coakley, (Harvard University):

“Assyrian printers of Chicago 1915-1940”.

Prof. Rifaat Ebied (Sydney University):

“Subject to be defined.”

Dr. Samuel Fox, (Chicago):

"Some Features of Neo-Aramaic Oral Narrative".

Prof. Amir Harrak (Toronto University):

“The Garshuni inscriptions of Iraq: appearance, style, and development.”

Dr. George Kiraz (Georgias Press):

"Tabetha Syriac: Child Language Acquisition of Classical Syriac-The  
First Five Years."
Mr. David G. Malik, (Chicago):

             "Modern Assyrian Hymns in the Church of the East"
Dr. Alessandro Mengozzi, (University of Bergamo):

“A Neo-Aramaic poem on the Russian-Turkish war (1876-1978): Modern  
Syriac literature from Northern Iraq at the turn of the 20th century.”

Dr. Heleen Murre-van den Berg, (Leiden University):

“Syriac writing in the Church of the East between 1500 and 1800.”

Dr. Robert Paulissian, (Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies):
"The continuity and  maintenance of modern Syriac in Iran, after the  
exodus of Assyrians  from Urmia, in 1918 to the present time."

Dr. Istvan Perczel (Tübingen University & Central European University  
Budapest):

“Classical Syriac as a modern lingua franca in South India between  
1600 and 2006.”
Dr. Bruno Poizat, (University of Claude Bernard – Lyon 1):

“La collection de lettres aux Pères de Mar Yaqo, conservee a la  
Bibliotheque du Saulchoir.”

Dr. Yona Sabar (University of California at Los Angeles):

“The genres and the sources of Jewish Neo-Aramaic literature with  
selected samples.”

Dr. Abdul Masih Sadi, (Notre Dame University):

“The translation of the Bible into modern Aramaic dialect of Tur  
‘Abdin.”

Mr. Zomaya Solomon (USA):

"The use and lack of use of the definite and indefinite article in  
the Assyrian Aramaic language.”

Dr. Shawqi Talia, (Catholic University of America):

“The socio-cultural history of  some Dorekyatha from Northern Iraq .”

Prof. Martin Tamcke, (University of Göttingen):

“The Literature of the so-called Lutheran Nestorians.”

Daniel Wolk, (University of Alabama at Brimingham):

“Qasha Shmoel Yosip bet Kulya”.

Dr. Helen Younansardaroud, (Freie Universität Berlin):

“Assyrian proverbs and idioms”.




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