As previously announced, the First Pearson Memorial Lecture will be given next
Wednesday, 5 July 2000, at 1200 (noon) in the Morison Room, Cambridge
University Library (West Road, Cambridge, UK). The subject is
"From the Eastern Question to the death of General Gordon: representations of
the Middle East in the Victorian periodical press, 1876-1885"
and the Lecturer is Paul Auchterlonie, Middle East Librarian, Exeter University
Library and Chairman of MELCOM-UK.
All who are interested are cordially invited to attend.
This annual public lecture series is presented by the Middle East Libraries
Committee of the United Kingdom (MELCOM-UK), in conjunction with the Islamic
Bibliography Unit of Cambridge University Library, as a memorial to the late
Professor J.D. Pearson (1911-97).
A map showing principal routes to the University Library is available online
at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/ReaderServices/smallmap.html
The Morison Room is accessible, without a reader's pass, by turning right in
the entrance hall and passing through the Exhibition Gallery.
The regular meeting of MELCOM-UK will follow in the same room at 1430.
Lunch will be available for purchase in the Library tea-room after the Lecture.
There are also two exhibitions in the Library which may interest visitors:-
1. "Writing the Middle East. Cambridge manuscripts and Cambridge scholars:
historical manuscripts and related works." This has been mounted by Jill
Butterworth specially for the BRISMES Conference and MELCOM meeting, and
displays Arabic, Turkish and Persian MSS which have been the basis of text
editions, together with others of particular interest as sidelights on Middle
Eastern history. There are also some reference works compiled at the Library's
Islamic Bibliography Unit. This exhibition is in the North Front corridor of
the Library, and can be seen at any time by holders of readers' passes; special
viewings will be arranged for others in connection with the BRISMES Conference
and the MELCOM events.
2. "Keeping Time: a celebration of the year 2000." This is the Library's
Millennium exhibition, open to the general public in the Exhibition Gallery off
the entrance hall. It includes a fine MS of Qazwini's `Aja'ib al-makhluqat,
showing an eclipse, and a poster of a splendidly coloured Ottoman Salnamah, the
original of which is in the special exhibition above. Details of the
millennial exhibition, and a reproduction of the Qazwini MS, can be found on
the Library's website at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Exhibitions/Keeping_Time
Further information on any of the foregoing can be obtained from
Dr Geoffrey Roper, Islamic Bibliography Unit, Cambridge University Library
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Telephone: (01223-) 333057
or
Jill Butterworth, Near East Section, Cambridge University Library
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Telephone: (01223-) 766368
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