Conference Schedule
28-31 August 2007
The conference venue is Cripps Court, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Chesterton Lane, Cambridge.
Conference Schedule
Monday, August 27th
| 6.30 - 7.00 | Drinks at Magdalene College |
| 7.00 | Dinner at Magdalene College for residential guests |
Tuesday, August 28th
| 9.00 - 9.30 | Registration and coffee |
| 9.30 - 10.00 | Welcome and Introductory Talks |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Prof. Jan Just Witkam Professor of Paleography and Codicology of the Islamic World, Leiden University, Netherlands |
| Greek-Islamic Medicine in India and Pakistan | |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Prof. Dr. Zeren Tanındı Islamic Art Historian and Chair of the Art History Department, Uludağ University, Turkey |
| On the Codicological Problems of an Illustrated Khamsa of Jami Manuscript | |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Prof. Dr. A.H. Zekrgoo Professor of Islamic and Oriental Arts, International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization, Malaysia |
| A Safavid Illustrated Manuscript of Shahname in the Collection of ISTAC | |
| 11.30 - 12.00 | Mr. Omar Ba Jukhaif Deputy Director, Saudi Publishers Association and Director, Dar Al-Minhaj Publisher and Distributor, Saudi Arabia |
| Manuscript Treasures of Yemen | |
| 12.00 - 12.30 | Dr. Said Khoddari Naini Curator of Manuscripts, Malek Library, Iran |
| Collections of the Malik Library | |
| 12.30 - 2.00 | Lunch |
| 2.00 - 5.00 | Sub-committee Meetings/Poster Sessions |
| 7.30 | Dinner at Magdalene College |
Wednesday, August 29th
| Digitisation Panel | |
| 9.00 - 9.30 | Ayda Perçin Director, Manuscripts and Rare Works Branch, General Directorate of Libraries and Publications at the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Turkey |
| The Formation of Digital Archives of Manuscripts and their Presentation to the Internet for Users | |
| 9.30 - 10.00 | Colin Dunn Director, Scriptura Limited, UK |
| Digitising Medieval Manuscripts: A Case Study | |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Abdelati Lahlou Assistant Director, General Library and Archive of Morocco |
| Digitisation Project at the General Library and Archive of Morocco | |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Sharif Jaghman PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science, Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Image Compression and Manuscripts | |
| 11.30 - 12.00 | Seyyed Mohammad Ahmadi Abhari Consultant, Islamic Consultative Assembly Library, Museum and Documentation Centre, Iran |
| Digitisation of the Manuscripts in the Parliamentary Library of Iran | |
| 12.00 - 12.30 | Mohsen Farid Teaching Fellow, Department of Computer Science, Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Digital Islamic Manuscripts: Issues, Standards, Practices and Use | |
| 12.30 - 2.00 | Lunch |
| Cataloguing Panel | |
| 2.00 - 2.30 | David Hirsch Librarian for Middle Eastern Studies, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA, USA |
| Online Cataloging of Islamic Manuscripts at UCLA | |
| 2.30 - 3.00 | Habibollah Azimi Deputy Director, National Library and Archives of the Islamic Republic of Iran |
| Authority Names in the Cataloguing of Manuscripts | |
| 3.00 - 3.30 | Coffee |
| 3.30 - 4.00 | Walid Ghali Librarian, American University in Cairo, Egypt |
| Different Practices of Manuscript Cataloging in Egypt | |
| 4.00 - 4.30 | Stefanie Brinkmann Lecturer, Oriental Institute, University of Leipzig, Germany |
| Islamic Manuscripts Online - A New Database at Leipzig University | |
| 4.30 - 5.00 | Ali Mir-Ansari Member of the Academic Board of the Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia, Iran |
| Cataloguing at the Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia | |
| 5.00 - 6.00 | TIMA Board Meeting |
| 7.30 | Drinks in the Combination Room, Peterhouse |
| 8.00 | Dinner in Hall, Peterhouse |
Thursday, August 30th
| Conservation Panel | |
| 9.30 - 10.00 | Neeraja Gopi Conservator, National Mission for Manuscripts, India |
| Conservation of Manuscripts with a Special Focus on the Islamic Manuscripts of India: Efforts of the National Mission for Manuscripts | |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Helen Loveday Paper Conservator |
| An Examination of the Nature and Characteristics of Middle Eastern Papers, with reference to the Conservation of Manuscripts from the 12th – 18th Century | |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Teresa Espejo Senior Lecturer in the Painting Department, University of Grenada |
| Colour in Documents from Al-Andalus | |
| 11.30 - 12.00 | Mandana Barkeshli Founder & Managing Director, Art & Identity, Malaysia |
| Historical and Scientific Analysis of Materials Used on Persian Paper Dyeing Process | |
| 12.00 - 12.30 | Nil Baydar and Paul Hepworth Founding Partners, HB Preservation and Conservation, Turkey |
| Hand Tools Used in the Production of Islamic Manuscripts and the Terminology Used in their Definition; Manuscript Vocabulary and Conservation | |
| 12.30 - 2.00 | Lunch |
| Publishing & Research Panel | |
| 2.00 - 2.30 | Ahmed El Tayeb Rector, Al-Azhar University, Egypt |
| Centre for Editing Classical Texts at Al-Azhar University | |
| 2.30 - 3.00 | Akbar Irani Head, Research Center for the Written Heritage, Iran |
| The History of Publishing Texts in Iran and Ways to Suceed in Standard Critical Editing | |
| 3.00 - 3.30 | Coffee |
| 3.30 - 4.00 | Omar Khalidi Librarian, Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture, MIT, USA |
| Dairat al-Maarif al-Uthmaniyya: A Pioneer in Manuscript Publishing | |
| 4.00 - 4.30 | Jamil Ragep Canada Research Chair in the History of Science in Islamic Societies, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Canada |
| Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative (ISMI) Database Project | |
| 4.30 - 5.00 | Muhammad Isa Waley Curator, Persian and Turkish Collections, British Library, UK |
| Critical editions of Arabic, Persian and Turkish: Some Shining Examples | |
| 5.00 - 6.00 | Annual General Meeting for TIMA members |
| 7.00 - 8.30 | Dinner at Magdalene College |
| 8.45 - 10.00 | Concert in Magdalene College Chapel |
| Andalusian music performed by Charivari Agréable |
Friday, August 31st
| 10.00 - 11.00 | Cambridge University Library Visit |
| 10.30 - 12.30 | Conservation Workshop - Vacuum Packing |
| Magdalene College Lecture Theatre, Cripps Court | |
| 12.30 - 2.00 | Lunch |
| 3.00 - 4.00 | Cambridge University Library Visit |
| 6.30 - 7.00 | Drinks at Magdalene College |
| 7.00 | Dinner at Magdalene College |