Conference Schedule
6-9 July 2008
The conference venue is Queens College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.
Conference Schedule
Saturday, July 5th
| Afternoon and evening, delegates arrive. | |
| 7.00 - 8.00 | Welcome Dinner in Queen's New Hall |
Posters on Display
Posters by the presenters below will be on view in Queens' College cafeteria on 6th, 7th and 8th July.
| Dr. Firuza Abdullaeva, Lecturer in Persian Literature, University of Oxford Oriental Institute, UK | |
| Cataloguing of the Muslim manuscript collection of Wadham College, Oxford | |
| Dr. Akbar Irani Ghomi, Head, Research Centre for Written Heritage, Tehran, Iran | |
| Ms. Hesna Haral, Research and Development Assistant, Istanbul Muftiate Archives | |
| The Mesihat Archives of Istanbul Muftiate Archives | |
| Mrs. Mehrnaz Azadi, Ph.D. student, Conservation Department, National Museum Institute, New Delhi, India. | |
| The introduction of Ghalablab for conservation purposes |
Sunday, July 6th
| 8.00 - 9.00 | Breakfast available in Queens' Cripps Dining Hall |
| 9.00 - 10.00 | Registration in Fitzpatrick Hall lobby, Queens' College |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Welcome speeches |
| Davidson MacLaren, Deputy Director of The Islamic Manuscript Association | |
| Charles Melville, President of The Islamic Manuscript Association | |
| Dr Yasir Suleiman,Director of the Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Cambridge University | |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Coffee break in Fitpatrick Hall cafeteria |
Opening Session chaired by Davidson MacLaren |
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| 11.30 - 12.00 | Mr. Robert Child Head of Conservation at the National Museum of Wales, UK |
| War its effects on archives and libraries - and how to mitigate them. | |
| 12.00 - 12.30 | Mr. Abdel Kader Haïdara Director of the Mamma Haïdara Library. Timbuktu, Mali |
| The state of manuscripts in Mali and the efforts for their preservation. | |
| 12.30 - 2.00 | Lunch in Queens' Cripps Dining Hall |
Cataloguing Panel chaired by David Hirsch |
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| 2.00 - 2.30 | Mr. Naser Golbaz Executive Manager and Designer of the Manuscripts Databank, Iran |
| Islamic Manuscripts Universal Data Bank: A Common Dream for Manuscripts Researchers | |
| 2.30 - 3.00 | Prof. Netice Yildiz and Prof. Banu Mahir Professor at the Eastern Mediterranean University of Cyprus and Professor at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Fındıklı, Turkey |
| Catalogue of the Illuminated Manuscripts and Binding Collection in the Cyprus Turkish National Archive. | |
| 3.00 - 3.30 | Ms. Marie-Geneviève Guesdon Head librarian, Arabic Manuscripts, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris |
| Bibliothèque nationale de France: Archives and Manuscripts. | |
| 3.30 - 4.00 | Coffee Break |
| 4.00 - 4.30 | Professor Charles C. Stewart Professor of History (Emeritus), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Status Report on the Collaboration of al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation and AMMS, the Arabic Manuscript Management System [West African]. | |
| 4.30 - 5.00 | Dr. Nuria Garaeva Senior Researcher, Dept. for Manuscripts and Rare Books (Eastern Section) at Kazan State University, Tatarstan, Russia |
| How Carl Brockelman knew about manuscripts from Kazan | |
| 5.30 - 6.30 | Punting trip |
| 7.00 - 8.00 | Dinner in Queens' Old Hall |
Monday, July 7th
| 8.00 - 9.00 | Breakfast available in Queens' Cripps Dining Hall |
Research and Publishing Panel chaired by Muhammad Isa Waley |
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| 9.00 - 9.30 | Dr. Mahmoud Omidsalar John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, California State University, Los Angeles, USA |
| Eastern Texts, Western Techniques: European Editorial Theory and the Editing of Classical Persian. | |
| 9.30 - 10.00 | Mr. Mustaqim Zarif PhD. Student, University of Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Some Important Findings Concerning the Authorship and Origins of Lubab al-Hadith: A Work Attributed to Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti. | |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Dr. Ayman Fu'ad Sayyid Independent Research Consultant, Cairo, Egypt |
| Editing Ibn al-Nadim’s Fihris. | |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Dr. Dimitri Bondarev, A. I Tijani, A. Al-Achtar Researchers at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK. |
| Early Kanuri/Kanembu 'Ajami manuscripts: Creating and analysing a digital archive. | |
| 11.30 - 12.00 | Dr. Walid Saleh Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Canada. |
| Editing a Polemical Treatise: Al-Aqwl al-qawmah f hukm al-naql min al-kutub al-qadmah. | |
| 12.00 - 1.30 | Lunch in Queens' Cripps Dining Hall |
Collections Panel chaired by Charles Melville |
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| 1.30 - 2.00 | Dr. Omar Khalidi Librarian, Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture, MIT |
| Facilitating Access: A Plea and a Proposal | |
| 2.00 - 2.30 | Dr. Nikolay Dobronravin Professor, St. Petersburg State University, Russia |
| Ajami Manuscript Heritage of West Africa | |
| 2.30 - 3.00 | Mr. Abdoul Wahid Abdarahim Haidara Director of the Mohamed Taher Library, Timbuktu, Mali |
| Family library collections in Mali | |
| 3.00 - 3.30 | Coffee break |
| 3.30 - 4.00 | Professor Dr. J. Thirmalrao Director of the Library and Research Institute, Hyderabad, India |
| A rare window to Islamic Studies in India | |
| 4.00 - 4.30 | Dr. Darejan Kldiashvili and Dr. Irina Koshoridze Researchers at the National Centre of Manuscripts, Georgia |
| The Islamic world and its Christian neighbours: Persian and Ottoman illuminated Historical Documents in Georgian Archives and Museums | |
| 4.30 - 5.00 | Coffee break |
| 5.00 - 6.00 | TIMA Members' AGM Presentation of accounts, Subcommittee member elections |
| 7.00 - 8.00 | Dinner in Queens' Old Hall |
| 8.30 - 9.30 | TIMA Conference Concert Abbas Bakhtiari and Arash Moradi will perform traditional Iranian Sufi music on Daf and Tambur |
Tuesday, July 8th
| 8.00 - 9.00 | Breakfast available in Queens' Cripps Dining Hall |
| Conservation Panel chaired by Mandana Barkeshli |
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| 9.00 - 9.30 | Mrs. Mehrnaz Azadi Ph.D. student, Conservation Department, National Museum Institute, New Delhi, India. |
| The importance of using extract of Hanzal as an inhibitor in paper manuscripts. | |
| 9.30 - 10.00 | Mr. Marco Di Bella Independent Conservator , Palermo, Italy. |
| Some further considerations on early Islamic bookbindings. | |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | TIMA Conservation Subcommittee |
| Presentation of The Islamic Manuscript Association Conservation Subcommittee's lexicon project | |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Ms. Helen Loveday Independent paper conservator, London, UK |
| The Practice of Sizing in Middle-Eastern Paper Manufacture and its Relation to the Conservation of Islamic Manuscripts | |
| 11.30 - 12.00 | Mr. Zubair Ahmed Madani Head of Paper Conservation Laboratory, National Museum of Pakistan |
| Conservation Treatment of An 8th Century Copy of Qur'an on Parchment | |
| 12.00 - 1.30 | Lunch in Queens' Cripps Dining Hall |
| 1.30 - 2.00 | TIMA Conference photograph |
Digitisation Panel chaired by Dr. Mohsen Farid |
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| 2.30 - 3.00 | Dr. Fatih Kurugollu Lecturer, Queen's University of Belfast, UK |
| Image Watermarking: An Elegant Solution to Copyright and Content Integrity Problems In Multimedia. | |
| 3.00 - 3.30 | Ibrahim al-Haji Usman Director of Digitisation Unit, National Library of Nigeria. |
| The digitization of Islamic collection of late Usman dan Fodio: a model for resource sharing among libraries. | |
| 3.30 - 4.00 | Coffee break |
| 4.00 - 6.30 | Conservation Workshop Mr. Robert Child, Head of Conservation at the National Museum of Wales, UK |
| Insect infestations in manuscript and book collections and how to treat them | |
| Open workshop with Q&A sessions: Introduction to Integrated Pest Management (IPM); Introduction to insect entomology and how insects cause damage; Demonstration of surveying and monitoring; Strategies for control | |
| 7.00 - 7.30 | Drinks in Christ's College Gardens |
| 7.30 - 8.30 | Dinner in Christ's College Hall |
Delegates Depart |