Thursday 20 October 2011

Piecing together the Cairo Genizah: new technology aims to reunite fragments

The American Friends of Tel Aviv University report on a project currently underway at Tel Aviv University to piece together digitally the fragments from the Cairo Genizah that are currently scattered among 70 institutions worldwide, including Cambridge, Jerusalem and New York
Visit their website to find out more about this project, that involves using technology based on facial recognition software to identity digitized fragments belonging to the same text 

Friday 7 October 2011

Jesuits in China : book review

Read the review of Mary Laven's Mission to China: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit encounter with China (published this year by Faber) in the Institute of Historical Research's Reviews in History


The reviewer is our own Dr Lars Laaman
Dr Laven is a lecturer in history at the University of Cambridge and is a fellow of Jesus College
The click HERE to read her response.

If you want to read the book yourself, SOAS has a copy at CC266.2 / 734467.
Click HERE to check the catalogue