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Omri is studying Indonesian and Balinese and is working on “oral interlinear translations” of the Bhagavad Gita in Bali. Good luck Omri, enjoy and Selamat Jalan!

An article by Arif Maftuhin (Postdoctoral Fellow 2021-2022), "Translating the Untranslatable: The Jalālayn Learning as a Translation Practice," was just published in Indonesia and the Malay World

9 January, 2024

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Ronit Ricci's short essay, "Interlinear Translation: A View from Indonesia," was published in Igeret, the journal of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, December 2023 (in Hebrew).

3 January, 2024

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A Lecture by Aglaia Iankovskaia was given at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

27 November, 2023

Aglaia Iankovskaia gave a talk titled ‘A manuscript of Umm al-Barahin from Palembang: interlinear translation as paratext’ at the Around the Text. Para-, Meta- and Other Marginalia conference on October 19-21, 2023 at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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Ronit Ricci's article, "Added in Translation: Keywords for the Study of Javanese Islamic Texts," was published in Philological Encounters

18 October, 2023

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Ronit Ricci's article, "Mediating the Maulid: Interlinear Translations of the Maulid Sharaf al-Anām Across the Indonesian-Malay World" was published in Indonesia and the Malay World

28 June, 2023

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Launch of "Reading Javanese Literature: New Directions"

30 October, 2022

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IIAS and Textual Microcosms international conference: New Directions in the Study of Javanese Literature

30 October, 2022

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Prof. Ronit Ricci elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

2 August, 2022

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Another announcement can be seen on Facebook.

Textual Microcosms

A New Approach in Translation Studies

International Workshop, November 18-20, 2024

Aglaia Iankovskaia's article, "On ‘hanging meaning’ and its transmission. Tracing a didactic poem from Aceh" was published in Archipel Journal.

Aglaia Iankovskaia's article, "Reading Arabic in Sumatra: Interlinear translation in didactic contexts" was published in Indonesia and the Malay World.

Omri Ganchrow gave a talk titled "Group Identity through translation – a contemporary oral tradition from Bali" at the annual conference of the MA Honors program at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School, Hebrew University

Aglaia Iankovskaia's article, "Between translation and commentary: an interlinear text from the collection of Snouck Hurgronje" was published in Archipel

Call for applications for 2024 doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships now open!

Our MA student Omri Ganchrow is going to spend a semester on student exchange at Leiden University!