Conference presentations & invited talks
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21–25 Jul 2026
Chinese Transcriptions of Syriac and Iranian Sources as Evidence for Northwestern Middle Chinese
26th biennial conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
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2 June 2026
LLM-Assisted Dataset Building for Ancient Low-Resource Languages: Old Georgian, Tangut, and Pali
Unil@AI Day, Université de Lausanne
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18 May 2026
Towards a Typology of Orthography of Indic Loanwords in Mainland Southeast Asian Languages
Linguistics PhD Day, Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale, Université de Genève
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26–28 Mar 2026
Georgian as the Bridge Language: Balavariani and Abukura in the Context of Arabic-Georgian-Greek Translation
Translating the Past: Transtemporal Mediations of Central Asia, University of Wrocław
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17 Jan 2026
Georgian Oshki Bible Ezra as a Translation from Armenian
with Dr. Diego Luinetti
International Scientific Conference dedicated to Academician Mzekala Shanidze (online)
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8–12 Sep 2025
Towards a Typology of Orthography of Indic Loanwords in Mainland Southeast Asian Languages
35. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
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8–12 Sep 2025
Diagnostic Linguistic Features of Christian Old Georgian Texts Translated from Arabic
35. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
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8–12 Sep 2025
Aramaeograms and Syriac Loanwords in the Middle Persian Psalter in Light of the World’s Heterographic Traditions
35. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
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11–13 Jun 2025
Pattern Replication and Semitic Syntax as Diagnostic Features for Identifying Medieval Arabic-Georgian Translations
Caucasian Linguistics: Recent Advances and Emerging Topics, Maison Internationale des Langues et des Cultures, Lyon
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4–6 Jun 2025
Multilingual Encounters in the Buddha Biography in Rašīd al-Dīn’s Compendium of Chronicles
Translation and Multilingualism in Mongol and Post-Mongol Eurasia, Universität Münster
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23 May 2025
Chair of Session III: Tangut in situ
Tangut and Qiangic in situ, Institut d’études avancées de Paris
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16 May 2025
Diagnostic Linguistic Features for Identifying Medieval Georgian Translations from Arabic Sources
PhD Day 2025, Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale
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11 Mar 2025
The Jātaka Stories in the Balavariani
Atelier de recherche SLAS, Université de Lausanne
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28 Nov 2024
Syriac and Iranic Influences on Chinese Jingjiao Documents
Sinology Colloquium, Universität Zürich
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14–16 Nov 2024
al-Bīrūnī on Metempsychosis and his Greek and Sanskrit Sources
La métempsycose en Islam, Aix-Marseille Université
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17–19 Oct 2024
Translating the Buddha’s Life Story into Georgian — Balavariani in the Eurasian Linguistic Context
Diverse Lives: Narratives of Śākyamuni Buddha in Text and Image, Musée du Mariemont
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10–11 Oct 2024
Linguistic Features and “Semiticisms” in Arabic-Georgian Translations — with focus on Balavariani
Approche linguistique des traductions entre langues anciennes, Aix-Marseille Université
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30 Aug – 1 Sep 2024
The Buddha’s Journey to the West: The Textual Tradition of Barlaam and Josaphat
When Himalaya Meets the Alps, University of Cambridge
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17–26 Jul 2024
The Buddha in Caucasus: Balavariani in the Eurasian Linguistic Context
7th International Summer School Georgian Manuscript, Korneli Kekelidze National Centre of Manuscripts
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4 Jun 2024
Le Bouddha au Caucase : Traduire la biographie du Bouddha en géorgien
Les défis de la relève en linguistique et sciences du langage, CLSL, Université de Lausanne
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26 Mar 2024
The Buddha’s Journey to the West — Barlaam and Josaphat in the Eurasian Linguistic Context
Les défis de la relève en linguistique et sciences du langage, CLSL, Université de Lausanne
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7–8 Dec 2023
Pahlavi Psalter, Psalter Pahlavi — Reconsidering the Aramaeograms in the Pahlavi Psalter
Conceptualising Sacred Languages and Their Visual Inimitability, SOAS, University of London
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14–16 Jun 2023
Scriptio buddhica, interpretatio islamica — The *Ārya-vasiṣṭha-sūtra in Rašīd al-Dīn’s Ǧāmiʿ at-Tawārīḫ
Beyond Comparison, IDK Philology, LMU München
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27 Apr 2023
Scriptio buddhica, interpretatio islamica — The *Ārya-vasiṣṭha-sūtra in Rašīd al-Dīn’s Ǧāmiʿ at-Tawārīḫ
Colloquium Kalīla wa-Dimna — AnonymClassic, Freie Universität Berlin
Workshops & summer schools
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11–13 Dec 2025
HTR Winter School 2025: Syriac Group
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna
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27 Oct – 1 Nov 2025
Doctoral school: Current Developments in Research on Middle Chinese and Buddhist Hybrid Chinese
Presentation: Syriac and Iranic Influences on Chinese Jingjiao Documents
Universiteit Gent
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21 Jul – 21 Aug 2025
Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics
An Introduction to Arabic Paleography and Epigraphy; Comparative Semitics
Universiteit Leiden & online
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21–25 Jul 2025
Coptic Summer School
Advanced Coptic
Facoltà Valdese di Teologia, Rome & online
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10–19 Jul 2025
Université d’été en langues de l’orient
Égyptien démotique; Métrique arabe (ʿarūḍ)
Venice International University
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16–28 Jun 2025
Summer School for Ancient Trans-Himalayan Languages
Tangut, Old Tibetan, Old Chinese, Newar
Trinity College Dublin
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28–31 Jan 2025
Tradurre l’India: Itinerari linguistici, letterari e religiosi nelle varietà del medio indiano
Aśoka Gāndhārī, Pāli, Apabhraṃśa
Università di Bologna
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2–7 Sep 2024
6th International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics
Anatolian, Avestan, Mycenaean, Italic, Indo-European Mythology and Poetics
Università di Pavia
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19–30 Aug 2024
Language and Culture in the Borderlands of the Eastern Silk Road
Bactrian, Tocharian, Tangut, Gāndhārī
Universität Wien
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14–27 Feb 2024
Norms of Pāṇini’s Grammar and Vedic Linguistic Praxis
Università degli Studi di Cagliari
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4 Jan – 2 Feb 2024
Lithuanian Language and Culture Winter Course 2024
Scholarship awarded by the Lithuanian government
Kauno fakultetas, Vilniaus Universitetas
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25–28 Sep 2023
Qurʾānic Manuscripts Past and Present: Cataloging and Digital Tools
BBAW & Staatsbibliothek Berlin
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24–28 Sep 2023
International Summer School: Forms of Heteronomous Texts in Antiquity and Byzantium and Methods of Research
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
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9–18 Aug 2023
TACL Summer School
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
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24–27 Jul 2023
Erste Sommerschule für Syrische Sprache und Literatur
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
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19–23 Jul 2023
Jena Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics
Classical Armenian
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
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18–23 Feb 2023
Masterclass Cuneiform Epigraphy
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg