Pearson
Memorial Lectures
The Pearson Memorial Lectures were founded in
2000 to commemorate Professor James Douglas Pearson (1911-1997), Professor of
Bibliography with reference to Asia and Africa at the University of London,
former Librarian of the School of Oriental and African Studies, founder member
of MELCOM (UK) and MELCOM International, creator and long-time compiler of
Index Islamicus, and a bibliographer of world-wide renown. MELCOM (UK) is
deeply grateful to Professor Pearson’s widow, Mrs. Hilda Pearson, for her
financial support of this lecture series.
The following
lectures have been given:
2000
Paul Auchterlonie (University of Exeter)
From the Eastern Question to the death of General Gordon: representations of
the Middle East in the Victorian
periodical press, 1876-1885. Published in the British Journal of Middle East Studies,
28(1), 2001, p. 5-24.
2001
Derek Hopwood (University of Oxford)
An unofficial history of the British in the Middle East: private papers as sources.
Unpublished.
2002
Geoffrey Roper (former editor of
Index Islamicus) Bibliography and the social history of Middle Eastern
texts. Unpublished.
2003
John McIlwaine (University College,
London) Crossing the bibliographical Sahara: uncertainties in the relationship
between the bibliography of the Middle East and North Africa and of Africa South
of the Sahara. Unpublished.
2004
Jan Just Witkam (University of Leiden)
The use and abuse of the Islamic book. Unpublished.
2005
Peter Colvin (School of Oriental and
African Studies) The British discovery of Afghanistan: scholarship and Realpolitik, 1805-1842. Unpublished.
2006
Lesley Forbes (Oxford University)The Bodleian Grand Tour: Near and
Middle Eastern manuscripts. Unpublished.
2007
Muhammad Isa Waley (British
Library) "The importance of manuscripts in research on Islamic culture : some
case studies" (unpublished)
2008
Sara Yontan-MusniK (Bibliothèque
Nationale de France) "Collecting library material from Turkey" (unpublished)
2009
Ian Netton Ibn Battuta in Wanderland - Voyage as text.
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