Niko Kontovas
@nikokontovas.bsky.social
Linguist | Digital Humanist | Subject Librarian and Curator for the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Turkey/Türkiye @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social | Lecturer in Uzbek and Chaghatay | http://www.turkolog.ist
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Newly digitized @gallicabnf.bsky.social: 🙏
[trilingual ms. dictionary French-Manchu-Chinese, ca. mid-18th c.] @ gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... (BnF, Mandchou 280)
[trilingual ms. dictionary French-Manchu-Chinese, ca. mid-18th c.] @ gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... (BnF, Mandchou 280)
September 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Newly digitized @gallicabnf.bsky.social: 🙏
[trilingual ms. dictionary French-Manchu-Chinese, ca. mid-18th c.] @ gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... (BnF, Mandchou 280)
[trilingual ms. dictionary French-Manchu-Chinese, ca. mid-18th c.] @ gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... (BnF, Mandchou 280)
Channeling my best David Attenborough to introduce one of the many wonderful items in our #Treasured exhibition, currently running until 26 October in the ST Lee Gallery of the Weston Library in #Oxford. Come visit to see this manuscript and more!
Happy July 4th 😉!
Please enjoy this video on the Gregorian vs Julian calendar with Treasured curator @nikokontovas.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/shorts/R9ea-....
#JohnGreaves #CalendarReform
Please enjoy this video on the Gregorian vs Julian calendar with Treasured curator @nikokontovas.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/shorts/R9ea-....
#JohnGreaves #CalendarReform
Calendar lessons from Uzbekistan #history #astronomy #uzbekistan #oxford #science
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July 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Channeling my best David Attenborough to introduce one of the many wonderful items in our #Treasured exhibition, currently running until 26 October in the ST Lee Gallery of the Weston Library in #Oxford. Come visit to see this manuscript and more!
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#Teachers! We're developing a schools programme, based on our research, aimed at 11-18 year-olds, and would love your input! Do you teach #silkroads, the #middleeast, or want help adding more diverse topics to your #curriculum? Take & share our survey: forms.office.com/e/bV8bQW63wd
#history #edusky
#history #edusky
Microsoft Forms
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July 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
#Teachers! We're developing a schools programme, based on our research, aimed at 11-18 year-olds, and would love your input! Do you teach #silkroads, the #middleeast, or want help adding more diverse topics to your #curriculum? Take & share our survey: forms.office.com/e/bV8bQW63wd
#history #edusky
#history #edusky
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TOMORROW!
Don't forget to book your free ticket for the 'Invisible Treasures' hybrid film screening and panel discussion.
The event will explore the ethical and practical challenges facing scholars and heritage institutions today: ticketsource.co.uk/invisible-east
#heritage #history #provenance
Don't forget to book your free ticket for the 'Invisible Treasures' hybrid film screening and panel discussion.
The event will explore the ethical and practical challenges facing scholars and heritage institutions today: ticketsource.co.uk/invisible-east
#heritage #history #provenance
June 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
TOMORROW!
Don't forget to book your free ticket for the 'Invisible Treasures' hybrid film screening and panel discussion.
The event will explore the ethical and practical challenges facing scholars and heritage institutions today: ticketsource.co.uk/invisible-east
#heritage #history #provenance
Don't forget to book your free ticket for the 'Invisible Treasures' hybrid film screening and panel discussion.
The event will explore the ethical and practical challenges facing scholars and heritage institutions today: ticketsource.co.uk/invisible-east
#heritage #history #provenance
Sorry for the negativity, but: Another career opportunity missed in the UK because I am a foreigner. @ox.ac.uk needs to make clear when they hire people that their interpretation of UK visa regulations means there will be slews of things foreigners are ineligible for.
June 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Sorry for the negativity, but: Another career opportunity missed in the UK because I am a foreigner. @ox.ac.uk needs to make clear when they hire people that their interpretation of UK visa regulations means there will be slews of things foreigners are ineligible for.
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Taiwan Studies position at @soasuni.bsky.social
Senior Teaching Fellow in Taiwan Studies at SOAS University of London
Explore an exciting academic career as a Senior Teaching Fellow in Taiwan Studies. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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June 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Taiwan Studies position at @soasuni.bsky.social
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Digital South Caucasus Collection
Online library about South Caucasus @pauleverill.bsky.social
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Online library about South Caucasus @pauleverill.bsky.social
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Digital South Caucasus Collection
La Digital South Caucasus Collection comprends plusieurs dizaines d’ouvrage sur l’Antiquité au sud du Caucase correspondant pour l’essentiel à l’actuel Géorgie. La ressource…
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June 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Digital South Caucasus Collection
Online library about South Caucasus @pauleverill.bsky.social
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Online library about South Caucasus @pauleverill.bsky.social
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If you want to listen to me speak about Turoyo Neo-Aramaic for about 20 min in English, listen to this podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Turoyo language (with Nicolas Atas)
Podcast Episode · GAZE ܓܰܙܶܐ̈ – The Treasures of Syriac · 06/26/2025 · 22m
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June 27, 2025 at 5:58 AM
If you want to listen to me speak about Turoyo Neo-Aramaic for about 20 min in English, listen to this podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Job klaxon! We are advertising for a permanent lecturer in German (Teaching and Research). Come and join our team here at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies. Deadline 9th July. @lcsleeds.bsky.social jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer (Teaching & Research) in German Studies
Are you an academic with proven abilities to carry out cutting-edge teaching and research in German Studies?We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated individual with expertise in German ...
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June 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Job klaxon! We are advertising for a permanent lecturer in German (Teaching and Research). Come and join our team here at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies. Deadline 9th July. @lcsleeds.bsky.social jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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A lot of bangers recently on the old bird site
June 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
A lot of bangers recently on the old bird site
Tekin'in 1989'da yayımlanan Erdem 5.13'teki yazısında Ramstedt'in 1917'de çıkan Türk dillerinin yeni tasnifini ortaya koyduğu bir makalesinden bahsediyor ancak kaynak bölümü pdf'ye dahil edilmediği için başlığını hiçbir yerde bulamıyorum. Ehl-i ilm arasında bu makaleyi bilen var mı acep? #Türkoloji
June 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Tekin'in 1989'da yayımlanan Erdem 5.13'teki yazısında Ramstedt'in 1917'de çıkan Türk dillerinin yeni tasnifini ortaya koyduğu bir makalesinden bahsediyor ancak kaynak bölümü pdf'ye dahil edilmediği için başlığını hiçbir yerde bulamıyorum. Ehl-i ilm arasında bu makaleyi bilen var mı acep? #Türkoloji
Today on "Things that get my goat": Digital archives of print journals that only post the articles and NOT the bibliographies. It's great that Ramstedt (1917) is so important. Sadly, it is not important enough to be easily retrievable over a century later without, oh, I dunno, a TITLE! </rant>
June 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Today on "Things that get my goat": Digital archives of print journals that only post the articles and NOT the bibliographies. It's great that Ramstedt (1917) is so important. Sadly, it is not important enough to be easily retrievable over a century later without, oh, I dunno, a TITLE! </rant>
Indiana University Bloomington has a very long tradition of excellence in the Humanities and non-applied/pure/foundational sciences Law passed without debate is on track to close many of these degree programs
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Hundreds of IU degree programs at risk of disappearing
By Ethan Sandweiss Indiana University could lose hundreds of degree programs as part of compliance with an array of new laws affecting higher education that passed at the 11th hour of the legislati…
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June 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
No friends in #Oxford can escape my shameless promotion of our TREASURED #exhibition! 😈 Seriously, though, follow my former @unileiden.bsky.social partner in crime @elisabethjkerr.bsky.social for more on #African #linguistics, especially #syntax and language change!
Be careful about posting your current location on the internet - was found by my favourite Bodleian curator and Caucasus/Central Asia librarian @nikokontovas.bsky.social for lunch & a tour of the "Treasured" exhibition he co-curated at the Weston
![Exhibition introduction: "We are what we treasure. What makes something a treasure - Gold? Age? Rarity? Or simply the fact that someone has loved and kept it? [...] In this exhibition we bring together objects from around the world that have been treasured across centuries, and those we think future generations may treasure in turn. It is not only about what has value, but how humans create value through memory, meaning, devotion and risk. Look closely. Where is your treasure? Where is your heart?"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7zqktncpfnpo63ggj2ktdpa4/bafkreidb3uj3oftbipdf7imootoca24zlqwtb4ykluhtkdtynlsf4wmc7a@jpeg)
June 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
No friends in #Oxford can escape my shameless promotion of our TREASURED #exhibition! 😈 Seriously, though, follow my former @unileiden.bsky.social partner in crime @elisabethjkerr.bsky.social for more on #African #linguistics, especially #syntax and language change!
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Our database of the Atlas of the Balkan Linguistic Area is now available online!
#linguistics
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#linguistics
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ABLA
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June 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Our database of the Atlas of the Balkan Linguistic Area is now available online!
#linguistics
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#linguistics
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In celebration of Pride month we hosted a Show and Tell for students.
'How LGBTQ+ People’s Lives are Reflected in Bodleian Collections' featured an array of archival items from 1777 - 2017.
Please check ALT text for more info! #Pride #LGBTQHistory
'How LGBTQ+ People’s Lives are Reflected in Bodleian Collections' featured an array of archival items from 1777 - 2017.
Please check ALT text for more info! #Pride #LGBTQHistory
June 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM
In celebration of Pride month we hosted a Show and Tell for students.
'How LGBTQ+ People’s Lives are Reflected in Bodleian Collections' featured an array of archival items from 1777 - 2017.
Please check ALT text for more info! #Pride #LGBTQHistory
'How LGBTQ+ People’s Lives are Reflected in Bodleian Collections' featured an array of archival items from 1777 - 2017.
Please check ALT text for more info! #Pride #LGBTQHistory
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FREE EVENT: Join @invisibleeast.bsky.social on 1 July for a screening of the short film 'Striking Gold: The Discovery of Medieval Documents' from Afghanistan & a panel discussion on the ethical and practical challenges facing scholars and heritage institutions today!
🔗Find out more: buff.ly/Chesgy1
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June 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
FREE EVENT: Join @invisibleeast.bsky.social on 1 July for a screening of the short film 'Striking Gold: The Discovery of Medieval Documents' from Afghanistan & a panel discussion on the ethical and practical challenges facing scholars and heritage institutions today!
🔗Find out more: buff.ly/Chesgy1
🔗Find out more: buff.ly/Chesgy1
The TREASURED programming doesn't stop @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social! You've seen @invisibleeast.bsky.social's contribution to our exhibit; now come learn more about their important work protecting and promoting #manuscript #heritage in #Afghanistan on 1 Jul. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jul25/...
Invisible Treasures
A screening of the short film 'Striking Gold: The Discovery of Medieval Documents from Afghanistan' and a panel discussion
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June 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The TREASURED programming doesn't stop @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social! You've seen @invisibleeast.bsky.social's contribution to our exhibit; now come learn more about their important work protecting and promoting #manuscript #heritage in #Afghanistan on 1 Jul. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jul25/...
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Offre d’emploi – Chercheur/chercheuse en post-doctorat sur l’histoire et/ou la littérature du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance (H/F)
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Offre d’emploi – Chercheur/chercheuse en post-doctorat sur l’histoire et/ou la littérature du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance (H/F)
Intitulé de l’offre : Chercheur/chercheuse en post-doctorat sur l’histoire et/ou la littérature du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance (H/F)Référence : UMR5316-ELLDEL-002Nombre de Postes : 1…
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June 16, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Offre d’emploi – Chercheur/chercheuse en post-doctorat sur l’histoire et/ou la littérature du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance (H/F)
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A caravan of plov - a traditional rice dish from Uzbekistan - is coming to Bonn Square this Sunday afternoon, as part of the Uzbekistan Culture and Food Festival supported by the British Council.
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June 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Papyrology (Greek and Latin Papyri)
University of Exeter - Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNL342/p...
University of Exeter - Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNL342/p...
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Papyrology (Greek and Latin Papyri) at University of Exeter
An academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Papyrology (Greek and Latin Papyri) is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job o...
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June 12, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Papyrology (Greek and Latin Papyri)
University of Exeter - Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNL342/p...
University of Exeter - Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNL342/p...
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Assistant Professor in Chinese Buddhist Studies- The University of Hong Kong – Centre of Buddhist Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK214/a...
Assistant Professor in Chinese Buddhist Studies at The University of Hong Kong
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June 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Assistant Professor in Chinese Buddhist Studies- The University of Hong Kong – Centre of Buddhist Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK214/a...
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This is an incredible collection that needs just the right person. #lisjobs #classics
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Curator, Papyrology Collection | U-M Careers
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June 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
This is an incredible collection that needs just the right person. #lisjobs #classics
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