The Department of Oriental Studies at the Czech Academy of Sciences is offering a summer school on reading and analysing Persian archival sources from Afghanistan.
The one-week intensive course will focus on a largely neglected body of materials preserved in Afghan archives and private collections, which have played only a limited role thus far in research on the country's history and that of the wider region. Additionally, the course will address the development of archives in Afghanistan, including the current state of archival holdings, cataloguing attempts, acquisition policies, access issues, and the impact of war and political ideologies on collections.
