In this conversation, we are joined by Prof. Ronit Ricci of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she  is the Sternberg-Tamir Chair in Comparative Cultures and Professor in the departments of Asian Studies and Comparative Religion. She also holds an appointment at the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University.

Ronit is a specialist in the textual worlds of Indonesia and the greater Malay world. She is currently the project head for an European Council of Research (ERC) funded project called: "Textual Microcosms: A New Approach in Translation Studies".

In this podcast episode, Ronit also reflects on a set of projects to digitise manuscripts of the Malay community in Sri Lanka under an 'Endangered Archives Programme' of the British Library. You can learn more about these projects and see some of the digitised manuscripts at the links below:

• Digitising Malay writing in Sri Lanka
• Manuscripts of the Sri Lankan Malays

The ANUBhasha Podcast's 'Digital Repatriation in South Asia' series is supported by an Asia-Pacific Innovative Project grant from the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University.

Music from Epidemic Sound --
Song: 'Sultan of Delhi'
Album: Court of Akbar
Artist: Banaras Baba & Kolkata Kid
Year: 2019