HMML Staff Presents
HMML Staff Presents
Presentations by HMML Staff and Scholars.
Upcoming Presentations
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April 27, 2024
Mediterranean Seminar, Spring 2024 workshop
Location - St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts
Topic - The Subjected Sea in the Prayer of al-Shādhilī
Past Presentations
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February 21, 2024
Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA); Critical African Heritages Workshop
Location - Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Speaker - Dr. Ali Diakite, Dr. Paul Naylor
Topic - Roundtable: Sources, Heritage, & Experimental History in Premodern Africa
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January 24, 2024
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Location - Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts
Topic - Preserving the World’s Cultural Heritage in Minnesota: The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
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December 12, 2023
Workshop: “Islamic art in Italy: from the artefacts to their reception”
Location - Università di Bologna - Dipartimento di Storia, Culture e Civiltà
Speaker - Dr. Celeste Gianni, Cataloger of Arabic Manuscripts
Topic - Islamic metalworks in the Duchy of Urbino: from the artefacts to their reception
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November 30-December 2, 2023
African Studies Association 66th Annual Meeting
Location - San Francisco, CA
Speaker - Dr. Paul Naylor, Cataloger of West African Manuscripts
Topic - Governance in Gwandu: A Fulani hegemony in Sokoto’s western territories, captured in Saʻd ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān’s Tartīb al-aṣḥāb
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November 18-21, 2023
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
Location - San Antonio, TX
Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts
Topic - Non-Zaydī Texts in the Zaydī Manuscript Collections of Yemen
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November 16-18, 2023
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures
Location - Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Speaker - Dr. Ali Diakite, Cataloger of West African Manuscripts
Topic - How HMML catalogs West African Manuscripts, and what we found inside
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November 17, 2023
Ethiopian Studies of North America Workshop
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Jeremy R. Brown, Cataloger of Ethiopic Manuscripts
Topic - Princeton Ethiopian Miracles of Mary Digital Humanities Project
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November 2-5, 2023
Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting
Location - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts
Topic - Manuscript Collection and Digitization in Post-ISIS Mosul
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October 11, 2023
2023 Jonathan Riley-Smith Memorial Lecture
Location - Museum of the Order of St. John, London
Speaker - Dr. Valeria Vanesio
Topic - Investigating and Preserving the Order of St John’s Heritage
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September 27-29, 2023
“Studying Written Artefacts: Challenges and Perspectives,” Universität Hamburg, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures
Location - Hamburg, Germany
Speaker - Dr. Catherine Walsh, Director of Cataloging
Topic - Round Table: “Written Artefacts: Research and Ethics”
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September 22, 2023
Library of Congress
Location - Washington, D.C.
Speaker - Dr. Ani Shahinian, Cataloger of Armenian Manuscripts
Topic - The Life of a Medieval Armenian Manuscript: The Transmission of Sacred Texts Across Space, Time, & Communities
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August 2, 2023
Order of Malta - Western Association of the Order of Malta Retreat
Location - Collegeville, MN
Speaker - Dr. Daniel K. Gullo, Joseph S. Micallef Director of the Malta Study Center
Topic - The Malta Study Center's Mission to Save the Endangered Archives of the Order of Malta: Florence and Valletta
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June 20-24, 2023
The 7th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference
Location - Lagos, Nigeria
Speaker - Dr. Paul Naylor, Cataloger of West African Manuscripts
Topic - Book Panel for From Rebels to Rulers: Writing Legitimacy in the Early Sokoto State
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June 20, 2023
Malta Study Center; National Archives of Malta; Heritage Malta
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Daniel K. Gullo, Joseph S. Micallef Director of the Malta Study Center
Topic - Digitizing the Tribunal Armamentorum
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June 11-14, 2023
North American Syriac Symposium
Location - Yale University, New Haven, CT
Speaker - Dr. James Walters, Cataloger of Syriac Manuscripts
Topic - Theodore of Iconium in Syriac Translation: Two Recently Discovered Witnesses to the Epistula de Ciryco et Iulitta
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June 11-14, 2023
North American Syriac Symposium
Location - Yale University, New Haven, CT
Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts
Topic - A One-Person Translation Movement: The Works of Yawsep ʼAbrāhām
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May 11, 2023
International Congress of Medieval Studies
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman, Dr. Catherine Walsh, & Dr. James Walters
Topic - On the Road with Authorities: Using the HMML Authority File to Connect Sources Across Traditions
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May 4, 2023
Multilingual Manuscripts in Middle Eastern Manuscript Traditions workshop
Location - Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts
Topic - Multilingual Prayer Books from the Middle East