HMML Staff Presents
HMML Staff Presents
Presentations by HMML Staff and Scholars.
Upcoming Presentations
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May 27, 2022
North American Patristics Society
Location - Chicago, IL
Speaker - Dr. James Walters, Cataloger of Syriac Manuscripts
Topic - The Transmission of a Collection of Apocryphal Testimonia in Syriac Manuscripts
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June 9, 2022
Archiving 2022 (Society of Imaging Science and Technology)
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Katherine Goertz, Curator/Registrar, Art Collections
Topic - Integrating Advanced Imaging of HMML Icons
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July 4-9, 2022
13th Symposium Syriacum
Location - Paris, France
Speaker - Dr. Vevian Zaki, Cataloger of Arabic Manuscripts
Topic - Coptic Networks in Fourteenth-Century Egypt and Syria: Tūmā ibn al-Ṣāʼigh and his Clients
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July 4-9, 2022
13th Symposium Syriacum
Location - Paris, France
Speaker - Father Columba Stewart, OSB, Executive Director
Topic - New Manuscript Evidence for the Letter to Melania of Evagrius Ponticus
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July 4-9, 2022
13th Symposium Syriacum
Location - Paris, France
Speaker - Dr. David Calabro, Curator of Eastern Christian Manuscripts
Topic - Soundings in the Textual History of Syriac Amulets
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July 4-9, 2022
11th Christian Arabic Studies Congress
Location - Paris, France
Speaker - Ted Erho, Cataloger of Ethiopic Manuscripts
Topic - The Arabic Ambrosian Homiliary and the Ethiopic Homiliary of the Fathers: Evidence for an Early Adoption of Arabic Melkite Texts by Miaphysites in Egypt
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August 8-12, 2022
18th World Congress of Jewish Studies
Location - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem
Speaker - Ted Erho, Cataloger of Ethiopic Manuscripts
Topic - Ezra Literature Among Jews and Christians in the Horn of Africa
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September 12-17, 2022
34th Deutsche Orientalistentag, hosted by the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft in cooperation with the Freie Universität Berlin
Location - Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Speaker - Dr. Celeste Gianni, Cataloger of Arabic Manuscripts
Topic - The Fihris of Paul Sbath, or: Cataloging as a Mirror of Identity in the Early 20th-Century Middle East
Past Presentations
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May 18, 2022
L’Ordine di Malta e la Lingua d’Italia Architettura e temi decorativi dalla Controriforma al Settecento
Location - Rome, Italy
Speaker - Dr. Daniel K. Gullo, Joseph S. Micallef Director of the Malta Study Center
Topic - Malta Study Center and Digitization of the Langue of Italy
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May 16, 2022
University of Malta and the Malta Study Center
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Daniel K. Gullo, Joseph S. Micallef Director of the Malta Study Center
Topic - Preservation and Access of Hospitaller Records at HMML’s Malta Study Center
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May 14, 2022
57th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. James Walters, Cataloger of Syriac Manuscripts
Topic - Crossing Confessional Boundaries: The Afterlife of a West Syriac Text Among East Syriac Communities
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May 14, 2022
57th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. David Calabro, Curator of Eastern Christian Manuscripts
Topic - Stories of Disguised Women Saints in Eastern Christianity: New Insights from Digital Manuscripts
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May 12, 2022
Federal Association of the Order of Malta
Location - Saint Cantius Church, Chicago, IL
Speaker - Dr. Daniel K. Gullo, Joseph S. Micallef Director of the Malta Study Center
Topic - A History of the Order of Malta in Ten Objects
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May 6, 2022
Minnesota Library Association ARLD Day 2022
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Daniel K. Gullo, Joseph S. Micallef Director of the Malta Study Center
Topic - HMML Authority File and Access to Understudied Literary Traditions
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April 5, 2022
Timbuktu Talks
Location - Virtual and at the Center for African Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
Speaker - Dr. Ali Diakite, Dr. Paul Naylor
Topic - Hiding in Plain Sight: Truly Local Knowledge Traditions in the Libraries of Timbuktu
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April 5, 2022
McGill-Munich-Grinnell Conference on 40 Years of Pseudepigrapha Research
Location - School of Religious Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Speaker - Dr. David Calabro, Curator of Eastern Christian Manuscripts
Topic - Of Moses, Mountains, and Models: Joseph Smith’s Book of Moses in Dialogue with the Greek Life of Adam and Eve
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March 30-April 2, 2022
Renaissance Society of America
Location - Dublin, Ireland
Speaker - Dr. Daniel K. Gullo, Joseph S. Micallef Director of the Malta Study Center
Topic - War, Propaganda, and Patronage in the Condotta Navale of Francesco Scalletari
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March 30, 2022
Universität Erfurt, Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Ali Diakite, Dr. Paul Naylor
Topic - From Ségou to SAVAMA: Destruction and Creation of West African Archives 1892-2022
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February 26, 2022
Exploring History and Culture in Central Minnesota
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. David Calabro, Curator of Eastern Christian Manuscripts
Topic - Ash pe pekran? An Encounter with Coptic Cultural Heritage
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February 19, 2022
Exploring History and Culture in Central Minnesota
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Islamic Manuscripts
Topic - The Manuscript Heritage of Muslim Communities in Minnesota and Beyond
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February 11-12, 2022
“Sacred Space(s)” Winter 2022 Mediterranean Seminar Workshop
Location - Fresno State University, Fresno, California
Speaker - Dr. Daniel K. Gullo, Joseph S. Micallef Director of the Malta Study Center
Topic - Contesting Saint Paul's Shipwreck in the 18th century
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February 12, 2022
Exploring History and Culture in Central Minnesota
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman, Curator of Western European Manuscripts & Special Collections
Topic - The Boy from Buckman Plants a Seed
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February 5, 2022
Exploring History and Culture in Central Minnesota
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Daniel K. Gullo, Joseph S. Micallef Director of the Malta Study Center
Topic - The Order of Saint John of Jerusalem: Culture and Community
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December 16, 2021
Scribal Identity and Agency
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Vevian Zaki, Cataloger of Arabic Manuscripts
Topic - To be a Scribe of Christian Arabic Texts: Skills and Challenges
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December 15, 2021
Traditions of Magic in the Near East and Caucasus, hosted by the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. David Calabro, Curator of Eastern Christian Manuscripts
Topic - Ritual Power in Situ: New Light from Digital Manuscripts on Syriac Protective Charms
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November 10, 2021
Kurdish Cultural Association at the University of Chicago
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Islamic Manuscripts
Topic - Kurdish Manuscripts at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
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November 9, 2021
7th Annual Costan Lecture in Early Christianity, Georgetown University
Location - ICC Auditorium, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Speaker - Father Columba Stewart, OSB, Executive Director
Topic - Ascetic Influencers: The Manichaeans and the Development of Early Christian Asceticism
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November 5, 2021
Timbuktu Talks, Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Paul Naylor, Cataloger of West African Manuscripts
Topic - From Rebels to Rulers: Writing Legitimacy in the Early Sokoto State
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October 28, 2021
Authority Records and Manuscripts in Libraries and Research
Hosted by the Berlin State Library in collaboration with “Bibliotheca Arabica”Location - Virtual (Berlin, Germany)
Speaker - Dr. David Calabro, Dr. Josh Mugler, Dr. Catherine Walsh
Topic - Titulus and HMML Authority File: Creating and Sharing Authorities from Cross-cultural Manuscript Traditions at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
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October 27, 2021
Authority Records and Manuscripts in Libraries and Research
Hosted by the Berlin State Library in collaboration with “Bibliotheca Arabica”Location - Virtual (Berlin, Germany)
Speaker - Father Columba Stewart, OSB, Executive Director
Topic - The Digital Dawn of Comparative Manuscript Studies: How Authority Control Has Become the Critical Link
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October 26, 2021
MELA 2021 Annual
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Walid Mourad, Dr. Josh Mugler, Dr. Catherine Walsh
Topic - Collaborations and Partnerships for Endangered Archives and Libraries: Case Studies from the Past, Present, and Future
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October 21, 2021
Fall Lecture in the Humanities, University of Scranton
Location - Moskovitz Theater of the DeNaples Center, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA
Speaker - Father Columba Stewart, OSB, Executive Director
Topic - Recovering the voices of our ancestors: preserving the world’s endangered manuscript heritage
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October 20, 2021
Malta Map Society
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Daniel K. Gullo, Joseph S. Micallef Director of the Malta Study Center
Topic - Printed Maps at HMML’s Malta Study Center
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October 13, 2021
The Presidency Culture Symposia Series
Location - Virtual (Sant'Anton Palace, Malta)
Speaker - Dr. Daniel K. Gullo, Joseph S. Micallef Director of the Malta Study Center
Topic - Private Collections, Collectors, and the Cultural Heritage of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem
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September 29, 2021
Islamicate Digital Humanities Network, The Next Generation
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Walid Mourad, Field Director for the Middle East, Africa & South Asia
Topic - Introduction of field digitization
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September 28, 2021
York University, Canada
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Ali Diakite, Dr. Paul Naylor
Topic - West African Esoteric Material (Fawāʾid): Identification, Content and Cataloguing Strategy
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September 13‐16, 2021
Islamic Manuscript Association Conference on Arabic-Script Manuscripts in Africa
Location - Alexandria, Egypt
Speaker - Dr. Ali Diakite, Dr. Paul Naylor, Dr. David Calabro
Topic - HMML’s Model for Standardized Metadata of West African Manuscripts
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September 10-12, 2021
Die Petrusapokalypse im Rahmen apokalyptischer und frühchristlich-apokrypher Traditionen
Location - Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Speaker - Ted Erho, Cataloger of Ethiopic Manuscripts
Topic - Apocalyptic Imagery in an Ethiopic Homily: New Evidence for the Apocalypse of Peter in Ethiopia?
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June 29, 2021
Saint John's School of Theology and Seminary
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Father Columba Stewart, OSB, Executive Director
Topic - What can the origins of Christian monasticism tell us about monastic life today?
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June 23, 2021
2021 IIIF Annual Conference
Location - Virtual
Speaker - John Meyerhofer, Director of Information Systems
Topic - Using a Static Site Generator to generate IIIF Level 0 manifests for the web
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June 10, 2021
Thomas H. Olbricht Christian Scholars' Conference, Lipscomb University
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Father Columba Stewart, OSB, Executive Director
Topic - Making Whole Again: Reuniting Cultural Heritage through Large-scale Digitization of Previously Unknown Manuscripts in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.
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June 9, 2021
Semitistisches Forschungskolloquium
Location - Virtual (Berlin, Germany; FU Berlin)
Speaker - Ted Erho, Cataloger of Ethiopic Manuscripts
Topic - Jacob of Serugh's homilies in medieval and modern Ethiopia
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June 4, 2021
Day of Digital Humanities
Location - Virtual
Speaker - John Meyerhofer, Director of Information Systems
Topic - 11ty IIIF Manifest Generator tool