HMML Staff Presents
HMML Staff Presents
Presentations by HMML Staff and Scholars.
Upcoming Presentations
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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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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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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
Past Presentations
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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
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May 27, 2021
North American Patristics Society
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Father Columba Stewart, OSB, Executive Director
Topic - New Manuscript for the Letter to Melania of Evagrius of Pontus
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May 25, 2021
11th Enoch Seminar Meeting – Apocalypticism: History, Method, and Reception
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Ted Erho, Cataloger of Ethiopic Manuscripts
Topic - Antiquarian Prophecy and the Rise of Apocalyptic
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May 20, 2021
Seventh Dorushe Graduate Student Conference on Syriac Studies
Location - Virtual (St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO)
Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Islamic Manuscripts
Topic - “Panel with Experts” discussing Syriac studies and its connections to our work
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May 18-20, 2021
Online workshop: Schedule-MIDA Training Gotha 2021, “Manuscripts Meet Digital Humanities: Present Approaches from Digitisation and Cataloguing up to Online Presentation and Textrecognition”
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Celeste Gianni, Cataloger of Arabic Manuscripts
Topic - From Print to Digital Catalogues: Gains and Losses in the Study of Arabic Manuscripts
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May 18-20, 2021
Online workshop: Schedule-MIDA Training Gotha 2021, “Manuscripts Meet Digital Humanities: Present Approaches from Digitisation and Cataloguing up to Online Presentation and Textrecognition”
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. des. Vevian Zaki, Cataloger of Arabic Manuscripts
Topic - Examining Manuscripts through a Cataloger’s Lenses
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May 14, 2021
International Congress on Medieval Studies
Location - Virtual (Kalamazoo, MI)
Speaker - Dr. David Calabro & Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman
Topic - Many Hands: Resources for Digital Paleography (A Roundtable)
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May 13, 2021
International Congress on Medieval Studies
Location - Virtual (Kalamazoo, MI)
Speaker - Dr. David Calabro, Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman, Dr. Josh Mugler, & Dr. James Walters
Topic - From Kerala to Timbuktu: Virtual Manuscripts and the Global Work of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (A Workshop)
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April 29, 2021
Medici Archive Project
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Daniel K. Gullo & Cláudia Garradas
Topic - Italian Drawings of the Cathedral Museum in Mdina, Malta
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April 22, 2021
Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University
Location - Virtual (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)
Speaker - Fr. Columba Stewart, Dr. Catherine Walsh, Dr. Josh Mugler, Dr. David Calabro, Dr. Daniel K. Gullo, Dr. Paul Naylor, Dr. Ali Diakite, Dr. Celeste Gianni
Topic - Digital Resources and Manuscript Collections of the Islamicate World Workshop
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April 15‐18, 2021
96th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America
Location - Virtual (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Speaker - Dr. David Calabro, Curator of Eastern Christian Manuscripts
Topic - Uncovering the Palace of Shaddad ibn ‘Ad: Historical Contexts of an Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Tale about Solomon
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April 12, 2021
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars
Location - Virtual (Valparaiso University, Indiana)
Speaker - Father Columba Stewart, OSB, Executive Director
Topic - What a (Modern) Monk Does: Saving the World’s Manuscript Heritage from Imminent Danger
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April 10, 2021
Sewanee Medieval Colloquium
Location - Virtual (University of the South, Sewanee, TN)
Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Islamic Manuscripts
Topic - The Romans Have Not Established His Commemoration - The Impact of Imperial Power on the Collective Memory of Christians in the Middle East
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April 7, 2021
MuseWeb 2021
Location - Virtual (Washington D.C.)
Speaker - John Meyerhofer, Director of Information Systems
Topic - HMML.org redesign: A unique institution’s website success story
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March 26, 2021
International Workshop: Qur’an and Bible (organized by the University of Notre Dame and by the ERC project “The European Qur’an”)
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. des. Vevian Zaki, Cataloger of Arabic Manuscripts
Topic - Translating the King James Bible into Arabic: the Sabat/Martyn Translation (1816 CE)
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March 23, 2021
SKILLNET project
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. des. Vevian Zaki, Cataloger of Arabic Manuscripts
Topic - The internal mobility of Arabic-speaking Christians in the Ottoman Empire
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March 18, 2021
Durham University, Department of Theology and Religion, Ancient Judaism Research Seminar
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Ted Erho, Cataloger of Ethiopic Manuscripts
Topic - A New Apocryphal Text about the Binding of Isaac
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March 10, 2021
Collegeville Institute Connections
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Father Columba Stewart, OSB, Executive Director
Topic - Benedictine Monasticism as a Way of Life: Its Origins and Future
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March 9, 2021
The Antiquities Coalition; Ministry of Culture and Arts, Algeria; US Embassy, Algiers
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Father Columba Stewart, OSB, Executive Director
Topic - Working with Family Manuscript Collections: HMML in East Jerusalem and Mali
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February 19, 2021
Phi Beta Kappa/American University
Location - Virtual (Washington, DC)
Speaker - Father Columba Stewart, OSB, Executive Director
Topic - The Pre-Monastic Ascetic Landscape of Mesopotamia: Marcionites, Manichaeans, and Other Conversation Partners
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February 18, 2021, 5:15-6:45 PM EST.
Phi Beta Kappa/Catholic University of America
Location - Virtual (Washington, DC)
Speaker - Father Columba Stewart, OSB, Executive Director
Topic - Threat and Response: Saving the World's Manuscript Heritage from Imminent Danger
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January 23, 2021
Berufsinformationstage, 2021; Seminare für Iranistik & Arabistik/Islamwissenschaft; Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Catherine Walsh, Director of Cataloging; Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Islamic Manuscripts
Topic - HMML overview and question and answer session for graduate students
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December 8, 2020
American Academy of Religion
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Islamic Manuscripts
Topic - The Translation Movement of Eighteenth-Century Aleppo and the Creation of the Middle Eastern Catholic Churches
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December 8, 2020
Crow River Conference
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman, Curator of Western Collections & Curator, Rare Books
Topic - Illustration, Illumination, and Text: Approaches to Reading the Bible