Hmml Staff Presents
HMML Staff Presents
Presentations by HMML Staff and Scholars.
Upcoming Presentations
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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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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 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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July 21-22, 2023
Institut für den nahen und mittleren osten, Ludwig-Maximilians University
Location - Munich, Germany
Speaker - Dr. Vevian Zaki, Cataloger of Arabic Manuscripts
Topic - Hidden Commentaries: The Introductions to the Pauline Epistles in Arabic
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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”
Past Presentations
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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
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April 28, 2023
Mediterranean Seminar Spring 2023 Workshop: Diasporic Legacies of the Mediterranean
Location - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts
Topic - Round table: 'African,' 'European,' 'Eastern,' or 'Mediterranean' - How are sites (either origins or destinations) of diaspora depicted and why?
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April 28-29, 2023
Bible and Arab Christianity: Translation, Interpretation, and Context
Location - Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice
Speaker - Dr. Vevian Zaki, Cataloger of Arabic Manuscripts
Topic - Between Greek and Syriac: Arabic Translations of the Philippians and Colossians Hymns in MSS Vatican Ar. 13 and London, BL, Or. 8612
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April 20, 2023
Spring 2023 Art History Lecture
Location - Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts
Topic - Prayer Books from the Middle East: Language and Art in the Objects of Devotion
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April 7-8, 2023
Center for Armenian Studies, University of Michigan
Location - Ann Arbor, Michigan
Speaker - Dr. Vevian Zaki, Cataloger of Arabic Manuscripts
Topic - Nuns and Monks in the Making of Christian Arabic Manuscripts
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March 31, 2023
Scholarly Correspondences Among Orientalists during the Early and Late Modern Period as a Historical Source A Series of Lectures
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Celeste Gianni, Cataloger of Arabic Manuscripts
Topic - A library lost in translation: Paul Sbath’s correspondence with Eugène Tisserant
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March 18, 2023
Order of Malta - Columbus Region Federal Association of Malta
Location - Columbus, Ohio
Speaker - Dr. Daniel K. Gullo, Joseph S. Micallef Director of the Malta Study Center
Topic - Fundamental of Hospitaller History and Spirituality
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March 8, 2023
Local Manuscript Brokers: Between Preserving and Selling Literary Heritage
Location - Gotha Manuscript Talks, Spring 2023 (Virtual)
Speaker - Dr. Celeste Gianni, Cataloger of Arabic Manuscripts
Topic - Paul Sbath’s manuscript library: From guardian to seller of the Eastern Christian heritage
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February 20, 2023
African Humanities Research and Development Circle (AHRDC)
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Paul Naylor, Cataloger of West African Manuscripts
Topic - The Challenges and Opportunities of Nigerian Archives (Roundtable)
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February 3-4, 2023
Destroyed, Removed, and Reassembled: Book Collections in the Premodern World Symposium
Location - University of California, Los Angeles
Speaker - Dr. Ali Diakite, Dr. Paul Naylor
Topic - Destruction, Creation, Relocation: Archiving Timbuktu’s written heritage 1862-2022
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Jan 29 - Feb 2, 2023
10th International St. Mark Symposium, Coptic Bible
Location - Wādī al-Naṭrūn, Monastery of Saint Bishoy
Speaker - Dr. Vevian Zaki, Cataloger of Arabic Manuscripts
Topic - Translating the Bible into Arabic: Approaches and Strategies of the thirteenth-century Coptic Scholars
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January 27, 2023
Translation Practices across Institutional Borders: From the Scholar to the Public, sponsored byThe Comparative Literary Studies Program and the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa
Location - Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Speaker - Dr. Paul Naylor, Cataloger of West African Manuscripts
Topic - Maktaba: Making West African Manuscripts Accessible in the Classroom
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January 25, 2023
Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) Social Justice Lecture Series
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts
Topic - Digitization, Digital Cataloging, and the Minority Communities of the Middle East
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November 17-19, 2022
African Studies Association Annual Meeting
Location - Philadelphia, PA
Speaker - Dr. Paul Naylor, Cataloger of West African Manuscripts
Topic - Hiding in Plain Sight: Local knowledge traditions in the libraries of Timbuktu
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October 29, 2022
Sixteenth Century Society & Conference
Location - Minneapolis, MN
Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts
Topic - Classical spolia in Ottoman Constantinople: A view from the provinces
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October 10-11, 2022
Organized by the TYPARABIC project
Location - Bucharest, Romania
Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts
Topic - Introduction to HMML
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September 16, 2022
Military Orders VIII: In a Wider World
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Daniel K. Gullo and Dr. Valeria Vanesio
Topic - Understanding Online Access for Hospitaller Archives in vHMML.org
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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
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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. Vevian Zaki, Cataloger of Arabic Manuscripts
Topic - Coptic Networks in Fourteenth-Century Egypt and Syria: Tūmā ibn al-Ṣāʼigh and his Clients