Past Events

Catch up with HMML's past events.

Event: To Listen: A Global Journey
Topic: The season premiere of To Listen: A Global Journey features Dr. Ali Diakite and Dr. Paul Naylor, catalogers of West African manuscripts for HMML and part of an international community of scholars who are shaping the field of manuscript studies. In their work cataloging West African manuscripts for HMML, Dr. Diakite and Dr. Naylor produce and disseminate knowledge about West Africa garnered through identifying the hundreds of thousands of manuscripts digitized by HMML in Mali for free online access.
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Presenter: Fr. Columba Stewart, host; Dr. Ali Diakite, guest; Dr. Paul Naylor, guest
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Event: To Listen: A Global Journey
Topic: This program features Corine Wegener, the director of the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative (SCRI), an outreach program dedicated to the preservation of cultural heritage in crisis situations in the U.S. and abroad. With graduate degrees in political science and art history, Wegener was both a curator at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and a US Army Reserve officer. She served on several military deployments, including as an Arts, Monuments, and Archives Officer assigned to assist after the 2003 looting of the Iraq National Museum.
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Presenter: Fr. Columba Stewart, host; Corine Wegener, guest
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Event: To Listen: A Global Journey
Topic: This program features Dr. Jack Tannous, Associate Professor of History and Hellenic Studies and Chair of the Center for the Study of Late Antiquity at Princeton University. Dr. Tannous' work focuses on Syriac-speaking Christian communities in the Late Antique and early medieval period. He has a particular interest in manuscripts and the editing of Syriac and Arabic (especially Christian Arabic) texts.
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Presenter: Fr. Columba Stewart, host; Dr. Jack Tannous, guest
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Event: To Listen: A Global Journey
Topic: This program features Dr. Robin Darling Young, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Spirituality at The Catholic University of America. She has published and lectured widely on topics in the history of early Christianity and its thought, including the areas of scriptural interpretation, the history of asceticism and monastic thought, and the Christian cultures of ancient Syria and Armenia. She is also the leader of an oral history project devoted to Iraqi Chaldean Catholic immigrants to Detroit both before and after the Iraq war and their effort to preserve their culture.
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Presenter: Fr. Columba Stewart, host; Dr. Robin Darling Young, guest
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Event: To Listen: A Global Journey
Topic: The final program in the inaugural season of To Listen: A Global Journey , HMML’s new series featuring cultural preservation leaders around the world. These intimate conversations help us better understand a region, a history, a culture, and the things that tie us together—all shared through the professional and personal experience of our guests.

This program features Raja Khalidi from the Khalidi Library in Jerusalem, a HMML preservation partner since 2014. He is joined by Dr. Khader Salameh, the librarian of the Khalidi Library.
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Presenter: Fr. Columba Stewart, host; Raja Khalidi and Khader Salameh, guests.
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Event: To Listen: A Global Journey
Topic: HMML's new series To Listen: A Global Journey featuring intimate, one-on-one conversations to better understand a region, a history, a culture, and the things that tie us together—all shared through the professional and personal experience of the featured guest. Fr. Columba Stewart, OSB interviews Archbishop Borys Gudziak, president of Ukrainian Catholic University and Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
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Presenter: Fr. Columba Stewart, host; Archbishop Borys Gudziak, guest
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Event: To Listen: A Global Journey
Topic: Premiere of HMML's new series To Listen: A Global Journey featuring intimate, one-on-one conversations to better understand a region, a history, a culture, and the things that tie us together—all shared through the professional and personal experience of the featured guest.

The focus of the first conversation is India and series host and HMML Executive Director Father Columba Stewart, OSB, welcomes Dr. Ali Khan Mahmudabad, noted Indian historian, poet, and professor of both history and political science at Ashoka University, India.
Presenter: Fr. Columba Stewart, host; Dr. Ali Khan Mahmudabad, guest
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