Meetings will be held in the Humanities Center Seminar Room, E102 Melrose Hall (first floor), 3:30 to 4:30 PM, unless otherwise indicated.
- 7 September 2016
Charles Sanft – “Disentangling Reading and Writing: Scribal Literacy vs. a Literate Community” - 28 September 2016
Julie Reed – “Rocks, Paper, Removal: Preliminary Thoughts on Cherokee Manuscripts within Caves in the Southeastern United States” - 29 October 2016
Manuscript Cultures Minicon - 16 November 2016
Manuela Ceballos – “Reconstructing the Legacy of the Saints: Challenges in Reading Moroccan Sufi Hagiographical Manuscripts.” - 18 January 2017
Megan Bryson – “Becoming a Humane King: The Compass for Protecting the Country Subcommentary Manuscript” - 6 February 2017
Robin D.S. Yates (McGill University) – “Terror or Pleasure? Living and Working under the First Emperor of China”
3:30 P.M.
Lindsay Young Auditorium – Hodges Library - 2 March 2017
William Noel (University of Pennsylvania) - 5 April 2017
Alison Vacca - “Written in Stone: Expressions of Power in Late Antique and Medieval Iran"
3:00-4:00 PM - 26 April 2017
Devin Stewart (Emory University) – "The Catalogue of Ibn al-Nadim: Knowledge and the World Viewed from Tenth-Century Baghdad"
- Wednesday, 26 August 2015
3:30 p.m.
Humanities Center Seminar Room F203 Melrose Hall (second floor)
Alison Vacca
"A Mediterranean Polemic" - Monday, 14 September 2015
3:30 p.m.
Sabine Schmidtke (Institute for Advanced Study)
"An Anonymous Jewish Refutation of Samawʾal al-Maghribī's (d. 1175) Ifḥām al-yahūd." - Wednesday, 21 October 2015
3:30 p.m.
Chad Black
"Usual Suspects: Content and Form in the 18th Century Visita de Cárcel" - Wednesday, 18 November 2015
3:30 p.m.
Tom Burman
"Obsessive Hebraism and Concealed Philo-Arabism: the Multi-lingual Manuscripts of Ramon Marti's Pugio fidei / Dagger of Faith (c. 1278)" - Thursday, 14 January 2016
3:30 p.m.
Lindsay Young Auditorium – Hodges Library
Martin Kern (Princeton University)
"The Origins of Chinese Poetry" - Wednesday, 27 January 2016
3:30 p.m.
Megan Bryson
"Inviting the Gods in Sinitic and Sanskrit Script: A Multi-Language Manuscript from the Dali Kingdom (937-1253)" - Wednesday, 24 February 2016
3:30 p.m.
Hilary Havens
"From Samuel Richardson to William Godwin: Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel" - Wednesday, 23 March 2016
3:30 p.m.
JP Dessel
"Šarrat Ekron: Worming Your Way out of the 7th c BCE" -
Wednesday, 6 April 2016
3:30 p.m.
Charles Sanft
"Practical Knowledge and Literate Community in the Han Border Regions" - Wednesday, 20 April 2016
3:30 p.m.
Roy Liuzza
"A New Scrap of the Old English Gospels"