TeTra | Text and Transmission Research SeminarMay 15, 2024
Marianna Shreve Simpson (University of Pennsylvania, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies)
Dioscorides Disordered: A Fragmentary Kitab-i Hashayish (Book of Herbs) in Philadelphia
Marianna Shreve Simpson is a historian of Islamic art and has published, taught, and lectured widely on medieval and early modern Islamic art in general and the arts of the book (especially Persian illustrated manuscripts) in particular. Her books include Princeton’s Great Book of Kings: The Peck Shahnama (Princeton University Art Museum, 2015), Persian Poetry, Painting, and Patronage: Illustrations in a Sixteenth-Century Masterpiece (Yale University Press and Freer Gallery of Art, 1998), and Sultan Ibrahim Mirza’s “Haft Awrang”: A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran (Yale University Press and Freer Gallery of Art, 1997).
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24 January 2024
Jost Gippert (Universität Hamburg)
The Written Heritage of Caucasian Albanian
Jost Gippert is Senior Professor at the Universität Hamburg and Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant project ‘The Development of Literacy in the Caucasian Territories’ (DeLiCaTe) (2022-2027), having previously held positions in Berlin, Vienna, Salzburg, Bamberg, Tbilisi, and Frankfurt am Main.
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May 22, 2023
Hagith Sivan (The University of Kansas)
Why not teach girls Greek and Torah? Rabbinic views on the transmission of knowledge from fathers to daughters in late antiquity
Hagith Sivan is professor emeritus of the department of History of the University of Kansas. She has worked for decades along two main paths, the world of Late Antiquity and ancient Judaism. Currently she is hard at work on a large scale project on Jewish childhood in antiquity, a fascinating topic that has not yet received the attention it deserves. She is a co-founder of the international series of conferences ‘Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity’.
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March 13, 2023
Margaret Cormack (College of Charleston)
Medieval Icelandic Ecclesiastical Charters and Cartularies
Margaret Cormack is professor emeritus of the department of Religious Studies at the College of Charleston. Until last year she was affiliate professor in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Iceland and since her retirement she has been a Guest Researcher at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies.
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January 19, 2022
Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (CNRS Paris)
Multilingualism and multiculturalism in Northern Syria between Aramaic and Greek from the beginning of our era to Late Antiquity, as seen from epigraphy
Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet is Research Director at the CNRS, member of the CNRS Joint Research Unit Orient et Méditerranée, and president of the Société des études syriaques. For her distinguished work in the field, she was elected member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 2021.
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June 28, 2021
Michael E. Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The Apocrypha and their Role in the Armenian Embroidered Bible
Michael E. Stone is the Gail Levin de Nur professor of religious studies emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and founding director of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature.