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Collegeville, MN
Joined February 2013
"Introduction to Ge’ez" - 2024 Dumbarton Oaks/HMML Summer School. A free 3-week course for students whose research requires knowledge of Ge’ez, 10 seats available. hmml.org/programs/intro-ge-e…
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for those interested in learning syriac, i would highly recommend this fully-funded (except flight to and from MN) summer program. i really enjoyed my time at st. john’s, met really smart and cool people, and learned a lot of syriac! hmml.org/programs/intro-syri…
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Ready, go, launch! The Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, & Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) website is now live! Visit pemm.princeton.edu?utm_campa… to explore 1000+ miraculous stories and 2500+ paintings about the Virgin Mary found in Africa, from the 1200s to the present. #PEMMaryam
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And now the follow-up: Walid Mourad and I from @visithmml set up a studio at the Institut Mauritanien de Recherche. Walid did a training session for 15 people, and we selected a final team of 5 to do the work. Great next step after our work in Mali! #hmmlinmauritania
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Welcome to Mauritania! Here to launch @visitHMML 's latest partnership at the Institut Mauritanien de Recherche (aka IMRFPC). Despite the long western coastline, it's all about the desert here. Stay tuned... #hmmlinmauritania
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Save the date! 25th October 2023 at 7 PM CET and 12:00 PM CST. Organised by @ManuelButtigieg and myself from the @UMmalta, and Dr Daniel K. Gullo, Malta Study Center at the @hmml. With @vale_gaia and Christian Mifsud. Registration and zoom link here: forms.gle/pUQfmwKPaBcgykn87
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'The Tales of the Wise Parrot', known in several languages across different cultures, is the subject of today's post on the #Malay version, the 'Hikayat Bayan Budiman' blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-africa…
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Encouraging young scholars to consider this opportunity for research – it offers an ideal environment for focused work. Having experienced it twice, I can attest to its superb setting
#Funding opportunity: HMML is accepting applications for #Research residencies to be completed at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota, between January 1 and June 30, 2024. Application deadline: October 15, 2023. Details: hmml.org/research/fellowship… #VisitHMML #WinterInMinnesota
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Wrapping up a @visitHMML swing through Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and Albania (in various combinations) with Ivan Nunić OFM and HMML’s Walid Mourad. Projects underway in BH (and a new one just agreed) and a great project in Montenegro signed as well! #hmmlinbalkans
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This Persian history of India by Bāṣir ʻAlī Khān Bilgrāmī includes the text of the Regulating Act 1773, when Great Britain took over control from the East India Company. Transliterated English technical terms are highlighted in red, like "parchment" here w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/v… – at Minneapolis, MN
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Merchant's commonplace book, between 1350-1400: notes on arithmetic / accounting for merchandise; romance of Tristan; list of spices; astronomical / astrological information; charms / prayers; recipes; extracts in Venetian; poems. Complete work digitized bit.ly/3gxzop7
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Back in Iraq for @visitHMML! Welcomed by Abp Najeeb and the team at CNMO in Ankawa/ Erbil, our partners since 2009. Liturgy in the village of Nahla near Aqra, celebrated in Soureth (a neo-Aramaic dialect). Icon broken by Daesh/ ISIS during the occupation of Mosul…#hmmliniraq
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NEH awards $41.3 million in grants to support 280 #humanities projects nationwide. Includes funding for films, exhibitions, books, research, & education projects, & the first #NEHgrant awards in three new programs under the “American Tapestry” initiative. tinyurl.com/38n8at2m
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We’re pleased to announce the 2023 NEH Jefferson Lecturer: college president & education reformer Ruth J. Simmons. Hear Dr. Simmons deliver her lecture, “Facing History to Find a Better Future,” @NMAAHC on 9/26 at 7PM EDT. More at bit.ly/3Y7xnnk #JeffLec23
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Excited to announce that the new DS Catalog is up and running at search.digital-scriptorium.o…. Data entry from existing member institutions has started and will be continuing through the rest of year. Check it out and let us know what you think!
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Under 24 hours till our Digitization in practice webinar for archive and library professionals in Ukraine starts! Register here bit.ly/42HMIeI
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Weekend reading: Université Saint-Joseph MS 1766 is the narrative of Makryna Mieczysławska (d. 1869) in Arabic w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/v… – at Minneapolis, MN
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Join our Digitization in practice webinar for archive and library professionals in Ukraine! When: 13.00-15.30 CEST 28 June 2023 Register via zoom link bit.ly/42HMIeI English-Ukrainian interpretation provided
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