Date/Time
Date(s) - 22 Mar 2013 until 23 Mar 2013
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Location
McCormick Hall
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“Identity & Authenticity: Creating, Preserving, & Transmitting Identities Across Time & Place”
A RGME Symposium
Friday & Saturday 22 & 23 March 2013
McCormick 106, Princeton University
The challenges of shaping, reshaping, maintaining, conveying, and validating identity, both personal and collective, are perennial human concerns. This symposium of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence explores subjects, regions, and materials from the early medieval period to the present day. Presentations will consider, for example, Western European and Syriac manuscript discoveries, Venetian documentary resources, Byzantine liturgical textiles and monumental wall imagery, medieval seal-matrices and forgeries, Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic magical recipes from the Cairo Genizah, the transmission of Islamic paper, the reliquary of John the Baptist owned by Napoleon, the medieval-style Hammond Castle in Massachusetts, the challenges and opportunities in manuscript collecting, and digitization projects on manuscripts and archives for teaching and research.
Speakers include (in alphabetical order):
Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)
Eleanor A. Congdon (Department of History, Youngstown State University)
Martha E. Easton (Department of Art History, Seton Hall University)
Philip Michael Forness (Department of History, Princeton Theological Seminary)
Scott Gwara (Department of English, University of South Carolina – Columbia and De Brailes Medieval Art LLC)
George Kiraz (Gorgias Press and Department of Middle Eastern and South-East Asian Languages & Literature, Rutgers University)
Karl F. Morrison (Department of History, Rugters University)
John H. Rassweiler (The Rassweiler Collection, Princeton)
Ortal-Paz Saar (School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, and Tel Aviv University)
Henry D. Schilb (Index of Christian Art, Princeton University)
Rossitza B. Schroeder (Visiting Fellow in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, and Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California)
Barbara A. Shailor (Department of Classics, Yale University)
Ida Sinkevic (Department of Art, Lafayette College)
David W. Sorenson (Quincy, Massachusetts)
Alan M. Stahl (Firestone Library, Princeton University)
Jack B. Tannous (Department of History, Princeton University)
The detailed program will circulate soon. Please let us know if you wish to attend.
For information please contact Mildred Budny, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence: