HMML Staff Presents

HMML Staff Presents

Presentations by HMML Staff and Scholars.

Upcoming Presentations

  • November 23-26, 2024

    Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting

    Location - San Diego, California, USA

    Speaker - Dr. Jeremy R. Brown, Cataloger of Ethiopic Manuscripts

    Topic - Manuscripts in Virtual Spaces: An Update on Ethiopic Manuscript Cataloging at HMML

  • December 12-14, 2024

    Islam in Africa Studies Group

    Location - African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL

    Speaker - Dr. Paul Naylor, Cataloger of West African Manuscripts

    Topic - Building Maktaba: Reflections on a West African Arabic Manuscript Translation and Access Project

Past Presentations

  • October 29, 2024

    Between Athos & Antioch: Urban and Monastic Translator Teams & Shared Translation Practices in the Eastern Mediterranean (10th-11th Centuries)

    Location - Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts

    Topic - The Arabic Translators of Byzantine Antioch: New Manuscript Evidence

  • September 20, 2024

    Muslim West Africa’s ‘Core Curriculum’ Explained, Explored and Redefined: Essays in Honor of Charles C. Stewart

    Location - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Speaker - Dr. Ali Diakite, Dr. Paul Naylor

    Topic - After al-Sanūsī: ʻAqīdah in the Core Curriculum

  • September 18, 2024

    Digitizing History and Recovering Cultural Heritage at the Museum of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem

    Location - Virtual

    Speaker - Dr. Daniel K. Gullo

    Topic - This lecture looks back on the first year of the partnership with The Museum of the Order of St John and the Malta Study Center.

  • June 13, 2024

    Early Modern Hospitallers Online Talks

    Location - Virtual

    Speaker - Dr. Daniel K. Gullo; Dr. Valeria Vanesio

    Topic - Hospitaller Digital Preservation & Education

  • May 19, 2024

    Saint John’s Speaker Series

    Location - Washington DC

    Speaker - Dr. Columba Stewart, Executive Director

    Topic - Voices of the Ancestors: Saving the World’s Manuscripts from Destruction

  • May 9–11, 2024

    International Congress on Medieval Studies

    Location - Kalamazoo, MI

    Speaker - Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman, Dr. James Walters, Dr. Ani Shahinian

    Topic - Saints from East and West: Hagiography across Cultures and Languages

  • May 9–11, 2024

    International Congress on Medieval Studies

    Location - Kalamazoo, MI

    Speaker - Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman, Dr. James Walters, Dr. Jennifer Carnell

    Topic - Data Migration and Access: Rediscovering HMML’s European Manuscript Microfilm Collections

  • May 9–11, 2024

    International Congress on Medieval Studies

    Location - Kalamazoo, MI

    Speaker - Dr. Jennifer Carnell, Cataloger of Western Manuscripts

    Topic - Kissing King Arthur: The Threat of Discord in Chrétien's “Erec et Enide” and Hartmann's “Erec”

  • May 9–11, 2024

    International Congress on Medieval Studies

    Location - Kalamazoo, MI

    Speaker - Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman, Curator of Western European Manuscripts & Special Collections

    Topic - Manuscript Catalogs (Online or in Print) for Tracking Down Manuscripts in European Libraries

  • April 27, 2024

    Mediterranean Seminar, Spring 2024 workshop

    Location - St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO

    Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts

    Topic - The Subjected Sea in the Prayer of al-Shādhilī

  • February 21, 2024

    Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA); Critical African Heritages Workshop

    Location - Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

    Speaker - Dr. Ali Diakite, Dr. Paul Naylor

    Topic - Roundtable: Sources, Heritage, & Experimental History in Premodern Africa

  • January 24, 2024

    Medieval and Renaissance Studies

    Location - Carleton College, Northfield, MN

    Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts

    Topic - Preserving the World’s Cultural Heritage in Minnesota: The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library

  • December 12, 2023

    Workshop: “Islamic art in Italy: from the artefacts to their reception”

    Location - Università di Bologna - Dipartimento di Storia, Culture e Civiltà

    Speaker - Dr. Celeste Gianni, Cataloger of Arabic Manuscripts

    Topic - Islamic metalworks in the Duchy of Urbino: from the artefacts to their reception

  • November 30-December 2, 2023

    African Studies Association 66th Annual Meeting

    Location - San Francisco, CA

    Speaker - Dr. Paul Naylor, Cataloger of West African Manuscripts

    Topic - Governance in Gwandu: A Fulani hegemony in Sokoto’s western territories, captured in Saʻd ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān’s Tartīb al-aṣḥāb

  • November 18-21, 2023

    American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting

    Location - San Antonio, TX

    Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts

    Topic - Non-Zaydī Texts in the Zaydī Manuscript Collections of Yemen

  • November 16-18, 2023

    Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures

    Location - Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Speaker - Dr. Ali Diakite, Cataloger of West African Manuscripts

    Topic - How HMML catalogs West African Manuscripts, and what we found inside

  • November 17, 2023

    Ethiopian Studies of North America Workshop

    Location - Virtual

    Speaker - Dr. Jeremy R. Brown, Cataloger of Ethiopic Manuscripts

    Topic - Princeton Ethiopian Miracles of Mary Digital Humanities Project

  • November 2-5, 2023

    Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting

    Location - Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts

    Topic - Manuscript Collection and Digitization in Post-ISIS Mosul

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