HMML Staff Presents
HMML Staff Presents
Presentations by HMML Staff and Scholars.
Upcoming Presentations
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September 5, 2025
Manuscript Heritage for the Future
Location - Franciscan Library, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Speaker - Dr. Columba Andrew Stewart
Topic - Presentation of the work of HMML (Hill Museum & Manuscript Library)
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October 7, 2025
Annual Lepanto Event for the Pittsburg Regional Association of the Order of Malta
Location - Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh, PA
Speaker - Dr. Daniel K. Gullo
Topic - Daily Life in the Order of Malta: Recovering History in Endangered Archives
Past Presentations
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August 7, 2025
Annual Order of Malta Pilgrimage to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion
Location - Green Bay, WI
Speaker - Dr. Daniel K. Gullo
Topic - Hospitaller Spirituality - Why Preserving the Cultural Heritage of the Order of Saint John Matters
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May 8–10, 2025
International Congress on Medieval Studies
Location - Kalamazoo, MI
Speaker - Dr. Jennifer Carnell
Topic - The Frogs and the Nightingale: Aurality and Morality in German Literature
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April 24-25, 2025
Reclaiming History: Islam and Cultural Patrimony in the 21st Century
Location - George Mason University, Washington D.C.
Speaker - Dr. Ali Diakite, Dr. Paul Naylor
Topic - Cultural Heritage Preservation and Digitization in West Africa: the work of the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
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April 1, 2025
Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Location - Virtual (Vienna, Austria)
Speaker - Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman; Dr. Catherine Walsh
Topic - From Kremsmünster to Timbuktu: HMML's Mission to Preserve Manuscripts through Photography
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March 21, 2025
Georgetown Graduate Association of Islamic Studies Seminar Series: Current Dissertations in Islamic Studies
Location - Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler
Topic - A Martyr with Too Many Causes: Christopher of Antioch (d. 967) and Local Collective Memory
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March 4, 2025
The Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center
Location - Manhattan, New York
Speaker - Dr. Ani Shahinian
Topic - “But take courage, I have overcome the world”: Christian Martyrs in Text and Image
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March 1, 2025
Mediterranean Seminar Winter 2025 Workshop
Location - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler
Topic - A Greek in Arabic Clothing
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February 21, 2025
University of Michigan
Location - Ann Arbor, MI
Speaker - Dr. Ani Shahinian
Topic - Christian-Muslim Identities and the Perception of the 'Other': A Case Study of Awag Salmastec‘i's Martyrology (1390)
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February 14, 2025
Byzantine Studies Workshop at Dumbarton Oaks
Location - Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C.
Speaker - Dr. Jeremy R. Brown
Topic - From the Horn of Africa to Egypt, Jerusalem, and Beyond—and Back Again
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February 7, 2025
Princeton University Library
Location - Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ
Speaker - Dr. Jeremy R. Brown
Topic - Monks, Monasteries, and Manuscripts
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December 12-14, 2024
Islam in Africa Studies Group
Location - African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
Speaker - Dr. Paul Naylor
Topic - Building Maktaba: Reflections on a West African Arabic Manuscript Translation and Access Project
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November 23-26, 2024
Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
Location - San Diego, California, USA
Speaker - Dr. Jeremy R. Brown
Topic - Manuscripts in Virtual Spaces: An Update on Ethiopic Manuscript Cataloging at HMML
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November 23, 2024
New Byzantine Borderlands: Antioch and Melitene in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
Location - Virtual
Speaker - Dr. Josh Mugler
Topic - Legacies of Translation in the Borderlands: New Manuscript Evidence
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November 16, 2024
Manuscripts of West Africa Gallery Talk Series
Location - International Museum of Muslim Cultures, Jackson, MS
Speaker - Dr. Ali Diakite
Topic - Manuscripts of West Africa Gallery Talk Series
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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
Topic - The Arabic Translators of Byzantine Antioch: New Manuscript Evidence
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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
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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.