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Abbess as Alter Christus: Delineating Female Sanctity in Spain and Spanish America

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October 12, 2017 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
2400 Ridge Road

Cristina Cruz González, Associate Professor of Art History, Oklahoma State University

Art history has approached female monastic culture in New Spain through the lens of crowned-nun portraiture, a late colonial genre that reaffirmed a nun’s position as a mystical Bride of Christ. This has led to scholarly neglect of female imitatio Christi and the ecclesiastical pretense exhibited by several early modern holy women in Spain and […]

Abbess as Alter Christus: Delineating Female Sanctity in Spain and Spanish America

Between Historiography and Literature: "Gershom Scholem's Intellectual Biography"

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October 10, 2017 / 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm / Add to Google
3401 Dwinelle Hall

The famous Kabbalah scholar Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) occupies a central role in our intellectual imagination. He was “the creator of an intellectual discipline,” according to Martin Buber, and is discussed by historians, literary scholars, and philosophers. Yet despite his charismatic personality and the many books and articles he wrote, there is something about him that […]

Myths and Manuscripts: Rethinking the Place of Timbuktu in the Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa

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September 12, 2017 / 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm / Add to Google
223 Moses Hall

Bruce Hall, Associate Professor of History, UC Berkeley

“The Malian town of Timbuktu is widely understood as the epicenter of Muslim intellectual history in West Africa. The ever-expanding numbers of Arabic manuscripts which are claimed as extant in Timbuktu has only further cemented the idea of the town as the font of a late-medieval high intellectual culture which rivaled other famous Muslim intellectual […]

Myths and Manuscripts: Rethinking the Place of Timbuktu in the Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa

Spinoza's Tragic Resources

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March 13, 2017 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
D37 Hearst Field Annex

Russ Leo will present his research on the intersections between poetic and philosophical experiments in Anglo-Dutch contexts across the 1650s, 60s, and 70s, particularly the ways one might place Milton and Spinoza in conversation. This involves attention to Spinoza’s contributions to literary culture in Amsterdam and the Netherlands at large, as well as his debts […]

Pseudo-Arabic as a Marker of Christian Identity in Middle Byzantine Art and Architecture

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March 10, 2017 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
UC Berkeley

Alicia Walker, Associate Professor, Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College

“Things” can help us understand social identities, relationships, and practices in the medieval world, especially in situations where textual documentation is minimal or completely absent. This paper explores how pseudo-Arabic motifs on medieval Christian buildings and objects materialized social identities and spiritual authority among monastic communities across the eastern Mediterranean, thereby attesting to an interconnectedness […]

Pseudo-Arabic as a Marker of Christian Identity in Middle Byzantine Art and Architecture

Sectarianism and Coexistence in the Modern Middle East

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November 29, 2016 / 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm / Add to Google
3335 Dwinelle

Ussama S. Makdisi, Professor of History and Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies, Rice University

This talk provides a historical perspective to the contemporary sectarian tragedy unfolding in the modern Middle East. First, it uncovers a complex, but now obscured, modern culture of coexistence in a region that is historically rich in religious diversity, but that today encompasses a series of war-torn countries including Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. Second, it […]

Sectarianism and Coexistence in the Modern Middle East

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