Visiting Scholars

Visiting Scholars

Open House | Can the Digital Humanities Make Us Better Humanists? with Rodney Ast

We were excited to welcome Rodney Ast for an Open House entitled “Can the Digital Humanities Make Us Better Humanists?” The event took place on Friday, March 11 at 11:00 a.m. EST and was recorded. You may find it useful to create an account at papyri.info in order to be able to explore the site and to look at the following two example texts: https://papyri.info/ddbdp/ddbdp;2015;2 https://papyri.info/ddbdp/o.oslo;;2 To get ready for… Read more

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Open House | Apollonius’ Argonautica: Earth, Sky, and Sea, with Jackie Murray

We were excited to welcome Jackie Murray for an Open House entitled “Apollonius’ Argonautica: Earth, Sky, and Sea.” The event took place on Friday, February 25 at 11:00 a.m. EST and was recorded. To get ready for the event, you might like to read Book 1 and Book 2 of the Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes. Translation by R.C. Seaton at Project Gutenberg to read online or download (also available… Read more

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Open House | The Egyptian Goddess in White Marble: Isis, Materials and the Reconfiguration of Greekness in the Roman Empire, with Lindsey Mazurek

We were excited to welcome Lindsey Maruzek for an Open House entitled “The Egyptian Goddess in White Marble: Isis, Materials and the Reconfiguration of Greekness in the Roman Empire.” The event took place on Friday, February 11 at 11:00 a.m. EST and was recorded. You might like to read the following passages in connection with the event: Mazurek_talk_Isis aretalogies You can watch on our YouTube channel, or in the frame… Read more

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Open House | Greek Language, Italian Landscape, with Manuela Pellegrino

We were excited to welcome Manuela Pellegrino for an Open House entitled “Greek Language, Italian Landscape.” The event took place on Friday, December 3 at 11:00 a.m. EST and was recorded. To get ready for the event, you might like to read Chapter 6, “Certain Things Never Change and Those Sound Better in Griko” from her book Greek Language, Italian Landscape: Griko and the Re-storying of a Linguistic Minority You… Read more

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Open House | The Aeschylean ‘’Odyssey’’: A Journey in Fragments, with Zoe A. Kalamara

We were excited to welcome Zoe A. Kalamara for an Online Open House entitled “The Aeschylean “Odyssey”: A Journey in Fragments.” The event took place on Friday, November 12 at 11:00 a.m. EST and was recorded. To get ready for the event, you might like to read: Odyssey, Book 11 and Books 20–24, and the fragments in this PDF handout: Kosmos-Open-House_2021-11-12 You can watch the recording on our YouTube channel… Read more