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Oct
25
2023

NES Lecture

Syriac Christianity and the Holy City of Jerusalem: Entangled Histories in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Catalin-Stefan Popa
12:00pm|Hybrid event: IAS White-Levy Room and Zoom

The lecture introduces the audience to the process of interaction of one of the most important Middle Eastern Church traditions, Syriac Christianity, with the Holy City and the Holy Land. Even if scholars have often argued that the late antique...

Feb
14
2024

NES Workshop

Asterisms – the relations among their verbal, numerical, and visual representations across cultures in research and public outreach
White-Levy Room

Conveners: Sonja Brentjes (IAS School of Historical Studies and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) and Sabine Schmidtke (School of Historical Studies, IAS).

Details to follow at a later time.

May
16
2024

NES Workshop

Misattributions and Forgeries in Middle Eastern Manuscript Traditions

Converners: Grigory Kessel, (Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna), George A. Kiraz (School of Historical Studies, IAS) and Sabine Schmidtke (School of Historical Studies, IAS).

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