Dr. Christopher Hank from Humboldt University in Berlin will teach two subsequent session of the Exploring Art and Visual Culture course on April 5 and April 12, 2018. There are approximately five places available for students who are not enrolled in the course. If you are interested in attending both lessons, please confirm your participation […]
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Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: A Heathen King Rolf Stavnem (AU Aarhus)
Life and Death of Heathen Kings of the North Danish scholar Rolf Stavnem (Aarhus Universitet) will analyse the medieval descriptions of the lives of the lords in the pre-Christian Scandinavia. poster The series is organized by the Department of Scandinavian Studies and the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages of the Faculty of Arts of […]
Dr. Shiyanthi Thavapalan (Brown University): Cuneiform Writing and the Transfer of Technological Knowledge in the Ancient Near East
Cuneiform texts generally begin as part of living scholarly tradition, composed by and for an audience interested in setting down in writing the knowledge they contain. In their afterlives, texts may be copied at a time when the knowledge is obsolete or even by people who could no longer understand them. The scribes who copied Early […]
Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (University of Oslo): Contrastive Phraseology: Method and Analysis
We cordially invite everyone interested in corpus linguistic, phraseology, and contrastive linguistic research to the lecture by Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (University of Oslo) on “Contrastive Phraseology: Method and Analysis”.
Dr. Shiyanthi Thavapalan (Brown University): The Meaning of Color in Ancient Mesopotamia
Since Newtonian physics, it seems impossible to think of color as anything other than a property of light. Yet the essential nature of this phenomenon has been subject to theorizing by many, both in the ancient world and in modern history. In recent years, scholarly interest in color has turned to semantics, focusing on the varying […]
Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: A Count
The Life and Murder of Count Charles the Good of Flanders (1127) Jeff Rider (Wesleyan University) will comment on the remarkable life of Charles the Good, count of Flanders, murdered 1127 in the church of St. Donatian in Bruges and on chronicle of his regin written by Galbert of Bruges. poster The series is organized […]
Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: A Hero
Sigurd the Dragon Slayer. Medieval Legend and Pagan Ritual Danish scholar Jens Peter Schjødt (Aarhus Universitet) will illustrate on the person of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer, one of the most famous medieval heroes, in how far the “heroic biography” was based on the so called “rites de passage“ of archaic societies. poster The series is […]
Enrico Lucca: Early Years of the Hebrew University (1925–1948)
The Prague Centre for Jewish Studies cordially invites everyone interested to a guest lecture by Dr Enrico Luca (Simon-Dubnow-Institut, Leipzig) on “Early Years of the Hebrew University (1925–1948)”.
