Through the Secular and Saintly Eyes of his Sons: A Comparative Consideration of Two Biographies of Stefan Nemanja, the Founder of the Serbian Medieval State Serbian scholar Slavica Rankovic will compare two lives of Stefan Nemanja, the Grand Prince of Serbia and challenger of Byzantine Emperors, written by two of his sons: Stefan the First-crowned, the […]
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Bruno Blau – ein deutsch-jüdischer Statistiker im Exil in Prag (1937-1939)
Der Vortrag stellt den deutsch-jüdischen Statistiker und Bevölkerungswissenschaftler Bruno Blau (1881-1954) vor. Blau gehörte im Berlin der Zeit vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg und der Zwischenkriegszeit zu den Pionieren einer statistischen Wissenschaft des Judentums und war lange Jahre Herausgeber der „Zeitschrift für Demographie und Statistik des Judentums“. Von den Nationalsozialisten verfolgt, floh Blau 1936 zunächst über […]
Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: An Adventurer
Polish Comes Piotr Wlostowic – Grand Lord from Silesia, Famous Adventurer and Lover, Statesman Ending his Career Punished with Blinding, Benefactor of the Church – and his Legend in Medieval and Post-Medieval Sources Including Lost Carmen Mauri Polish scholar Leszek Słupecki (Uniwersytet Rzeszowski) will speak about the spectacular and adventurous life of Polish knight Piotr […]
Guest Lecturer Dr. C. T. Hank (HU Berlin) – Exploring Art and Visual Culture
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 […]
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”.
