New: Braille Resources for Reading Ancient Languages
[Photo by me. Tactile graphic by Crystal Peng.] Β I recently created a new section of my website, which provides educational resources for anyone who wants to read ancient Middle Eastern and North β¦
Today I published a new section of my website with resources for those who wish to learn, study, and/or teach ancient languages using braille. It rests on work we did over the past year to expand screen reader access to these languages through the LibLouis library. Check it out and share around!
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Also next week!
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Next week!!!
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In 1874, Mary Ewing Outerbridge brought home Americaβs first tennis set β and customs agents seized it.
She got it back, built a court on Staten Island, and changed womenβs sports forever.
History turns on curiosity, persistence, and a little nerve.Β
Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/3brswyssποΈ
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Besteld! Dus één boek reist alvast terug richting oosten. Ik ben benieuwd!
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In sommige dialecten in Belgisch Limburg en delen van Vlaams-Brabant gebruiken we "loeren" ook in die "neutrale" betekenis van "kijken."
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YouTube video by TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar
TeTra | Eleanor Baker "Middle English Book Curses and Perceptions of the Material Text"
If you missed Eleanor Baker's paper yesterday, here is the recording!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLv9...
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A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?
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It's different in the sense that you'll be automatically sent the Zoom links for the talks (via email). Just send me a message with your email address
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Tomorrow!
If you are not yet on our mailing list and are interested in attending, get in touch with @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.
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YouTube video by TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar
TeTra | Carlo Emilio Biuzzi "Western Syriac Kanonessammlungen: A Renewed Description"
In case you missed it, here is the recording of last week's paper!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR3X...
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#CfP Conference: "The Materiality of Jewish-Arabic Relations" (BMFTR-project "Beyond Conflict and Coexistence: An Entangled History of Jewish-Arab Relations) - deadline: 15 September 2025.
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In two days!!!
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Next week!
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Today I almost rode my bike into a soldier who was walking IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CYCLE PATH with only eyes for his phone. I stopped within about 5 centimers. This is a daily occurrence. We need to stop people from using their mobile phones in traffic. NOW.
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Thursday! Don't forget to register!
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Very much looking forward to this one next week!
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YouTube video by TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar
TeTra | Bishara Ebeid "The West Syriac Reworking of an East Syriac Nicene Commentary"
In case you missed it, here is the recording of the last paper! www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Al...
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Tomorrow!
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Erected in 2015*
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Bilingual Armenian-Syriac monument commemorating the Seyfo (genocide of Syriac Christians) in 1915. Erected in Yerevan in 2012 in a park on the corner of Nalbandyan and Moskovian St.
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Next week!
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Tomorrow!
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Next week!!!
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Later this month I will be presenting some thoughts on a field I have been active in for over 15 years now, and I am honoured to present them in the context of the lecture series of the Austrian-Armenian Studies Society!
It is possible to attend online via this link: t.co/ifTc9HDPnM
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Something Syriac but with wider implications next week!
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Post-doc at @imafo-oeaw.bsky.social & @coe-eurasia.bsky.social | Byzantine Studies | Greek | Church Slavonic | Liturgy & ritual | Biblical criticism
Scholar of Earth's history in literature and culture. Research Associate in Natural History Humanities at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.
πWriting and teaching on Middle English literature in Oxford
πWrote BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing
βοΈBeing creatively critical @guildmedmak.bsky.socialβ¬
πLiker of university access and outreach, folk horror, and print making
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Medieval manuscripts, Daoist (aka Taoist) philosophy, comedy,
palindromes, versus recurrentes, &c.
Upcoming: a few US shows of "Ego Tourism", my one-person show from the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe; revising 2 peer-reviewed articles.
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Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
Gatto Chair of Christian Studies, StFX, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
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Studying: Medieval Healing Traditions, Pharmacy, Manuscripts, Black Death, Medievalism.
Dad to 2 mini-mes, 2 cats. Playing piano, MTG, D&D
The North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature is a scholarly organization dedicated to the study of the Christian Apocrypha.
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Senior Content Manager, Academic Journals, Cambridge University Press | PhD, University of Edinburgh | Historian of Religion in Mediterranean Antiquity & Production Editor for Humanities Research | She/Her
Violinist teaching at UNC School of the Arts, liturgical musician...and some day I'll really know Syriac
We take care of KU Leuven Libraries' heritage collections housed in the University Library: rare books, lecture notes and other manuscripts, graphics... We also have a reference collection of more than 65.000 titles on book history.
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β’ taalkundige | linguist
β’ schrijver van 'Die goeie ouwe taal' | author
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The site I share translations and thoughts of philological interest on: https://philologicaltryouts.substack.com/. Enjoys dabbling in Literary Chinese, Semitic Studies, Sanskrit, PΔli, Polemical Texts, and other stuff. Trying to discover Albanian & Burmese
lecturer in linguistics | global south |
Loc : Lmu , HofS : Medieval
Translator : [German - δΈζ- English] |Wikimedian
Associate Professor in Middle Eastern and Global history (Medieval)
Speaker β’ Writer β’ Reviewer β’ Editor βοΈ
University webpage: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/arts-humanities/nicholas-morton
Scholar of Syriac Literature in Late Antiquity, textual transmission, manuscript cultures, and the history of scholarship. Happiest surrounded by books or the English countryside.
Peripatetic postdoctoral scholar, researching the medieval Armenian Alexander Romance and 19th-century Caucasus cosmopolitanism. Films, trains, British. They/them.
Aramaics, Coptic, GΙΚΙz, Arabic, Iran. langs, Turk. langs, Old Georgian, Old Armenian πΈπ±πβοΈ
Research Assoc., CSWR/HDS
Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T) https://tinyurl.com/494v9n59
The Pearlsong https://tinyurl.com/msajp4ut
(External) Lecturer, University of Vienna
History | Music | Caucasus
Recently finished Doctorate @Uni Cologne: Musical Change in Tiflis/Tbilisi around 1900
Otherwise: language learning, food, wine.
πVienna