The Indo-European Languages (An Overview)
A historical linguist provides a basic introduction to the languages that make up the Indo-European language family. Dr. Jackson Crawford is Instructor of Nordic ...
Jackson Crawford
The Mathematics of Friezes
This topic covers the mathematical symmetries of friezes--horizontally repeated patterns usually meant as decorations. References: Judith N. Cederberg, ...
Douglas Harder
Drama at Athens: Some Evidence from Inscriptions with Stephen Tracy ’63
This illustrated talk is designed for the non-specialist. It will begin with some general comments on the importance of inscribed stones as a source of evidence.
Brown University
The Evolution of Organizations in Ancient Rome
Ulrike Malmendier (University of California, Berkeley), spoke on "The Evolution of Organizations in Ancient Rome: The Political and Legal Environment" as part ...
Neubauer Collegium
Writing Multicultural America: The Powers of Canon and Ethnicity by Dr. A. Robert Lee
America has long and vigorously been taken up with issue of cultural identity, the one and the many. Its literary authorship, Puritans to Postmoderns, has been ...
IAFOR Media
Domes, Arches and Minarets: Islamic Architecture in America
Acclaimed photo-journalist Phil Pasquini has examined 200 years of inspired Islamic architecture in America. For transcript and more information, visit ...
Library of Congress
The Elegant Gathering: Art, Politics, and Collecting in...
Panel 1: The Art of Collecting. This panel addresses collecting as an art form and the ways in which the collection of art changed or shifted in the modern era.
UC Berkeley Events
Offerings of the heart
In Aparecida, Brazil, at the world's largest shrine to Mary, pilgrims bring votive offerings.
Catholic News Service
Reconstructing Languages
A few thoughts on reconstructing lost languages and lost language relationships, from a historical linguist who works with the Germanic languages. Dr. Jackson ...
Jackson Crawford
Presidential Politics | Lecture 4
October 27, 2008 lecture by Robert Gregg for the Presidential Politics: Race, Class, Faith & Gender in the 2008 Election (CSRE12) course. Dr. Gregg moderates ...
Stanford
Western Blinders - Simon Goldhill - 2017 SIFK Inaugural Conference
Western Blinders SIMON GOLDHILL, Professor of Greek Literature and Culture, Fellow and Director of Studies at King's College, Director of CRASSH: “Our ...
Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
The Great War And The Ancient World
Prof. Suzanne Marchand presents 'The Great War and the Ancient World'. The First World War has been rightly called 'the first modern war'—but Europeans ...
Stanford
Worldwide African Math & Science Contributions | Manu Ampim | Talks at Google
Historian and primary researcher Professor Manu Ampim visited Google Mountain View to discuss "Classical African Contributions to the World in Math ...
Talks at Google
TYP102 - Language Reconstruction
This E-Lecture discusses the main principles of language reconstruction. Its main topics are: proto-languages, the comparative method, and cognate comparison ...
The Virtual Linguistics Campus
Pforzheimer Lecture: Jane Raisch, “Original Copies: The Facsimile Before Photography”
https://www.hrc.utexas.edu Called “the nightmare of book collectors” by John Carter and Nicolas Barker, facsimiles do not hold a particularly revered position in ...
Harry Ransom Center
The authorial perversion: the desire for discourse in Ovid's "Amores"
The Third Annual Adam and Anne Amory Parry Lecture at Yale. Ellen Oliensis, Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley presents "The ...
YaleUniversity
Lecture: Erika Naginski, "Impossible Design: Porsenna's Tomb and French Visionary Architecture"
Porsenna's tomb is a monstrous, incommensurable object of wonder that haunted the Western architectural imaginary from the Renaissance to the ...
Harvard GSD
John Milton, Lycidas, first edition, 1638. Peter Harrington Rare Books.
MILTON, Johnl, “Lycidas.” In: Justa Edouardo King naufrago, ab amicis, moerentibus. Cambridge: by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, 1638. View this item on ...
PeterHarringtonBooks
Tracking the Frontiers of the Hittite Empire
A century ago, excavations at Bo"A"Yazk~APy uncovered cuneiform tablets and architectural remains that identified the site as ancient Hattusha, capital of the ...
The University of Chicago
Old Norse and the Modern Scandinavian Languages
What language is closest to Old Norse? Every language is a mix of old and new features, and the Scandinavian languages, including Icelandic, are no exception ...
Jackson Crawford
Carl Rohrs "Roma e Italia" at the San Francisco Public Library
"Roma e Italia—Then, Since Then, & Now." Carl Rohrs presents an “unbalanced” view of two millennia of lettering traditions on the Italian Peninsula and around ...
San Francisco Public Library
Unnoticed: Secret Life of Type Faces
Richard Wendorf explores the nature and history of the type faces by which we live, ranging from Roman capitals to the experimentation of William Morris at the ...
GBHForumNetwork
Alexander Jones - Measuring and Mapping Space: A Panel Discussion
Alexander Jones, Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, speaks on the work of ...
NYU Center for the Humanities
2010 Holocaust and Genocide Lecture Series - April 27, 2010
April 27th: THE GEOPOLITICS OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION: AMERICAN AND ISRAELI REACTIONS by Sergio LaPorta, Ph.D., CSU Fresno ...
CSUSonoma
ARP Warren Sack 2/3/09
As part of the ARP Lecture Series, Warren Sack presents his lecture on "Software Studies" (please note this recording is of a live video stream which ...
USC School of Cinematic Arts
After Lives - Introduction: Mortality and Immortality
Tuesday, September 17, 2019 After Lives is a series of panel discussions that address aspects of our mortal (and possibly immortal) condition, reflecting the vast ...
USDHumanitiesCenter
GRANSHAN Cairo 2016: Kamal Mansour
By surveying the history of Arabic script from its beginning to the present, we see a living system that has taken on a variety of styles over the centuries. Of course ...
GRANSHAN Conference
Homi Bhabha hosts Tu Weiming (杜维明) on 2010-04-07 at Harvard Humanities Center
On 2010-04-07 Prof. Homi Bhabha hosted Prof. Tu Weiming at Harvard Humanities Center. The subject of Prof. Tu's talk is "Confucian Reflection on the ...
Marek Jeziorek
Symposium—Antiquarianism in the Islamic World (Welcome & Intro)
Peter N. Miller, Bard Graduate Center Abigail Krasner Balbale, New York University "Welcome and Introduction" Sponsored by the Trehan Research Fund for ...
bardgradcenter
The Sociology of Inequality
This panel session (from the "50 Years of Sociology at the University of Cambridge" conference) addresses and problematises a phenomenon that is located at ...
Cambridge Sociology
Introduction to Literature and the Environment - Lecture Lecture 8: Medieval Literature
Ken Hiltner: Introduction to Literature and the Environment.
PEI PU
Bram Acosta, "Mapping La Bestia"
Abraham Acosta (University of Arizona), “Mapping La Bestia: Migrancy, Posthegemony, and Primitive Accumulation.” Talk given for the University of British ...
UBC Latin American Studies
Alphabetica 2019: Johannes Bergerhausen & Thomas Huot-Marchand
Alphabetica 2019 Saturday, 23.11.2019, 10:00 — 22:00 Location West Museumkwartier, vml. Amerikaanse ambassade, Lange Voorhout 102, Den Haag More ...
West Den Haag
Another World Literature: New Approaches to a Literary History of East Asia
In this talk, Haun Saussy notes that traditional Chinese definitions of literature include historical, philosophical, essayistic, and policy-oriented genres, and that ...
American Academy in Berlin
Silvia Ferrara 'The Beginnings of Writing on Crete: Theory and Context'
BSA Upper House seminar 12.9.2013.
British School at Athens
Grotte Scalina: a new monumental Etruscan tomb near Viterbo
09-03-2016 Institute of Classical Studies http://www.sas.ac.uk/ http://www.sas.ac.uk/support-research/public-events/2016/rome-london-lecture Institute: ...
SchAdvStudy
GAS LAWS
Joseph Gay-Lussac Jacques Charles Robert Boyle.
vultureculture
Virtual Memories #174 - Ann Patty
Why did former publisher and book editor Ann Patty start studying Latin at age 58? Find out in our conversation about her book, Living with a Dead Language: ...
VMSpod
Making Knowledge Out of Ruins - 2017 SIFK Inaugural Conference "Practices of Knowledge"
Making Knowledge Out of Ruins FRANCESCA ROCHBERG, Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of ...
Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
2017 Emerging Themes and Methods of Humanities Research Discussion with ACLS Fellows
2017 ACLS Annual Meeting session American Council of Learned Societies Baltimore, MD, May 12 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Anshuman Pandey, Tensions of Standardization and Variation in Unicode (Digiclass 2018, 8)
Anshuman Pandey (Michigan), *Tensions of Standardization and Variation in the Encoding of Ancient Scripts in Unicode* Institute of Classical Studies Friday ...
Digital Classicist London Seminars
Keynote - Don Ihde
Don Ihde, SUNY Technoscience and Political Algorithms Friday, March 8, 2019 Atkinson Hall Auditorium, UC San Diego SPONSORS Program for the Study of ...
The Qualcomm Institute
