Program
Opening Reception and Keynote Address
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Phyllis Granoff
Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University
with introductions by Deven Patel, University of Pennsylvania
The Mystery of Mistakes: Reflections on Indian Illustrated Manuscripts
To be held at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine St, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 (map).
Symposium
3420 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 (map).
Friday, November 3, 2017
9:00 - 9:30 am Coffee and Registration
9:30 - 9:45 am Welcome and Opening Remarks
H. Carton Rogers, Vice Provost & Director of Libraries, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Benjamin J. Fleming, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
9:45 - 11:00 am Session I: Shifts of Technology, Language, Culture
Presider: Benjamin J. Fleming, SIMS
Ayesha A. Irani, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Tyler Williams, University of Chicago
11:00 - 11:30 am Coffee
11:30 am - 12:30 pm Workshop I
Presider: Lynn Ransom, SIMS
Gila Prebor & Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Bar-Ilan Unversity
A Large-Scale Data-Driven Analysis of Censorship of Hebrew Manuscripts in Italy
12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 pm Session II: Ritual and Alchemy
Presider: Pia Brancaccio, Drexel University
Paul Dilley, University of Iowa
From Textual to Ritual Practice: Written Media and Authority in Shenoute's Canons
Shazia Jagot, University of Surrey
Un/Binding Chaucer's Sufism
Ellen Gough, Emory University
The Yantras of the Jain Bhaktāmara Stotra
3:30 - 3:45 pm Coffee
3:45 - 4:45 pm Workshop II
Presider: Thibaut d'Hubert, University of Chicago
Saymon Zakaria, Bangla Academy
Contemporary Manuscript Culture in Bangladesh
Saturday, November 4, 2017
8:30 - 9:00 am Coffee
9:00 - 10:15 am Session III: Mapping Manuscript Communities
Presider: Jamal J. Elias, University of Pennsylvania
Iqbal Akhtar, Florida International University
Anatomy of an East African Khōjā Manuscript
Jinah Kim, Harvard University
Intersections of Indic and Chinese Manuscript Cultures: On Hybrid Manuscripts from Nepal and Dunhuang
10:15 - 10:30 am Coffee
10:30 - 11:30 am Workshop III
Presider: Will Noel, SIMS
Columba Stewart, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library and Saint John's University
New opportunities in Comparative Manuscript Studies: The Work of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library in Digitization and Online Access
11:30 - 11:45am Coffee
11:45 am - 1:00 pm Session IV: Europe Intertwined
Presider: Nick Herman, SIMS
Justine Walden, University of Toronto
Religious Pluralism Avant la Lettre in Florentine Manuscripts
Samantha Kelly, Rutgers University
Ge'ez Manuscripts as Vectors of and Witnesses to the Exchange of Catholic and Ethiopian Orthodox Religious Knowledge in 16th-Century Rome
1:00 - 2:30 pm Lunch
2:30 - 4:15 pm Session V: People of the Book
Presider: Megan E Robb, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Pregill, Boston University
BL MS Or. 8419: Anti-Judaism, Prophetic Mythology, and Early Fatimid Propaganda
Thibault d'Hubert, SALC, University of Chicago
Rethinking Vernacular Literacy through Arabic in Chittagong
Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, Northern Arizona University
The Sideways Images of Eastern Christian Gospel-books and Manichaean Service-books
4:15 - 4:30 pm am Coffee
4:30 - 5:30 pm Workshop IV
Presider: Julie Davis, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Stanley-Baker, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Digital Workshop on Religious and Medical Sources
5:30 - 7:00 pm Closing Dinner Reception
During the reception and throughout the symposium, the exhibit Intertwined Worlds will be open for viewing in the Goldstein Family Gallery.