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Overall, these manuscripts span a thousand years of history, from the ninth to the nineteenth century, and include a wide range of subjects, from Bible texts and saints' lives to church music and secular writing.\n\nLearn about the detective work behind the project, including three especially exciting finds: a small fragment that turned out to preserve lost portions of a medieval Byzantine text on Indian mathematics; a beautifully illuminated fourteenth-century manuscript paired with poetry written specifically for it; and a manuscript that may be traced back to the personal library of a nineteenth-century monk-scholar, opening a new mystery about how it came to Michigan.\n\nTHE PRINCESS AND THE PHILOSOPHER: ANNA COMNENA AND THE MANUSCRIPTS OF ARISTOTLE'S \"ETHICS\" with Richard Janko, professor of Greek in the Department of Classical Studies, who has drawn on the collection for teaching and research.\n\nThe Byzantine historian and would-be empress Anna Comnena, confined for life to a nunnery in Constantinople after trying to depose her imperial brother, was a passionate philosopher. Beginning in 1118 C.E. she organized a scholarly edition of Aristotle's \"Nicomachean Ethics\" and induced three other scholars to write commentaries on it. Several remarkable paper manuscripts, now precisely datable because they belong to her project, reflect this effort. They show how her team evolved useful conventions like the comma and the footnote-number, and worked with Italian scholars to create the earliest translation of this work into Latin. \n\nALWAYS INTERESTING: SELECTED BINDINGS FROM THE UM GREEK MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION with Julia Miller, bookbinding historian and contributor to the catalogue.\n\nMiller will focus on a selection of bindings, looking at their structure, materials, and decoration \u2014 chosen based on gorgeous images in the catalogue of bindings ranging from small and exquisite, Mich. Ms. 68 (15th century), and larger but equally beautiful, Mich. 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Sclipphacke\u2019s investigation belongs to a larger body of recent scholarly work seeking to reconceive of repurpose the term \u201ckinship.\u201d For example, Jennifer Evans\u2019s The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism (Duke University Press, 2023) deploys kinship as an analytic category to demonstrate how queer and trans people in postwar and contemporary Germany navigated citizenship, love, and public and family life. A broader investigation into kinship, Adele E. Clarke\u2019s and Donna Harraway\u2019s edited volume\nMaking Kin Not Population: Reconceiving Generations (The University of Chicago Press, 2018) contemplates questions of reproductive and environmental justice to\nconsider how we establish personal and public connections today. Building on recent interventions like these, this conference will approach kinship as an interdisciplinary tool for exploring relational networks and the formation of personal and collective identity within\u2013and in opposition to\u2013\u201cWestern,\u201d modern, white, heterosexual, and even anthropocentric norms.\n\nPROGRAM: \n\nFriday, October 30th\nPalmer Commons, Great Lakes North\n\n3:00 pm \nKeynote: Heidi Schlipphacke\nTitle: Kinship in Space and Time\n\n4:30 pm\nCoffee and Tea Break\n\n4:45 pm: Panel 1: Loss, Fracture, and Memory\n\u25cf Henrique Carvalho Pereira, Der andere Fehl\n\u25cf Emma Stratman, Wer \u00fcber die M\u00e4rchen lacht, war nie in Not: On Obstinacy and the\nFairytale in the Work of Alexander Kluge\n\u25cf Nathan Bailey, Seismic Epiphanies: Utopian Modes of Caring and Nursing in Heinrich\nvon Kleist\u2018s Das Erdbeben in Chili\nRespondent: Ella Wilhelm\n\n\nSaturday, October 31st\nPalmer Commons, Great Lakes North\n\n8:00 am\nBreakfast\n\n8:45 am: Panel 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"combined_title":"Flash Talk | Fragments from the *Iliad* from Oxyrhynchus: Leah Mascia, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin", "event_subtitle":"Leah Mascia, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin", "event_type":"Livestream \/ Virtual", "event_type_id":"24", "description":"At the archaeological site of Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, researchers discovered a 2,000-year-old mummified individual with a sealed papyrus packet containing verses from Book 2 of Homer\u2019s *Iliad*. Dr. Leah Mascia coordinated the collaborative effort to conserve, identify, and interpret the heavily degraded text, revealing the first known example of a literary work serving a functional role in Egyptian mummification. Her analysis of the packet\u2019s seals and folding patterns shows how Greek and Egyptian traditions converged under Roman rule\u2014raising questions about whether Homeric poetry offered the deceased protection, affirmed cultural identity and status, or helped guide the journey into the afterlife.\n\nDr. Leah Mascia is a postdoctoral researcher at the Egyptological Seminar of the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin and former head of Research Field B \u201cInscribing Spaces\u201d at the Cluster of Excellence \u201cUnderstanding Written Artefacts,\u201d Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Universit\u00e4t Hamburg.\n\nKelsey Museum Flash Talks are 15-minute Zoom lectures by curators, staff members, researchers, graduate students, and guests talking about their recent research or current projects. Each presentation is followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. 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