MASt Seminar, Spring 2023 (Friday, May 19), Papers and Summary of the Discussions Neighborly Relations: Continuity and disruption between Minoans and Mycenaeans and between Mycenaean and alphabetic Greek—two case studies §1. Rachele Pierini opened the Spring 2023 session of the MASt seminar by welcoming the participants to the May meeting… Read more
MASt – Summer Seminar 2022: Summaries of Presentations and Discussion §1.1. Rachele Pierini opened the Summer session of the MASt seminars by presenting the different structure of the July event, which hosted the mentor(s) and mentee session. During the meeting, graduate students presented their thesis along with their mentors. Specifically,… Read more
2023.11.13, an abridged and pre-edited version an earlier essay | By Olga M. Davidson Ferdowsi reading the Shahnameh to Shah Maḥmud of Ghazni (1913). Vardges Sureniants (Armenian, 1860–1921). Image via Wikimedia Commons. Since 2001, I have been working on an ongoing project of translating and commenting on… Read more
MASt – Spring Seminar 2022 (Friday, April 8): Summaries of Presentations and Discussion §1. Rachele Pierini opened the Spring session of the MASt seminars by welcoming the participants to the April meeting. In addition to the regular members of the MASt network as well as colleagues and students who have… Read more
Entering the Future: the MASt biannual plan and strategy (2023/2024), new board, and social media expansion §1. Rachele Pierini opened the Winter 2023 session of the MASt seminar by welcoming the participants to the January meeting. As previously announced, the Winter 2023 MASt seminar followed a different format than the… Read more
§1. Rachele Pierini opened the Fall 2022 session of the MASt seminar by welcoming the participants to the November meeting. In addition to the steady members of the MASt network and colleagues and students who have already attended previous sessions, new guests joined the November 4 meeting. §2. As a… Read more
A snapshot of Kevin McGrath taken in Maleas, Greece in June, 2023. This posting, originally dated October 15, 2023, is now re-posted. The re-dating is November 4, 2023, though the actual writing here is dated November 8. The writer of this re-posting is an old friend of… Read more
2023.11.02 | By Gregory Nagy §0. This pre-edited standalone essay, included in a series of pamphlets published online and also in print (“on-demand”), consists of three parts. Part I and Part II, rewritten from essays first posted in 2019.05.31 and 2019.06.11, are the basis for a pre-edited presentation, dated November… Read more
2022.12.05, 2nd ed. 2023.11.03 | By Olga M. Davidson §0. This essay is a pre-edited and pre-printed second edition of a paper I delivered on December 3, 2022, for the Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, at Session IX-10, “Premodern Fables and their Audience.” A printed version… Read more
2023.11.02 | By Olga M. Davidson §0. This pre-edited standalone essay, included in a series of pamphlets published online and also in print (“on-demand”), consists of two parts. Part I is a pre-edited rewriting of a shorter essay (Davidson 2015a) originally published in a book edited by Regula Forster and… Read more