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Honorary doctoral degree lecture with Laura Nasrallah - Speaking in Tongues: Testing the Limits of Language in Antiquity and Beyond Sep. 2, 2024 12:00 PM
Small amulets, large inscriptions on walls, and papyrus recipes reveal aesthetic experimentation with vowels and symbols and so-called nonsense language.” This is a context in which to understand discussion within the New Testament, particularly 1 Corinthians, of “speaking in tongues.” This talk will consider the limits of language in antiquity, using contemporary poetry on the violence of colonial language and recent study of speaking in tongues as an experiment at the limits of language.
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Seminar with Laura Nasralla - Justice and ancestral fault: What we might learn at the Areopagus Sep. 2, 2024 2:00 PM
The Areopagus, a rocky outcropping in Roman Athens, is a particularly potent site to think about justice
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Dress, Adornment and Coloniality of Gender and Desire in New Kingdom Egypt and Nubia Sep. 13, 2024 3:00 PM
The lecture: Dress, Adornment and Coloniality of Gender and Desire in New Kingdom Egypt and Nubia is presented by Dr. Uroš Matić.
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The Dahl Lecture 2024 with Prof. Markus Öhler Sep. 25, 2024 10:15 AM
Justice or Righteousness? Discussing δικαιοσύνη in the light of ancient inscriptions