University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Fall 2013 Near Eastern Studies Graduate Student Colloquium
Saturday, November 9th, 2013, 10 am-3 pm
1022 Thayer Academic Building
Osterman Commons, 1st floor Institute for the Humanities
10.00 Coffee
10:30 Tayfun Bilgin (Ancient Civilizations and Biblical Studies)
Kantuzzili, the Murderer and Begetter of Hittite Kings
11.00 Gina Konstantopoulos (Ancient Civilizations and Biblical Studies)
Elsewhere is a Negative Mirror: Aratta as a Constructed Landscape in Sumerian Literary Texts
11:30 Rodney Caruthers (Ancient Civilizations and Biblical Studies)
Azazel: Literary Traditions & Iconography
Noon Lunch (provided)
1.00 Neville McFerrin (Interdisciplinary Program in Classical Art and Archaeology)
He Should Have Put a Ring on It: Self-Presentation, Power, and Personal Adornment on Palmyrene Funerary Busts
1:30 Ali Hussain (Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies)
Hospitality as Knowledge Production: the Mysticism of Ibn Arabi as a Case Study
2.00 Aiyub Palmer (Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies)
A New Epistemology of Sainthood; Wisdom in the Theosophy of al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi
2:30 Paul Love (Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies)
A Long, Centuries-Old Murmuring: Medieval Islamic Manuscripts & Their Modern Material Histories
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