Tag: history
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Codex Alexandrinus and GA 81: Lessons from a Grieving Library
May 27th, 2026 By Mina Monier The ‘Walled-Up’ Library and GA 81 In October 2017, less than two months before my PhD defence, I travelled back to Egypt in an attempt to locate manuscripts for a postdoctoral grant proposal. The primary catalyst for this search was a manuscript now held in the British Library (Add…
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Announcement: Meet our Fall 2026 Fellows!
Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History is multi-year project organized by The Future of the Past Lab, the Department of Classical & Near Eastern Religions & Cultures, and the Center for Premodern Studies at UMN Twin Cities that will bring a series of visiting fellows to campus. With these fellowships, FoP, CNRC, and CPS hope to foster discussion about…
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Announcement: Meet our Exploring Assumptions Fellows for 2025-2026!
Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History is multi-year project organized by The Future of the Past Lab, the Department of Classical & Near Eastern Religions & Cultures, and the Center for Premodern Studies at UMN Twin Cities that will bring a series of visiting fellows to campus. With these fellowships, FoP, CNRC, and CPS hope…
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Announcement: Meet our Exploring Assumptions Fellows for Spring 2025!
Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History is multi-year project organized by The Future of the Past Lab and the Center for Premodern Studies at UMN Twin Cities that will bring a series of visiting fellows to campus. With these fellowships, FoP and CPS hope to foster discussion about the ways in which the study of…
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Announcement: Call for Fellowship Applications
Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History Year 2: Comparative Work Many of the lenses of Western modernity – e.g., capitalism, Christianity, democracy, empirical science – surreptitiously shape the study of past cultures in ways that disregard their own claims about their world in favor of those that align with traditions of the Euro-American academy. Often,…
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