尤物视频

Friday, March 28, 2025

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Drawing from my experience editing the collective volume The Nile Delta: Histories from Antiquity to the Modern Period in a time of accelerating climate crisis, I will reflect on what transhistorical and Land-based approaches to the history of this region can teach us, and what potential futurities these combined narratives allow us to (re)imagine.

Friday, March 21, 2025

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The public reading of the Torah scroll has been one of the central liturgical practices of Judaism for two millennia. Because of its importance, generations of Jewish scholars and rabbis have formulated, written, and then interpreted regulations, narratives, and regulations surrounding it. These can be found across the breadth of ancient Jewish literature. In this paper, Professor Picus examines the reading ceremony described in Pseudo-Aristeas. How does it conform to scriptural antecedents鈥攁nd how does it re-understand them in a Greek-speaking context? Is the ceremony described a pre-cursor of the later rabbinic Jewish ritual, or does it reflect a different stratum of the tradition?

Friday, February 28, 2025

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When you write in a language that is not your native tongue, you recreate and reinvent your identity 鈥� your cultural identity, but mainly, the identity of the narrator. Immigration means starting from scratch. To write in a language that is not your native tongue is like starting the narration of your life from the beginning. That is why I felt as if the Greek language was a new pair of shoes, which gave me the desire to run. Narrating in a 鈥渇oreign鈥� language, I felt not only like a participant but also like an observer of my own experiences. Greek offered my narration a different style and pace. But mostly, Greek offered me the distance I needed to reshape and re-read my previous and current experiences. Sometimes, this distance transforms the familiar into the unfamiliar and works as a shield. The 鈥渇oreign鈥� language does not carry the psychological burden of your native language. Writing in the language of the Other, especially about your own life, you feel as if you have acquired a layer of protection from the overwhelming weight of your own experiences.

Friday, January 31, 2025

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In modern art and popular culture, Byzantium is rarely represented and when it is, it appears through cursory allusions. This talk will look at the fragments of Byzantium in modern popular culture to study the ways in which queer artists and authors deployed the period to imagine an alternative to the western Middle Ages.

Friday, January 24, 2025

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The first Orthodox Christian deaconess of the twenty-first century was ordained in 2024 in Zimbabwe in answer to decades of calls from around the world to renew the ancient order of deaconess and in response to local needs in the African setting. The ordination of Deaconess Angelic Molen and her current liturgical and pastoral roles overlap but also depart from the rites and roles of a Byzantine deaconess. Why might the roles of a deaconess be different today compared to her Byzantine predecessors? What might this ordination mean for the rest of the Orthodox world? In this public lecture, Orthodox scholar Carrie Frederick Frost of Western Washington University will describe and frame the recent ordination, which she witnessed, within the larger context of the conversation about women鈥檚 roles and deaconesses in the Orthodox Church and will address the complexities and significance of renewing a Byzantine order for today. 

Friday, January 17, 2025

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Greek mythology is a point of fascination across popular culture, including within board games. Many games go beyond using mythology as a simple aesthetic theme, weaving ideas from ancient Greek epics, poetry, and theatre into their mechanics and rule systems. A close investigation of 21^st century board games such as Santorini, Minotaur, and Cyclades reveals parallels between the process of gameplay and repeated story elements from ancient primary sources, including the Odyssey and the Argonautica. Through detailed depictions of interactions between gods, heroes, and monsters, these games create an interactive sense of mythological and fantastical antiquity. The process of playing them encourages a close, detailed reception of ancient Greek myth and storytelling.