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No full textFritz Graf A mass of Orphic poems
Daniel Malamis Formulae and resonance: the Orphic Hymns\u27 engagement with the Sinai Palimpsest
Anne-France Morand Sound, meaning, and motion in Palimpsest sin. ar. nf. 66 and in the Orphic Hymns
Giambattista D\u27Alessio The Sinai Hexameter Palimpsest: a Revised Text and Interpretative Issue
Living and Learning in Radical Spaces: Trust, Affect, and Needs in the Student-Faculty Partner Dyad
Full text linkAfternoon Session II
No full textMarcoAntonio Santamaria Are the poetic fragments of the Sinai palimpsest Orphic?
Dwayne Meisner Rhapsodic Connections in the Sinai Palimpsest
Miguel Herrero Mythographic theology: The accomplishment of Zeus’ will in the new Orphic fragment
In Search of Border Sanctuaries: Religion, Landscape, and Territory in the Peloponnese
No full textDespite the impact of scholarly models for the distribution of Greek sanctuaries, this is the first comprehensive and critical study of “border sanctuaries,” a type of sacred site that has been strongly associated with territorial borders of poleis in ancient Greece. When used as a distinct site type, it correlates location in a border zone with specific functions related to that border, such as community definition or territorial control. Focusing on the Archaic and Classical periods, and building on scholarship of borders, religion, and landscape, this study presents four border zones throughout the Peloponnese, and treats each sanctuary within it at three scales: case by case, in a regional context, and on the level of the Peloponnese. Within a landscape approach, the archaeological remains of a sanctuary are recorded, but also its relationships with its terrain, proximity to roads, settlements, fortifications, and borders, as well as local myths. The sanctuaries, as recorded in the material record and in textual sources, vary in scale, composition, and development, and host a range of deities. There is a noticeable prominence of Apollo, a god connected to the development of the polis and territorial claims, and Artemis, typically associated with wild and so-called “liminal” places. Votive materials also vary, but deposits of dedicated arms and armor are present at many of the sanctuaries. The usage of, and access to, the sanctuaries are dependent on their relationships to regional routes as well as the local political histories, and can be traced through both votive material and written records, including disputes and arbitrations. Some sites reflect changing control of their associated border, while others suggest functions as places of connection and communication between territories. While the framework of “border sanctuary” does not result in a strict typology of site, it does provide a productive lens through which to approach an array of sacred places and to bring them into dialogue with their regional religious landscapes, moving beyond models which revolve around the polis. This project has implications for our understanding of Greek polytheism in general and for the interconnected religious landscapes of the ancient Peloponnese
Viennese Japonismus and Modern Allegory in the Work of Gustav Klimt
Full text linkThis dissertation examines Viennese Japonismus and modern allegory in the work of Gustav Klimt. One of the paradoxical ambitions of Vienna’s early visual modernists was the creation of a new art that would, nevertheless, revive the essence of tradition, creating a collective aesthetic that crossed national and historical boundaries. Klimt and his close collaborators, like Josef Hoffmann, and artists engaged in the broader context of central Europe, like Emil Orlik, believed that Japanese art presented a viable path toward a universal, modern visual language. This conception arose from layers of exoticism, primitivism, Orientalism, and genuine encounter with old and new Japanese art. The questions I address are: How did the historical cultural problem of the fracturing Habsburg Empire inform the aims of artistic reformers from the 1860s through the foundations of the Secession and Wiener Werkst.tte? How did the inescapable question of Austrian identity in the arts encourage eclecticism and the emergence of new paradigms like Japonismus? How did the multifaceted layers of international Japonism inform Viennese artists’ mindful selections and emulative reinventions of Japanese aesthetic principles? In the particular case of Klimt, how did the visual tradition of allegory, which was foundational and persistent in his oeuvre, shape his pursuit of a truly modern art for and of his age? Lastly, how did Klimt’s serious and lengthy engagement with the arts of Japan inform his modernization of allegory? Building on institutional histories, historiographies, critical reexaminations of Austrian visual modernism, the model of “Vienna 1900,” and the works of Klimt, I argue that Klimt did not simply adorn allegory in the new cloak of Japonismus, he aimed for coalescence and a unity that would establish a new modern paradigm. This examination engages with areas of inquiry opened by German/Austrian-Asian studies, scholarship on cultural transfer and exchange, and new explorations into world\u27s fairs, international Japonism, and the Meiji arts. It is the first monograph to study the inter-relation of Japonismus and allegory in Klimt’s art
When the Partnership Experienced Meet the Partnership Curious: Insights from and Outcomes of a Pedagogical Partnership Workshop at Grinnell College
Full text linkA Transformed Population: The Recent and Ongoing Influence of the 2020 Bryn Mawr College Strike on Bryn Mawr College’s Undergraduate Student Body
Full text linkLegendrian torus and cable links
Full text linkWe give a classification of Legendrian torus links. Along the way, we give the first classification of infinite families of Legendrian links where some smooth symmetries of the link cannot be realized by Legendrian isotopies. We also give the first family of links that are non-destabilizable but do not have maximal Thurston-Bennequin invariant and observe a curious distribution of Legendrian torus knots that can be realized as the components of a Legendrian torus link. This classification of Legendrian torus links leads to a classification of transversal torus links.
We also give a classification of Legendrian and transversal cable links of knot types that are uniformly thick and Legendrian simple. Here we see some similarities with the classification of Legendrian torus links but also some differences. In particular, we show that there are Legendrian representatives of cable links of any uniformly thick knot type for which no symmetries of the components can be realized by a Legendrian isotopy, others where only cyclic permutations of the components can be realized, and yet others where all smooth symmetries are realizable
Cataloguing Minerals, Part One: Historical Cataloguing Practices and the Logics of Colonialism
Full text linkMineral wealth has motivated and funded extractive empires, often at the expense of local communities, workers, natural environments, and public health. Yet those connections are not recorded in traditional mineral catalogues, which divorce specimens from context. This article examines the roots of those omissions and situates mineral cataloguing in the larger body of literature on knowledge organization systems and their relation to power. We examine how colonial ideologies of land and people become entrenched in mineral cataloguing practices, and how this reinforces the ways that contemporary geologists think about their work. We argue that revising mineral cataloguing practices is a necessary first step – both practically and epistemologically – toward addressing histories of violence in our mineral collections and the science of geology