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Events
Akash Kumar: “All the World on a Board: Chess and Cultural Crossings in Dante and Boccaccio”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa CruzAkash Kumar focuses on the crossing of poetry, philosophy, and science in 13th-14th century Italy, emphasizing multicultural knowledge transmission in the medieval Mediterranean. His talk emerges from his second book […]
Ideology & Identity in the Revival of Spoken Hebrew
The revival of Spoken Hebrew took place in Palestine in the early 20 th century, and is often seen as a historically unique example of successful language revival. In this […]