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Akash Kumar: “All the World on a Board: Chess and Cultural Crossings in Dante and Boccaccio”
Akash Kumar: “All the World on a Board: Chess and Cultural Crossings in Dante and Boccaccio”
Akash 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 project on medieval Italian representations of chess and the exchange made possible by the game across gender, religious, and social boundaries. Akash Kumar is a […]
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Ideology & Identity in the Revival of Spoken Hebrew
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 talk I suggest that Hebrew is also exemplary, of the ways in which our languages speak through us. What is special about Hebrew is that […]