We are pleased to welcome three new Fellows who have recently joined us with remarkable projects.
András Kraft is a scholar specializing in Byzantine intellectual history, focusing on philosophical and prophetic literature. His project examines the ambivalence of anticipating and yet delaying the consummation of the world, inherent in the apocalyptic genre. Focusing on Greek apocalyptic texts composed in the Byzantine Empire between 500 and 1000, the project aims to elucidate the literary representation of eschatological time in the pre-modern Eastern Mediterranean.
Marie-Louise Bech Nosch is Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Copenhagen. Her project explores how textiles capture the dynamics of time. Textiles serve as a medium to examine extensive historical timelines, as time can be perceived in material culture through objects that condense time as both memory and materiality. Conversely, the biographies and fragility of textiles highlight shorter periods of time. With this in mind, the project focuses on the biographies of textile objects and the temporality expressed in clothing and textiles in Homer.
Glenn M. Schwartz is Whiting Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His project studies the relative and absolute chronology of the early to middle second millennium BC (Middle Bronze Age) in Syria and northern Mesopotamia. Utilizing data from excavations at Tell Umm el-Marra in northwest Syria and Kurd Qaburstan in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, he aims to refine the regional chronology through ceramic and radiocarbon data, exploring site occupation phases and historical events.
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