{"id":2096,"date":"2014-01-01T04:50:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T04:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2022-06-04T23:33:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T23:33:02","slug":"2013-symposium-on-identity-and-authenticity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2013-symposium-on-identity-and-authenticity\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Symposium on &#8220;Identity &#038; Authenticity&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Identity &amp; Authenticity <\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Creating, Recreating, Transmitting &amp; Preserving Identities Across Time &amp; Place<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>We held a Symposium at Princeton University on 22 &amp; 23 March 2013 with the theme of <strong>&#8220;Identity &amp; Authenticity: Creating, Recreating, Transmitting &amp; Preserving Identities Across Time &amp; Place&#8221;<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 Here we publish the Symposium<strong> Posters, Program, <\/strong>and<strong> Abstracts of the Papers<\/strong>, with thanks to all our <strong>Sponsors<\/strong>, <strong>Contributors<\/strong>, and <strong>Participants.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Symposium<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Friday &amp; Saturday 22 &amp; 23 March 2013<br \/>\nMcCormick 106, Princeton University<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_964\" style=\"width: 626px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Poster-1-for-RGME-Symposium-22-23-March-2013-with-border.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-964\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-964 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Poster-1-for-RGME-Symposium-22-23-March-2013-with-border.png\" alt=\"Poster 1 for &quot;Identity &amp; Authenticity&quot; Symposium (22-23 March 2013)\" width=\"616\" height=\"796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Poster-1-for-RGME-Symposium-22-23-March-2013-with-border.png 616w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Poster-1-for-RGME-Symposium-22-23-March-2013-with-border-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Poster-1-for-RGME-Symposium-22-23-March-2013-with-border-232x300.png 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poster 1<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_962\" style=\"width: 626px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Poster-2-RGME-Symposium-22-23-Mar-2013-with-border.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-962\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-962 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Poster-2-RGME-Symposium-22-23-Mar-2013-with-border.png\" alt=\"Poster 2 for &quot;Identity &amp; Authenticity&quot; Symposium (22-23 March 2013)\" width=\"616\" height=\"796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Poster-2-RGME-Symposium-22-23-Mar-2013-with-border.png 616w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Poster-2-RGME-Symposium-22-23-Mar-2013-with-border-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Poster-2-RGME-Symposium-22-23-Mar-2013-with-border-232x300.png 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poster 2<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The challenges of shaping, reshaping, maintaining, conveying, and validating identity, both personal and collective, are perennial human concerns.\u00a0\u00a0Our symposium explored subjects, regions, and materials from the early medieval period to the present day.\u00a0\u00a0Presentations considered, for example, Western European and Syriac manuscript discoveries, Byzantine liturgical textiles, medieval seal-matrices and &#8220;forgeries,&#8221; Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic magical recipes from the Cairo Genizah, the transmission of Islamic paper, the reliquary of John the Baptist owned by the Knights of Malta and the Tzars, the medieval-style Hammond Castle in Massachusetts, the challenges and opportunities of collecting medieval manuscripts nowadays, and digitization projects dedicated to manuscripts and archives for teaching and research.<\/p>\n<h3>Sponsors:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>James Marrow and Emily Rose<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>John H. Rassweiler<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Index of Christian Art<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Barbara A. Shailor<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Samuel H. Kress Foundation<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>De Brailles Medieval Art (LLC)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity, Princeton University<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We also thank the <strong>Department of Art &amp; Archaeology<\/strong> of <strong>Princeton University<\/strong> for the rooms, media services, and facilities for the event.<\/p>\n<h3>Speakers and Moderators:<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_2630\" style=\"width: 858px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0032-James-Marrow-at-RGME-Symp-Demo-Mar-2013.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2630\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2630 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0032-James-Marrow-at-RGME-Symp-Demo-Mar-2013.png\" alt=\"James Marrow at the &quot;Identity &amp; Authenticity&quot; Symposium (2013), with photography by James Heidere\" width=\"848\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0032-James-Marrow-at-RGME-Symp-Demo-Mar-2013.png 848w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0032-James-Marrow-at-RGME-Symp-Demo-Mar-2013-132x150.png 132w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0032-James-Marrow-at-RGME-Symp-Demo-Mar-2013-265x300.png 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Having a Look<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Opening Remarks<\/p>\n<p><strong>James H. Marrow<\/strong> (<em>Department of Art &amp; Archaeology, Princeton University<\/em>)<\/p>\n<h4>Session 1. Investigating the Archives:\u00a0 Detecting Spheres of Influence<\/h4>\n<p>Moderator:\u00a0 <strong>Celia Chazell<\/strong>e (<em>Department of History, The College of New Jersey<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alan M. Stahl<\/strong> (<em>Firestone Library, Princeton University<\/em>), &#8220;The Virgin in the Garden:\u00a0 The Making of a Pilgrimage Site in Medieval Venice&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eleanor A. Congdon<\/strong> (<em>Department of History, Youngstown State University<\/em>), &#8220;Who was Antonio Contarini?\u00a0 Solving the Prosopographical Riddle of a Venetian Merchant in the Datini Archives&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ortal-Paz Saar<\/strong> (<em>School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study \/ Tel Aviv University<\/em>), &#8220;A Genizah Magical Fragment and Its European Parallels&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[<em>Note<\/em>: \u00a0Now published as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jjs-online.net\/toc.php?subaction=content&amp;id=065_02#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">\u201cA Genizah Magical Fragment and Its European Parallels\u201d<\/a>, <em>Journal of Jewish Studies,<\/em> 65:2 (2014), 237\u2013262, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/8730061\/A_Genizah_Magical_Fragment_and_Its_European_Parallels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described here<\/a>]<\/p>\n<h4>Session 2.\u00a0 Imaging or Imagining Identity:\u00a0 Recreating a Medieval Legacy<\/h4>\n<p>Moderator:\u00a0 <strong>Colum Hourihane<\/strong> (<em>Index of Christian Art, Princeton University<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karl F. Morrison<\/strong> (<em>Department of History, Rutgers University<\/em>), &#8220;Assimilating the <em>Libri Carolini<\/em> in the Seventeenth Century&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>John H. Rassweiler<\/strong> (<em>The Rassweiler Collection, Princeton<\/em>), &#8220;Some Experiences with the Validation of Medieval Seal-Matrices of the Common People&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Martha E. Easton<\/strong> (<em>Department of Communication and the Arts, Seton Hall University<\/em>), &#8220;Authenticity, Anachronism, and the Experience of the Past at Hammond Castle&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4>Session 3.\u00a0 Shaping and Preserving Identity in the Syriac Church<\/h4>\n<p>Moderator:\u00a0 <strong>Kathleen E. McVey<\/strong> (<em>Department of History, Princeton Theological Seminary<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Philip Michael Forness<\/strong> (<em>Department of History, Princeton Theological Seminary<\/em>), &#8220;The Identities of a Saint: An Initial Inquiry into the Manuscript Tradition of the <em>Homilies<\/em> by Jacob of Sarug&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack B. Tannous<\/strong> (<em>Department of History, Princeton University<\/em>), &#8220;Syril of Scythopolis in Syriac:\u00a0 Observations on a Manuscript from the Sinai New Finds&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>George Kiraz<\/strong> (<em>Editor in Chief, Gorgias Press \/ Department of Middle Eastern and South-East Asian Languages &amp; Literature, Rutgers University<\/em>), &#8220;The Syriac Orthodox Patriarchal Archive of Mardin:\u00a0 Digitization and Challenges&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4>Session 4.\u00a0 Creating Digitally-Enabled Manuscript Resources for Research &amp; Teaching<\/h4>\n<p>Moderator:\u00a0 <strong>James H. Marrow<\/strong> (<em>Department of Art &amp; Archaeology, Princeton University<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas A. Carlson<\/strong> (<em>Department of History, Princeton University \/ Beth Marduthuo Research Library, Piscataway<\/em>), &#8220;Identity and Identification in the Digital Humanities:\u00a0 The Challenges and Experience of <a href=\"https:\/\/syriaca.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Syriaca.org<\/strong><\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barbara A. Shailor<\/strong> (<em>Department of Classics, Yale University<\/em>), &#8220;A Mellon Foundation Project at Yale University:\u00a0 The World of Digitally-Enabled Scholarship for Research and Teaching&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4>Session 5.\u00a0 Discovering, Recovering, and Evaluating the Source Materials<\/h4>\n<p>Moderator:\u00a0 <strong>Colum Hourihane <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>David W. Sorenson<\/strong> (<em>Quincy, Massachusetts<\/em>), &#8220;Recent Studies in Islamic Paper and What They Can Tell Us About Texts (and Images)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mildred Budny<\/strong> (<em>Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/em>), &#8220;A New Fragment of the <em>Vitas Patrum<\/em> from the Covers of an Early Printed <em>Postille<\/em>:\u00a0 An Early Case of Western Paper?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott Gwara<\/strong> (<em>Department of English, University of South Carolina \u2013 Columbia \/ King Alfred&#8217;s Notebook, LLC &amp; De Brailes Medieval Art LLC<\/em>), &#8220;Medieval Manuscripts in the Strangest Places&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2631\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0012-Rossitza-Ida-at-Reception-Day-1-cropped.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2631\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2631 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0012-Rossitza-Ida-at-Reception-Day-1-cropped-1024x719.png\" alt=\"Rossitza and Ida at the Day 1 Reception of the 2013 Symposium, with photography by James Heidere\" width=\"1024\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0012-Rossitza-Ida-at-Reception-Day-1-cropped-1024x719.png 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0012-Rossitza-Ida-at-Reception-Day-1-cropped-150x105.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0012-Rossitza-Ida-at-Reception-Day-1-cropped-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0012-Rossitza-Ida-at-Reception-Day-1-cropped.png 1464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enjoying the Company<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>Session 6.\u00a0 Establishing or Re-Establishing Identities in the Byzantine World and Beyond<\/h4>\n<p>Moderator:\u00a0 <strong>Mildred Budny<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Henry D. Schilb<\/strong> (<em>Index of Christian Art, Princeton University<\/em>), &#8220;Serbian and Christian Identity in the Embroideries of the Nun Jefimija&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rossitza B. Schroeder<\/strong> (<em>Visiting Fellow in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University \/ Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California<\/em>), &#8220;The New Chosen People:\u00a0 The Old Testament in Late Byzantium&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Ida Sinkevi\u010d<\/strong> (<em>Department of Art, Lafayette College<\/em>), &#8220;The Afterlife of the <em>Rhodes Hand<\/em> of St. John the Baptist&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[<em>Note<\/em>: \u00a0This has been published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashgate.com\/default.aspx?page=637&amp;calcTitle=1&amp;isbn=9781409442912&amp;lang=cy-GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n<h4>Demonstration:\u00a0 Demonstrating Original Sources and Database Resources<\/h4>\n<p>Displays by:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2677\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0026-Demonstration-Session-23-Mar-2013-with-MSS-on-the-table-trimmed.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2677\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2677 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0026-Demonstration-Session-23-Mar-2013-with-MSS-on-the-table-trimmed-1024x788.png\" alt=\"Demonstration Session on 23 Mar 2013 at the &quot;Identity &amp; Authenticity&quot; Symposium, with manuscripts on the table\" width=\"1024\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0026-Demonstration-Session-23-Mar-2013-with-MSS-on-the-table-trimmed-1024x788.png 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0026-Demonstration-Session-23-Mar-2013-with-MSS-on-the-table-trimmed-150x115.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0026-Demonstration-Session-23-Mar-2013-with-MSS-on-the-table-trimmed-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0026-Demonstration-Session-23-Mar-2013-with-MSS-on-the-table-trimmed.png 1161w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Examining the Originals<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Scott Gwara<\/strong> (De Brailes Medieval Art LLC)<br \/>\n<strong>David Sorenson<\/strong> (Specimens of Islamic Paper)<br \/>\n<strong>Eleanor Congdon<\/strong> (Specimens from the Datini Archive)<br \/>\n<strong>Thomas A. Carlson<\/strong> (The Syriac Reference Portal)<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Symposium Booklet<\/strong>, edited by Mildred Budny and laid out in <strong>RGME Bembino<\/strong>, contains the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/download\/4678\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>2013 Symposium Program &amp; Abstracts of the Papers<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>The version uploaded on 29 September 2014 corrects a couple of typographical mistakes in the version circulated at the event.<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Circulated online before the Symposium, the <strong>Program<\/strong> and <strong>Poster 2<\/strong> are also available here on the online <strong>Calendar<\/strong> of the <strong>Program in Medieval Studies of Princeton University<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.princeton.edu\/sites\/medieval\/calendar_y12-13.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><strong>Medieval Studies Calendar Archive Princeton University<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Formerly here: \u00a0&#8220;http:\/\/web.princeton.edu\/sites\/medieval\/images\/RGME%20Symposium%20Program.pdf&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.princeton.edu\/sites\/medieval\/images\/RGME-Poster.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\"><strong>RGME Symposium Poster<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Photographs by James Heidere<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identity &amp; Authenticity Creating, Recreating, Transmitting &amp; Preserving Identities Across Time &amp; Place We held a Symposium at Princeton University on 22 &amp; 23 March 2013 with the theme of &#8220;Identity &amp; Authenticity: Creating, Recreating, Transmitting &amp; Preserving Identities Across Time &amp; Place&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 Here we publish the Symposium Posters, Program, and Abstracts of the Papers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[51,50,116,441],"tags":[357,370,381,166,367,33,165,131,375,364,352,373,358,379,353,372,688,360,374,365,371,362,368,359,376,363,350,687,369,378,366,383,361,384,356,355,354,382,156,349,380,351,377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16929,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions\/16929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}