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Philosophy in Context: Arabic and Syriac Manuscript Transmissions in the Mediterranean

NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA

This European funded project aims at understanding the conditions of the reception and transmission of philosophy of Greek tradition in the Arabic and Syriac languages in the geographical frame of the Mediterranean World, and describing the vast amount of philosophical works preserved in libraries around the Mediterranean in a systematic way. The codicological description is...

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The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt

NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA

Presented by Omnia El Shakry, Associate Professor of History at UC Davis What might it mean to think through psychoanalysis and Islam together, not as a problem, but as a creative encounter of ethical engagement? Traversing literatures minor and major, Omnia El Shakry shows how postwar thinkers in Egypt translated and blended psychoanalytic theories with...

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How did an Arabic dialect spoken around AD 1000 become an official language of Malta and of the European Union?

NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA

Malta’s position at the centre of the Mediterranean has attracted many settlers and conquerors through the ages, with the result that many languages have been spoken and written in the islands.  The present-day Maltese language is a fusion of Arabic, Sicilian, Italian and English.  The presentation tells the story of how this blend came about....

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