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Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. They are replete with fonts, colors, or images…
This online exhibit is a reflection on the 100th anniversary of the end of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), along with the consequences of the Treaty of Lausanne signed at the war’s conclusion. The conflict began with the Greek invasion of Turkish İzmir (known to the Greeks as Smyrna) in 1919.…
The curatorial team and artists involved in this digital exhibition condemn the unprovoked and unjustified military assault on Ukraine by the Russian Federation, which started on 24 February 2022. In the wake of the women-led uprising of 2020, Belarusian women artists have responded to the ongoing…
The University of Michigan Library holds an extensive collection of Greek manuscripts consisting of 110 codices (bound manuscripts) and fragments that range from the fourth to the nineteenth centuries CE. It is the largest such collection in the Western Hemisphere. As explained in the section, The…
This exhibit provides an introductory history of the events and protest demonstrations that led to the creation of the William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center at the University of Michigan. The protest movements are known as BAM I (Black Action Movement), BAM II, BAM III, and #BBUM (hashtag…
This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. While this uprising was…
Expelled from Spain in 1492 and from Portugal in 1497, the Sephardic Jews took with them their unique language called Ladino, also refered to as Judeo-Spanish, Judesmo, or Sephardi. Today, this language is a combination of archaic form of Castilian Spanish that contains elements of Hebrew, Aramaic,…
This virtual exhibit organized by the Department of Comparative Literature and the U-M Library as part of the Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar Series Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest is an introductory digital resource for the critical study of translation and Filipino Hispanism. Using…
Elections and the candidate debates that precede them are lauded as a time-honored tradition of American democracy, allowing for the free and open exchange of ideas and the ability of the public to have a voice in our governance. Yet many public voices have repeatedly questioned the efficacy of…
It seems appropriate to use the term "sacred" to describe the hands that copied the manuscripts containing the texts of the three Abrahamic faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. However, the meaning of this word transcends the conventional limits of the religious sphere. "Sacred" can also…
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