HMML Celebrates its 50th anniversary at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo)

Father Oliver Kapsner, OSB, and his Austrian team at Seitenstetten Abbey in 1965.

HMML at Kalamazoo 2015

Listed below are the sessions sponsored (or co-sponsored) by the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library at the 2015 International Congress on Medieval Studies.

Additional information on the Congress is on the Medieval Institute website: http://wmich.edu/medieval/congress/index.html

Come help us celebrate 50 years of manuscript preservation!

 

Thursday May 14 10:00-11:30 Session 46 Waldo Library Classroom A	Digital Humanities Resources for the Study of Central Europe in the Middle Ages (A Roundtable) Sponsor: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML); Special Collections and Rare Book Dept., Waldo Library, Western Michigan Univ. Organizer: Susan M. B. Steuer, Western Michigan Univ. Presider: Matthew Z. Heintzelman, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library A roundtable discussion with Klaus M. Schmidt, Univ. Salzburg/Bowling Green State Univ.; Ramona Fritschi, Univ. de Fribourg/e-codices; Eric J. Johnson, Ohio State Univ. Libraries; and James R. Ginther, St. Louis Univ.
Thursday May 14 1:30-3:00 Session 76 Schneider 2345	HMML at Fifty: Preserving Manuscripts and Providing Access for Five Decades Sponsor: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) Organizer: Matthew Z. Heintzelman, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Presider: Daniel K. Gullo, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Across Four Decades and Two Continents: HMML in Austria, Spain, Malta, Ethiopia, Germany, Portugal, England, Switzerland, and Sweden Matthew Z. Heintzelman HMML’s Past Decade and the Turn ad Orientem: Digitizing Threatened Manuscripts in the Middle East, Africa, and South India Columba Stewart, OSB, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Applied Digital Humanities: Supporting Scholars and Students of Medieval Studies with vHMML and Reading Room William Straub, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Thursday May 14 3:30-5:00 Session 126 Schneider 2345	Slavery and Slave Trade in Medieval Mediterranean Society Sponsor: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) Organizer: Daniel K. Gullo, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Presider: Shannon N. Godlove, Columbus State Univ. Slavery along the Christian-Andalusí Borderlands Yasmine Beale-Rivaya, Texas State Univ.–San Marcos On the Slaves’ Network of Communication in the Ottoman Crimea Oleksander Halenko, Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Observations on Slavery and the Slave Trade in Late Medieval Malta Daniel K. Gullo
Friday May 15 9:00 p.m. Bernhard 208	Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) Reception with open bar

Groundbreaking ceremony for the HMML building in April 1975 (40 years ago!).