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Featuring our Fellows Date: 1/29/2008; 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Location: Room 2022 202 S. Thayer St. Ann Arbor Piotr Michalowski, Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan “Beyond Category: Monsters, Non-Monsters, and the Sacred in Ancient Mesopotamia” Detailed Information Do images of terror translate across the ages? The four thousand year old face of the creature Huwawa, as seen in Spirit into Script, the current exhibition at the Institute for the Humanities, is one of the more enigmatic and haunting images from ancient Mesopotamia. For the Mesopotamians it was something Other, as Huwawa not only came from the East, but was also unique, crossing classificatory boundaries, asocial, with no family or offspring. But the stories about him also reveal other aspects of magic, narrative, and textuality in ancient times. Piotr Michalowski is George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. In 2002-03, he held the Helmut F. Stern Professorship while a Faculty Fellow in the Institute for the Humanities. Free and open to the public Contact Information Doretha Coval humin@umich.edu 734-936-3518 |
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