Tag: Egypt
Close to two weeks ago, the 11th Congress the International Association of Coptic Studies concluded. Every 4 years, some scholars in Coptic Studies gather for a fairly traditional conference. I’ve been going to the Congress […]
In the DHSI Physical Computing class, Anne Cong-Huyen (Whittier College), Devin Becker (University of Idaho), and I created a project we titled “Signaling Crisis” for our end of week prototype. This project was a true […]
I’ve been blogging this week about my participation in a physical computing and fabrication course at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. Our instructors have been the team of the University of Victoria Maker Lab, directed […]
RELI104, RELI130, Teaching, University of the Pacific
Embodied Pedagogy: Pilgrimage and Lego Temples
This past week in both the classes I’m teaching this semester, we played around with embodied pedagogy. In Religious Studies, this is no easy thing. “Experiential learning” may be all the rage, but I’m not […]
Last week, news circulated widely that two artists (Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles) had surreptitiously scanned the bust of Nefertiti in the Neues Museum in Berlin and publicly, freely released the 3-d scanning code […]
Republished courtesy Orientalist Today Lost Egyptian Text found in Ohio Attic 1 April 2014, Orientalist Today Columbus natives Joe and Julia Needler were shocked to learn that the “souvenirs” they discovered a decade ago in […]
The preview of the edition and translation of the White Monastery manuscript XC 7-8 (K9101 at the Austrian National Library, Vienna) is currently offline. Check back in mid-November for a revision. I will be presenting […]