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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:#FDFCFA'>The Institute for Advanced Study, in partnership with Gorgias Press, presents the 2022 online lecture program, </span><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><a href="https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/The%20Author%27s%20Voice%202022%20Program.pdf" target="_blank"><span style='color:#03315C;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>The Author's Voice</span></a></span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:#FDFCFA'>. The series of free to access quarterly talks, led by Gorgias Press authors, will showcase the latest research across history, linguistics, and religious studies. You are cordially invited to attend our fourth and final lecture of the series:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><a href="https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/The%20Author%27s%20Voice%20Evangelatou%20flyer.pdf" target="_blank"><span style='color:#055299'>The symbolic language of Ethiopian crosses: Explorations through form and ritual</span></a></span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Maria Evangelatou</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>, Professor of Mediterranean Studies, <br>Department of History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#070707'>Ethiopia is unique in the world for the incomparable prominence of the cross in the life of its Orthodox Christian population. Crosses of unparalleled intricacy and sophistication are extensively used in religious and magic rituals, as well as in the daily social interactions and personal experiences of people in diverse contexts</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#282828'>. </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#070707'>A close contextual analysis of select visual material suggests that Ethiopian crosses can be read as visual discourse on a broad range of ideas</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#282828'>: </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#070707'>from religious beliefs about protection and salvation to interrelated socio-political value</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#282828'>s </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#070707'>regarding order and power, and from individual and collective notions of identity to cultural notions of local and universal history</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#282828'>. </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#070707'>Thus, the cross emerges as the sacred matrix that encompasses the life of the world in both its microcosmic and macrocosmic dimensions; and as the social and cultural nexus through which and with which people interact in order to shape and express personal and communal identities and hopes</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#282828'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Register in advance <a href="theias.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMscuutqzktGdcIf4u0ebvwEXzY9avJ0hm0"><span style='color:#055299'>here</span></a></span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>. After registering, you will receive an email containing information about joining the event.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#FDFCFA'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Hosted by <b>Sabine Schmidtke</b> (School of Historical Studies, IAS) and <b>George A. Kiraz</b> (School of Historical Studies, IAS and Editor-in-Chief, Gorgias Press) in cooperation with <b>Angelos Chaniotis</b> (School of Historical Studies, IAS).</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#FDFCFA;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#FDFCFA;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>For more information, please contact </span><span class=object><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#336699'><a href="mailto:ds@ias.edu" target="_blank"><span style='color:#055299;text-decoration:none'>ds@ias.edu</span></a></span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>