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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Scholarly Correspondences Among Orientalists during the Early and Late Modern Period as a Historical Source: A Series of Lectures.</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>You are cordially invited to join us for the </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>fifth <span style='color:black'>lecture of the series:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>March 10</span></b><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>, 12:00-1:00 pm (EST) <span style='color:#3E3E3E'>-</span></span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'> Paul Babinski</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>, <em><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>A Taste for the Difficult and Abstruse: A Seventeenth-Century Paris Librarian and His Orientalist Network</span></em>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Gilles Ménage said of Louis Picques, the seventeenth-century Paris librarian and orientalist, that “to be his friend, one had to know Coptic, Egyptian, or Samaritan, or at least speak Arabic”. Picques’s letters show that he had many such friends, corresponding with scholars across Europe and acting as a crucial intermediary in the production of new scholarship. This talk explores Picques’s transnational network through his correspondence, as a lens onto the possibilities and practical challenges of communication between the centers of early modern orientalist learning. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Pre-register: </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="https://bit.ly/3hcUFqY"><span style='color:#055299'>bit.ly/3hcUFqY</span></a><span style='color:#3E3E3E'>. After registering, you will receive an email containing information about joining the event.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The object of this lecture series is to bring together scholars and librarians engaged with collections of correspondences and/or include related projects that use appropriate digital tools to map and analyze such corpora. <span style='background:white'>All lectures will be held online from 12-1 pm (EST)</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'>. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>It is hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (NES@IAS) and María Mercedes Tuya (Digital Scholarship</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <span style='color:black'>@IAS).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>For additional information about the upcoming lectures, please visit: </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#232333;letter-spacing:.3pt;background:white'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://albert.ias.edu/20.500.12111/8044" target="_blank"><span style='letter-spacing:.3pt;background:white'>https://albert.ias.edu/20.500.12111/8044</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Sabine Schmidtke <a href="mailto:scs@ias.edu" target="_blank">scs@ias.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>María Mercedes Tuya <a href="mailto:ds@ias.edu" target="_blank">ds@ias.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </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></div></body></html>