[math-ias] June 23 - The Author's Voice: The symbolic language of Ethiopian crosses

[Digital Scholarship @IAS]

The Institute for Advanced Study, in partnership with Gorgias Press, 
presents the 2022 online lecture program, 
<https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/The%20Author%27s%20Voice%202022%20Program.pdf> 
The Author's Voice.  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:



 <https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/The%20Author%27s%20Voice%20Evangelatou%20flyer.pdf> 
The symbolic language of Ethiopian crosses: Explorations through form and 
ritual

Maria Evangelatou, Professor of Mediterranean Studies,
Department of History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, 
Santa Cruz.



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. A close contextual analysis of 
select visual material suggests that Ethiopian crosses can be read as visual 
discourse on a broad range of ideas: from religious beliefs about protection 
and salvation to interrelated socio-political values regarding order and 
power, and from individual and collective notions of identity to cultural 
notions of local and universal history. 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.



Register in advance here. After registering, you will receive an email 
containing information about joining the event.



Hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (School of Historical Studies, IAS) and George A. 
Kiraz (School of Historical Studies, IAS and Editor-in-Chief, Gorgias Press) 
in cooperation with Angelos Chaniotis (School of Historical Studies, IAS).



For more information, please contact  <mailto:ds at ias.edu> ds at ias.edu.



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