[math-ias] Scholarly Correspondences: March 10: Paul Babinski, “A Taste for the Difficult and Abstruse”

[Digital Scholarship @IAS]

Scholarly Correspondences Among Orientalists during the Early and Late 
Modern Period as a Historical Source: A Series of Lectures.

You are cordially invited to join us for the fifth lecture of the series:

March 10, 12:00-1:00 pm (EST) - Paul Babinski, A Taste for the Difficult and 
Abstruse: A Seventeenth-Century Paris Librarian and His Orientalist Network.

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.

Pre-register:  <https://bit.ly/3hcUFqY> bit.ly/3hcUFqY. After registering, 
you will receive an email containing information about joining the event.

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. All lectures will be held online from 12-1 pm (EST). It is hosted 
by Sabine Schmidtke (NES at IAS) and María Mercedes Tuya (Digital Scholarship 
@IAS).

For additional information about the upcoming lectures, please visit: 
<https://albert.ias.edu/20.500.12111/8044> 
https://albert.ias.edu/20.500.12111/8044

Sabine Schmidtke scs at ias.edu <mailto:scs at ias.edu>

María Mercedes Tuya ds at ias.edu <mailto:ds at ias.edu>





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