Reviews of Valentina Izmirlieva's "All the Names of the Lord: Lists, Mysticism, and Magic" (Studies of the Harriman Institute)
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Valentina Izmirlieva's (Slavic Languages) book "All the Names of the Lord" (University of Chicago Press, 2008)is called a "fascinating and quite original book" by the reviewer of "The Journal of Ecclesiastical History," who writes that it will redefine the field. The reviewer in "The Journal of Theological Studies" praises the "impressive amount of scholarship on primary sources in libraries around the world" and writes that it will be "greatly appreciated by students of medieval theology and magic."
Follow the link for texts of the two reviews.
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Pepsico Travel Recipients Announced
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
The Harriman Institute has awarded Pepsico travel funding for the winter of 2009/2010 to the following students:
Elvira Amantaeva, MARS: “Artek as the Legacy of the USSR”
Sasha Ganovska, MARS “The Teaching Practice and Political Role of Sufism in Dushanbe, Tajikistan”
Anatoly Pinsky, History: “The Conscience of a Communist: The Making of Fedor Abramov, 1953-1958”
Yumi Yi, SIPA, “Koryo-Saram: Displaced Koreans in Kazakhstan”
Congratulations!
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Anne Applebaum reviews Michael Scammell's "Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a 20th-Century Skeptic" in New York Review of Books
Thursday, 21 January 2010
Anne Applebaum ends her review of Michael Scammell's (School of the Arts) new biography of Arthur Koestler with these words: "This is more than a biography. It is an argument in defense of Koestler's literary oeuvre, if not entirely in defense of Koeslter himself. Scammell does not make excuses for his subject, and does not gloss over his many faults. But by recreating the historical setting in which Koestler lived and worked, by fitting him squarely in the middle of the great debates of the twentieth century, he makes his achievements much clearer to a contemporary reader."
See the New York Review of Books (February 11, 2010) for the complete review.
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