Month: October 2023

WESeminar in Olin: Playing, Researching, and Archiving Turkmen Music

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Friday, October 27, 2023 — 3:00pm Smith Reading Room, 1st floor Olin Library In this performance-lecture, Mohammad Geldi Geldi Nejad MA’23, an acclaimed indigenous performer and scholar of Turkmen music, will introduce and perform traditional instrumental pieces and songs. He will also talk about his fieldwork experiences with Turkmen music masters in northeast Iran in … Read more

New trial: British Literary Manuscripts Online: Medieval and Renaissance

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TRIAL through Nov.1, 2023 Contains facsimile images of a range of literary manuscripts — including letters, poems, stories, plays, chronicles, religious writings, and other materials — from roughly 1120 to 1660. This trial is an addition to the library’s access to Gale’s British Literary Manuscripts Online: c1660-1900, so you will see results for both subcollections … Read more