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The Desert in Historical Imagination

Group for the Study of Early Cultures Workshop
THE DESERT IN HISTORICAL IMAGINATION

12:30-1:00 Coffee and Introductions

1:00-2:15 Ann Marie Yasin (USC)
"Making Place in the Medieval Desert: Monks, Pilgrims and Sacred Landscape in the Sinai
Respondent: Roland Betancourt (UCI)

2:15-3:20 Irina Dumitrescu (RFW-Universitat Bonn)
"Phantom Ascetics and the Fluid Desert"
Respondent: Elizabeth Allen (UCI)

3:30 Break

3:45-5:00 Vittoria di Palma (USC)
"Desert as Wasteland"
Respondent: Amy Powell (UCI)

Workshop supported by a grant from CORCL
Further inquiries to lmassey@uci.edu