Professor Byron will examine the Rubenstein Library’s uncatalogued Ge’ez collection for Humanities Unbounded. She will be comparing the Rubenstein’s collection with what she has already explored in Ethiopia and at Howard University. She is going to further investigate how manuscripts operate in the world as physical objects. She will explore the ways in which manuscripts as materials transform the lives they touch. Her work, along with her collaborators, will contribute to a much needed reconsideration of the entanglements of modern scholarship, manuscript collection, and colonial ambition in the production, transmission, and preservation of sacred texts.
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