<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues, the online seminar by Lucy Pick may be of interest to some. Details follow below. Best wishes, Dagmar Riedel</div><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---<br></div><br><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_-8478862951388652795m_-4902136139811564994m_-241141157353603207m_-3300945110069143628gmail-docs-internal-guid-da5e2fa5-7fff-3477-d228-2d71e0818ccd"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear colleagues,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are very much looking forward to seeing you at this year’s first meeting of the Seminar on Religion & Writing on </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thursday, September 29th at 5:00pm </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(EST). </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Lucy K. Pick</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (University of Chicago) will present her current research about “</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Literacy, Orality, and Translation: Samuel ibn Tibbon, Michael Scot, and Moses Maimonides’ </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Guide of the Perplexed.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">” Her abstract follows below. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please register </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSchA_qawVnTYvp704IJ19rx-jppqjrHP1MtWTzedLjmpgeIvQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> by </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thursday, September 22</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> if you will join us.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> The  seminar will be held in a hybrid format.   For those who will attend the meeting in person in the Faculty House at Columbia University’s Morningside Campus, the presentation will be followed by a complimentary dinner with the speaker at 6:30pm.  </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Anya Wilkening (</span><a href="mailto:abw2163@columbia.edu" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_bl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