Lecture given at the Summer School of Engaged Art, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin, July 31, 2015. An analysis of barbarism through the lens of Greek playwrights and German philosophers, and a reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Porcile.”

Introduction to the session “Violence and Non-Violence” at Artists Organzizations International, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, January 9–11, 2015. Analysis of a single frame from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Salò.”

In lieu of an introduction, this dissertation starts with a short exposé on the paradigm, or the example, which provides the general framework in which the argument will de- velop – namely to the side of more classical modes of deductive or inductive reasoning. Our argument here is that in order to inspect a concept – etumos logos – that has be…[Read more]

In this thesis, it is our aim to discuss several aspects and developments of the Greek concept of πτῶσις, commonly know as case. This term was first coined by Aristotle in relation to both the grammatical and the philosophical category of the ὑποκειμένον (hypokeimenon) or subject. It is our contention that the concept of πτῶσις (ptōsis), a…[Read more]

Section 2 will focus on the case patterns of simple Inuit transitive clauses.
Section 3 deals with the Inuit ‘ergative’ agreement system.
Section 4 addresses the Inuit phrase structure typology.
Section 5 deals with the Inuit case system into more depth.

The article provides a transcription, translation, and analysis of the Old Nubian legends on a painting of a dancing scene in room 5 of the Southwest Annex of the Monastery on Kom H in Dongola. The painting shows two groups of Nubian singing and dancing, and from the legends we understand that the occasion is the birth of a new heir to the royal…[Read more]

In this article we will analyse three potential Old Nubian cognates of the Meroitic word aleqese, taking up a prior suggestion of Claude Rilly. After providing an overview of the linguistic relationship between Meroitic and Old Nubian and the extant analyses of aleqese in the extant literature, we will inspect the Old Nubian conditional clause…[Read more]

The three bilingual Greek–Old Nubian psalms published in this paper have been preserved to us in form of ink inscriptions on the walls of the annexes abutting the monastery on Kom H in Dongola from the west, the capital of the Nubian Christian Kingdom of Makuria. DP 2 (no. 1) is found in the Southwest Annex, DP 3 (no. 2) and DP 4 (no. 3) in the N…[Read more]

Slides accompanying NubiaFEST 2020 Old Nubian Crash Course – Day 5.

Slides accompanying NubiaFEST 2020 Old Nubian Crash Course – Day 4.

Slides accompanying NubiaFEST 2020 Old Nubian Crash Course – Day 3.