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Love the librarian's photo inside of Thompson Library! https://associates.web.illinois.edu/2026/06/08/week-1-reflection-4/

The Early Slavic Studies Association (ESSA) is launching its lecture series!
The inaugural speaker will be Valerie Kivelson, professor emerita of history from the University of Michigan, who will deliver a talk titled "Rethinking 'the Political' in Muscovy: A Historiographic Provocation" on June 22 at 11:00am EST.

If you are interested, please register at https://essa-kivelson.eventbrite.com/
Lecture Series Host: Dr. Václav Algirdas Zheng (Johns Hopkins University)

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The 2026 Path-Clearing Pilgrimage - Foma FoMA’s 2026 Path-Clearing Pilgrimage from 3 to 17 May was truly a “pilgrimage of superlatives.” It was the largest in FoMA’s history, with 48 participants total, 32 of which came for only the first or second week, and 16 staying both weeks. It was also the most diverse in terms of the nation...

Manuscript descriptions from the complete 10-volume EMML print catalog are now represented and expanded upon in HMML Reading Room (vhmml.org), alongside digital images of the manuscripts.

The Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) contains photographs of more than 9,000 manuscripts microfilmed in Ethiopia from 1973 to 1994.

Cataloging of this collection began in Ethiopia under the direction of Dr. Sergew Hable Selassie and was continued at HMML by Dr. Getatchew Haile and Dr. William F. Macomber, who published a 10-volume print catalog describing 5,000 EMML manuscripts. In recent years, Ted Erho, Dr. Ralph Lee, and Dr. Jeremy R. Brown brought this catalog into the digital era.

Learn more: hmml.org/collections/news/new-update-cataloging-progress-on-the-ethiopian-manuscript-microfilm-library-emml

Pictured: a manuscript in the collection of Dabra Ṣeyon Māryām Monastery in Arsi Province, Ethiopia. View the full microfilm in HMML Reading Room (EMML 7602): vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/201129

https://associates.web.illinois.edu/2026/06/07/week-1-reflection-learning-settling-in-and-seeing-libraries-differently/

Lucy Tomova’s Week 1: Learning, Settling In, and Seeing Libraries Differently Getting here was a long journey. It took around 17 hours of travel, a couple of days of preparation beforehand, and months of application steps, visa arrangements, planning, and anticipation. But t…

https://associates.web.illinois.edu/2026/06/08/libraries-without-borders-or-when-slavonic-bulgarian-history-welcomes-you-across-the-ocean/

Elena Savova`s Week 1: Libraries Without Borders, or When Slavonic-Bulgarian History Welcomes You Across the Ocean The first week of the Mortenson Center Associates Program was inspiring, filled with emotion, new encounters, knowledge, and that special feeling that emerges when a professional experience gradual…