In an effort to offer meaningful educational exchanges between Fulbright grantees, One To World will continue its ongoing series where Fulbright scholars will have a platform to share their research to Fulbright student and scholar attendees.

At our third session of the 2021-2022 academic year, our presenter will be Fulbright scholar from Israel, Tamar Rotman, who is doing her research at the Department of Classics at Columbia University. In her talk, she will discuss a few early medieval texts she is currently study and give a glimpse into the lively history of the early Middle Ages.

Tamar is a historian of the late antique and early medieval Mediterranean, focusing on the period's cultural, social, and religious history, with a particular emphasis on hagiography and the cults of saints, identity constructions, and the dynamics between the various Mediterranean polities. Her book, Hagiography, Historiography and Identity in Sixth Century Gaul: Rethinking Gregory of Tours was recently published with Amsterdam University Press (December 2021).

As a historian of a period of significant transformations, Rotman mainly studies how people reacted to these changes, how they envisioned their communities, defined their identities, and drew imagined and physical boundaries between different people, nations, and polities.

Dive into history and learn something new at our first research sharing session of 2022!

The session will end with a Q & A.