Medieval Studies @ Harvard

Pamela Klasova (The University of Chicago), The Eloquent Tyrant: Speech and Empire in Umayyad Iraq under al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī, 694-714. Co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Seminar and the Center for Middle Eastern...

Heba Mostafa (University of Toronto), High Stakes, Big Data: The Existential Entanglements of the Abbasid Nilometer in Cairo. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and the Committee on Medieval Studies.

Dolan Wells Gallagher (Celtic Languages and Literatures), Buried in the Narrative: Women in the Early Irish Legal Imaginary. 

A lecture by Patrick Geary, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Advanced Study; co-sponsored with the Harvard Catholic Forum, the Société des Bollandistes, and the Clough School of Theology at Boston College. Free and open to the public; to join the...

Giorgio Basciu (University of Stockholm; Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), Poetic Pairings across the North Sea. Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. 

Thomas Schmidt (Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature and Curator of the papyrus collection of the Bibel+Orient Museum, University of Fribourg), The Materiality of the ‘Plutarchan Book'. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and...