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...
Joseph Shack (University of Central Florida), An Untamed Race Bred in Caucasian Rocks:’ Discourses of Barbarity in Eleventh-Century England.
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.
Karl Steel (Brooklyn College, CUNY), Animals, Plants, and Truth in The Seven Sages of Rome.
Kersti Francis (Trinity University), Magic, Race, and Women's Authority in Partonope of Blois.
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.
Bissera Pentcheva (Stanford University), Icons of Sound: Chant and Recitation in Hagia Sophia. Followed by a reception at the Harvard Faculty Club (20 Quincy Street).
Michael Drout (Wheaton College), What Makes the Lord of the Rings and Tolkien Great?
Margaret Griffin-Wilson (Harvard University), The King’s Harp, The King’s Cup: Objects of Praise in Bardic Verse. Co-sponsored by the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures.
Juan Antonio Marcos (Universidad Pontificia Comillas), John of the Cross: Poetry Born of Mystical Experience. Response by Luis Girón Negrón (Harvard University). Co-sponsored by the Institute of Carmelite Studies and the Harvard Christian Alumni Society.
