Reyhan Durmaz (University of Pennsylvania), Daughter, Healer, Soldier, Spy: Finding Communities in the Medieval Middle Eastern Countryside. Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies at Harvard University. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; click... Read more about East of Byzantium Lecture Series
Christopher Baswell (Barnard College and Columbia University), Arthurian Immobilities: Disabled Kings and Nobles in the Lancelot Prose Cycle. Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library.
Henry Maguire (Johns Hopkins University), “Fiery Light” of Majesty: Glass Mosaic and the Aesthetic of Silk in Byzantium, with response by Gudrun Buehl (Independent Scholar). Co-sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and departments of Classics and the History of Art. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please register here. Read more about Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture
Rebecca Wrightson (AKPIA Fellow), An Epigraphic (Re)assessment of Ninth-Tenth Century Southern Mesopotamian Luster Ceramics. Sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture.
An introduction to the work of Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW), which uses the techniques of cultural aerospace to document, detect, and deter attacks on the fragile remains of the human past in the South Caucasus; presentations by Adam T. Smith (Cornell University), Ian Lindsay (Purdue University), Lori Khatchadourian (Cornell University), and Husik Ghulyan (Cornell University). Co-sponsored by the Harvard Department of the History of Art & Architecture, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies, the Program on Georgian Studies, the... Read more about Heritage Forensics: Satellites and Specters in the Contested Caucasus
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 38 Kirkland Street, room 102
Amina Elbendary (American University in Cairo; Shawwaf Visiting Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations), Lives and Miracles: Narratives of Medieval Coptic and Muslim Saints. Co-sponsored by the Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. Read more about Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies