Julian Weiss (King's College London), Creating Vernacular 'Literature' in Renaissance Spain and Portugal. A workshop exploring how paratexts (prologues, glosses, commentaries) and the layout of manuscripts and early printed books helped to construct ideas of authorship and canonicity, and to create the conditions for the emergence of the idea of a national 'literature' before the term 'literature' itself was coined. Space in the workshop is limited; to reserve a place, please email Monique Duhaime (duhaime@fas.harvard.edu) with "morning workshop registration" in the subject line,...
Arafat Razzaque (CMES/History), An Early Islamic Social Critique? Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb’s Speech on the Fitna of Scholars and its Plagiarized Imitation as a Ḥadīth.
NB. This workshop is intended for graduate students only.
Julian Weiss (King's College London), In the Tracks of Josephus: Reading Jewish History and Belief in the Early Modern Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds, 1492-1687. Co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Coffee and tea will be served before the lecture.
Owen Cornwall (Columbia University), The Astrolabe in Medieval India. Dinner will be served; please RSVP to agjikola@fas.harvard.edu or shireenhamza@g.harvard.edu.