Panagiotis Roilos (Classics and Comparative Literature), The Cultural Politics of Phantasia: Late Antique and Byzantine Developments. Please RSVP by 4 December to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu) Read more about MHC Medieval Studies Seminar: Collations

Sean Griffin (Dartmouth College), The Roman Past in Early Rus’: Byzantine Liturgy on the Northern Periphery. Co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

Scott Kennedy (Ohio State University and Dumbarton Oaks), The Decline and Fall of Thucydides in Middle Byzantium.

A discussion by Intisar Rabb (Harvard Law School) and Abigail Balbale (Bard Graduate Center) of their book Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts (Harvard University Press, 2017), with comments by William Graham (Harvard University), Cemal Kefadar (Harvard University), and Ahmed Al Shamsy (University of Chicago). Co-sponsored by the International Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School, the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School, the Department of History, and the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program.