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
Adam Afterman (Tel Aviv University): Kabbalistic Neoplatonism: Divine Emanation and Mystical Integration.
Professor Afterman will address the profound impact of Neoplatonism on Kabbalah, the medieval trend of Jewish mysticism. While its impact on the development of a new form of mystical religiosity of communion and unio mystica is relatively known, he will focus on another critical development: Afterman will argue that through...
Please join the Medieval Graduate Interdiscplinary Workshop and the Medieval/Early Modern History Workshop for their inaugural event of the year, featuring Nicholas Thyr (Celtic Languages and Literatures), Towards a Relative Chronology of Medieval Irish Homiletic Saints' Lives. Refreshments will be served!
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 38 Kirkland Street, room 102
Rachel Goshgarian (Lafayette College), Where Is Armenia? A Pilgrimage to the Sources, a Traveling towards Thirteenth-Century Armenian Conceptions of the World and the Armenian(ate) Sphere. Co-sponsored by the Hrant Dink CMES Fund and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Read more about CMES Lecture: "Where is Armenia?"