Fatima Quraishi (Princeton University), Palimpsests Past and Present: The Sufis and Sultans of the Maklī Necropolis, 1380–1660. Sponsored by the Harvard Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture.
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.
Khaled Anatolios (University of Notre Dame), Repentance in Glory: Byzantine Liturgy as Counsel for Apocalyptic Times. The lecture will be followed by a reception at the Harvard Faculty Club; please register below.
Han Hsien Liew (Arizona State University), Preaching Pious Rulership in Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Jawzi's Political Thought. Cosponsored by the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
Hwaet! Join us, graduate pursuers of knowledge medieval, for food and drink and mutual support. Proudly presented by the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop and the English Medieval Colloquium.
Barry J. Lewis (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), The Poet in the Medieval Welsh Court: Rereading Phylip Brydydd's Encounter with the Gofeirdd. Reception to follow.
Grace O'Duffy (Harvard Society of Fellows), Legible Bodies: Towards a Vocabulary of Sexual Violence in Old Norse Literature.
Paul Russell and Nicholas Watson (Harvard University), Editing Workshop: From Manuscripts to Print, from Authors to Readers.
Karl Steel (Brooklyn College, CUNY), Animals, Plants, and Truth in The Seven Sages of Rome.
Ahmed Seif (Harvard University), title TBD.
Joseph Shack (University of Central Florida), An Untamed Race Bred in Caucasian Rocks:’ Discourses of Barbarity in Eleventh-Century England.
Thomas Schmidt (Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature and Curator of the papyrus collection of the Bibel+Orient Museum, University of Fribourg), The Materiality of the ‘Plutarchan Book'. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and...
