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.
Bissera Pentcheva (Stanford University), Icons of Sound: Chant and Recitation in Hagia Sophia. Followed by a reception at the Harvard Faculty Club (20 Quincy Street).
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.
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.
Svein Harald Gullbekk (University of Oslo), From Constantinople to the North: Harald Hardrada and the Making of Norway’s First Currency. This talk is offered in conjunction with Dr. Eurydice Georganteli’s seminar HAA 174, “The King’s Money: Power, Art...
Juan Antonio Marcos (Universidad Pontificia Comillas), John of the Cross: Poetry Born of Mystical Experience. Response by Luis Girón Negrón (Harvard University). Co-sponsored by the Institute of Carmelite Studies and the Harvard Christian Alumni Society.
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...
Thomas Schmidt (Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature and Curator of the papyrus collection of the Bibel+Orient Museum, University of Fribourg), The Typology of the Ancient Book: Papyrological Evidence from Houghton Library. Co-sponsored by...
Thomas Schmidt (Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature and Curator of the papyrus collection of the Bibel+Orient Museum, University of Fribourg), The Typology of the Ancient Book: Papyrological Evidence from Houghton Library. Co-sponsored by...
Pamela Klasova (The University of Chicago), The Eloquent Tyrant: Speech and Empire in Umayyad Iraq under al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī, 694-714. Co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Seminar and the Center for Middle Eastern...
