Center for Middle Eastern Studies

2023 Oct 05

Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

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
2023 Apr 11

In the Shadow of the Prophet: a conversation with Roy Mottahedeh

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 38 Kirkland Street, room 102
Roy Mottahedeh (Gurney Research Professor of History, Harvard University) discusses his new book In the Shadow of the Prophet: Essays in Islamic History (Oneworld, 2023) with Khaled El-Rouayheb (James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and Islamic Intellectual History) and Cemal Kafadar (Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies). Co-sponsored... Read more about In the Shadow of the Prophet: a conversation with Roy Mottahedeh
2023 Mar 27

CMES-Medieval Studies Lecture on Medieval Middle Eastern Studies

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room)

Paul Cobb (Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania), Crusade, Captivity, and Wonder: Johannes Schiltberger's Traveler Tales. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

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2022 Apr 29

A Medieval Life in Modern Circumstances

4:30pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel room K262 (the Bowie-Vernon Room)
A book talk on Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian: Eulogist for a Falling Homeland by author William E. Granara, Professor of the Practice of Arabic on the Gordon Gray Endowment, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Co-sponsored by the Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the Committee for... Read more about A Medieval Life in Modern Circumstances
2020 Oct 02

The Ascendant Field: Critical Engagements with Ottoman Arabic Literature

(All day)

Location: 

Virtual event

A two-day symposium on Arabic literature of the pre-nahda Ottoman era (1516-1789), featuring a keynote address by Hilary Kilpatrick (Independent Scholar) and presentations by Helen Pfeifer (Cambridge University), Ghayde Ghraowi (Yale University), Theodore Beers (University of Chicago), Rachida Chih (EHESS-CNRS, Paris), Hakan Özkan (University of Münster), Ozzy Gündüz (Harvard University), and Alev Masarwa (University of Münster). Sponsored by the Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Prince...

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2020 Apr 24

Center for Middle Eastern Studies Postdoctoral Lectures

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Virtual lecture
Nathanael Aschenbrenner (CMES Byzantine Postdoctoral Fellow), Universal Monarchy Between Sultan and Pope: Reorienting Constantinople in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean and Siren Çelik (CMES Byzantine Postdoctoral Fellow), Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425): A Byzantine Emperor in a Time of Tumult; response by Dimiter Angelov (Harvard University). Research supported by grant number 41600623 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a collaboration between the Byzantine Studies Research Center at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies... Read more about Center for Middle Eastern Studies Postdoctoral Lectures
2019 Dec 07

The Transmission and Reception of the Qurʾān in Light of Recent Scholarship

(All day)

Location: 

Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street
A day-long symposium featuring presentations by Shady Nasser (Harvard University), Gabriel Said Reynolds (University of Notre Dame), Walid Saleh (University of Toronto), Devin Stewart (Emory University), Behnam Sadeghi (Oxford University), François Déroche (Collège de France), Alba Fedeli (University of Hamburg), Geoffrey Khan (Cambridge University), and Intisar Rabb (Harvard Law School). Sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for Jewish Studies, the Harvard Law School's Program in Islamic Law, and the Center for... Read more about The Transmission and Reception of the Qurʾān in Light of Recent Scholarship
2019 Mar 28

Hrant Dink Memorial CMES Fund for Armenian Studies Symposium

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall
Ahead of Time: Exploring the Relationship Between Ancient and Modern Armenian Studies, a panel discussion featuring presentations by Christina Maranci (Tufts University), David Zakarian (Pembroke College, Oxford University), Marie-Aude Baronian (University of Michigan), and Sylvia Alajaji (Franklin & Marshall College). Co-sponsored by the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR).

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