Samuel England (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Arabic Classes and Classics in the Opera House. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

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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).

Christina Maranci (Tufts University), How to Read Armenian (Art). This lecture is part of the Armenian Studies Program, supported by the Hrant Dink Memorial CMES Fund.

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Brian Catlos (University of Colorado Boulder), Kingdoms of Faith: Writing a New History of Islamic Spain. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

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Ahmet T. Karamustafa (University of Maryland), Situating Sufism in Islamizing Anatolia and the Balkans (14th and 15th centuries).

A symposium celebrating the career of William Graham, Murray A. Albertson Research Professor of Middle Eastern Studies; featuring presentations by Ali Asani, Diana Eck, Mohsen Goudarzi, Elizabeth Lee-Hood, Tarek Masoud, Jane McAuliffe, Roy Mottahedeh, Shady Nasser, Ahmed Ragab, Walid Saleh, and Guy Stroumsa. Sponsored by the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, Harvard Divinity School, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for the Study of World Religions, the Science, Religion, and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School, and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and... Read more about Thinking Islam Within Religious Studies: Methods, Histories and Futures

Nasser Rabbat (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Designing Transcendence: Light in Islamic Architecture. Sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Read more about H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lecture Series

Nasser Rabbat (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), The Historian and the City Between Ibn Khaldun and al-Maqrizi. Sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Read more about H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lecture Series