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

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