A journey through the world of Byzantine and Ottoman sacred and secular music and their legacy in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean, with Kyriakos Kalaitzidis, Romanos Karanos, and the Pharos Ensemble. Sponsored by the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, the Center for the Study of World Religions, and the Boston Byzantine Music Festival.

The 2019 Huggins lectures will be delivered by Christopher Ehret (University of California Los Angeles). All lectures will take place at 4:00 pm.

Tuesday, 5 November: African Historical Firsts (Center for African Studies, 1280 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd floor)

Wednesday, 6 November: Ancient Africa: Crops, Commerce, and the Export of Innovation (Center for African Studies, 1280 Massachusetts Avenue,...

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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

Robert Gleave (University of Exeter), Early Shiite Law and the Construction of the Shari'a. Co-sponsored by the Law and Religion Lecture Series (The Committee on Study of Religion, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School, and the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World at Harvard Law School) and the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School. Read more about Alwaleed bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies

Maria Subtelny (University of Toronto), Iranian Elements in the Pseudo-Aristotelian Sirr al-asrār (Secretum secretorum). Co-sponsored with the MHC Medieval Studies Seminar and the Aga Khan Fund for Iranian Studies.

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Heide Estes (Monmouth University), Gender, Jews, and Disability in Old English Poetry.

Jason Crawford (Union University), What the Wolf Knows: George Herbert's Book of Wisdom.

Co-sponsored by the English Renaissance Colloquium.

The 39th meeting of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, a three-day conference dealing with all aspects of the Celtic languages, their literatures, and their cultures in any period, featuring a keynote address by Barbara Hillers (University of Indiana, Bloomington). For more information, please visit the... Read more about Harvard Celtic Colloquium

Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (University of Cambridge), An Irish World Chronicle? Medieval Irish Scholars and Their Global Turn.

Sunil Sharma (Boston University), Lovers and Heroines: Rabia and Mahsati in the Canon of Classical Persian Poetry.

Michael Marder (University of the Basque Country), Ardencies: St. Hildegard's Blazing Plants. Read more about Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions Lecture Series

Nadia Ali (New York University Center for Material Histories), Qusayr 'Amra: The Pandora's Box of Early Islamic Aesthetics.

Jochen Sokoly (Virginia Commonwealth University-Qatar), Between Khurasan, Iraq, Egypt and al-Andalus: New Thoughts on the Processes of Commissioning Caliphal Works Under the Early Islamic Caliphates.

Ann Shafer (AKPIA Associate), Towards an Understanding of Early Islamic Architectural Ornament: Ancient Near Eastern Influences at Samarra.

Margot Fassler (University of Notre Dame) and Susan Rankin (Cambridge University), Play and Counterplay: Dramatic Modes of Action In and Alongside the Medieval Liturgy. Read more about Radcliffe Institute Fellows' Presentation