Shireen Hamza (History of Science) and Eric Moses Gurevitch (NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University), The Promise of Medieval Sciences, the Perils of Global History. This will be a hybrid event; email Mateo Montoya to register for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and receive the precirculated paper.

Radhika Koul (Stanford University), Postcolonial Conversations: The Poetic Subject in Medieval Kashmir and Early Modern Europe.

Mojtaba Ebrahimian (Harvard University), The European Other and the Persianate Self in the Earliest Persian Travelogues of Europe. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Read more about MHC Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar

Deeana Klepper (Boston University), Christians and Jews in Late Medieval Guides for Parish Priests: Local Approaches and Lived Religion. Read more about Medieval History Graduate Workshop

Shiraz Hajiani (AISP Postdoctoral Fellow), Manifesto of the Great Resurrection (Qiyāmat-i buzurg): Examining a Rare Subaltern Nizari Ismaili Shi'i Treatise from the Twelfth Century. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

Matthias Egeler (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Landscape and Labor in the Footsteps of the Saints.

Sarah Kuenzler (University of Glasgow), Memory and the Future in Early Irish Literature.

At the top of a painting of a Crucifixion by Pietro Lorenzetti (c. 1280–1348), an angel holds in one hand an unfurled scroll and in the other a bloody tunic. Never previously noted, let alone explained, this unique combination of motifs provides the key to understanding the panel’s unusual imagery. It sheds fresh light on the complex nexus between art, piety, and theology in fourteenth-century Italy, in particular at Assisi—the site of the mother house of the Franciscan order, where the panel most likely was made. This presentation by Jeffrey F. Hamburger (Department of History of Art and... Read more about Flesh and Fabric: New Light on a Crucifixion by Pietro Lorenzetti

Yi Ran Angela Zhang (SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History), Race, Slavery, and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Florence.

Andy Chen (Harvard University), The Ideal General of Leo VI's Taktika.

Chander Shekhar (University of Delhi), Calligraphy in the Paleographic Study of Persian in Premodern India. Co-sponsored by the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute. Read more about MHC Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar

Since its founding in 1958 by Harvard and Cornell Universities, the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis has excavated, conserved, and published on aspects of the ancient city of Sardis in western Turkey from the prehistoric through the Islamic periods. The expedition is one of the longest-running international projects sponsored at Harvard and is one of the oldest classical archaeology projects in the Mediterranean. As part of Worldwide Week at Harvard 2022, this event brings together Harvard Art Museums staff and Harvard faculty and students involved in the project to introduce...

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Sean Anthony (Ohio State University), The Ummah and the Arabs: Ethnicity and Ideology under the Umayyads. Please RSVP here. Read more about Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Seminar

A three-day symposium, with a keynote address by Natasha Sumner (Harvard University). For more information, please visit the Celtic Colloquium website. Read more about Harvard Celtic Colloquium

Li Tang (University of Salzburg), East of Byzantium: Syriac Christianity along the Silk Road. This lecture will take place virtually on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies at Harvard University. Read more about East of Byzantium Lecture Series