The workshop is based in Harvard NELC, but is open to all interested students from across campus. Under the subheading “Scribes, Texts, and Libraries in the Ancient World” it brings together students (and faculty) working on ancient book culture in the ancient Mediterranean, Asia, and North Africa until ca. year 1000 C.E. As a GSAS workshop, we will primarily be a student-facing forum in which participants present their work and discuss it with each other. 

Chapurukha Kusimba (University of South Florida), What Role did Climate Change and Disease Play in the Decline and Collapse of Swahili Urbanism?

Chapurukha Kusimba (University of South Florida), Innovation, Trade, and Leadership: State Foundings in Pre-Modern Eastern Africa. Read more about Harvard Ancient Studies Program Lecture

Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel (Visiting Scholar), Tangled Souls, Hidden Voices: Women and Dissident Networks in the Middle Ages. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; the link can be found here. Read more about Women’s Studies in Religion Program Lecture Series

A three-day symposium, featuring a keynote address by Georgia Henley (St. Anselm College). This event will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about 40th Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium

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Jennifer Pruitt (University of Wisconsin Madison), Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about Harvard AKPIA Lecture Series

Gulfishan Khan (Aligahr Muslim University), Shahjahanbad: The City of Shah Jahan as Described in Pādshāhnāma. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about Harvard AKPIA Lecture Series

Nadia Ali (Université Aix-Marseille), 'His Eyes Were Aware of the Pointed Corners of His Eyes': Reflections on the Gaze in Umayyad Painting. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about Harvard AKPIA Lecture Series

Nora Berend (University of Cambridge), ... Read more about Medieval History Graduate Workshop

Rob Brown (Harvard University), Towards a Theory of Middles: Dalliance and Duty in The Romance of Horn and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. This presentation will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; for registration information, please contact Colloquium coordinator Joe Shack. Read more about English Department Medieval Colloquium

Joseph Shack (Harvard University), Tracing Time and Eternity in Maxims II and Cotton Tiberius B. i. This presentation will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; for registration information, please contact Colloquium coordinator Rob Brown.

Carl Sharif El-Tobgui (Brandeis University), Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; click... Read more about Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies

Kim McCone (University of Maynooth), Mocking the Afflicted: Morals and Missing Body-Parts in the Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig and Waltharius. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Celtic Literature and Culture Seminar

Co-organized by Anna Wilson (Department of English) and Rachel Love (Department of Classics), this seminar meets every other Monday to discuss pre-circulated readings on race and critical race studies in the premodern world....

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