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

Georgia Henley (St. Anselm College), Visions and Revisions of the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval Wales. Read more about Celtic Languages and Literatures Lecture

Shamil Jeppie (University of Cape Town), Book Collecting in Timbuktu. Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center History of the Book Seminar

Iman Darwish (Harvard University), Ibn Abī al-Ashʿath's Book of Simples: The Formative Period of the Arabic Tradition of Materia Medica.

Ryan Low (Harvard University), Household Archival Sciences in Medieval Provence and Dauphiné.

A two-day symposium celebrating the teaching and research of Gülru Necipoğlu, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art, with presentations by her colleagues and former students.... Read more about Shifting the Paradigm: New Studies in Islamic Art and Architecture in Honor of Gülru Necipoğlu

Brendan Kane (Univ of Connecticut), Palaeography and Power: Irish Political Thought in a Multi-Lingual Archive. Read more about Celtic Department Kelleher Lecture

Susana Calvo Capilla (AKPIA Fellow; Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Islamic Architecture for Wisdom: Looking Back on the Classical Legacy. Read more about AKPIA Lecture Series

Olga Bush (Vassar College), The Textility of the Alhambra. Read more about AKPIA Lecture Series