James Simpson (Harvard University) and Leah Whittington (Harvard University), The Dark Age (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries): A Debate. Co-sponsored by the English Department Medieval Colloquium and Renaissance Colloquium.

Deborah Hayden (Maynooth University), Medical Learning in the Medieval Irish Classroom. Read more about Celtic Languages and Literatures Lecture

Michael Cooperson (University of California Los Angeles), Learning Arabic Backwards: Was It Absolutely Frightening? Sponsored by the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies. This event will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to... Read more about H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lecture Series

Michael Cooperson (University of California Los Angeles), Rethinking Arabic Literary History. Sponsored by the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies. This event will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lecture Series

Gulfishan Khan (Aligarh Muslim University), Emperor Shāh Jahān: The Gardener (chaman-pera) of a Vast Garden (bāgh wa būstān) called Hindustan. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about Harvard AKPIA Lecture Series

Suleiman Mourad (Smith College), Ibn ʿAsākir of Damascus (1105-1176) and His Many Legacies: Sunnī Revivalist, Jihād Advocate, and Syrian “Nationalist”. Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click... Read more about Alwaleed bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies

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