Other Harvard Events

Translating Virgil's Aeneid: a conversation with Rice University professors Scott McGill and Susannah Wright about their new translation of Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid (W.W. Norton, 2025), with comments by Richard Thomas (Harvard University) and Rachel...

Panagiotis Roilos (Harvard University), The Cultural Politics of Imagination: From "Paganism" to Christianity.

Sri Sathvik Rayala (Harvard Divinity School), The Gift of Health: Medicine as Śiva’s Dharma in Premodern India. Please RSVP here to receive a copy of the precirculated paper. Concerned with the history of premodern Indian medicine, this article examines...

Emma Dillon (Thurston Dart Professor of Music, Kings College London; Christoph Wolff Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Department of Music), Love from Afar: Towards an Active Philology of Medieval Song. This lecture is free, but registration is required...

Natasha Sumner (Celtic Languages and Literatures) discusses her new book Heroes of the Gael: A History of Fionn and the Fianna (Princeton University Press, 2026). Stories about Fionn mac Cumhaill (also known as Finn McCool) and his roving warrior band...

Mariam Sheibani ( Brandeis University), An Islamic Legal Philosophy: Ibn ʿAbd al-Salam and the Ethical Turn in Islamic Law. Cosponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

Rosabel Ansari ( Stony Brook University), Language and Being in al-Fārābī: The Philosophy of Taškīk. Cosponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

Riccardo Paredi ( Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano/ NYU Abu Dhabi), Editing Early Sufism: From Manuscript Discovery to Digital Corpus . Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Mahindra Humanities...

Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja (Romance Languages and Literatures) speaks on his new book Dante and Matter ( La materia di Dante), with a response by Federica Zanella.

Porphyry of Tyre on Theology and Theurgy: Oracular Voices and Luminous Intellect; a roundtable featuring presentations by Charles Stang (Harvard Divinity School), Adam Bremer-McCollum (Center for the Study of World Religions), Fabien Muller (Tampere...