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2017 Sep 28

Mahindra Humanities Center Lecture

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room), 12 Quincy Street
Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard University), Mindmapping: Diagrams in the Middle Ages—and Beyond.
2017 May 20

A New Light on Bernard Berenson: Persian Paintings from Villa I Tatti

Sat May 20 (All day) to Sun Aug 13 (All day)

Location: 

University Research Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street
An exhibition featuring illustrated Persian manuscripts and detached folios of the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries, collected by Harvard alumnus Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), the famous American art historian and connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting. The show also includes additional related works from the Harvard Art Museums, the Morgan Library and Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, collected by close associates of Berenson who shared his enthusiasm for Persian painting. Curated by Aysin Yoltar-Yildirim, Assistant Curator for... Read more about A New Light on Bernard Berenson: Persian Paintings from Villa I Tatti
2017 Apr 14

MHC Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Barker Center 133

Michelle Quay (Cambridge University), The Female "Saints" of Islam: Corporeality in Medieval Persian and Arabic Hagiography.

2017 Apr 25

Celtic Languages and Literature Lecture

2:00pm to 3:30pm

Location: 

Kates Room, Warren House

Georgia Henley (Celtic), Monastic Manuscript Networks of the Anglo-Welsh March: A Study in Literary Transmission, a talk in defense of the Ph.D dissertation.

2017 Feb 23

Department of the Classics Lecture

5:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Boylston Hall 237

Byron MacDougall (University of Vienna), Figure Exercises: John of Sardis, Aphthonius, and Aristotelian Syllogistic.

2017 Apr 12

Harvard Law School European Legal History Lecture Series

5:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Law School WCC building, 2019 Milstein West B, 1651 Massachusetts Avenue

John Hudson (University of St. Andrews), Emotions in the Early Common Law. Sponsored by the International Academic Program-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Fundación Asisa.

2017 Feb 16

Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past Lecture

5:30pm to 6:45pm

Location: 

Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room)

Johannes Krause (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena), The Genetic History of Plague: From the Stone Age to the Eighteenth Century via the Roman Empire. This talk, part of the lecture series What’s New in the Fall of the Roman Empire?, is co-sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Department of History.

2017 Feb 17

Harvard Early Slavicists Seminar

4:15pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South S354, 1730 Cambridge Street

Donald Ostrowski (Harvard Extension School), Was There a Riurikid Dynasty in Early Rus'?

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