Other Harvard Events

2018 Oct 03

Harvard Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series

1:15pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Robert Dankoff (University of Chicago), Wisdom of Royal Glory (Kutadgu Bilig) and the Persian Connection: The Sources of a Turko-Islamic Mirror for Princes.
2018 Sep 28

Thinking Islam Within Religious Studies: Methods, Histories and Futures

(All day)

Location: 

Sperry Room, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue
A symposium celebrating the career of William Graham, Murray A. Albertson Research Professor of Middle Eastern Studies; featuring presentations by Ali Asani, Diana Eck, Mohsen Goudarzi, Elizabeth Lee-Hood, Tarek Masoud, Jane McAuliffe, Roy Mottahedeh, Shady Nasser, Ahmed Ragab, Walid Saleh, and Guy Stroumsa. Sponsored by the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, Harvard Divinity School, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for the Study of World Religions, the Science, Religion, and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School, and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and... Read more about Thinking Islam Within Religious Studies: Methods, Histories and Futures
2018 Dec 05

Harvard Divinity School Women's Studies in Religion Lecture

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Braun Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Street
S. Zahra Moballegh (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran), From Being to Becoming Woman: Decoding the Meaning of Femininity in the Qur’anic Stories.
2018 Oct 31

Harvard Divinity School Women's Studies in Religion Lecture

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Braun Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Street
Barbara Zimbalist (University of Texas, El Paso), Translating Christ in the Middle Ages: Visionary Translation, Divine Rhetoric, and Verbal Devotion in England, France, and the Low Countries.
2018 Sep 20

Harvard Archeology Program Seminar Series

4:15pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Tozzer Anthropology Building 203
Suzanne Preston Blier (Harvard University), Was There a Coptic Center in Medieval West Africa? Evidence and Further Questions.
2018 Sep 17

Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program

6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South S030, 1730 Cambridge Street
Ahmed Ragab (Harvard Divinity School), Piety and Patienthood in Medieval Islam. Reception following. Co-sponsored by the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and the Science, Religion, and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School.
2018 Nov 30

Harvard Early Slavists Seminar

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

CGIS South S354, 1730 Cambridge Street
Robert Romanchuk (Florida State University), The Old Slavic Digenis Akritis: Translation out of Greek vs. Translation into Slavic.
2018 Oct 05

Harvard Early Slavists Seminar

4:30pm to 5:45pm

Location: 

CGIS South S450, 1730 Cambridge Street
David Goldfrank (Georgetown University), God is in the Details: Andrei Pliguzov’s Amazing Archive of the Metropolitans of Kyiv and All Rus. Co-sponsored with the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
2018 Sep 07

MHC Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar

5:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street
Christine Nölle-Karimi (Austrian Academy of Sciences), The Perfect Equilibrium: A Concept of Geographical Space and its Career in Persian Literature.
2018 Sep 20

AKPIA Lecture Series

5:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street
Elizabeth Key Fowden (University of Cambridge), The Parthenon Mosque.
2018 Apr 27

MHC Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

CGIS-Knafel K262 (the Bowie-Vernon Room)
Nicholas Boylston (Harvard University), Piecing Together the Poem, Piecing Together the Self: The Interlocking Mathnawīs of Farīd al-Dīn ‘Aṭṭār. Co-sponsored by the Aga Khan Fund.

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