Chet van Duzer (John Carter Brown Library), "With Savage Pictures Fill their Gaps": On Cartographers' Fears of Blank Spaces.

Talia Zajac (Shklar Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute), Regina Binomina: Re-Examining the Evidence for Re-Baptism and Renaming of Brides in pre-Mongol Rus. Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasion Studies.

Liam Breatnach (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), Marriage in Early Medieval Ireland: Sources and Interpretations. Professor Breatnach also will be offering seminars on Old-Irish legal texts on Monday (4/23) and Wednesday (4/25).  For more information, please contact Joseph Nagy at jfnagy@fas.harvard.edu.

John Zaleski (Harvard University), The Other Syriac Exegetical Tradition: An Unstudied Commentary on Evagrius of Pontus and the Development of a Monastic Commentary Tradition East of Byzantium.

A three-day conference bringing together the study of medicine, science, and religion,featuring researchers whose work spans a broad range of areas, time periods, and disciplinary approaches; keynote addresses by Jacqueline Borsje (Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen Capaciteitsgroep Religiestudies) and Richard Kieckhefer (Northwestern University). Program and registration information can be found here.

Nathanael Aschenbrenner (Harvard University): Imperial Oratory and the Negotiation of Political Power at the End of Empire.

Aleandra Vukovich (University of Cambridge and Dumbarton Oaks Fellow), Politics and Ritual in Early Rus.

Nasser Rabbat (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Designing Transcendence: Light in Islamic Architecture. Sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Read more about H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lecture Series

Nasser Rabbat (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), The Historian and the City Between Ibn Khaldun and al-Maqrizi. Sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Read more about H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lecture Series

Talia Zajac (Shklar Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute), A Rus' Princess in Thirteenth-Century Poland: Cultural and Political Connections Between the Courts of Krakow and Galicia-Volhynia during the Reign of Duchess Gremislava Ingarvna, c. 1227-1258.

Johannes Krause (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena), Death by Contact: Ancient Pathogen Genomes from Epidemics in Early Mexico. Sponsored by the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM) and the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past.

 

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Courtney Tomaselli (History of Art and Architecture), I Will Instruct You and Teach You in the Way You Should Go: King David as Monastic Spiritual Father in a Byzantine Book of Psalms.

Eric Lawee (Bar-Ilan University), Canon and Commentary: Rashi's Resisting Readers.

Emma Dillon (King's College London), The Romance of Song: The Early Trouvères and their Reception, 1160-1360. Co-sponsored by the Deparment of Music and the Committee on Medieval Studies.

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Rocco Rante (Louvre Museum, Paris), The Importance of Middle Eastern Archaeology to Middle Eastern History.