Salam Rassi (University of Edinburgh), A Republic of Letters in Verse? Syriac Poems Addressed to Individuals and Communities (Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries). Co-sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please register here. Read more about East of Byzantium Lecture Series

Maria Mavroudi (Professor of Byzantine History, University of California Berkeley): The Byzantine and Ottoman Intellectual Encounter, 14th-16th Centuries: Intellectuals in Greek and Arabic: Philosophy and the Sciences. Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.

Maria Mavroudi (Professor of Byzantine History, University of California Berkeley): The Byzantine and Ottoman Intellectual Encounter, 14th-16th Centuries: Bureaucrats in Greek and Arabic: Archival Documents. Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.

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Maria Mavroudi (Professor of Byantine History, University of California Berkeley): The Byzantine and Ottoman Intellectual Encounter, 14th-16th Centuries: The Historiographical Stakes. Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.

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Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Felony and the Holy Face. This lecture, marking Prof. Kamali's appointment as Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law, is free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

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Sylvia di Paolo (University of Roma III), How Ill-Gotten Gains Produced Public Good in Late Medieval Law. Sponsored by the IAP-UAM International Lectureship in Law, the Legal History Colloquium, and the Early Modern History Workshop. Read more about IAP Annual Lecture in Legal History

Jordan Pickett (University of Georgia), Recycled Cities: Sardis and the Fortifications of Early Byzantine Anatolia. Co-sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art & Culture and the Mashtots Chair for Armenian Studies at Harvard University. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click... Read more about East of Byzantium Lecture Series

Mohit Manohar (University of Chicago), The Sufi Shrines of Khuldabad. Read more about AKPIA Lecture Series

Tobias Hrynick (2023-24 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow), He Sendeth Rain on the Just and the Unjust: Social Response to Environmental Crisis in Medieval Romney Marsh. Response by Alex Moore (Princeton University). To register for this event, please click here. Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Environmental Humanities Seminar

Gohar Grigoryan (University of Fribourg), Political Rituals and Urban Communities in Cilician Armenia. Co-sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies at Harvard University. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about East of Byzantium Lecture Series

Ethel Sara Wolper (University of New Hampshire), At the City’s Edge: The Shrines of Mosul. Read more about AKPIA Lecture Series

Rae Erin Dachille (University of Arizona), Regard the Seams and Sutures: Exegesis and Imagination in Fifteenth-Century Tibet. Co-sponsored by the Committee on the Study of Religion and the Lakshmi Mittal South Asian Institute. This will be a hybrid event; to participate via Zoom, please register... Read more about MHC Buddhist Studies Forum

Allan Ding (DePaul University), Between Ethics and Liturgy: Practicing the Buddhist Eight Precepts in Medieval China. Co-Sponsored by the Committee on the Study of Religion. This will be a hybrid event; to participate via Zoom, please register... Read more about MHC Buddhist Studies Forum

Robert Morrison (Bowdoin College), A Merchant of Knowledge at the Court of Bayezid II. Please RSVP here. Read more about Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies

Ingrid Nelson (Amherst College), Media Technologies of Romance in the Canterbury Tales. Read more about English Department Medieval Colloquium