A three-day symposium, featuring presentations by Fred Astern (San Francisco State University), Brian Catlos (University of Colorado Boulder), Sharon Kinoshita (University of California Santa Cruz), Argyro Nicolaou (Harvard University), and Karen Pinto (Boise State University), with a keynote address by Thomas Glick (Boston University). Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Mediterranean Seminar.

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Florentine Soundscapes of the Fifteenth Century, a seminar featuring presentations by Christopher Brown (Harvard University), Evan MacCarthy (West Virginia University), and Stephen Milner (University of Manchester). Co-sponsored by Villa i Tatti.

Jeannie Miller (University of Toronto), Exceptions and Wonders: Rhetoric and al-Jahiz's Natural Science.

A day-long symposium featuring presentations by Frank Coulson (Ohio State University), Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich and Beatrice Wyss (Universität Bern), Ana Pairet (Rutgers University), Albert Lloret (University of Massachusetts Amherst), and Gemma Pelissa Prades (Harvard University). For more information, please visit the conference website.

Alexander Riehle (University of Vienna), Lost and Found. Remarks on the Fate of the Classical genera orationis in Byzantium.

Foteini Spingou (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies), Memory, Aesthetics and Poetic Anthologies in Late Thirteenth-Century Constantinople.

Christos Simelidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Gregory of Nazianzus' Poems and Byzantine Scholarship.

Maurice Pomerantz (New York University-Abu Dhabi), The Maqāmāt Between Philology and World Literature.

Edel Bhreathnach (Discovery Programme: Centre for Archaeology and Innovation Ireland), Kings, Ceremonies, and Landscapes: Understanding the Royal Sites of Ireland.

Shady Nasser (Cambridge University), Is Qurʾān bad Poetry? Evolution and Creationism in the Arabic Literary Tradition.

Katelyn Mesler (Hebrew University), “In the Language of the Christians”: On the Role of Latin among Late Medieval Sephardic Jews.

Yaacob Dweck (Princeton University), The Ordeal of Jacob Sasportas: Jewish Messianism and the Sephardic Diaspora in the Seventeenth Century.

Book launch party for What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic by Shahab Ahmed (†)

Adam Talib (American University in Cairo), How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic?

Harvard, Spanish Medieval Art, and the Pilgrimage Road to Santiago: A Tribute to Professor Serafín Moralejo. With presentations by José Manuel Martínez Sierra (Real Colegio Complutense), Luis Girón Negrón (Harvard University), Francisco Prado-Vilar (Andrew Mellon Santiago Cathedral Program), and José Luis Moralejo (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares). For more information, please visit the...