Theodore Beers (Freie Universität Berlin), From Arabic to Persian and Halfway Back Again: Naṣr Allāh Munshī’s Kalīla and Dimna. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

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Nicholas Boylston (Seattle University), The Secrets of Sanā’ī’s Gathering: A Poem from the Khurasani Majāles-e Va‘ẓ (Sessions of Sermonizing) as a Window onto Twelfth-Century Persian Metaphysical Literature. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Read more about MHC Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar

Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto), The Rule of Recognition and the Consolidation of the Maliki Madhhab in the Fourteenth Century. Please RSVP... Read more about AISP Islamic Studies Seminar

David Stifter (Maynooth University), ... Read more about GSAS Indo-European and Historical Workshop

David Stifter (Maynooth University), OG(H)AM: A Digitisation Project for the Earliest Gaelic Writing System. Sponsored by the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures.

David Stifter (Maynooth University), The Riddler and the Joker Write Early Irish Poetry. Co-sponsored by the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures. Read more about MHC Celtic Literature and Culture Seminar

Shireen Hamza (History of Science) and Eric Moses Gurevitch (NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University), The Promise of Medieval Sciences, the Perils of Global History. This will be a hybrid event; email Mateo Montoya to register for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and receive the precirculated paper.

Radhika Koul (Stanford University), Postcolonial Conversations: The Poetic Subject in Medieval Kashmir and Early Modern Europe.

Mojtaba Ebrahimian (Harvard University), The European Other and the Persianate Self in the Earliest Persian Travelogues of Europe. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Read more about MHC Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar

Deeana Klepper (Boston University), Christians and Jews in Late Medieval Guides for Parish Priests: Local Approaches and Lived Religion. Read more about Medieval History Graduate Workshop

Shiraz Hajiani (AISP Postdoctoral Fellow), Manifesto of the Great Resurrection (Qiyāmat-i buzurg): Examining a Rare Subaltern Nizari Ismaili Shi'i Treatise from the Twelfth Century. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

Matthias Egeler (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Landscape and Labor in the Footsteps of the Saints.

Sarah Kuenzler (University of Glasgow), Memory and the Future in Early Irish Literature.

At the top of a painting of a Crucifixion by Pietro Lorenzetti (c. 1280–1348), an angel holds in one hand an unfurled scroll and in the other a bloody tunic. Never previously noted, let alone explained, this unique combination of motifs provides the key to understanding the panel’s unusual imagery. It sheds fresh light on the complex nexus between art, piety, and theology in fourteenth-century Italy, in particular at Assisi—the site of the mother house of the Franciscan order, where the panel most likely was made. This presentation by Jeffrey F. Hamburger (Department of History of Art and... Read more about Flesh and Fabric: New Light on a Crucifixion by Pietro Lorenzetti

Yi Ran Angela Zhang (SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History), Race, Slavery, and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Florence.