Reyhan Durmaz (University of Pennsylvania), Daughter, Healer, Soldier, Spy: Finding Communities in the Medieval Middle Eastern Countryside. Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies at Harvard University. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; click... Read more about East of Byzantium Lecture Series

Adam Afterman (Tel Aviv University): Kabbalistic Neoplatonism: Divine Emanation and Mystical Integration.

Professor Afterman will address the profound impact of Neoplatonism on Kabbalah, the medieval trend of Jewish mysticism. While its impact on the development of a new form of mystical religiosity of communion and unio mystica is relatively known, he will focus on another critical development: Afterman will argue that through...

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The 42nd annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium, featuring a keynote address by Gregory Darwin (Uppsala University). For more information, please click here. Read more about Harvard Celtic Colloquium

Helen Fulton (University of Bristol), Place and Emotion in Medieval Irish and Welsh Narrative. Reception to follow. Sponsored by the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures. Read more about John V. Kelleher Memorial Lecture

Rachel Goshgarian (Lafayette College), Where Is Armenia? A Pilgrimage to the Sources, a Traveling towards Thirteenth-Century Armenian Conceptions of the World and the Armenian(ate) Sphere. Co-sponsored by the Hrant Dink CMES Fund and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Read more about CMES Lecture: "Where is Armenia?"

Alex Garnick (History of Science), Van Roomen on al-Khwārizmī and the Divergence of Early Modern Algebras. This meeting will take place in-person and on Zoom. Please contact analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu for Zoom link.

 

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Gio DiRusso and Julia Hintlian (Committee on the Study of Religion), Eclectic Hellenistic Science in the Sirr al-Khaliqa. This meeting will take place in-person and on Zoom. Please contact analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu for Zoom link.

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Tellings, Translations, and the Uncanny: Thinking about Dastan-e Amir Hamza, featuring Mariam Zia (Lahore School of Economics; Fellow at the South Asia Institute) in conversation with Ali Asani (Harvard University). Sponsored by the Harvard University Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute; please RSVP here.

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Slavery in Later Medieval Mediterranean Europe, featuring presentations by Prof. Daniel Smail (History, Harvard University) and Dr. Angela Zhang (History, Harvard University). Reception to follow.

Parwana Fayyaz (Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge), Modern Heroines: Women in Classical Persian Literature. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

 

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Nasrin Askari (University of Birmingham), An Intimate Companion from a Twelfth-Century Royal Court of Azerbaijan: The Mūnis-nāma and Its Audience. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

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Marie-Luise Theuerkauf (University of Cambridge), Decoding Irish Arthuriana: The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in Medieval Ireland. Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures.

Alya Karame (AKPIA Fellow; Orient-Institut Beirut and Collège de France), The Sulayhid Qur’an: Stories of Connections and Belonging of a Short-Lived Dynasty. Read more about AKPIA Lecture Series

Joel Walker (University of Washington), The Öngüt Connection: Christianity among the Turks of Medieval Eurasia. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about East of Byzantium Lecture Series

Roy Mottahedeh (Gurney Research Professor of History, Harvard University) discusses his new book In the Shadow of the Prophet: Essays in Islamic History (Oneworld, 2023) with Khaled El-Rouayheb (James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and Islamic Intellectual History) and Cemal Kafadar (Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies). Co-sponsored... Read more about In the Shadow of the Prophet: a conversation with Roy Mottahedeh