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Worcester Art Museum Master Series Third Thursday Lecture

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David Roxburgh (Harvard University), Illustrating Epic Poetry and History in Persian Manuscripts from the Mongols to the Timurids. Presented with support from the Bernard and Louise Palitz Fund and the Amelia and Robert H. Haley Memorial Lecture Fund.

Tra liti sì lontani: Dante for the Americas

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The 2021 meeting of the Dante Society of America, an international symposium on the reception and influence of Dante and his work from Canada to Chile which both commemorates the origins of The Dante Society in nineteenth-century Cambridge and celebrates...

Shifting the Paradigm: New Studies in Islamic Art and Architecture in Honor of Gülru Necipoğlu

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A two-day symposium celebrating the teaching and research of Gülru Necipoğlu, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art, with presentations by her colleagues and former students. Sponsored by the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship in Islamic and Asian...

David Roxburgh

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David Roxburgh's research addresses the medieval and early modern Islamic arts, with a particular emphasis upon calligraphy, book production, and collecting in the Persian and Ottoman world. He is the author of Prefacing the Image: The Writing of Art...

Harvard Medieval Material Culture Lecture

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Martin Carver (University of York), Driven by Ideas: Some Archaeological Investigations of Early Medieval Transition. This event is part of the 2019 Harvard Medieval Material Culture Series The View from the Trenches: Archaeology and Medieval Studies...

Cultural Heritage Across the Christian East

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A symposium exploring the challenges of preserving the cultural heritage of the Christian East, with presentations by Michael Danti (American Schools of Oriental Research), Laurent Dissard (University College London), Karel Innemée (University of...

Flesh and Fabric: New Light on a Crucifixion by Pietro Lorenzetti

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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...

AKPIA-Medieval Studies Joint Lecture

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Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan), A Safavid Multi-Text Compendium: The Codex as a Communal Gathering of Riddles . Co-sponsored by the Harvard Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and the Committee on Medieval Studies. A Safavid multi-text...

Harvard Medieval Material Culture Workshop

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Alan Stahl (Princeton University) and Eurydice Georganteli (Harvard University), The Medieval Mediterranean Melting Pot. Attendance at this workshop is limited; to reserve a space, please click here.

Christian Africa/Medieval Africa, 300-1600 CE

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A two-day symposium exploring the long, rich, and complex history of Christian beliefs, institutions, and communities in Africa between Late Antiquity and the seventeenth century CE, bringing together an international group of researchers in medieval...

Harvard Medieval Material Culture Workshop

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Brigitte Bedos-Rezak (New York University) and Eurydice Georganteli (Harvard University), Medieval Seals: Materiality, Meaning, Agency. Attendance at this workshop is limited; to reserve a space, please click here.

Envisioning Cluny: Kenneth Conant and Representations of Medieval Architecture, 1872–2025

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Over the past century, our knowledge about medieval buildings, the purposes to which this knowledge has been applied, and the technologies which we have used to visualize them, have evolved constantly. This exhibition explores the rich tradition of...