Were Romani Astrologers the 'Missing Links' between Medieval Afro-Asian and European Print Traditions?
Mon, Apr 25, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm
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Speaker
Kristina Richardson, Associate Professor of History, Queens College, City University of New York
The Naqshbandiyya Mujaddidiyya in China
Mon, Apr 18, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm
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Speaker
Rian Thum, Senior Lecturer, East Asian History, University of Manchester
Junk Territory: Financial Collapse and Displaced Labor in Beirut
Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 1:00 pm – 1:20 pm
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Building the Islamic Metropolis: Cairo under the Mamluks
Thu, Apr 7, 2022, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Speaker
Nasser Rabbat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Complete Book of Siraj al-Din al-Sakkaki: How to Win Jinn and Influence People
Mon, Apr 4, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm
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Speaker
Emily Selove, Senior Lecturer in Medieval Arabic Language and Literature, University of Exeter
Embodying the Virgin Mary, Christ and the Nation: A Contemporary Lebanese Female Mystic and her Unconventional Conduct
Thu, Mar 31, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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Deconstructing the Cairo Geniza: Why Provenance Matters
Tue, Mar 29, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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Rebecca J. W. Jefferson
Affiliation
Curator of the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica at the University of Florida
Idle Talk and Information: Reporting Transgression, Punishment, and Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Mon, Mar 28, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm
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Speaker
Oscar Aguirre Mandujano, Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
The Erdogan Era in Turkey and Its Legacy by Soner Cagaptay
Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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Empire of Debt: Finance, Violence, and Accounting in the Ottoman Age of Crisis, 1770-1840
Mon, Mar 14, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm
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Ali Yaycioglu, Associate Professor of History, Stanford University
How Persian Slaves Freed Themselves in Nineteenth-Century Central Asia: Two Case-Studies of Emancipation
Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm
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Jeff Eden, Assistant Professor of History, St. Mary's College of Maryland
Princely Taste and Text Emendation in Timurid Iran
Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm
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Shiva Mihan, Visiting Fellow, Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
Dēn and Discourse: Mapping the Contours of Zoroastrian Thought in Pahlavi Literature
Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm
Location
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Speaker
Yuhan Vevaina, Bahari Associate Professor of Sasanian Studies, Oxford University
Interwar Medical Sciences and the Search for Ancient Races at the American University of Beirut
Mon, Feb 7, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm
Location
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Speaker
Elise Burton, Assistant Professor, Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology, University of Toronto
Virtual Creative Writing Workshop with Alaa Al Aswany in Arabic
Fri, Feb 4, 2022, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location
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Speaker
Alaa Al Aswany
Islamic Judgeship, Sectarian Narratives, and the Medieval Legal Genre of “Judicial Protocols (Adab al-Qāḍī)”
Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm
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Speaker
Raha Rafii, Research Fellow, Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
Virtual Creative Writing Workshop with Alaa Al Aswany
Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location
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Speaker
Alaa Al Aswany