Seminar Series 2021-22
Fall Webinars hosted by Professor Marina Rustow
Topic: The Early Years of Ottoman Rule in Egypt in the Light of the Cairo Geniza
Speaker: Jane Hathaway, Ohio State University
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Topic: Burn after Reading! Christian Arab Merchant Letters of the Eastern Mediterranean around 1800
Speaker: Boris Liebrenz, Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Leipzig
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Topic: Epistolary Spaces and Sacred Networks: A Reappraisal of the Ahrari Naqshbandi Tariqa
Speaker: Gibran Siddiqui, Princeton University
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Topic: Everyone Loves a Good Pirate Tale: On the “Discovery” of a Seventeenth-Century Yemeni Coin in Rhode Island
Speaker: Nancy Um, Binghamton University
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Topic: The “Qarmathian” Qur’an: From the Mausoleum to the Museum
Speaker: Alya Karame, American University of Beirut
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Topic: Patterns of Institutional and Elite Transformation in Early Modern Yemen (15th - 17th Centuries)
Speaker: Ekaterina Pukhovaia, Princeton University
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Topic: Barley, Wheat, and Ex-Communication: A Study of Judeo-Persian Correspondence from Eleventh-Century Bamiyan
Speaker: Ofir Haim
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Past Seminar Series Recordings
Seminar Series 2020- 21
Fall Webinars hosted by Professor Lara Harb
Topic: Near Eastern Studies Seminar Series #2 "The Englishing of al-Hariri’s Maqamat"
Speaker: Michael Cooperson, The University of California, Los Angeles
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Topic: Near Eastern Studies Seminar Series #4: “Egypt's Successful Transition to Failed Capitalism”
Speaker: Amr Adly, American University in Cairo
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Topic: NES Seminar Series #5 Visions of Deliverance. Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Speaker: Mayte Green-Mercado, Rutgers University- Newark
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Topic: NES Seminar Series #7 "Print and the Arabo-Islamic Renaissance"
Speaker: Ahmed El Shamsy, The University of Chicago
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Topic: “NES Seminar Series #8 The Literary Qurʾan”
Speaker: Hoda El Shakry, University of Chicago
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Topic: NES Seminar Series #9 "Mapping Medicine with the Platonic Cosmos in the Medieval Islamicate World"
Speaker: Aileen Das, Universisty of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Topic: NES Seminar Series #10 "Of Two Worlds: Ottoman Muslims Between Empire and Nation (1878-1908)"
Milena Methodieva, University of Toronto
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Topic: NES Seminar Series #11 The Islamic Age of Communication
Speaker: Beatrice Gruendler, Freie Universitat Berlin
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Topic: NES Seminar Series #12 Sirat 'Antar and formation of Arab tribal identity in Mamluk Egypt
Speaker: Yossef Rapoport, Queen Mary University of London
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