Zayde Antrim is Professor of History and International Studies at Trinity College (Hartford, CT) and currently Patricia Crone Member in Near Eastern and Islamic Studies at the IAS. She is the author of Routes and Realms: The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Mapping the Middle East (Reaktion Books…
Amanda H. Podany, Professor Emeritus of History at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, specializes in the study of Syria and Mesopotamia in the Middle and Late Bronze Age. She is the author of several books, including Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East (Oxford University Press, 2022), for…
Guest speaker Noura Erakat
Human rights attorney and an Associate Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice.
Christine Roughan is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Digital Humanities and Manuscript, Rare Book and Archive Studies. Christine earned her Ph.D. in the Ancient World from New York University in January 2023, where her doctoral work explored a premodern astronomical curriculum and its continued use in Greek and Arabic…
Aslı Ü. Bâli is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Bâli’s teaching and research interests include public international law — particularly human rights law and the law of the international security order — and comparative constitutional law, with a focus on the Middle East. She has written on the nuclear nonproliferation regime,…