Event Types
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CMENAS Colloquium Series. The Reshaping of Persian after the Seventh-Century Arabian Conquest and Colonization
Kevin van Bladel, Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization, Yale University
The 2019 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Migration in the Islamicate World."...
The Lyric Authority of Goats and Women
Dr. Elizabeth Hebbard, Indiana University Bloomington
This talk explores the world of names, naming, and namelessness in troubadour songs and in the manuscripts that transmit them. I show how...
The Premodern Colloquium. Remember the Hand: The Articulate Codex in Early Medieval Iberia
Catherine Brown, U-M Comparative Literature
The Premodern Colloquium is a faculty and graduate-student discussion group, now in its forty-first year of continuous operation. We meet...
Vampire Trouble is More Serious Than the Mighty Plague: A Comparative Look at the History of Evil and Mischief, Inspired by Evliya Çelebi (1611 - ca. 1684)
Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University
A Curious and Most Wonderous Account of the Blood-Sucking Dead, or A Contribution to the History and Folklore of the Belief in Vampires in...
The Premodern Colloquium. Mythical Allegory and Divine Illumination in Giles of Viterbo's Commentary on the Sentences of Petrus Lombardus
Matteo Milesi, U-M Classical Studies
The Premodern Colloquium is a faculty and graduate-student discussion group, now in its forty-first year of continuous operation. We meet...
Medieval Lunch. A Mediterranean Ecumene: Intellectual Contacts and Networks in the Late Medieval Mediterranean.
Samet Budak, Middle East Studies
The Medieval Lunch Series is an informal program for sharing works-in-progress and fostering community among medievalists at the University...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Emperor Has No Voice: Imperial Utterance in Excavated Han Documents
Charles Sanft, Associate Professor and Associate Head, Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
The emperor was at the center of Chinese political theory throughout the imperial period. Sometimes this theoretical position found...
Between Life and Death: The Cultural Politics of Modern Spanish Medicine, 1770-1808
Nicolás Fernández Medina, Pennsylvania State University
In 1770, Charles III of Spain issued a royal decree to overhaul the university system throughout his kingdom. As part of this overhaul, a...
Medieval Lunch. Architectural Representations in Late Medieval Donor Portraits
Alice Isabella Sullivan, History of Art
The Medieval Lunch Series is an informal program for sharing works-in-progress and fostering community among medievalists at the University...
The Premodern Colloquium. Guillaume Postel's De la Republique des Turcs (1560): An Encounter with the Other
Valentina Denzel, Romance & Classical Studies, Michigan State University
The Premodern Colloquium is a faculty and graduate-student discussion group, now in its forty-first year of continuous operation. We meet...
