LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Making a Buddhist State: Productivity as a Political Value in Early Modern Tibet
Ian MacCormack, Khyentse Lecturer in Buddhist Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
If you would like to attend via Zoom, please register at https://myumi.ch/m72AZ...
Winter 2023 MEMS Lecture. Blood, Fat, and Fear in Seventeenth-Century Travelogues
Gitanjali Shahani, San Francisco State University
Why do travelers, past and present, dwell on scenes of disgusting food preparation and consumption? Modern audiences might be familiar with...
Spring 2023 MEMS Lecture. In the Aftermath of the Divine Winds: Religious Responses to the Mongol Threat and the Medieval Reimagining of Japan
Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University
Twice in the late thirteenth century, the Mongol empire launched attack fleets against Japan. On both occasions, they were repelled by...
The Place of Greek Paleography in the Cultural and Literary History of Byzantium
Professor E. Velkovska, University of Siena
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 4-5 (public lecture)...
The Place of Greek Paleography in the Cultural and Literary History of Byzantium
Professor E. Velkovska, University of Siena
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 4-5 (public lecture)...
EIHS Lecture: Speak Politely to the Ancestors: Gender and Moral Community in Southeastern Africa's Second Millennium CE
Raevin Jimenez (University of Michigan)
In the ninth-century South African Highveld, Nguni-speakers lost their ancestors. They would spend nearly a millennium seeking new ones and...
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Fields of Memory: Movement and Stasis in the Noh Play Ohara gokō
Elizabeth Oyler, Associate Professor of Japanese, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh
If you wish to attend this event via Zoom, please register at http://myumi.ch/kyXMk...
EIHS Lecture: Writing Enslaved Women’s Histories from the Crevices of the Archive
Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins University)
This presentation offers an intimate portrait of the life of an enslaved woman, known as Abba, who appears multiple times in the diary of a...
CSAS Trautmann Honorary Lecture | Bhoja Among the Gonds: Place, Memory and the Afterlives of Kingship in Medieval India
Daud Ali, University of Pennsylvania
The presentation will consider the social memory of the eleventh-century medieval king Bhoja, widely known as a polymath, author, patron,...
