LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Cultural Mediations in the Great Wall Frontier: The Southern Xiongnu in Northern China
Bryan K. Miller, Lecturer in the U-M History of Art Department
The Great Wall regions of northern China have long been characterized as frontiers of political and cultural expansion in which steppe...
MEMS Faculty Showcase: Early Islamic World 1
Samer Mahdy Ali, U-M Middle East Studies
Orientalism and the Erasure of Arab Women Poets: Reinscribing Gender in Medieval Adab Culture
The Premodern Colloquium. Gothic Art, Realism and Genre: Thoughts on Eric Auerbach
Paul Binski, University of Cambridge
This Zoom session of the Premodern Colloquium will run at 2:00PM to accommodate time differences....
MEMS Faculty Showcase: Early Islamic World 2
Kathryn Babayan, U-M History and Middle East Studies
Family Archives and Female Spaces of Intimacy in Early Modern Isfahan
EIHS Lecture: In Defense of Damascus: A Tradition in Words
Dana Sajdi, Boston College
This is a portrayal of Damascus that is based on a continuous tradition of local representations of the city that began in the twelfth...
MEMS Graduate Student Showcase 2
Luis Miguel dos Santos: Wet Nursing and Alterity in Medieval Iberia
This talk focuses on the implications of wet nursing across the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities that coexisted in medieval Iberia....
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Making of a Medium: Borrowing Views from Painting and Fiction in Early Modern Chinese Garden Design
SE Kile, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
The notion that gardens might offer a private space, apart from the larger public world and even family responsibilities, dates to the...
EIHS Lecture: Evil May Day, 1517: Xenophobia, Labour, and Politics in Early Tudor London
Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University
On the eve of May 1, 1517, later known as Evil May Day, an anti-immigrant riot broke out in London. From about nine o’clock in the evening...
MEMS Faculty Showcase: Early Islamic World 3
Cameron Cross, U-M Middle East Studies
Taming the Dragon: Monsters and Humans in Medieval Persian Epic
CSAS Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture | Who was a Muslim? Religious Ideas and Muslim Identities in Mughal North India
Muzaffar Alam, Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
What was a Muslim’s religious identity? What were the factors that influenced and shaped the making of his identity? Immediate, pragmatic,...
The Buddha in 10th-17th Century Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Narratives
Shatha Almutawa, American University
The history of exchange between Buddhists and Arabs began in pre-Islamic times and flourished in the Abbasid period with the translation of...
The Premodern Colloquium. Why Did Public Infrastructure Appear in Song Court Landscape Painting?
Gerui Wang, U-M History of Art
This essay examines the public infrastructure depicted in Northern Song (960-1127) court landscape paintings, which includes roads,...
