CMES is pleased to present the 2024 Annual H.A.R. Gibb Lectures

The Byzantine and Ottoman intellectual encounter, 14th–16th centuries

April 8: The historiographical stakes
April 9: Bureaucrats in Greek and Arabic: archival documents
April 11: Intellectuals in Greek and Arabic: Philosophy and the Sciences

with

Maria Mavroudi, Professor of Byzantine History, University of California, Berkeley, with additional appointments at the departments of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

These lectures are dedicated to the memory of Cornell Fleischer.... Read more about The Byzantine and Ottoman intellectual encounter, 14th–16th centuries: Intellectuals in Greek and Arabic: Philosophy and the Sciences

CMES is pleased to present the 2024 Annual H.A.R. Gibb Lectures

The Byzantine and Ottoman intellectual encounter, 14th–16th centuries

April 8: The historiographical stakes
April 9: Bureaucrats in Greek and Arabic: archival documents
April 11: Intellectuals in Greek and Arabic: Philosophy and the Sciences

with

Maria Mavroudi, Professor of Byzantine History, University of California, Berkeley, with additional appointments at the departments of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

These lectures are dedicated to the memory of Cornell Fleischer.... Read more about The Byzantine and Ottoman intellectual encounter, 14th–16th centuries: Bureaucrats in Greek and Arabic: archival documents

CMES is pleased to present the 2024 Annual H.A.R. Gibb Lectures

The Byzantine and Ottoman intellectual encounter, 14th–16th centuries

April 8: The historiographical stakes
April 9: Bureaucrats in Greek and Arabic: archival documents
April 11: Intellectuals in Greek and Arabic: Philosophy and the Sciences

with

Maria Mavroudi, Professor of Byzantine History, University of California, Berkeley, with additional appointments at the departments of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

These lectures are dedicated to the memory of Cornell Fleischer.... Read more about The Byzantine and Ottoman intellectual encounter, 14th–16th centuries: The historiographical stakes

The CMES New Works in Middle East Studies series presents

Ayfer Karakaya-Stump
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of William & Mary... Read more about Book talk: "The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics, and Community"

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Rashid Khalidi
Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University

Moderated by: Kirsten Weld, Professor of History, Harvard University

**Open to Harvard ID holders only**... Read more about Gaza: A Colonial War?

CMES presents the annual CMES Hrant Dink Memorial lecturer

PD Dr. Talin Suciyan
Associate Professor (Privat Dozentin) of Turkish Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich... Read more about Listening to the voices of Ottoman Armenians: “Either save us from this misery, or order our death” ("Ya derdimize derman, ya katlimize ferman")

The CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series presents

Zozan Pehlivan
Assistant Professor of History, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Mellon Fellow at Newberry Library, Chicago... Read more about The Political Ecology of Violence in the Last Ottoman Century

The CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series presents

Faisal Husain
Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, College of the Liberal Arts, Penn State... Read more about Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire

The CMES New Works in Middle East Studies series presents

New Histories of Algeria: A Book Panel with

Muriam Haleh Davis, Associate Professor, History, UC Santa Cruz; and author of Markets of Civilization: Racial Capitalism and Islam in Algeria, and

Sara Rahnama, Assistant Professor, History & Geography, Morgan State University; and author of The Future is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria

Discussant: Myriam Amri, PhD Candidate in Anthropology and Middle East Studies, CMES, Harvard University
... Read more about New Histories of Algeria: A Book Panel

The CMES New Works in Middle East Studies series presents

Deniz Türker
Assistant Professor, Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of Art History, Rutgers University

Discussant: Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, Associate Professor of History, Northeastern University... Read more about Book talk "The Accidental Palace: The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul"

The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies presents

Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Professor of International Relations, Sabancı University; Senior Scholar and Research and Academic Affairs Coordinatorlicy Center, Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University

Atila Eralp, Professor Emeritus in the Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Ankara; Member of the Mercator-Istanbul Policy Center (IPC) International Advisory Council (2019-2023), International Advisory Council

Fuat Keyman, Professor of International Relations, Sabancı University; Vice President for Institutional Affairs and Social Impact, Sabanci University; Director, Istanbul Policy Center, and

Andrew O'Donohue, Ph.D. Student in Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Chair: Lenore Martin, Professor of Political Science, Emmanuel College; Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Associate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University... Read more about Turkey and the West: Autonomy and Contestation in a Changing Global Order

The CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series presents

Elizabeth R. Williams
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Massachusetts Lowell... Read more about States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean

The CMES New Works in Middle East Studies series presents

Andrew G. Simon
Senior Lecturer, Middle Eastern Studies, Dartmouth College... Read more about Book talk "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"

The CMES New Works in Middle East Studies series presents

Beeta Baghoolizadeh
Associate Research Scholar, Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been CANCELLED.... Read more about CANCELLED Book talk "The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran"