Gibb Lecture Series

The Hamilton A.R. Gibb Lecture Series in Islamic history, social studies and culture was established at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in 1964 with funds generously donated by Mr. John Goelet, himself a student of Professor Gibb. It stands as a memorial to Sir Gibb’s longstanding commitment to the expansion and deepening of teaching and research on the Middle East at Harvard and beyond. Professor Gibb was Harvard's Jewett Professor of Arabic. His distinguished publication record included Islamic Society and the West plus Mohammedanism, both considered classics in the study of the Middle East. As director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies from 1957 to 1966, Professor Gibb became a leader of the movement in American universities to set up centers of regional studies, bringing together teachers, researchers, and students in different disciplines to study the culture and society of a region of the world. Named as a university professor, Mr. Gibb joined the elite ranks of senior Harvard faculty who were regarded as "individuals of distinction ... working on the frontiers of knowledge, and in such a way as to cross the conventional boundaries of the specialties." 

Chair: Cemal Kafadar

Academic Year 2023–24

2024 Apr 08

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

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Belfer Case Study Rm, CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

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

2024 Apr 09

The Byzantine and Ottoman intellectual encounter, 14th–16th centuries: Bureaucrats in Greek and Arabic: archival documents

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Belfer Case Study Rm, CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

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

2024 Apr 11

The Byzantine and Ottoman intellectual encounter, 14th–16th centuries: Intellectuals in Greek and Arabic: Philosophy and the Sciences

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Knafel 262, Bowie-Vernon Rm, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

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