History

2024 Apr 25

Book talk: "Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought"

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The CMES Director's Series presents a book talk with

Hayrettin Yücesoy
Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies (JIMES); Director of Graduate Studies; Resident Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Humanities (Spring 2024), Washington University, St Louis

Discussants: Cemil Aydin, Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and

Huseyin Yilmaz, Associate Professor, History and History of Art, George Mason University

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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

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 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

Derek Penslar

Derek Penslar

William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History

Derek Penslar was educated at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. He taught at Indiana University between 1987 and 1998,...

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2024 Jan 30

Gaza: A Colonial War?

6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Science Center Hall B, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138

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

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