CMES is pleased to present the 2022 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic & Islamic Studies Lecture Series with

Michael Cooperson
Professor of Arabic, University of California, Los Angeles

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/368RNFq

Information about the second lecture in this two-part series can be found here: https://bit.ly/347scw4​​​​​​​.

Please note: This lecture will be online via Zoom, and everyone wishing to attend should register using the link above. Limited in-person seating for Harvard students and faculty may become available. If so, Harvard students and faculty who have registered will be notified of the campus location for the talk. This process will be by invitation-only.... Read more about Rethinking Arabic Literary History

The Mahindra Center for the Humanities Rethinking Translation Seminar presents

Adriana X. Jacobs
Associate Professor and Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature; Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford... Read more about The Catastrophe of Translation

The Committee on Medieval Studies presents

Samuel England
Associate Professor of Arabic, University of Wisconsin-Madison... Read more about Arabic Classes and Classics in the Opera House

The Asia Center Seminar Series, CMES, and the Department of Comparative Literature present a panel on the politics of literary language with

Shaden Tageldin, University of Minnesota
Nergis Ertürk, Pennsylvania State University
Fallou Ngom, Boston University
Henk Maier, University of California Riverside, Emeritus... Read more about The Transregional Politics of Literary Language: Comparative Work across African and Asian Contexts

The CMES Arabian Peninsula Studies Lecture Series presents the author and translator of The Bamboo Stalk

Saud Alsanousi, author of IPAF-winning novel The Bamboo Stalk, and

Jonathan Wright, award-winning translator of The Bamboo Stalk

Please note: seating is limited.... Read more about Saud Alsanousi and Jonathan Wright on "The Bamboo Stalk"