Nov 15 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Talk: “Chasing Floods: the Ottoman Introduction of Rice in the Balkan Peninsula” by Aleksandar Shopov, CMES, Harvard University, November 15, 2023
Nov 16 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Seminar: “Revisiting History: Nurullah Shushtari on Shī’ī Historiography, Taqiyya & The Pre-Savafid Era” by Shahrad Shahvand, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University, November 16, 2023
Nov 17 All day Winter Excursion to Tunisia: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, November 17, 2023
Nov 22 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Webinar: Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya (7th-16th centuries): The emirate of the Banū Tellīs in the 15th c. CE, November 22, 2023
Nov 27 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Talk: “Three Strikes and She’s Out: The Origins and Expansion of a Divorce and Remarriage Stipulation in Q 2:230” by Lyall Armstrong, Alwaleed Bin Talal Director’s Series, Harvard Law School, Lewis 214, November 27, 2023 @ 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Nov 28 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Talk: “The ‘Khitat’ of al-Maqrizi: Narrating History on the Tempo of ‘Kharab'” by Nasser Rabat, CMES, Harvard University, November 28, 2023
Nov 29 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Talk: “Locusts of Power” by Samuel Dolbee, CMES, Harvard University, November 29, 2023
Nov 30 All day Prize: Nominations for the Mark Tushnet Prize in Comparative Law, AALS, November 30, 2023
Nov 30 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Seminar: “Ineffability and Adequation: Symmetries between ‘Ayn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī’s Theory of Language, Ontology and Mystical Epistemology” by Nicholas Boylston, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University, November 30, 2023
Dec 1 All day Call for Papers: EMPIRE: In Theory and In Middle East History, American University in Cairo, December 1, 2023