Past Events

NELC Drop-In Advising

October 5, 2026

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10:00AM - 12:00PM EDT

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NELC Office, Room 106

In Person

Stop by NELC for coffee, pastries, and drop-in advising with the NELC Student Coordinator. Meet one-on-one to learn more about the opportunities available to you, including full, joint, and double concentrations; secondary fields; study abroad; language...

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Armenian Scribes and Cantors Through the Ages

September 30, 2026

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6:00PM EDT

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Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Room 201

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What’s Truth Got to Do With It? Logic as (Mere) Instrument in Philosophy of the Islamic World

September 25, 2026

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4:00PM EDT

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Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East

In Person

Co-sponsored with Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program Fall Seminar Peter Adamson , Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, LMU in Munich Abstract A commonplace of ancient Aristotelianism that passed into the Arabic tradition was...

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Language Placement Exams

Jul. 22 - Aug 3, 2026

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All day

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Fall 2026 Please see information below re: placement procedures, listed by language: Arabic (administered online) Exam Dates: Summer, Fall, and Spring in advance of registration For Fall 2026 registration: Now through 3 August 2026 (for incoming students)...

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Seminar: A Berber Sufi Scholar who Spoke Truth to Power in Arabic: The Remarkable Life of al-Hasan al-Yusi by Justin Stearns

April 22, 2026

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4:00PM EDT

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Center for Middle Eastern Studies

In Person

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Book Talk: Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship and Technology in Colonial India

April 16, 2026

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4:00PM EDT

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Barker Center Room 133

In Person

Amanda Lanzillo, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Co-sponsors: Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Department of South Asian Studies, and Mahindra Humanities Center Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar

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Arabic Cultural Night

April 9, 2026

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5:00PM EDT

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Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, 3rd floor gallery

In Person

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Heresy and Excommunication in Tenth-Century Armenia: Hierarchs, Abbots, Monks, and Tondrakites

April 8, 2026

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4:30PM EDT

In Person

Cosponsored with the Center for the Study of World Religions (Harvard Divinity School) and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies

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Manuscripts to Megabytes: Evolving Editorial Practices and Challenges in Arabic Manuscripts from the Premodern to the Digital Age by Sabine Schmidtke

April 2, 2026

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5:00PM EDT

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CGIS Knafel, Room 262

In Person

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The BADR Project (7th-21st c.): A TEI-XML Analysis of Premodern Islamic Texts and Beyond

April 2, 2026

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12:00PM EDT

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Zoom lecture

In Person

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Book Talk: "An Islamic Legal Philosophy: Ibn ʿAbd al-Salam and the Ethical Turn in Islamic Law" by Mariam Sheibani

April 1, 2026

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4:00PM EDT

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CMES 102

In Person

Mariam Sheibani is an Assistant Professor at Brandeis University. Cosponsor: Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program

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Book Talk: "Language and Being in al-Fārābī: The Philosophy of Taškīk" by Rosabel Ansari

March 25, 2026

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4:30PM EDT

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CMES 102

In Person

Rosabel Ansari is an Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University.

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