Conceptualizing Planets in Cuneiform Culture
October 8, 2025
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5:00PM - 6:00PM EDT
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Sever Hall, Room 107, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Book Event: Edom in Judah
May 5, 2025
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5:00PM - 7:00PM EDT
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Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St.
The Ethic of Education in Ismaili History and Thought
April 30, 2025
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6:30PM - 8:00PM EDT
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Swartz Hall, Garvin Room, 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
Can the Muslim Intellectual Heritage be read Independently of Europe? Ibn Khaldūn, Ibn ʿArafa, and the Decline Narrative
April 8, 2025
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4:00PM - 5:30PM EDT
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CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138
This paper interrogates the epistemological frameworks through which the intellectual heritage of Muslim societies has been constructed, with particular attention to the case of Ibn Khaldūn (d. 808 AH / 1406 CE) and Ibn ʿArafa al-Warghamī (d. 803 AH /...
Poetry Night 2025
April 1, 2025
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5:30PM - 7:30PM EDT
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Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Third Floor Gallery
Join us for an evening of favorite poetry, dance, and song in multiple languages Harvard ID Holders Only Sponsored by the Aga Khan Foundation If you or an event participant requires disability-related accommodations, please contact nelc@fas.harvard.edu.
Proseminar: Amorite Umma: A New Chapter in the Urban History
March 11, 2025
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10:30AM - 11:30AM EDT
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Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
The Iraqi archaeological expedition to Umma (Tell Jokha) from 1999 to 2002 discovered hundreds of cuneiform texts from the time of Sumuel of Larsa, both in the temple of Shara and in the municipal center. With this textual and archaeological data, Umma...
Contemporary Iraq's Minority Cultures: Preservation and Promotion of Assyrian/Syriac/Chaldean Heritage
March 10, 2025
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4:00PM - 6:00PM EDT
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Emerson Hall, Room 108, 19 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Mishael & Lillie Naby Assyrian Lecture Fund Presents A Lecture by Kaldo Ramzi, Director General of the Syriac Culture and Arts Directorate at the Ministry of Culture in Kurdistan Regional Government
Symposium: Edom, Moab, and Ammon: Recent Research and Future Prospects in the Archaeology of Iron Age Jordan
March 10, 2025
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2:00PM - 6:00PM EDT
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Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Crafting Scripts of Exchange: Rethinking the Emergence of Writing Systems in the East Mediterranean (2350-1450 BCE)
March 5, 2025
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6:00PM - 7:00PM EST
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Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Room 201
Crafting Scripts of Exchange: Rethinking the Emergence of Writing Systems in the East Mediterranean (2350-1450 BCE) Nadia Ben-Marzouk , Fellow, W. F. Albright Institute
Armenian Musicians from Azerbaijan: Legacy and Memory
February 11, 2025
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4:30PM - 6:00PM EST
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CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jonathan Hollis PhD Candidate in Musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ethnic Armenians were part of Azerbaijan’s musical culture throughout the 20th century. These musicians created their own musical community in Baku, and...
Teaching Arabic as a Second Language: Level One Workshop
Jan. 13 - Jan 17, 2025
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9:00AM - 2:00PM EST
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Online only via Zoom
Workshop Time: 13 - 17 January 2025, Daily from 9am to 2:00pm Washington DC time (EST) Workshop Location: Via Zoom Workshop Tuition: None Workshop Language: Arabic Workshop Audience: Priority for new, second-language Arabic instructors (5 years or fewer...
Exploring Sectarian Identity in Islam
November 15, 2024
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3:00PM - 4:30PM EST
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Swartz Hall, 120 James Room East, 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
Although the sectarian labels of Sunni and Shi’a are widely used today to cover a range of identities and beliefs held by Muslims across the Islamic World, there are many foundational questions remaining over the origins of sectarian identity in Islam as...