Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland St. in Cambridge.
International Conference: Reorganizing the Middle East 1912-1948
November 13-14, 2018
Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland St. in Cambridge.
The Balkan Wars of 1912-13 and the First World War led to the collapse and partition of the Ottoman Empire, the establishment of League of Nations Mandates for Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Syria, and the creation of the state system of the twentieth century Middle East. This conference will consider these topics, with particular focus on the mandates...
Sari Nusseibeh in Conversation with Homi Bhabha on Jerusalem: What Sharing a City Means Sari Nusseibeh is Professor of Islamic and Political Philosophy and Former President of Al-Quds University. Homi Bhabha is Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard.
Mahindra Humanities Center Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
Tuesday, October 30, 2018 @ 5:00PM
Soul Food and Salvation: Eating Animals in Medieval Ashkenaz
One of the unique features of the Jewish artwork of medieval Ashkenaz is its persistent zoomorphism—illuminated manuscripts produced by and for Jews in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Germany feature images of women and men with the heads of oxen, donkeys, birds, and so on. While art historians have offered various halakhic, polemical, and iconographical explanations for this aesthetic idiosyncrasy, this presentation will seek to situate Ashkenazic...