William James Hall Room 105, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Dr. Melissa Cradic, Lecturer in History and Judaic Studies at University at Albany, SUNY and Curator at the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology
Melissa S. Cradic received her Ph.D. in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology from the University of California-Berkeley. A field archaeologist specializing in the Bronze-Iron Age Levant, she currently curates a collection from Tell en-Naṣbeh at the Badè Museum and teaches history and archaeology of ancient Israel. Her research has been...
William James Hall Room B1, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Dr. Ido Koch, Senior Lecturer at the Jakob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University
Ido Koch is Senior Lecturer at the Jakob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University. He has served as co-director of Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant, a Swiss–Israeli project funded by the Swiss National Sciences Fund; co-director of the Tel Hadid Archaeological Project; co-director of Al-Haditha, an Archaeological–Historical Study of...
William James Hall Room 105, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Dr. Helen Dixon, Assistant Professor of History, East Carolina University
Helen Dixon is an interdisciplinary scholar of the ancient Mediterranean world, specializing in Phoenician history and material culture in the first millennium BCE. She teaches Near Eastern, Greek, and Public History at East Carolina University in the University of North Carolina system. She has held previous appointments at Wofford College, the University of Helsinki, and North Carolina State University, following her PhD in Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan.
William James Hall Room 105, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
A lecture by Prof. Anahit Khosroeva, Leading Researcher at the Department of Armenian Genocide Studies in the Institute of History, Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Presented by the Mishael and Lillie Naby Assyrian Lecture Fund and the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies
Co-sponsors: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Williams Chapel, Schwarz Hall, Harvard Divinity School
Join us for Mūsīqā: An Evening of Music from the Islamicate World, featuring presentations and performances in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu and other musical traditions by
Masoud Ariankhoo, PhD Student in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Bahar Badieitabar, Student, Berklee College of Music
Nicholas Boylston, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Ali Demir, Research Fellow in Neurology, Harvard Medical School
12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Room 133 – Plimpton Room, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jeanette and Ludwig Goldschmidt Bequest for the Benefit of the Center for Jewish Studies Presents
Martin Buber and Zimzum
A lecture by Prof. Dr. Christoph Schulte, Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies, Head of the Department of Jewish and Religious Studies, University of Potsdam
Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Center for Jewish Studies, and the Center for the Study of World Religions
This lecture focuses on the female characters who are at the centre of love poems written in Persian between the 10th and 15th centuries. I argue that these women, such as the ruthless Vis, the clever Shirin, the artful Fitna, the meticulous Layla, the glorious Zulikha, and even the notorious Absal, to name but a few, are distinctively modern, especially with regard to their attitudes and occupations. They engage with the physical world in different ways, and project radically distinct forms of selfhood and emancipation. They do so...
What do “folk” tales have in common with mystical treatises and advice literature for rulers? And why did a learned author at a medieval royal court decide to compile these seemingly unrelated literatures in one work for his educated, elite audience? The themes and linguistic styles of what is generally known as folk tales, at least in an Iranian context, are generally understood to be suitable for the taste and understanding of the uneducated people, not the members of the elite, who are usually presented as advocates of high culture. If these tales were meant for...
William James Hall Room 105, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
What do we mean when we say that classical Persianate poetry is highly conventional? Can we find traces of classical poets’ encounters with the real world in their beautiful but cliché-filled descriptions of ruby wine, idol-beloveds, and the multicolored silk garments of springtime? Through a few short case studies drawn from the most famous verse of Rūdakī, Farrukhī, and Yūsuf Khāṣṣ Ḥājib, I will suggest some ways that the material history of the Silk Road and the ecological study of seasonal cycles might help us to reconsider the mimetic functions and the operations of vaṣf, or...