Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Room 201, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Associate Professor of Muslim Societies, Georgetown University
Over the course of the twentieth century, Shia Ismaili Muslim communities were repeatedly displaced. How, in the aftermath of these displacements, did they remake their communities? Professor Shenila Khoja-Moolji highlights women's...
William James Hall Room 105, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Adam Mestyan, Associate Professor of History, Duke University
In this talk, I argue that the concepts of new imperial history better describe and explain state-making among the post-Ottoman Arab peoples than the old national, imperial, colonial, and postcolonial vocabularies. First, I introduce the main terms in my recent monograph, Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking The Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East (...
William James Hall Room 105, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Dr. Andrew Danielson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of British Columbia
Andrew Danielson received his PhD in Levantine Archaeology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2020 and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia. He is the Field Director of the Town of Nebo Archaeological Project, excavating the site of Khirbat al-Mukhayyat in Jordan. There he leads the investigation of the Iron Age contexts, examining questions related to cross-cultural interaction and sociopolitical changes at the...
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, 6 Divinity Ave, Room 201, Cambridge, MA 02138
In this workshop, students will learn how satellite technology is transforming the documentation of cultural heritage in contexts of armed conflict and genocide. The workshop will explore a range of case studies from around the world – from the Caucasus to China, from Syria to Ukraine – to learn how researchers acquire, organize, and assess satellite imagery, maps, and cultural heritage inventories, and how they disseminate findings of cultural erasure in different fora.
Adam T. Smith is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Anthropology at Cornell...