Speaker(s): Michael Miller , Professor of History, University of Miami

Sponsor(s):  New Directions in European History

How does one write the history of a river? In recent decades the prevailing tone...

"The Medieval Reception of Firdausi's Shahnama: The Ardashir Cycle as a Mirror for Princes"

Askari is currently at the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia.

"Of Translation and Toleration: Āẕar Kayvān (d. 1618 CE) and the 'Persian Age' (dawr-i ʻajam) in Safavid Iran and Mughal India"

...

"A Poem for All Seasons: The Language of Occasion in Early Persian Poetry"

Landau is currently at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

"Reclaiming Persian: The Safavid Literary Response to Victory at Qandahar (1649)"

...

"Conventions of Truth in Pre-modern Persian Poetry: Sincerity & Hypocrisy, Fantasy vs. Historicity, and Other Continua"

Lewis is currently at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

...

"The Dark Cradle of Modernity:
Burckhardt, Nietzsche, and the Idea of the Renaissance."

Martin Ruehl (Trinity Hall, Cambridge University)

Speaker(s): Benjamin Braude, Professor of History, Boston College

Sponsor(s):  Jews in Modern Europe; Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History; Contemporary Europe

Paradoxically Simone Weil was both one of the most polarizing thinkers in the twentieth century and an important unifying figure for both left and right in post-war France. Some called her a pacifist saint and others as bad as Hitler. This talk will argue that Weil's...

The film is set against the backdrop of unrest in East Pakistan in the late 1960s leading up to the Bangladesh War of Liberation. In this setting, a small family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the...

Free tickets available July 28th at:
Alley's General Store: 1045 State Rd. West Tisbury
Bunch of Grapes - 44 Main St. Tisbury
C'est La Vie - 51 Circuit Ave. Oak Bluffs
Edgartown Books - 44 Main St. Edgartown...

Catherine Gallagher (University of California at Berkeley):

See the University of California at Berkeley website for information on Martin Jay.