LANGUAGE CONTACT IN CENTRAL ASIA

Adam McCollum, University of Notre Dame

A workshop for students offering the opportunity for a broad look at the linguistically diverse textual witness to life on the Silk Road(s), or Central Asia, during the 9th–13th centuries. Registration is required. Registration closes September 27.

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The Department of Hispanic Studies invites you to a talk by Department undergrad alum Patricia Manning, University of Kansas. This will be held on Monday 25th September @ 6:00pm, Music Room, 84 Prospect Street, Rochambeau House.

Title:

Commodification and (the) Capital: Madrid and Materiality in Editions of María de Zayas

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"Between Corporation and State: The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge in the Early Nineteenth Century."

Maryam Patton : "Copernicus in Istanbul: Transmission and Translation in the 17th Century"

PLEASE NOTE, THE TIME IS 4PM, NOT 12PM. 

Please join the Early Science Working Group for a special event: a presentation by Edna Bonhomme, on Tuesday October 24th, from 4-6 pm, in Science Center 469. This talk will be cohosted by the Early Modern Workshop. Refreshments will be served.

Additionally, we are hosting a coffee hour with Edna on Wednesday morning, 10 - 11 am October 25th, at Science Center 359. All folks interested in a chance to speak...

What is Death? Xuanzang on the Nature of Mortality

The Islamic Africa Seminar will be discussing the book Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria and the introduction of Intermediaries, Interpreters and Clerks. Please join us for a fruitful discussion on Muslim intermediaries in Colonial Africa. All disciplines and backgrounds are welcome. Lunch will be served. Please email Iman Mohamed (imm862@g.harvard.edu) to RSVP, for...

 Jeffrey Miller (English, Montclair State University)

Sponsored by the Book History Seminar

Rachel Buurma, Swarthmore College

Petra McGillen, Dartmouth College

Simon Reader, City University of New York

The Novel and its Working Methods: A Workshop

Abstracts

Rachel Buurma (English, Swarthmore College)
"The Preparation of the Victorian Novel"

What might we gain from thinking about the composition of novels and the criticism of them as more similar than different? Following Roland Barthes’s “The Preparation of the Novel,” I ask how understanding...

Join us for an evening discussion on the life and career of Linda Francis James Benitt, the first female graduate of the Harvard T.H. Chan...

Free Public Lecture

Miroslav Bárta, Professor, Czech Institute of Egyptology

Abusir, the “Place of Osiris,” is a necropolis (burial site) near the Old Kingdom’s city of Memphis, known for its pyramids and sun temples. In this lecture, Miroslav Bárta will...

Salima Ikram, Visiting Professor, Yale University; Distinguished University Professor, Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology, The American University in Cairo

The relationship between humans and animals is complex, with mutual dependencies that are practical,...