All meetings will take place in Jones 102 at 12pm unless otherwise noted. A light lunch will be served.
February 19
Yaara Perlman (NES, Princeton), “The Imruʾ al-Qays tribal group of Tamīm from Jāhiliyya to Islam”
Discussant: Ahmed Y. AlMaazmi (NES, Princeton)
March 4
Drew Bolinger (CSU Fullerton), “Competing Visions: Reexamining the conflicts between Antioch and Edessa in the early 12th century”
Discussant: Brendan Goldman (Judaic Studies, Princeton)
April 1
Joe Glynias (History, Princeton), “Baghdad in Byzantium: The Arabic translation of the Philosophical Chapters by Antonios”
Discussant: Teddy Fassberg (Classics, Princeton)
April 2 – Jones Hall 202
Guest Speaker: Professor Devin Stewart (Emory University), “Ibn al-Nadīm’s discussion of the world’s scripts in the Fihrist.”
April TBD
Jame Pelling (NES, Princeton), “he Order of Morality in the Late Ottoman Empire”
Discussant: TBD