Historical Studies

Creativity has a history. It is hard for us to imagine that people have not always experimented, tried out, tested—sketched—ideas before putting them into practice.  Yet, that is what the record shows: in the visual arts, for example, the medieval...

Date: November 12-13, 2021

Convenors:

Hans-Jürgen Becker (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

Kinga Dévényi (Corvinus University of Budapest, and The Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Sebastian Günther...

The IAS Ethiopian Studies Series is convened by Suzanne Akbari (IAS), Aaron Butts (CUA/IAS), Samantha L. Kelly (Rutgers U/IAS), Sabine Schmidtke (IAS)
 

NES seminars meeting from 12:00 to 1:30 pm, West Seminar room.

October 25: NES Lecture, Syriac Christianity and the Holy City of Jerusalem: Entangled Histories in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Catalin-Stefan Popa (Romanian Academy). The...

September 19: Symposium, Medieval (and Premodern) Muslim Scholars at Work: A Symposium in Honor of Etan Kohlberg. Convenors: Joseph Witztum (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Sabine Schmidtke (Institute for Advanced Study). To be...