The Sociology of Culture: Theoretical Concepts (Seminar) | 19/10/2020 | Prof. Tally Katz-Gerro, University of Haifa |
The Sociology of Culture: Theoretical Concepts Part II (Seminar) | 26/10/2020 | Prof. Tally Katz-Gerro, University of Haifa |
Choosing Truth over Facts: Maimonides’ Finessing of Kalam Attribute Theory (Seminar) | 02/11/2020 | Prof. Y. Tzvi Langermann, Bar-Ilan University |
Plot-and-berm agroecosystems in sand hinterlands around the Mediterranean basin: A case of regional agri-cultural connectivity under Muslim rule? (Seminar) | 09/11/2020 | Dr. Itamar Taxel and Dr. Joel Roskin, Israel Antiquities Authority |
Badr al-Jamālī's Armenian identity and its effect on Egyptian architecture and demography (Seminar) | 23/11/2020 | Dr. Moshe Yagur, Tel Aviv University |
Frankish Viticulture and Sugar Industry in the Latin East: between East and West (Seminar) | 30/11/2020 | Dr. Rabei Khamisy, University of Haifa |
Ibn Taymiyya, The Monolatric Imperative, and Reluctant Cultural Brokerage (Seminar) | 07/12/2020 | Dr. Daniel Lav, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
The Embedment of Islamic Sainthood in the Hagiographical Traditions of Medieval Syria (Seminar) | 14/12/2020 | Prof. Daphna Ephrat, The Open University of Israel |
The Migration of Arabic Knowledge to Medieval (Christian and Jewish) Europe 1100-1300 (Seminar) | 21/12/2020 | Prof. Yossef Schwartz, Tel Aviv University |
(Re)naming the Khan: Muslim and Buddhist Cultural Brokers in the Ilkhanate and the Conversion of Chinggisid Fortune (Seminar) | 28/12/2020 | Dr. Jonathan Brack, Ben-Gurion University |
Cultural Brokerage in the Arabic and Persian Mirrors for Princes Literature (10th-12th Centuries) (Seminar) | 04/01/2021 | Prof. Louise Marlow, Fellow (Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA) |
Al-Suddī (d. 745) and His Recourse to Pre-Islamic Traditions (Seminar) | 11/01/2021 | Dr. Yosef Witztum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Technological innovation as a cultural brokerage - some examples from Early Islamic Palestine and Jordan (Seminar) | 18/01/2021 | Prof. Gideon Avni, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem & IAA |
Mystics without (Linguistic) Borders (Seminar) | 25/01/2021 | Dr. Uri Shachar, Ben-Gurion University |
Al-Samawʾal’s fakhr: Refashioning the first Arab-Jew (Seminar) | 01/02/2021 | Dr. Oded Zinger and Dr. Guy Ron-Gilboa, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Controversies about Astrology in the Arabic and the Byzantine Worlds (Seminar) | 08/02/2021 | Dr. Alberto Bardi, The Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study, Israel |
Formulae as a window to Cultural Brokerage: The Case of Catalan Jewish bilingual Charters (Seminar) | 15/02/2021 | Dr. Micha Perry, University of Haifa |
Magic and Divination in the Cairo Genizah: Jewish, Muslim and Other Texts (Seminar) | 22/02/2021 | Prof. Gideon Bohak, Tel Aviv University |
Social and intellectual processes among the Jews of Egypt in the 15th century (Seminar) | 01/03/2021 | Dr. Dotan Arad, Bar-Ilan University |
Clues beneath the Lamp: On Copernicus’s magical “other" (Seminar) | 08/03/2021 | Prof. Avner Ben Zaken, Ono Academic College |
A Case of Go-betweens and Cultural Brokers: Cypriot and European/Anatolian Mamlūks and their Role in Interactions between the Mamluk Sultanate and Cyprus (Seminar) | 15/03/2021 | Dr. Koby Yosef, Bar-Ilan University |
Jews as Cultural Brokers: The Perpetuation of Arabic Scholarship in Christian Spain (Fourteenth-Fifteenth centuries) (Seminar) | 22/03/2021 | Dr. Ilil Baum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
The Performers of Basra: The Use of Iconic and Metaphoric Gestures in the Process of Hadith Transmission (8th-9th centuries) (Seminar) | 05/04/2021 | Prof. Livnat Holtzman Bar-Ilan University |
The transmission of ancient Near Eastern culture to Islamic civilization (Seminar) | 12/04/2021 | Prof. Adam Silverstein, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Persian Poets and Their Revolutionary Arabic Poetry (Seminar) | 19/04/2021 | Prof. Ali Hussein, University of Haifa |
Non-Mālikīs in al-Andalus: the evidence from the biographical tradition (Seminar) | 26/04/2021 | Prof. Camilla Adang, Tel Aviv University |
Annual Seminar (TBA) | 27/04/2021 | Prof. Ali Hussein, University of Haifa |
Fixers, an Alternative History of Translation and Communication (Seminar) | 03/05/2021 | Prof. Zrinka Stahuljak, University of California |
Sulha Mediators in the Galilee as Cultural Brokers between State and Community (Seminar) | 10/05/2021 | Dr. Ido Shahar and Dr. Tamar Parush, University of Haifa |
The Emergence of Early Judeo-Persian Literature in Its Wider Islamic Context (Seminar) | 24/05/2021 | Dr. Ofir Haim, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Brokering Culture Across Socio-Political Boundaries: Ḥanafī Immigrants in Fourteenth Century Cairo (Seminar) | 31/05/2021 | Dr. Or Amir, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
The Haram el Sharif as a 'shared' Sacred Space in the Eyes of Late Medieval Christian Pilgrims (Seminar) | 14/06/2021 | Prof. Iris Shagrir, The Open University, Israel |
More Historical than Oracle: Why Did Abbasid-Era Jews Fundamentally Change the Way They Read the Bible? (Seminar) | 21/06/2021 | Dr. Yonatan Moss, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
TBA (Seminar) | 28/06/2021 | |