Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled: Textual
Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg,
edited by Camilla Adang, Bruno Chiesa, Omar Hamdan, Wilferd Madelung,
Sabine Schmidtke, and Jan Thiele,
has been published by the...
The conversion of Hagia Sophia, then the greatest church of
Christianity, into a mosque in 1453 by Mehmet the Conqueror was not
a historical paradox. Over the centuries, places of worship often
passed from one religious community to another, hosting...
Myles W. Jackson, Professor in the School of Historical Studies
at the Institute for Advanced Study, is a historian of science who
explores the intersection between science, technology, music,
history, and society. His...
Cord Whitaker, Friends of
the Institute for Advanced Study Member in the School of Historical
Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, is researching
nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American
medievalism...
Angelos Chaniotis is Professor of Ancient History and Classics
in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute of Advanced
Study. His research encompasses the social, cultural, religious,
and economic history of...
Nicola Di Cosmo is Luce
Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies in the School of
Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study. A scholar
of China and inner Asia from prehistory to the present, he
most...
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a
professor of History and Italian Studies at NYU, while a Member in
the School of Historical Studies this spring, has been working on a
book entitled Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present...
In the summer of 430 B.C.E., a ship from Egypt arrived in
Piraeus with an uninvited guest onboard: the "plague." The symptoms
of this yet-to-be-identified disease—hypotheses range from typhoid
fever to viral hemorrhagic fever—are described by the...
Franz Werfel (1890–1945) ends his novella Pale Blue Ink in a
Lady's Hand with the protagonist Leonidas dozing off: “While
sleeping under the oppressive dome of the ever-louder music,
Leonidas knew with inexpressible clarity that today an offer
of...
On December 4, 2019, Suzanne Conklin
Akbari, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, gave the
talk "What Is the Value of the Humanities? How We Read (and Write)
Today," examining how we engage with literature and exploring the
case to be made...
