Events

2024

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

October 2: NES Seminar, Tatars of the Sudan: Place, Race, and Power in Ibn Saʿīd’s Kitāb al-jughrāfiyā, Hannah Barker (School of Historical Studies, IAS and Arizona State University).

October 16: NES Seminar: Seventeenth Century Humanistic Editorial Practices, George A. Kiraz (School of Historical Studies, IAS and Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute). 

October 25: Book launch, Imagining the Heavens across Eurasia from Antiquity to Early Modernity, edited by Rana Brentjes, Sonja Brentjes and Stamatina Mastorakou. Book Introduction and event Program. Pre-registration is required. Sponsored by Professors Sabine Schmidtke and Myles Jackson (IAS School of Historical Studies). 

November 6: NES Seminar, Mediating Siyāsa and Sharīʿa: Ibn al-Jawzī's Reassessment of Ruler-Scholar Relations, Han Hsien Liew (School of Historical Studies, IAS and Arizona State University).

November 8, 12:00-1:00 pm: NES and Digital Scholarship @IAS virtual event: ARSHEEF: Getting Closer to Libraries and Archives, Athena Pfeiffer and Mathias Ghyoot (Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University). ARSHEEF is a collaborative project and a website that makes available up-to-date guides to libraries and archives across North Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and South Asia, as well as digital options for those who cannot travel. Register in advance for this virtual event at https://bit.ly/ARSHEEF.

November 13: NES Seminar, Al-Tīfāshī's Book of Erotica and its Islamic Introduction, Matthew Keegan (School of Historical Studies, IAS and Barnard College).

November 20: NES Seminar, Thinking Together, Sometimes at Cross-Purposes: Medieval Middle Eastern Intellectual Life in a Diverse Society, Thomas Carlson (School of Historical Studies, IAS and Oklahoma State University).

2025

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

February 19, NES Seminar, Title TBA, Dror Weil (School of Historical Studies, IAS and King's College, Cambridge).

March 19: NES Seminar, Title TBA, SherAli Tareen (School of Historical Studies, IAS and Franklin & Marshall College).

April 10-11: NES Workshop, The Visual Scribe: Tables and Diagrams in Middle Eastern Manuscripts Workshop. Conveners: George A. Kiraz (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), Mathieu Ossendrijver (Freie Universität Berlin), Sabine Schmidtke (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) and Sonja Brentjes (Independent Scholar). See Call for Proposals.

Past Near Eastern and Islamic Studies Events