EmCo guest: Paul Cobb
Read more on Paul Cobb (University of Pennsylvania). More information will be published soon.
Workshop: Contesting Empires
Contesting Empires: Sogdiana, Bactria and Gandhara between the Sasanians, the Tang, Turkic rulers, the Umayyads and the early Abbasids (ca. 600-1000 CE) In the mid-seventh century, the regions of Sogdiana, Bactria and Gandhara witnessed continuous contests between different political powers:…
Emco guest: Jean-Luc Fournet
Jean-Luc will give us a presentation on his recent book, “The Rise of Coptic. Egyptian vs Greek in Late Antiquity“
Jews, Christians and Muslims as Collegues and Collaborators in the Abbasid Near East
From October to December there is a great new Virtual Forum for collaboration supported by Usaybia.net available. Check out all the interesting papers and project presentations! On the 8th of December Ed and Cecilia will present our Embedding Conquest project….
Workshop: Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early-Islamic Empire
Workshop: Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early-Islamic Empire, ca. 600-1000 CE This workshop aims to explore forms and functions of slavery represented in textual sources from the early-Islamic empire, ca. 600-1000 CE. Find more information here. Due to…
Conference: Poetry as History
In cooperation with Peter Webb and LUCIS, Alon Dar from the EMCO team organizes the online conference ” Poetry as History”. More information will become available soon.
Roundtable: Past, Present, and Future: Encoding and Accessing Memories in Epigraphy in Post-Classical Mediterranean
More information can be found here.
Working with collections
A roundtable on documentary sources, heritage politics, and civic engagement. In this two-day roundtable, we bring together a group of researchers and conservators in the fields of classics, papyrology, late antiquity, history and Area studies to discuss and reflect on…
Workshop: Networks and Ties of Exchange: Trade and Merchants across the pre-modern Middle East (600-1600 CE)
To register for this workshop, send an email to: emco@hum.leidenuniv.nl. This two-day workshop presents recent research about trade in the pre-modern period by looking at a variety of practices and institutions. Taking the Islamic Middle East as our observation point…
How to ask: Strategies of entreating in medieval Eurasia
Petition Letters will be the central theme of this three-day Online Colloquium organised by the Historische Kolleg and Petra Sijpesteijn. This digital workshop compares how relationships of social dependency and obligation are invoked and reinforced in letters and speeches of…