• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Dr J-P Ghobrial (University of Oxford)
• Timing: 11:15am on Wednesdays
• Organising department: Faculty of History

Monday 24 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - ‘Tracking a transnational family in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean world: the Brunis and the Brutis’
  Sir Noel Malcolm (All Souls College, Oxford)

Monday 1 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - ‘Plato’s throne and Solomon’s temple: Graeco-Islamic historical imagination in Ottoman Athens’
  Dr Elizabeth Key Fowden (University of Cambridge)

Monday 8 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - ‘'Tis Pity She’s a Whore: An attempt at a microhistorical reading of an early 16th-century Ottoman petition’
  Mr Nenad Filipović (Oriental Institute, Sarajevo)

Monday 15 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - ‘ “His master’s chattel in matters superadded to nature, though in nature things all are equal” (Aquinas). Towards a legal anthropology of late medieval slavery’
  Dr Hannah Skoda (St John's College, Oxford)

Monday 22 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - Girlhood translated? Reading Fénelon’s Traité de l’éducation des filles (1687) in twentieth-century Egypt’
  Professor Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford), Dr Christina De Bellaigue (Exeter College, Oxford)

Monday 29 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - ‘Beyond exclusion: Migrations from the Islamic world to the Spanish Empire in the 16th and 17th centuries’
  Dr Cecilia Tarruell (History Faculty/ TORCH, Oxford)

Monday 5 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - ‘Forbidden contacts: Catholic and Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire (17th-18th centuries)’
  Dr Cesare Santus (L’école française de Rome)

Monday 12 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - 'At the periphery of texts, at the center of textual heritage: A study of Christian Arabic manuscripts at the Monastery of the Syrians in Egypt’
  Professor Stephen Davis (Yale University)

Thursday 15 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - 'Partners of the Empire and the Formation of a State-Society: Rethinking the Ottoman Order in the 18th and 19th centuries’
  This seminar will take place in the New Powell Room at Somerville College, and it is convened by Prof J Innes and Dr J-P Ghobrial
  Professor Ali Yaycioğlu (Stanford University), Professor Marc Baer (LSE, London)

Wednesday 25 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - ‘The apostle of the Orient: Martin Crusius (1526-1607) and the Greek Mediterranean’
  Richard Calis (Princeton)

Wednesday 2 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - ‘Other Christians: Latin ethnography and comparatism at the Holy Sepulchre (1400-1600)’
  Dr Sundar Henny (Bern)

Wednesday 9 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - ‘Making Crete Ottoman in the seventeenth century: Sacred landscapes, empires, and chronologies of desire’
  Lucia Nixon (Wolfson and Faculty of Classics)

Wednesday 16 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - ‘The archimandrite and the astronomer: the visit of Chrysanthos Notaras to Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1700), a new approach’
  Professor Vassa Kontouma (École Pratique des Hautes Études)

Wednesday 23 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - ‘Candlelight politics: Illumination and its shades in eighteenth-century Istanbul’
  Dr Avner Wishnitzer (St Antony’s and Tel Aviv University), Dr Aslı Niyazioğlu (Oriental Institute)

Wednesday 30 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - 'A polyphony of voices: Graffiti and trials of the Inquisition of Palermo’
  Professor Mercedes García-Arenal (Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterraneao, CCHS, CSIC, Madrid), Dr Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter)

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - ‘Lepanto in the Americas: Global dimensions of Mediterranean history’
  Dr Stefan Hanss (Cambridge)

Wednesday 13 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:15 - The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment’
  Dr Alexander Bevilacqua (Williams)