Early Islamic Empire Lecture Series
Welcome to our Early Islamic Empire Lecture Series within the framework of the ERC Project "The Early Islamic Empire at Work - The View from the Region Toward the Center."
We are delighted to welcome colleagues and international experts to Hamburg, in order to share perspectives and discuss different views on a wide range of topics to look at the political and economic workings of the early Islamic Empire (660-940 C.E.) from a comparative perspective.
The Early Islamic Empire Lecture Series 2019
June 18, 2019 6:00 pm (c.t.), Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, AS-Saal, 20146 Hamburg
Overlapping Geographies: Monasteries and Rural Society in Early Islamic Iraq
Jeffrey Haines (Ph.D Candidate in the History Department at the University of Washington, Seattle)
April 2, 2019 6:00 pm (c.t.), Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Room 217, 20146 Hamburg
Prof. Daniel Varisco ( Annemarie-Schimmel-Kollege/ University of Bonn)
The Early Islamic Empire Lecture Series 2018
Nov. 15, 2018 6:00 pm (c.t.), Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, AS-Saal, 20146 Hamburg
Die Pahlavi-Schrift und ihre Verwendung im 7. Jh. u. Z. (in German)
Dr. Dieter Weber
Oct. 24, 10:00 am (c.t.), Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, AS-Saal, 20146 Hamburg
Sandra Suárez García ( Medieval History and Historiographic Sciences and Techniques Department of the University of Granada)
June 14, 6:00 pm (c.t.), Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, AS-Saal, 20146 Hamburg
Qadis and their Social Interactions Under the Abbasids
Prof. Mathieu Tillier (Sorbonne University / “Orient et Méditerranée” (UMR 8167)
June 13, 10:00 am (c.t.), Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, AS-Saal, 20146 Hamburg
The Role of Islam Around the Indian Ocean from the Seventh to the Eighteenth Century
Prof. Michael Cook (Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University)
April 5, 6:00 pm, Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, AS-Saal, 20146 Hamburg
Central Asian 8th Century Demographics
Prof. Etienne de la Vaissière (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS))
Jan. 18, 6:00 pm, Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, AS-Saal, 20146 Hamburg
Nadja Danilenko (Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies)
Jan. 25, 6:00 pm, Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, AS-Saal, 20146 Hamburg
Dr. Kristoffer Damgaard (University of Copenhagen, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies)
The Early Islamic Empire Lecture Series 2017
Nov. 23, 2017, 6:00 pm (s.t.), Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, AS-Saal, 20146 Hamburg
Byzantine Gold Coins in China from the 6th to the 8th Century and Related Issues
Dr. Guo Yunyan (Hebei University, China)
June 1, 2017, 6:00 pm (s.t.), Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, AS-Saal, 20146 Hamburg
From Empire to Commonwealth in the 4th/10th Century: Comparative Perspectives
Dr. Jacob Tullberg (SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen)
Feb. 2, 2017, 6:00 pm, Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, AS-Saal, 20146 Hamburg
Dr. Teresa Bernheimer (SOAS, University of London)
The Early Islamic Empire Lecture Series 2016
Dec. 1, 6:30 pm, Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Rm 217, 20146 Hamburg
Transition of Elites in Ifriqiya: Their Economic Resources and Material Culture (7th - 10th Century)
Dr. Corisande Fenwick (Lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London)
June 21, 6:30 pm, Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Rm 217, 20146 Hamburg
The Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim as a Mirror of the Learned Elite of the Early Islamic Empire?
Dr. Devin Stewart (Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Emory University, Atlanta)
June 16, 2016, 6:30 pm, Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, AS-Saal, 20146 Hamburg
Prose, Polity and Land Tenure in al-Baladhuri's *Futuh al-Buldan*
Dr. Chase F. Robinson (President of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York)
June 9, 2016, 6:30 pm, Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, AS-Saal, 20146 Hamburg
Early Islamic Monarchy in Comparative Perspective: How Different was the Caliphate?
Dr. Andrew Marsham (Senior Lecturer in Islamic History at the Departement of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh)
April 14, 2016, 6:30 pm, Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, AS-Saal, 20146 Hamburg
Relocating Rome in World History – Comparison, Universal Empires and the Eurasian Ecumene
Peter Fibiger Bang (Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen - SAXO-Institute - Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History)
February 3, 2016, 6:30 pm, Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, AS-Saal, 20146 Hamburg
Empire and Sultans - Occidental and Oriental Rulers Between Consent and Domination
Peter Thorau (Institute of Medieval Studies at Saarland University)
The Early Islamic Empire Lecture Series 2015
November 18, 2015, 6:30 pm, Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 West, Rm 221, 20146 Hamburg
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Institute for Medieval Research, Division of Byzantine Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences – Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz)
October 7, 2015, 6:30 pm, Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, AS-Saal, 20146 Hamburg
"The Wall Which the People Call the Wall of Kanpirak” – New Perspectives on the Long Wall of Bukhārā
Sören Stark (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University)
June 17, 2015, 6:30 pm, Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Rm 217, 20146 Hamburg
The Idea of the "Arab": Arab and Elite Identities in Early Islam
Peter Webb (Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices Fellow, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin)