Research Lecture Series, Michaelmas Term 2024

Middle Eastern Studies

Programme of talks

Talks begin at 5:15pm in Teaching Room 10 (The Old Common Room)
Refreshments will be served from 5pm

Michaelmas Term

• Thursday 10th October 2024
  “We the Iranian People”: The Emergence of Popular Sovereignty and Elective Monarchy in Eighteenth Century Iran
   Amir Parsa, University of St. Andrews  
   
• Thursday 24th October 2024
  Syrian Prison Narratives and/as Data: Reflections from the Field
  Anne-Marie McManus, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin
   
• Thursday 7th November 2024
  The History of Exact Sciences in India
   Aditya Kolachana, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras  
   
• Thursday 21st November 2024
  The disintegration of the Abbasid Empire or was the early Islamic empire ever integrated?
  Marie Legendre, University of Edinburgh
   

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For further information contact: Dr Assef Ashraf (aa2098@cam.ac.uk) or Prof. Andrew Marsham (adm56@cam.ac.uk)