Wednesday September 19, 2007
"From Byzantium to Constantinople: Ideology and Urban Development in a Capital City"
John Matthews (Yale University, History)

Wednesday October 10, 2007
"How Isabella Stewart Gardner Made History"
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Harvard University, History)

Wednesday November 28, 2007
"Studying the Material Culture of Religion in Late Imperial China"
Susan Naquin (Princeton University, History)

Wednesday January 16, 2008
"'Seek ye knowledge, even unto China': The Literature of Travel in the Lands of Islam"
Carole Hillenbrand (University of Edinburgh, History)

Wednesday February 13, 2008
"1943: From the Jew-Zone to the New Zone"
David Roskies (Jewish Theological Seminary, Hebrew Literature)

Wednesday March 19, 2008
"Hellenism in Late Antique Syria and Jordan"
Glen Bowersock (Institute for Advanced Study)

Wednesday April 16, 2008
"The Art of the Word: A Brief History of Islamic Calligraphy"
Sheila Blair (Boston College, Fine Arts)

The lectures will take place at 6:00 p.m. in the Lecture Hall at:

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies
Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture
38 West 86th Street, New York City

a reception will precede the lecture at 5:45 p.m.

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