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We would like to invite you to the International Workshop "Imperial Cult in the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa: Challenges and Perspectives of...

We cordially invite you to our guest lecture “Religions and Empires" on Wed. Jan. 15, 2025, 5 -7 pm (German time) on Zoom. For registration please...

The program and abstracts for the hybrid workshop "A Family of Empires of Salvation Religions - The First 300 Years" are now online. Kindly take a...

The world of nation-states and secular salvation ideologies (Communism, Socialism, National Socialism, Fascism, etc.) is being shattered by imperial...

We cordially invite you to our guest lecture “Changing Agricultural Landscapes" on Wed. Nov. 13, 2024, 5 -7 pm (German time) on Zoom. For registration...

Save the date for the online book talk with Michael Cook organized by the RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies -Islam on...

We would like to invite you to the International Workshop "Villas, monasterios y almunias en la península ibérica: élites, economía y poder (ss...

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This workshop explores the role of mining and minting in the western Mediterranean world at the end of the Long Antiquity. It looks at the three large...

All three major empires of the larger western hemisphere, the Roman, the Islamic and the Spanish Empire conquered capital cities of preceding empires...

Humans as property are a deeply ingrained feature of human societies since the rise of a monetary economy in the Ancient Orient. Jeffrey Fynn-Paul...

First published in 1883, the Chronicle of the Severan-miaphysite bishop John of Nikiu (fl. 690s) is the sole universal history to have survived from...

We would like you to take note of the Call for Applications for the V Intensive Summer Course at the Casa Árabe in Cordoba, "A City's tale between...

Sound and Music are the most subtle and distinct way a culture and a religion in particular identifies. The communal act of singing and listening to...

In collaboration with the University of Michigan Press, the Center for Advanced Study “RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural...

Registration until  January 29, 2024

Kindly register for the the workshop "Military Foundations, Ribāts, and Urbanization" February 1–2, 2024...

We cordially invite you to our interdisciplinary guest lecture “Luxury Ceramics" on Wed. Jan. 17, 2024, 5 -7 pm (German time) on Zoom. For...

The RomanIslam Center (Early Islam) invites abstracts for the workshop "Military Foundations, Ribāts, and Urbanization" February 1–2, 2024, organized...