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12 December 2024|Event

A Family of Empires of Salvation Religions - The First 300 Years

Picture of the Mezquita de Cordoba, Engelsburg of Rome and the Catedral Metropolitana Mexico

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

24 October 2024|Event

Villas, monasterios y almunias en la península ibérica: élites, economía y poder (ss. IV-X)

Photo: S. Panzram

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

17 October 2024|Webinar

Webinar on Islamic Numismatics with Stefan Heidemann

Photo: RomanIslam Center

Time: Thursday, 4-6pm, Every two weeks Date: First session October 17, 2024
Last session January 23, 2025

This webinar is also part of...

20 June 2024|Event

Silver and Gold for the Empire

Photo: © RomanIslam Center

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...

17 June 2024|Event

The Quest and Conquest of Capital Cities in the "Translatio Imperii”

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

12 June 2024|Online Lecture

Slavery in the Iberian Peninsula and Islamic North Africa

Les Makamat de Hariri ; exemplaire orné de peintures exécutées par Yahya ibn Mahmoud ibn Yahya ibn Aboul-Hasan ibn Kouvarriha al-Wasiti.

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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...

4 June 2024|Internationales

Rediscovering the Chronicle of John of Nikiu

An image of the manuscript of John Nikiu

Photo: British Library

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...

13 May 2024|Call for Application

A City's tale between Rome and al-Andalus

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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...

24 April 2024|Online Lecture

Music in the Roman and Islamic Empire

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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...

30 January 2024|Event

Round table on „Between Sahara and Sea. Africa in the Roman Empire“ (with Touatia Amraoui, Stefan Ardeleanu, Sami Ben Tahar, David J. Mattingly, Sabine Panzram and David L. Stone)

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

29 January 2024|Event

Military Foundations, Ribāṭs, and Urbanization

Umayyad Castle of Gormaz, Spain, 355/966

Photo: © J. F. Esteban Barahona

Registration until January 29, 2024

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

17 January 2024|Online Lecture

Luxury Ceramics

Photo: © Gómez Martínez

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

2 January 2024|Call for Paper

CfP Military Foundations, Ribāṭs, and Urbanization

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

14 December 2023|Online Lecture

Empowering the Sacred Spaces

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We cordially invite you to our interdisciplinary guest lecture “Empowering the Sacred Spacesr" on Thurs. December 14, 2023, 5 -7 pm (German time) on...

7 December 2023|Event

Anthropology of the Object

Bowl with Griffin, Egypt, 11th century CE

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Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, AS-Saal, 20146 Hamburg.

How can objects reveal processes of cultural and social change in the Early...

21 November 2023|Event

Round table on „Late Roman Italy. Imperium to Regnum“ (with Jeroen Wijnendaele, Fabrizio Oppedisano, Sabine Panzram and Rocco Selvaggi)

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We cordially invite you to our event "Round table on „Late Roman Italy. Imperium to Regnum“ (with Jeroen Wijnendaele, Fabrizio Oppedisano and Rocco...

15 November 2023|Online Lecture

Ivories in Roman and Islamic Contexts

Panel from a Rectangular Ivory Box 10th–early 11th century

We cordially invite you to our interdisciplinary guest lecture “Ivories in Roman and Islamic Contexts" on Wed. Nov. 15, 2023, 5 -7 pm (German time) on...

19 October 2023|Event

Espacios para el diálogo. La diplomacia hispana entre la república y al-Andalus (ss. III a.C. - IX d.C.)

We would like to invite you to the International Workshop "Espacios para el diálogo. La diplomacia hispana entre la república y al-Andalus (ss. III...

18 October 2023|Online Lecture

Luxury of Water

We cordially invite you to our interdisciplinary guest lecture “Luxury of Water" on Wed. October 18, 2023, 5 -7 pm (German time) on Zoom. For...

17 October 2023|News

Demography, Economy and Law in (Post-)Imperial Worlds, 800–1600: Latin Europe and the Western Islamic World in Comparison