Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar

Date: 

Monday, March 20, 2017, 4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Lower Level Library

"al Bustani's Arabic Encyclopedia (1870s-1880s) and the Global Production of Knowledge in the Late Ottoman Levant"

Speaker:

Ilham Khuri Makdisi, Associate Professor of History, Northeastern University.

Commentator:

Leila Fawaz, Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Tufts University.

Graduate Student Commentator:

Joan Chaker, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

The precirculated paper is available one week ahead of time on the course website (https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/16556 Harvard ID required) or by request to jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu.