This webinar series will explore various aspects of pre-Modern Middle Eastern history, including talks on early Islam, post-Mongol Iran, Medieval Armenia, and the Ottoman Empire. Each speaker will be joined by a respondent to discuss the themes of their talk.

David Zakarian is an Associate Member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies in Oxford and an Associate of Pembroke College. In his recent monograph, Women, Too, Were Blessed (Brill: 2021) and other publications, he explored the representation of women in early Christian Armenian literature. His recent project as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2019) was dedicated to the study of colophons of medieval Armenian manuscripts.

Respondent: Heghnar Watenpaugh (UC Davis)

This is a joint event from the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College and the Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.

The announcement for this event replaces the previous one in the Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History seminar series schedule, which was published before the MEC became the co-host of the event.

Please register here for this webinar or click Webinar Registration - Zoom