Over the last few decades, early Islam has become increasingly ‘Late Antique’. In the fields of legal and religious history, recent research into early Islam has begun to draw new and exciting points of comparison and contrast between early Christian, Jewish (Rabbinic) and early Islamic law and legal practice.
Archive of Faber Lectures
Supported by the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Council of the Humanities
Faber Lecture: Caroline Humfress, "Law Before Islam"
Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 4:30 pm
Location:
Scheide Caldwell House 103
Speaker(s):
Caroline Humfress (University of St. Andrews)
Faber Lecture: John Matthews, "Lost Monuments of Fourth-Century Constantinople"
Thu, Feb 16, 2017, 4:30 pm
Location:
East Pyne 010
Speaker(s):
John Matthews (Yale University)
Faber Lecture: Dimitri Gutas, "Aristotle 600-1200 AD: The Syriac and Arabic Phase"
Tue, Oct 6, 2015, 4:30 pm
Location:
010 East Pyne
Speaker(s):
Dimitri Gutas (Yale University)
Faber Lecture: Christopher Jones, "Isidore of Pelusium, Sophist and Monk"
Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 4:30 pm
Location:
East Pyne 010
Speaker(s):
Chistopher P. Jones (Harvard University, Emeritus)
Faber Lecture: Averil Cameron, "Dialoguing in Late Antiquity"
Wed, Apr 23, 2014, 4:30 pm
Location:
010 East Pyne
Speaker(s):
Averil Cameron (University of Oxford)
Faber Lecture: Susanna Elm,"Pagan Challenge – Christian Response, Emperor Julian & Gregory of Nazianzus"
Tue, Mar 5, 2013, 4:30 pm
Location:
010 East Pyne
Speaker(s):
Susanna Elm (University of California, Berkeley)
Faber Lecture: Alan Cameron, “The Life, Work and Death of Hypatia”
Wed, Nov 14, 2012, 4:30 pm
Location:
010 East Pyne
Speaker(s):
Alan Cameron (Columbia University)