Middle East History and Iranian Seminar Programme
Seminars are held at 5.15 pm in the Old Seminar Room, 71 South Street, St Andrews (unless otherwise noted)
Semester 2 - 2012/13
Thursday 7 March - 5.30pm Old Class Library, St John's House
Hugh Kennedy (SOAS)
Why is Iran not an Arab country?
Mattia Guidetti (Edinburgh)
Churches and Mosques in early medieval Syria
Thursday 4 April
Touraj Atabaki (Leiden)
Missing labour in modern Iranian historiography
Friday 12 April at 3pm
Workshop: "Approaching the Early Ottoman Emirate"
With Elizabeth Zachariadou, Evrim Binbaş, Dimitris Kastritsis and Andrew Peacock
Thursday 18 April
Amanda Phillips (Birmingham)
Empire of the Eye: Ottoman Visual Culture, 1600-1800.
Thursday 25 April
Philip Wood (Cambridge)
The Sasanian past and Christian memory in Early Islamic Iraq
