An International Conference — Monographs by Gil Fishhof and Anna Gutgarts

מגעים בין-תרבותיים ושפות מיעוטים בספרד ובאגן הים התיכון בשלהי ימי הביניים ובעת החדשה המוקדמת

עיתונות ותרבות בין הפופולארי, הפופוליסטי והים-תיכוני – כנס הוקרה לפרופ’ עוזי אלידע

29-31/5/23 – THALASSOCRACY – The Explanatory Power of the Mediterranean

18/5/23 – Persia in Early Seventeenth-Century Italy. Myth, Diplomacy, Propaganda and “Orientalism”Persia in Early Seventeenth-Century Italy.

8/5/23 – Monk and State at the Margins: Modeling Agricultural Monasticism on the Late Roman Frontier

2/5/23 – Pilgrims’ Perceptions at Aceldama c. 1300 – 1690: Possible Natural Explanations for a Mysterious Phenomenon. Now available on YouTube!

27/3/23 – Malta-Haifa Heritage Workshop

27/3/23 – The Gozo Phoenician Shipwreck

21/03/2023 – The Local Agents of French Diplomacy in the 16th- and 17th-Century Eastern Mediterranean. Now available on YouTube!

1-2/02/2023 – Levant Antiquarianism Research Group Meeting

18/01/2023 – Book Launch – Kypriōn Politeia, the Political and Administrative Systems of the Classical Cypriot City-Kingdoms

17/01/2023 – Mediterranean Forum, Guest Lecture and Workshop by Richard Talbert

12/1/23 – From Dismemberment to Remembrance: Violence in Byzantine Historical Chronicles

6/12/22 – How Humanities Research Benefits Society

6/12/22 – The Ethics of Weeping: The Case of Islam

5/12/22 – Eggstraordinary Objects: Ostrich Eggs as Luxury Items in the Ancient Mediterranean

14-17/11/2022 – The Mediterranean, a View from the East – Joint conference

25-26/10/2022 – Kinship Encounters in the Early and Medieval Islamic World

8/9/22 – Travelling Matters: Rereading, Reshaping, Reusing Objects across the Mediterranean

5-7/9/22 – Food, Kitchens and Cooking in the Crusader Period: Between East and West

5/9/22 – Eat, Pray, Dig: Miners’ Health in the Mediterranean and Europe, 1200-1550

20-21/7/22 – Illuminating Mediterranean Antiquity through Comparative History: Theorising ‘Soft’ Approaches

28-29/6/22 – Purity, Pollution, Purification and Defilement in the Premodern Mediterranean – Joint HCMH and Mediterranean Seminar Workshop

2/6/22 – Dragons of Summer and Winter: Lay Traditions of Jews and Christians between South and North in Medieval Europe

24/5/22 – A Singular Mediterranean Monument: Justinian’s Bronze Horseman and Its Global Reach

31/5/22 – לשון עברית, חוק רומי, נוסחאות מצריות: מכתב עברי על פפירוס מאוקספורד – כעת זמין ביוטיוב!

18/5/22 – From east to west, and back again: Towards a reconstructed Phoenician identity. Available on YouTube!

11/5/22 – נכנס יין יצא סוד Wine in Safedian Kabbalah. Available on YouTube!

2/5/22 – Available on YouTube! A hybrid event in celebration of the Hebrew translation for the book: “Samuel Pallache: Merchant, Pirate, and Diplomat between Marrakesh and Amsterdam”.

26/4/22 – Facere, restituere, ornare: An analysis of building activities through inscriptions

25/4/22 – An event in honor of the book “Poisoned Wells: Accusations, Persecution, and Minorities in Medieval Europe, 1321-1422”

12/4/22 – ‘Whatever God Provides’: Conceptions of Risk and Sacred Materiality in Medieval Mediterranean Trade, ca. 1100-1400

5/4/22 – Between Sepphoris and Alexandria: Mapping Presence on the Late Antique Mosaic Floor

31/3/22 – Christian Apologetics and Muslim-Christian Interaction in Eleventh Century Armenia. The Case of Grigor Magistros Pahlawuni and Amir Ibrahim. Now available on YouTube!

15/3/2022 – Islamic Law and the Interpretive Non-Muslim. Available on HCMH’s YouTube channel!

24/2/2022 – Indigenous Guides and Comparative History: Reflections on Alexander and Columbus. Now available on YouTube!

21/12/2021 – ‘Wonderful Things’, First Encounters of Cypriots with Egyptian Monuments. Available on YouTube!

21/12/2021 – הסופר עלא חליחל על ספרו – להתראות עכו – ההרצאה זמינה ביוטיוב!

30/11/2021 – Between the desert and the sown: Relationships between (Semi-)Nomads and Sedentary People in the Roman and Late Roman Near East

10/11/2021 – A Sea of Tongues: Language and Cultural Change in the Medieval and Early Modern Sephardic Mediterranean. A lecture by Dr. Ilil Baum

8/11/2021 – Protecting Public Health: Political Independence and Well-Poisoning Allegations in Medieval Mediterranean France. A lecture by Dr. Tzafrir Barzilay

4/11/2021 – Urban Panegyric and the Rise of the “Mediterranean City” in the Twelfth Century. A lecture by Dr. Anna Gutgarts

3/11/2021 – קרמיקה וטכנולוגיה: קדרות בתקופת הברונזה הביניימית

31/10/2021 – Venetian Shipping from the Days of Glory to Decline, 1453–1571. A lecture by Dr. Renard Gluzman.

31/10/2021 – A Geniza Street View: Domestic Inter-religious Encounters in the Medieval Islamic Mediterranean. A lecture by Dr. Moshe Yagur

24/06/2021 – כלכלה ומסחר בתקופת הברונזה הביניימית

27/05/2021 – Haifa Religious Studies Lab – Fifth Meeting

18-20/05/2021 – Modern Jewish Receptions of Classical Antiquity

27/04/2021 – Lecture by Dr. Lee Mordechai is now available on YouTube!

22/4/2021 – Lecture by Prof. Jessica Goldberg is now available on YouTube!

21/3/2021 – Lecture by HCMH research fellow, Dr. Federico Ugolini

11/03/2021 – Guest lecture, Henry Shapiro

2/3/2021 – Lecture by HCMH PhD candidate, Ms. Eleonora Bedin

28/02/2021 – Cults and Rituals – The Fourth annual conference of the Israeli Association for the Study of Religions

17/12/2020 – Joint Seminar – Department of general History – Dr. Umberto Signori

26/11/2020 – A scholarly meeting in Honor of Michal Artzy

24/11/2020 – Mediterranean Forum, Lecture, Guy Stroumsa

17/11/2020 – Bread and Wine: Food in History

Fall 2020 – Ancient history seminar, co-organized with ICS London

7/1/2020 – Public Lecture by Dr. Georg Christ – Portuguese ships in India and rotting pepper in Alexandria: A self-fulfilling news crisis? (1503–1505)

7/1/2020 – Public Seminar chaired by Dr. Georg Christ – The Agency of Climatic and Environmental Factors in Mediterranean History

21/11/19 – שורשי הפסיכולוגיה המערבית בימה”ב

17-18/06/2019 – The Ports and Port Environments of the Ancient Mediterranean – Naples, June 17-18, 2019

13/06/2019 – A Record of Sworn Testimony from Catalonia (987 CE), or, a Scheming Abbess, a Bored Scribe, and Thirty-Eight Other People

21/5/19 – Public Lecture by Prof. Francesca Trivellato – Renaissance Florence: Cultural and Economic Individualism Revisited

20/5/19 – יהודים בעולם היווני-רומי: בין השתלבות לבדלנות

16/5/19 – Between Palaestina and Northern Italy: The Case of Three Particular Travelers during the Roman and Late-Antique Periods

13-16/5/19 – Mapping Victorian Empires, Cultures, Identities

2/4/19 – 19th Century Photo-Archaeology

2/4/19 – Diving into Archives: Historical Evidence of Shipwrecks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1453–1571.

6/3/19 – Workshop – Pilgrimage & Ethnography

5/3/19 – Constructions of Otherness in Latin Travellers’ Writings in Cilicia, Syria, Palestine and Egypt (14th Century)

17/1/19 – Categorizing Chrisitians: Writers Coming to Terms with the Crowd at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, c. 1400-1600

1/1/19 – Bones and Poems:  Anti-Jewish Violence in Tàrrega during the Black Death

4/12/2018 – CLOSED HARBOURS: AN OPEN QUESTION. Preliminary thoughts based on Archaic and Classical evidence

3/12/18 – Workshop: Thinking Early Modern Mediterranean Political Spaces and Utopias through the Bible From Isaac Abravanel to Baruch Spinoza

22/11/18 – THE PHOENICIAN SERIES – Colloquium marking the publication of Josephine Crawley Quinn’s, In Search of the Phoenicians

20/11/18 – Travelling Knowledge: Towards a Historical Bibliography of the Islamic World

6/11/18 – Filthy Lies and Purest Truth: The Ancient Mediterranean History of an Image