18/5/23 – Persia in Early Seventeenth-Century Italy. Myth, Diplomacy, Propaganda and “Orientalism”Persia in Early Seventeenth-Century Italy.
2/5/23 – Pilgrims’ Perceptions at Aceldama c. 1300 – 1690: Possible Natural Explanations for a Mysterious Phenomenon. Now available on YouTube!
21/03/2023 – The Local Agents of French Diplomacy in the 16th- and 17th-Century Eastern Mediterranean. Now available on YouTube!
18/01/2023 – Book Launch – Kypriōn Politeia, the Political and Administrative Systems of the Classical Cypriot City-Kingdoms
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
18/5/22 – From east to west, and back again: Towards a reconstructed Phoenician identity. 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”.
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
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!
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!
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
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
28/02/2021 – Cults and Rituals – The Fourth annual conference of the Israeli Association for the Study of Religions
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
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
16/5/19 – Between Palaestina and Northern Italy: The Case of Three Particular Travelers during the Roman and Late-Antique Periods
2/4/19 – Diving into Archives: Historical Evidence of Shipwrecks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1453–1571.
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
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
1/11/18 – Disrupted Cities: Urban Unrest and the Development of Civic Communities in the Latin East and Norman Italy