As part of the SoHP "What's New in the Fall of the Roman Empire" Lecture Series, Dr. Gideon Avni, Head of the Archaeological Division in the Israel Antiquities Authority and a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, will speak at Harvard University on "'An Early Islamic Agricultural Revolution?' New Light on the Transformation of Agricultural and Irrigation Technologies in the late Roman and Islamic Near East." Included will be a discussion on projects of OSL dating fields, the early Islamic...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Rocco Rante
Archaeologist, Louvre Museum

This talk focuses on the dynamics of human occupations ensuing from water needs in the area of the Zerafšan delta. The recent geo-archaeological...

Prof. Dr. Johannes Krause, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, will speak on “The genetic history of plague: From the stone age to the 18th century via the Roman Empire” as part of the “What’s New in the Fall of the Roman Empire” Lecture Series, co-hosted by SoHP, the Department of History, and Department of the Classics.  The presentation is scheduled for Thursday, February 16^th from 5:30 pm- 6:45 pm in the Barker Center: Thompson Room (12 Quincy Street...

Michael McCormick

Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History
Chair, Steering Committee, Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard

"The Fall of the Roman Empire: How should we study it in the 21st century?"

Chairing the talk will be David Reich, Harvard Medical School Department of Genetics, and three respondents will offer comments following the lecture:  Dimiter Angelov,  Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History; Kathleen Coleman, James Loeb Professor of the Classics; and Joseph B. Lassiter...