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The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University in collaboration with the the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) are pleased to invite you to:
TUNISIA IN THE GLOBAL MIDDLE AGES:
Gold Routes and Silver Supply in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods
A panel discussion with:
Alex Metcalfe, Senior Lecturer in History at Lancaster University
“New evidence for the source and supply of silver dirhams in early ʿAbbāsid Tunisia”
Hervin Fernández-Aceves, Historian and AHRC Research Associate at Lancaster University
“The making of medieval Tunisia and Sardinia: Parallel or divergent histories”
Marco Muresu, Archeologist and AHRC Research Associate at Lancaster University
“The minting of gold coinage at Byzantine Carthage: Its rise and fall?”
Respondent:
William E. Granara, Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University
Date and Time: Monday, June 27th, 2022, 5:00 to 7:00PM (Tunis)
ABOUT THE PANELISTS:
Dr. Alex Metcalfe is a Senior Lecturer in History at Lancaster University who has authored and edited several works on the Muslims and Christians of the medieval Mediterranean.
Dr. Hervin Fernandez-Aceves is a Historian and AHRC Research Associate at Lancaster University. His monograph on County and Nobility in Norman Italy was published in 2020.
Dr. Marco Muresu is an Archeologist and AHRC Research Associate at Lancaster University. He has published monographs on the Byzantine coinage of Sardinia, and on the monasteries of Mount Athos.
IN PERSON ADMISSION FREE
Face masks required indoors
