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You are warmly invited to join a special guest lecture by Professor Martin J Powers, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan and Professor in the School of the Arts, Peking University. Scan the QR code below to join.

Join us in celebrating the creativity, scholarship and innovation of recently published UC Davis faculty authors. This ongoing series includes presentations, audience Q&A and light refreshments.

Muslim views of the Cosmos from Late Antiquity to Modernity.

Lecture by Dr. Omar Anchassi, University of Bern.

Speaker: Chris Kim is a visiting assistant professor at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.

Host: Zekun Zhang, Assistant Professor in the History Department, UC Davis

Filippo De Vivo (University of Oxford, Berkeley Chair of Italian Culture, 2025/26) in conversation with Paula Findlen (Stanford University), Kinch Hoekstra (UC Berkeley) and Mairi McLaughlin (UC Berkeley),

This paper examines knowledge of the Ottoman Empire in sixteenth-century Venice not as a set of fixed representations, but through the knowledge practices by which merchants, diplomats, authors and publishers gathered, translated, organised, and circulated information.

Speakers: Professor Bianca Hand; Professor Kathleen N. Cruz; Professor David J. Gundry; and Professor John A. (Jack) Hawkins

Food: free piping hot, fragrant pizza

RSVP Contact: Harvey Loh ([email protected])

The Seventeenth-Century Craze for Rhetorical the Intersection of Literature and Science

Learn more about Spring 2026 ENL, UWP & MEMS courses

A congenial and generative conference for the next generations of premodern scholars. Applications are due October 15!

Annual Lecture Series in Jain Studies Book Roundtable