Department Seminar Series

The Department Seminar Series brings distinguished historians from across North America to campus to present their research in a public lecture. Held monthly, the series attracts both faculty and students and is a central feature of our collective intellectual life. The Department Seminar Series is made possible by the generosity of the Bernice Nugent Bequest.

Detail of page from the Chronology of Ancient Nations by Al-Biruni. Central image depicts the birth of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor, via a primitive form of Caesarean Section. According to Al-Biruni, he was delivered by this method after his mother died during labour. In the centre of the image, a doctor removes the infant head-first from an incision in Atia Balba's abdomen, while three other figures look on from the side.
Detail of page from the Chronology of Ancient Nations by Al-Biruni. Central image depicts the birth of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor, via a primitive form of Caesarean Section. According to Al-Biruni, he was delivered by this method after his mother died during labour. In the centre of the image, a doctor removes the infant head-first from an incision in Atia Balba's abdomen, while three other figures look on from the side.

Sex Time: Relatedness and the Sexed Body in Medieval Islamic Medicine

Dr. Ahmed Ragab, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
May 1944: 98 girls and young women from the Protestant charity institution Asbacher Hütte (Bad Kreuznach) are readied for deportation to the killing center of Meseritz-Obrawalde. Four decades later, the institution issues the very first "confession of guilt" for failing to protest and protect their residents. Printed in Offene Tür 1 (1985), 5. © Diakonie-Anstalten Bad Kreuznach.
May 1944: 98 girls and young women from the Protestant charity institution Asbacher Hütte (Bad Kreuznach) are readied for deportation to the killing center of Meseritz-Obrawalde. Four decades later, the institution issues the very first "confession of guilt" for failing to protest and protect their residents. Printed in Offene Tür 1 (1985), 5. © Diakonie-Anstalten Bad Kreuznach.

The Question of Unworthy Life: Rethinking Nazism's First Genocide

Dagmar Herzog
City University of New York

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