For all those interested in Mediterranean history, I heartily encourage you to apply to the 2012 NEH summer seminar on “Networks and Knowledge: Synthesis and Innovation in the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Medieval Mediterranean,” 2–27 July (Barcelona). An earlier round of the seminar generated not only some exciting work, but also the foundation of the Spain-North Africa Project.
This will be a busy spring for me, as on top of the usual teaching and research schedule I’ll be giving several papers. A quick note about the two on which I’ve been working most recently: In early March, I’ll be in Oslo, Norway for a conference, organized by Halvor Moxnes, on “Holy Land as [...]
For the uninitiated, that’s the state motto of New Hampshire, where Maria and I spent the Columbus Day weekend hiking, leaf-peeping, and eating as much diner food as possible. (The Littleton Diner in Littleton, NH gets high marks!) We took a bunch of photos out in the woods around Mount Washington; have a look, and [...]
My wife has posted an assortment of her favorite photos from our Fulbright year in Spain (2005-2006); feel free to go have a look! We’ll probably post a few more as we get around to it. Though we lived in the center of Madrid, one or both of us also made it to: London, Segovia, [...]