Deadline extended

12 September 2019

The deadline to apply for the webinar "The Material Culture of the Caliphate" by Prof Abigail Krasner Balbale has been extended to

Friday, Sep. 20, 2019

for members of institutions in our network (New York University, Universität Hamburg, Ludwig Maximilian-Universität München and Universität Bonn).

The course is open to all advanced students in B.A., M.A., and PhD programs, and to historians, art historians, and archaeologists working on the Islamic world or related topics. Please send your application including a short CV and motivation letter in English to Abigail Balbale (abigail.balbale@nyu.edu) or Stefan Heidemann (stefan.heidemann@uni-hamburg.de).

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