Bridging Cultures Talk: Week 3

Religion, Rulers, and Wrath: Questioning the Place of "Tolerance" in Medieval Spain is the title of this week's Bridging Cultures Series talk given by Ted Blanton, Visiting Assistant Professor at College of Charleston. This talk is the third talk this semester in the Muslim Journeys: Bridging Cultures book discussion series funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association. The talk focuses on the theme of Connected Histories, emphasizing the interconnected nature of the historical, cultural and commercial worlds of Islam and the West.

Bridging Cultures talks are hosted by The Jackson Family Center and the Kimbel Library. For more information please visit the Bridging Cultures website.

Bridging Cultures Talk: Week 2

Florence Eliza Glaze is Lawrence B. and Jane P. Clark Chair in History at Coastal Carolina University. Her talk The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance" is the second talk this semester in the Muslim Journeys: Bridging Cultures book discussion series, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association. The talk focuses on the theme of Connected Histories, emphasizing the interconnected nature of the historical, cultural and commercial worlds of Islam and the West.

Bridging Cultures talks are hosted by The Jackson Family Center and the Kimbel Library. For more information please visit the Bridging Cultures website.

Bridging Cultures Talk: Week 1

Ron Green is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Coastal Carolina University. His talk When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the "Riches of the East" is the first talk this semester in the Muslim Journeys: Bridging Cultures book discussion series funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association. The talk focuses on the theme of Connected Histories, emphasizing the interconnected nature of the historical, cultural and commercial worlds of Islam and the West.

Bridging Cultures talks are hosted by The Jackson Family Center and the Kimbel Library. For more information please visit the Bridging Cultures website.