Agenda

PISE Lecture

Speaker: Prof. Jens Hanssen, University of Toronto

Introduction
Matteo Legrenzi
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Discussant
Giuseppe Acconcia
University of Padua

Jens Hanssen is an Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean History. He has held junior research fellowships at the American University of Beirut and the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft in Beirut, and served on the academic advisory committee at the Lebanese Ministry of Culture and Higher Education to host Beirut as the cultural capital of the Arab world. He was Socrates Fellow at La Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, University of Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, and held a postdoctoral fellowship from the Thyssen Foundation to study the Arab renaissance