We’re excited to welcome Professor Aaron Butts for a special lecture on Ezānā of Aksum, the first Christian African King!
Join us on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, at 2 pm for this deep dive into the king and Late Antique Aksum! For more details, visit the NMC event page (uoft.me/NMCLecturePr...).

Join us on Friday, November 28, for our Marmura Lecture "Settler Time, Ruined Space: Tracing Colonial Temporalities in Jaffa", presented by Yara Sa'di-Ibraheem, the Palestine Studies postdoctoral fellow at U of T's Hearing Palestine. More info on the NMC website (www.nmc.utoronto.ca).

NMC Undergraduate Courses for 2026 Winter !
Elevate your knowledge this winter semester with incredible classes that dive into myth, history, culture, and cutting-edge archaeological methods. Whether you’re into ancient empires or digital mapping, there’s something here for every curious mind.

Join us on Friday, October 17, 2025, at 3 pm for our next Marmura talk, with Abbey Stockstill who is developing a critical theory of color in the medieval architecture of the Middle East and North Africa! More information can be found on the NMC event page (www.nmc.utoronto.ca/events).

Explore the past and present this winter semester!
We’re offering two exciting courses that will take you deep into the heart of history and culture.
Whether you’re fascinated by ancient history or contemporary culture, these courses will expand your knowledge and broaden your perspectives.

Join us this Friday, September 19 at 3 PM as we kick off an exciting new year of the Michael Marmura Lectures in Arabic Studies (2025–26)!⁠ We're honored to welcome our opening speaker, Professor Shahzad Bashir from Aga Khan University.⁠
Don't miss this inspiring start to the season!⁠

Join us on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, at 10 am (EST) for Gönül Bozoğlu’s talk “Official and Major to Personal and Minor Heritages in Turkey”, presented by Seminar in Ottoman and Turkish Studies. For more information, visit the NMC website (uoft.me/SeminarinOtt...).

Join us on Friday, April 4, 2025, at 3 pm for our last Marmura lecture of the year, with Zulfiqar Hirji, who will be speaking about a unique group of Quran manuscripts produced in East Africa. For more information, visit the NMC event page (uoft.me/MarmuraLectu...).

Join us on Friday, March 28, 2025, at 3 pm (EST) for Hande Gürses’ Book Presentation: Displacing Fictions of Orhan Pamuk, hosted by Seminar in Ottoman and Turkish Studies. More info on the NMC website (uoft.me/SeminarinOtt...). Registration link for online: bit.ly/SOTS-HandeGu...

Melanie Woodin, an internationally recognized neuroscientist who studies the mechanisms underlying learning and memory in the brain, has been named #UofT’s 17th president. ➡️ uoft.me/uoftpres

Here’s another summer course to check out. You can find all NMC summer courses on the NMC website (uoft.me/NMC2025Summe...).

Join us on Thursday, March 13, 2025, at 4 pm (EST) for S. Zehra Akarvardar Koçak’s talk “Echoes of Ferdowsi: Ottoman Translations of the Shahnameh and Translation Criticism”, presented by Seminar in Ottoman and Turkish Studies. For more information, visit the NMC website: uoft.me/SOTSseminarZ....

More NMC 2025 summer courses

Considering a summer course?
Registration for our 2025 undergraduate summer courses is now open! Whether you're looking to get ahead, explore something new, or deepen your major, we have courses for your goal. More information can be found on the NMC website (uoft.me/NMC2025Summe...)

Join us on Friday, March 7, 2025, at 3 pm for our next Michael E. Marmura Lecture in Arabic Studies "Paratexts in Arabic Translation (Or The Persistence of Othering)", presented by Dima Ayoub. More information can be found on the NMC website (uoft.me/MarmuraLectu...).

Join us on Friday, March 7, 2025, at 1 pm (EST) for Teach-In on Syria, an online conversation with Basheer Amin (the founder of Raqam Wahed) to discuss critical perspectives on Syria, including the Kurdish question and its trajectories. Join the event at bit.ly/basheeramin

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