The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University hosted a panel seminar entitled ‘Tunisia in the Global Middle Ages’ on 27 June 2022. Three presentations were given by Lancaster History Department researchers, Dr Alex Metcalfe, Dr Hervin Fernandez-Aceves and Dr Marco Muresu.

Speaking of the seminar, William Granara, Research Professor of Arabic at Harvard said, ‘The papers were enthusiastically received by an audience of Tunisian academics and Harvard graduate students. They offered important new leads and conclusions about the large-scale movements of precious metals over very large distances in the earliest phases of the "global Middle Ages". This is exciting work for a range of academics – from Arabists, Byzantinists and medieval historians to Africanists and scholars of the Viking age.’