On Friday, April 1, 2016, The Graduate Center at the City University of New York hosts a one-day workshop on Medicine and Knowledge in the Middle East. The third panel of the workshop, 'Environments of Other Wars', features the work of Dr. Chris Gratien (PhD, 2015) on “Year of the Mosquito: Displacement and Disease in the Ottoman Empire during WWI” and doctoral candidate Graham Pitts on “War as the Vector of Malaria in Twentieth-Century Lebanon.” Their panel will be moderated by Professor Alan Mikhail of Yale University.
The workshop will take place in Room C198 of the CUNY Graduate Center, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with a break for lunch. RSVP to Seçil Yılmaz (syilmaz@gradcenter.cuny.edu) to confirm attendance. All workshop participants are asked to read the papers in advance of the meeting.
Full details of the workshop are available here
The workshop will take place in Room C198 of the CUNY Graduate Center, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with a break for lunch. RSVP to Seçil Yılmaz (syilmaz@gradcenter.cuny.edu) to confirm attendance. All workshop participants are asked to read the papers in advance of the meeting.
Full details of the workshop are available here
Workshop: Medicine and Knowledge in the Middle East
Friday, April 1, 2016
The Graduate Center, CUNY (Room C198)
10:00-12:00 Questions of Knowledge and Methods in Early Modern Medicine
Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers University) “Plague Ecology in Early Modern Ottoman Empire”
Harun Küçük, (University of Pennsylvania) “Medical Empiricism in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire”
Discussant: Ahmed Ragab (Harvard University)
Lunch 12:00-1:00
1:00-3:15 Politics of Medical Knowledge in Colonial Contexts
Shehab Ismail (Columbia University) “Science versus Sentiment: The Controversy over Water Supply in British Colonial Cairo”
Jennifer Derr (University of California, Santa Cruz)” The Nature of Labor: Colonial Economy, Disease, and the Question of Subjectivity in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt”
Seçil Yılmaz, (The Graduate Center, CUNY) “Remedy in a Bottle: Petitions, Experiments, and Medical Practice in Late Ottoman Period”
Discussant: Robert Tignor (Princeton University)
Break 3:15-3:30
3:30 -5:30 Environments of Other Wars
Chris Gratien (Yale University) “Year of the Mosquito: Displacement and Disease in the Ottoman Empire during WWI”
Graham A. Pitts (Georgetown University) “War as the Vector of Malaria in Twentieth-Century Lebanon”
Discussant: Alan Mikhail (Yale University)
5.30-6.00 Closing Remarks
Jennifer E. Johnson (Brown University)
RSVP to Seçil Yılmaz (syilmaz@gradcenter.cuny.edu) to confirm attendance. Note that all workshop participants are asked to read the papers in advance of the meeting.
Friday, April 1, 2016
The Graduate Center, CUNY (Room C198)
10:00-12:00 Questions of Knowledge and Methods in Early Modern Medicine
Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers University) “Plague Ecology in Early Modern Ottoman Empire”
Harun Küçük, (University of Pennsylvania) “Medical Empiricism in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire”
Discussant: Ahmed Ragab (Harvard University)
Lunch 12:00-1:00
1:00-3:15 Politics of Medical Knowledge in Colonial Contexts
Shehab Ismail (Columbia University) “Science versus Sentiment: The Controversy over Water Supply in British Colonial Cairo”
Jennifer Derr (University of California, Santa Cruz)” The Nature of Labor: Colonial Economy, Disease, and the Question of Subjectivity in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt”
Seçil Yılmaz, (The Graduate Center, CUNY) “Remedy in a Bottle: Petitions, Experiments, and Medical Practice in Late Ottoman Period”
Discussant: Robert Tignor (Princeton University)
Break 3:15-3:30
3:30 -5:30 Environments of Other Wars
Chris Gratien (Yale University) “Year of the Mosquito: Displacement and Disease in the Ottoman Empire during WWI”
Graham A. Pitts (Georgetown University) “War as the Vector of Malaria in Twentieth-Century Lebanon”
Discussant: Alan Mikhail (Yale University)
5.30-6.00 Closing Remarks
Jennifer E. Johnson (Brown University)
RSVP to Seçil Yılmaz (syilmaz@gradcenter.cuny.edu) to confirm attendance. Note that all workshop participants are asked to read the papers in advance of the meeting.
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