Please join us for an interdisciplinary graduate workshop featuring student paper presentations on research in Art History, Department of Languages, Cultures, and Languages, History of Science, Ottoman History, and Religious Studies. Each presentation will be 15-20 minutes, followed by a 5-7 minute response from an assigned respondent. A Q&A discussion will take place after each panel of presentations.
This workshop is sponsored by the Markaz Graduate Student Grant. The Islam and Science series is sponsored by Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, History Department, and Markaz Resource Center.
Schedule:
9:30-10:00 a.m.: Breakfast and opening remarks
10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Anwar Haneef, Ottoman & Middle Eastern History: From ʿAfw to Qānūn: Customs Regimes and Fiscal Authority in the Ottoman-Omani Gulf
Nesi Altaras, Ottoman & Middle Eastern History: Jews in the 19th-Century Ottoman Economy: Revelations from the Land of Two Rivers
Leena Ghannam, Art History: Hand-held Mihrabs from Fatimid Egypt (10th-12th century)
Farah Bazzi, Ottoman & Middle Eastern History: From Khashkhash to Mercator: Al-Andalus in the Ottoman Geography of Irretrievability, 1580-1732
12:30-1:30 p.m.: Lunch
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Federico Cortigiani, Ottoman History/History of Science: Of Ice and Snow, Sultans and Scholars: Uludağ’s Frozen Waters as a Token of Bursa’s Prestige in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Fyza Jazra, History of Science/Ottoman & Middle Eastern History: Reading the Heavens Mystically: Sufi Marginalia in a Safavid Astronomical Manuscript
Raza Ali, Science, Technology, and Society: Do No Harm: A Medicolegal History of Tobacco in Shia Jurisprudence
3:00-3:30 p.m.: Coffee/Pastries and Closing Remarks
