The Middle East History and Theory Workshop (MEHAT) is pleased to announce our schedule for Winter 2017. All meetings will be held (mostly) on alternate Wednesdays from 3:00-4:20pm in Pick 218 unless otherwise noted. Food and beverages will be served. Papers will be circulated a week before the workshop meeting via our listserv. If you have any questions, please contact mehat.workshop@uchicago.edu.
January 18 – Theo Beers (NELC)
“Taẕkirah-i khayr al-bayān: The Earliest Source on the Career and Poetry of Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī (d. ca. 1087/1676)”
January 25 – Ekin Enacar (NELC)
“Reform or Revenge: Purging of State Employees after the Young Turk Revolution”
Discussant: Toygun Altıntaş (NELC)
February 8 – Kyle Wynter-Stoner (NELC)
“The Development of the Classification of the Sciences in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods”
Discussant: Aamir Bashir (NELC)
February 22 – Carl Shook (NELC)
“Border Guards and Bedouin: Transnational Enforcement Regimes on the Iraq-Syria Frontier, 1925-1932”
Discussant: Sami Sweis (NELC)
March 1 – Sotirios Dimitriadis (International Hellenic University)
“The Political Economy of Ottoman Infrastructure: Public Works in fin de siècle Thessaloniki”
Discussant: Madeleine Elfenbein (NELC)
March 8 – Isabel Lachenauer (NELC)
“Representations of Warrior Women in the Epic Lyric Romances of Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century Anatolia”
Discussant: Prof. Helga Anetshofer-Karateke (NELC)
