THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Events
Husni Haddad Memorial Lecture with Martin Stokes:”Musical Modernities, Between Cairo and Istanbul”
Martin Stokes is King Edward Professor of Music at Kings College London. Before Kings, he taught at the Queens University of Belfast, The University of Chicago and at Oxford. He is the author of various books including The Republic of Love: Popular Music and Cultural Intimacy in Turkey (Chicago 2010), and, most recently, Music and Citizenship (Oxford, 2024). Currently he is PI of the ERC/UKRI project, ‘Beyond 1932: Musical Modernities in the Middle East and North Africa’ at Kings College London.
Farouk Mustafa Memorial Friday Lecture with Anny Gaul: “Who’s in the kitchen? Knowledge and labor in 20th-century Egyptian culinary texts”
Anny Gaul is an assistant professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, among others. Her work has been published in Gender & History, the Journal of Women’s History, and Global Food Studies, among other venues. She is co-editor of Making Levantine Cuisine: Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean (University of Texas Press, 2021). Her current book project is a cultural history of the tomato in Egypt.