October 24-25: CMES Master Class with Nukhet Varlik

CMES MASTER CLASS WITH NUKHET VARLIK

October 24-25, 2024

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24

“Workshop: Death and Disease in the Middle East”

10am-noon

Classics 110

"Applied Workshop: Ottoman Pharmacy"

1:30-3:30pm

Classics 110

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25

"New Directions to Explore Death, Disease, and Healing in Early Modern Ottoman History”

4:30pm

Stuart 101

Reception to Follow

Nükhet Varlık is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University–Newark. Her research focuses on disease, death, medicine, and public health in the Ottoman Empire. She is the author of Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347–1600 (2015), editor of Plague and Contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean (2017), and co-editor of Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World: Perspectives From Across the Mediterranean and Beyond (2022).