{"id":919,"date":"2026-05-02T03:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/shifa-ana\/?p=919"},"modified":"2026-05-02T03:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:38:12","slug":"program-announcement-shifa-ana-workshop-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/shifa-ana\/program-announcement-shifa-ana-workshop-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Program Announcement | SHIFA-ANA Workshop II"},"content":{"rendered":"

SHIFA-ANA Workshop II<\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019re excited to share the program for our upcoming workshop:
Histories of Death and Disease in the Mediterranean World<\/strong><\/p>\n

\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f June 15\u201316, 2026<\/strong>
\ud83d\udccd ANAMED, Istanbul<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and career stages, the workshop features panels, roundtables, and poster presentations exploring death, disease, and healing across the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n

We look forward to welcoming you in Istanbul!<\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n

Day 1 – <\/b>Monday, June 15\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n

\n

8:30 \u2013 9:15 | Registration & Coffee<\/b><\/p>\n

9:15 – 9:30\u00a0 | Welcome Remarks<\/b><\/p>\n

09:30 \u2013 11:00 | Session 1<\/b><\/p>\n

Governing Disease in the Mediterranean World during the Long Nineteenth Century<\/b><\/p>\n

At\u0131l \u00d6der, \u201cNegotiating Rabies: The Ottoman Public, Press, Doctors, and State in the Early Vaccination Era, 1885-1890\u201d<\/p>\n

Benan Grams, \u201cContagion at the Advent of Cholera: Politics and Meaning of Disease and Its Transmission in Nineteenth-Century Damascus\u201d<\/p>\n

G\u00f6k\u00e7e G\u00fcler, \u201cThe Impact of \u0130ane<\/i> and Social Aid Campaigns on Epidemic Management in the Late Ottoman Empire\u201d<\/p>\n

Mohammad Hossain,\u201c\u2018A Mercy and Martyrdom for Believers\u2019: Moral\u0131 Osman Efendi\u2019s Plague Treatise and Health Reform Consciousness in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman State\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

11:00 \u2013 11:20 | Coffee Break<\/b><\/p>\n

11:20 \u2013 12:50 | Session 2<\/b><\/p>\n

Approaching Death and Disease through Literary Worlds<\/b><\/p>\n

Bilge Tatar, \u201cHealing, Magic, and the Kitchen against Modern Medicine: Biopolitics and Gender in Sevim Burak, Leyla Erbil, and Sema Kaygusuz\u201d<\/p>\n

Ahmet Erg\u00fcn, \u201cRabies as a Moral Disease: The Bestiality of the Human in H\u00fcseyin Rahmi G\u00fcrp\u0131nar\u2019s Evlere \u015eenlik, Kaynanam Nas\u0131l Kudurdu<\/i>? [What a Disaster, How My Mother-In-Law Went Mad] (1927)\u201d<\/p>\n

Zeynep Avc\u0131 U\u011fur, \u201cBetween Life and Death: Knowledge and Liminality in the Early Modern Ottoman Narratives\u201d<\/p>\n

\u015eeyhmus \u00d6y\u00fcn, \u201cThe Visible and the Invisible in Ottoman R\u00fbzn\u00e2me<\/i>s: Plague, Daily Life, and the Culture of Record-Keeping in the Eighteenth Century\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

12:50 \u2013 14:30 | Lunch Break<\/b><\/p>\n

14:30 \u2013 16:00 | Session 3<\/b><\/p>\n

Paleopathological and Genetic Approaches<\/b><\/p>\n

Ahmet \u00d6zbek, \u201cThe Diagnostic Power of Paleopathology: The Contribution of Molecular Paleomicrobiology\u201d<\/p>\n

Mehmet G\u00f6rg\u00fcl\u00fc, \u201cDental Paleopathology and the Agricultural Transition in Anatolia\u201d<\/p>\n

Fatih Tepge\u00e7, \u201cChallenges in Paleopathological Interpretation of Archaeological Human Remains: Context, Methods, and Common Pitfalls\u201d<\/p>\n

Ravneet Sidhu, \u201cEmploying Interdisciplinary Approaches to Study Life and Disease amidst the Expansion of Medieval and Early Modern Plague Networks in the Ottoman Empire\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

16:00 \u2013 16:20 | Coffee Break<\/b><\/p>\n

16:20 \u2013 18:05 | Session 4<\/b><\/p>\n

Necropolitical Power over Bodies<\/b><\/p>\n

Cemre \u00dcnald\u0131, \u201cMonsters on Gallows: Death Penalty as Sovereign Spectacle in Turkey\u201d<\/p>\n

Esra Abao\u011flu, \u201cNegotiating the Semantic Void: A Panorama of Suicide in the Late Ottoman Empire\u201d<\/p>\n

Zeynep Naz Simer, \u201cA Re-interpretation of Ottoman Imperial Protocol through the Lens of Diseases\u201d<\/p>\n

Efe Er\u00fcnal, \u201cCounting Death in the Ottoman Empire: Sources, Methods, and Mortality Regimes\u201d<\/p>\n

G\u00fclbeyaz K\u00fcre, \u201cInfant Mortality from Diarrheal Diseases in Ottoman Istanbul (1898-1903): Evidence from Mortality Registers\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

Day 2 – Tuesday June 16<\/b><\/h3>\n

\n

9:00 \u2013 9:30 | Coffee<\/b><\/p>\n

09:30 \u2013 10:45 | Session 5<\/b><\/p>\n

Rethinking Disease through New Methodological Approaches and Digital Humanities<\/b><\/p>\n

Ay\u015fe G\u00fclsezer, \u201cMedical Imaging as Visual Archive: Rethinking Sources for the History of Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in the Age of Digital Humanities\u201d<\/p>\n

Merve Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m \u00d6zba\u015f, \u201cRethinking Dar\u00fc\u015f\u015fifa<\/i>s in Anatolia: Connectivity and Knowledge-Producing Networks\u201d<\/p>\n

Enes Y\u0131landilo\u011flu, \u201cNarrating Disease and Healing in the Eastern Mediterranean through Eighteenth-Century British Travelogues\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

10:45 \u2013 11:05 | Coffee Break<\/b><\/p>\n

11:05 \u2013 12:35 | Session 6<\/b><\/p>\n

Rethinking Necrogeographies<\/b><\/p>\n

Selvihan Kurt, \u201cGoverning the Dead: Cemeteries, Disease, and Urban Modernity in Late Ottoman \u0130zmir\u201d<\/p>\n

Marina In\u00ec<\/a>, \u201cDeath and Religious Diversity in Early Modern Italy: Tolerance, Intolerance, and Coexistence\u201d<\/p>\n

Damla \u00d6zakay, \u201cBetween Kurgans and Crypts: Embalming and Local Acculturation in Late Medieval Amasya\u201d<\/p>\n

\u0130smail Ya\u015fayanlar, \u201cGoverning Death in an Age of Mass Migration: Refugee Burial Practices and the Spatial Politics of Cemeteries in Istanbul\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

12:35 \u2013 14:00 | Lunch Break<\/b><\/p>\n

14:00 \u2013 15:30 | Session 7<\/b><\/p>\n

Bodies in Dis-ease: Heat, Pain, and Anger<\/b><\/p>\n

\u015eeyma Kabao\u011flu, \u201cMarkets of Relief: An Ethnographic Approach to Fibromyalgia in Istanbul\u201d<\/p>\n

Fatma Zi\u015fan Toka\u00e7, \u201cHot as an Oven: Narrations of Heat-Related Disease, Disaster, and Death in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Istanbul\u201d<\/p>\n

\u015eeyma Afacan, \u201cAsabiyet<\/i> Politicized: A Case in Gender, Medicine and Emotions in the Late Ottoman Empire\u201d<\/p>\n

Anas Taleb, \u201cForever Young: A Middle Eastern History of Rejuvenation\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

15:30 \u2013 15:50 | Coffee Break<\/b><\/p>\n

15:50 \u2013 17:00 | Session 8<\/b><\/p>\n

Knowing the Bodies: Dead or Alive<\/b><\/p>\n

Zeynep Erg\u00fcn, \u201cQuarantine at the Frontier: Ottoman Disease Governance on the Iranian Border in the 1860s\u201d<\/p>\n

Y\u0131lmaz Efe \u00c7etiny\u00fcrek, \u201cConstructing Legal Death: Visibility and Early Forensic Inspection in Early Modern \u0130stanbul\u201d<\/p>\n

Muhammad Sinan, \u201cSneezing, Knowledge, and Etiquette: Hayreddin H\u0131z\u0131r Atufi\u2019s Kit\u0101b al-\u02bfu\u1e6d\u0101s<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n

Enes Say\u0131n & Cenker Sar\u0131kaya, \u201cBeyond \u2018Medical Missions\u2019: Dorothy Blatter\u2019s Cap and Candle<\/i> and Nursing in American Medical Institutions in 1960s\u2019 Turkey\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

17:00 \u2013 17:15 | Coffee Break<\/b><\/p>\n

17:15 \u2013 18:05 | Concluding Remarks<\/b><\/p>\n

\n

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