Book talk: 'The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt'

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Monday, December 2, 2019, 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St., Cambridge

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https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/book-talk-lived-nile-environment-disease-and-material-colonial-economy-egypt

Event Description:

Jennifer L. Derr is an associate professor of History at the
University of California at Santa Cruz. Her research interests include
Colonial and Post-colonial Middle Eastern history, environmental
history, history of science, history of medicine, and critical
geography. She received her Ph.D. in History from Stanford University,
her M.A. in Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, and
her B.S. in Biological Sciences at Stanford University. Her
publications include "The Lived Nile: Environment, disease, and
material colonial economy in Egypt" (Stanford, CA: Stanford University
Press, 2019); "Labor-time: Ecological bodies and agricultural labor in
19th and early 20th-century Egypt" International Journal of Middle
East Studies, 50 no. 2 (May 2018): 195-212; "The Dirty Subject of the
First World War" International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 46
no. 4 (November 2014): 781-783; and "A Draft of the Colony: Historical
Imagination and the Production of Agricultural Geography in
British-Occupied Egypt", In Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle
East and North Africa, Edited by Edmund Burke III and Diana K. Davis,
Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011. CMES events are open to the
public (no registration required), and off the record. Please note
that events may be filmed and photographed.

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Monday, December 2, 2019 - 16:30 to 18:00

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