Beyond Circulation: The Intellectual and the Material in the History of the Arab Nahda
[Downloadable programme and poster]
Thursday 21 June
(venue: SCR Parlour, Pembroke College)
10.00-12.30
Family history
How I Met My Great-Grandfather: Archives and the Writing of History
Sherene Seikaly
Rethinking the nahda through the economic elites of Damascus: three generations of Ottoman financiers, administrators, and intellectuals
Aviv Derri
Accounting for the Disappeared
Hussein Omar
Discussant: Joanna Innes
2.00-5.00 (with a break)
What is wealth?
Caveats to Crisis: Capital Accumulation and Political Allegiance in the Egyptian Delta, 1784-1805
Zoe Griffith
Neither Liberal nor Socialist: Cooperation and the Pursuit of “Real Wealth” in Egyptian Nationalist Thought
Aaron Jakes
Property and the public: staking claim to wealth in nineteenth-century Egypt
Pascale Ghazaleh
Conflict over lands and rivers in French-Syria (1921-1939)
Seda Altug
Discussant: Ceyda Karamursel
Friday 22 June
(venue: Lecture Room 2, Christ Church)
9.30-12.30
Languages of the economic
Loan-Words: Excess, Economy and Debt in the 1908 Translation Debates
Hannah Scott Deuchar
Speculating in Arabic: Finance and Fiction in the Nahḍah
Elizabeth M. Holt
The ‘Economic’ in the Nahda: The Writings of Niqula Haddad
Nader Atassi
Discussant: Sherene Seikaly
2.00-3.15
Subjects and their subjectivities
Writing women’s history in Egypt, 1890-1906: Ancient pasts as the gendered modern
Marilyn Booth
The worlds of Mikha’il Mishaqa: movement, writing, and rumour
Peter Hill
Discussant: John-Paul Ghobrial
3.15-5.30
Individuals and enterprise
Abd Allah al-Nadim’s “School for Girls” (Madrasat al-Banat): domestic ideology in fin de siècle Egypt
Ken Cuno
Choosing to print: commerce and piety in the case of Shaykh Hasan al-‘Idwi (d. 1885)
Kathryn A. Schwartz
Print with no capitalism – Arabic newspaper failures in the Western Mediterranean (1832-c.1885)
Arthur Asseraf
Discussant: Khaled Fahmy
Saturday 23 June
(venue: Lecture Room 2, Christ Church)
10.30-12.30
Round-table 1
2.00-4.00
Round-table 2 and closing remarks
