Animals in Anatolian and Turkish History

May 16-17, 2024
Penn State University’s Department of History
Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations

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Nancy J. Jacobs (Brown University), “Reflections on the Conference Proceedings from an Africanist Perspective” (EN)

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The Past, Present, and Future of Animal History

Chair: Samuel Dolbee (Vanderbilt University)

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Alan Mikhail (Yale University), “Thinking with Ottoman Animals” (EN)

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Deniz İnce (Boğaziçi University), “The Turkish State’s Sheep Policy Between 1930 and 1939: Merino Sheep as ‘National Assets’” (EN)

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PANEL 7: Sheep

Chair: Dan Beaver (Penn State University)

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Stefan Stojadinović (Istanbul University), “Sheep Farming in the Ottoman Balkans: A Case Study of the Niš Valley in the 16th Century” (EN)

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Ayşenur Mulla (University of Silesia in Katowice), “Locusts in Late Antique and Byzantine Religious Writings” (EN)

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Zeynep Akçakaya (Independent Scholar), “Locusts, Science, Ottoman State and Humans: Unraveling the Dynamics of an Interdependent Relationship” (EN)

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Efe Erünal (Koç University), “Interwoven Existence: The Interplay of People, Worms, and Mulberry Trees in Bursa’s Silk Industry in the Mid-Nineteenth Century” (EN)

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PANEL 6: Insects

Chair: Martha Few (Penn State University)

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Elisa Palomino (Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center), “Mesopotamian Magic: Fish Skin Rituals as Technologies of the Past” (EN)

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PANEL 5: Fish

Chair: Deren Ertaş (Harvard University)

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PANEL 5: Fish
Fatma Esen (Georgetown University), “Anchovy in Trabzon: From a Livelihood for the Coastal Poor to Canned Fish for Foreign Countries” (EN)