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SUMMARY:Job Talk: Taylor M. Moore's "Amulet Tales: Political and Spiritual Economies of Healing in Egypt"
DESCRIPTION:The History Department invites all to a job talk by Dr. Taylor M. Moore on January 13\, 2021. \nDr. Moore is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department at UC Santa Barbara. Her research lies at the intersections of critical race studies\, decolonial/postcolonial histories of science\, and decolonial materiality studies with a geographical focus on Egypt and the late Ottoman world. Her manuscript-in-preparation\, Superstitious Women: Race\, Magic\, and Medicine in Egypt\, uses modern Egyptian amulets as an archive to reconstruct the magical and vernacular medical life-worlds of peasant women healers\, and their critical role developing medico-anthropological expertise in Egypt from 1875-1950. \nUpper Egyptian and Black African women healers\, and the amulets they wielded\, shaped robust spiritual and political economies of healing in Egypt’s long nineteenth century. Known as “old wives\,” these women stood at the center of a contest over power\, expertise and scientific authority. Despite repeated and overlapping imperial\, colonial\, and nationalist efforts by government officials and doctors to discredit their knowledge\, wise women controlled a widespread market in occult objects and services that were crucial to everyday life. By the 1920s\, the production of occult knowledge became intimately entangled with the internationalization of the social sciences. Egyptologists and anthropologists designated women healers and their magico-medical practice as\n“survivals” of ancient Egypt. As such\, these women were both objects of scientific inquiry and critical producers of medical and anthropological knowledge. \nDr. Moore’s job talk will take place on Zoom at this link. To download the flyer for this event\, click here.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/job-talk-taylor-m-moores-amulet-tales-political-and-spiritual-economies-of-healing-in-egypt/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
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SUMMARY:Ambition on the Road: Getting Ahead in Arabic Travel Writing
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, Feb 2\, 2026 | 04:00 PM\n\nLocation\n\nHSSB 4080 \n\n\n\nA Syrian merchant known as the ʿAṭṭār set out on a new road in 1765. When he began to write about his journey\, he did so with specific aim and purpose: success\, prestige\, and merit. A few years earlier\, in 1758\, a Maronite Christian by the name of Shukrallāh had put together a literary compendium. The inclusion of a travel-based topography arguably sought to promote an embattled community’s position vis-a-vis the sacred landscapes of the homeland. In both cases\, as in many others\, making literature was an aspirational act with tangible goals. The talk by Björn Bentlage will investigate the ambitious side of culture with a focus on Arabic narrations of travel and movement from the early modern period onwards. \nBjörn Bentlage is a lecturer and researcher of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the universities of Bern (Switzerland) and Munich (Germany). His interests range from contemporary legal debates over the connected history of the modern Middle East to literature and media since the Ottoman period. \n\n \n\n  \nFeb. 2 CMES Flyer
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ambition-on-the-road-getting-ahead-in-arabic-travel-writing/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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