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Seminar
SoSe 18: Science, Evolution and Society in the Modern Middle East (1860-1950)
Seyma Afacan
Comments
Following the advancement of biomedicine, science took a global look at the turn of the twentieth century. For several decades historians have studied a broad evolutionary interpretation of biological and cultural phenomena with an exclusive focus on Europe. History of science has mostly been interested in the ‘success of Western science’, while non-western world has been given a simple receiver role at most. A global history of science however needs to be aware of the differentiation of contexts and has a broader understanding of the process of indigenization of scientific knowledge. Recently a handful of scholars have sought to show how evolutionary debates took different turns and how modern scientific knowledge was put in practice in the Middle East at the turn of the twentieth century. Relying on the most recent literature, this seminar explores the indigenization of scientific theories in the Middle East and the ways in which these affected social life. Starting with the debate between science and religion, the seminar in particular looks at the trajectory of evolution theories from Darwinism to Social Darwinism in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Iran through the cases of bio power, ‘psy’-sciences and eugenics at the turn of the twentieth century. close
13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Mon, 2018-04-16 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2018-04-23 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2018-04-30 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2018-05-07 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2018-05-14 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2018-05-28 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2018-06-04 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2018-06-11 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2018-06-18 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2018-06-25 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2018-07-02 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2018-07-09 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2018-07-16 14:00 - 16:00