Presenting participants*:
Nora Barakat (New York University – Abu Dhabi)
Horses and Headmen: The Politics of Taxing Livestock in Late Ottoman Syria
Ido Ben-Ami (Tel Aviv University)
What was it like to be a War-Horse of a Gazi?: The Animal Turn in Ottoman History
Irus Braverman (State University of New York - Buffalo)
The Persian Fallow Deer: Bridging Time and Nativeness in Contemporary Israel/Palestine
Semih Çelik (Koç University Istanbul)
Humans in Animalscapes: Reconstructing Animal-Human Interactions in Rural Anatolia (1700-1850)
Cihangir Gündoğdu (Bilgi University Istanbul)
Dogs Feared, Dogs Loved and Fancied: Human-Dog Relations in the Late Ottoman Empire
Donna Landry (University of Kent - Canterbury)
Ottoman Ecocriticism and Political Ecology: Horse-Human Relationships in Evliya Çelebi
Tamar Novick (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
On All Fours: Equines, Disease, Movement, and Control in 1940s Palestine
Gisela Procházka-Eisl (University of Vienna)
Clean and Dirty Animals in Ottoman Divan Poetry: The Case of Adanalı Süruri or „the Nightingale of my Imagination“ versus the „Shitty Nightingale”
Caterina Scaramelli (Yale University MacMillan Center)
Emergent Wetland Animals in Turkey
Kristen Stilt (Harvard Law School and Harvard Department of History)
Australian Animals in Middle Eastern Markets
Melis Süloş (City University of New York)
Infantalization of Pets in the Nationalist Discourse in the Early Twentieth Century Turkey
Dan Tamir (University of Zurich)
Conquest, Revival or Nothing Special? The (Re-)Introduction of Domesticated Animals to Modern Palestine
Sezai Ozan Zeybek (Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin)
Animals as Foes, Animals as Friends: Nation and Its Non-Humans
alphabetized by last name