Event time:
Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 4:30pm
Location:
Henry R. Luce Hall, Room 203
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT
06520
Event description:
The Council on Middle East Studies Colloquium presents:
Aaron Jakes, Yale Program in Agrarian Studies: “Unions of Mass Mobilization: Ottoman Constitutionalism and Popular Politics in Egypt Persis.”
Aaron Jakes is Assistant Professor of History at the New School for Social Research, where he teaches on the modern Middle East and South Asia, environmental history, and the historical geography of capitalism. He is currently a fellow at the Yale Program in Agrarian Studies, where he is completing his current book project, entitled Colonial Economism: Financialization, British Rule, and the Crises of Capitalism in Egypt, 1882-1922.
Admission:
Free
Open to:
General Public