Exciting (electrifying?) talk coming up Thursday -Philip ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Leah M Ceccarelli <cecc@uw.edu> Date: Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 12:29 PM Subject: [Ssnet_list] Fwd: 10/17 Hist. of Technology/Colonialism/Middle East: conversation and talk with Prof. Fredrik Meiton (UNH). To: ssnet_list@u.washington.edu <ssnet_list@u.washington.edu> Here’s a talk that might be of interest to SSNet list members. Begin forwarded message: *From:* Liora Halperin <lhalper@uw.edu> *Date:* October 15, 2019 at 10:13:27 AM PDT *Subject:* *10/17 Hist. of Technology/Colonialism/Middle East: conversation and talk with Prof. Fredrik Meiton (UNH).*  *Please share the following announcement with relevant student lists or UW listservs that you control or have access to* You are invited to meet *Professor Fredrik Meiton (University of New Hampshire)* before his public talk for a special conversation about how he researched and wrote his new book *Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technopolitics from Empire to Nation* His history of the Palestine electric grid sits at the intersection of History of Technology, History of Colonialism, and Middle East Studies. He will discuss how he found politics embedded in the seemingly apolitical mechanisms of the power grid and talk about his approaches to writing the history of technology in the Middle East and beyond. *Thursday 10/17, 1:30-3pm, Smith 320. * *(All UW students and faculty are welcome)* Please note that the Smith elevator is out of service. If you need accommodations, please contact Alexandra Colley at alexc09@uw.edu. ------ *Please also join for Prof. Meiton's book talk at 3:30, in HUB 340* [image: image.png] -- Prof. Liora R. Halperin Associate Professor of International Studies, History, and Jewish Studies Affiliate Faculty, Middle East Center Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Chair in Israel Studies University of Washington, Seattle lhalper@uw.edu Office: 316 Thomson Hall _______________________________________________ Ssnet_list mailing list Ssnet_list@u.washington.edu http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/ssnet_list