Swamps and Seabeds: Late Ottoman Frontiers and the Environmental Foundations of the Modern Middle East

Wednesday, Mar 12, 5 p.M.

Girvetz 2320

Presented by the Center for Middle East Studies

In this talk, Chris Gratien reflects on this question through an exploration of the "late Ottoman frontier,” using three commodities — cotton, sponges, and citrus — in modern-day Turkey, Greece, and Israel.