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Book Talk/Lecture by Zozan Pehlivan: The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century
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Join us for an illuminating lecture by Zozan Pehlivan on the environmental roots of intercommunal conflict in Ottoman Kurdistan during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on insights from climate science, agronomy, and zoology, Pehlivan offers a groundbreaking perspective on how extreme climate disruptions fueled tensions between Christian Armenian peasants and Muslim Kurdish pastoralists. These ecological shifts, coupled with socioeconomic transformations, laid the groundwork for escalating violence that eventually culminated in state-sponsored conflict by the eve of World War I.