{"id":38270,"date":"2026-03-16T12:44:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khas.edu.tr\/?post_type=etkinlik&p=38270"},"modified":"2026-03-24T11:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:41:24","slug":"call-for-papers-street-and-field-hygiene-disease-and-death-across-spaces-and-ages","status":"publish","type":"etkinlik","link":"https:\/\/www.khas.edu.tr\/en\/events\/call-for-papers-street-and-field-hygiene-disease-and-death-across-spaces-and-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers – Street and Field: Hygiene, Disease, and Death Across Spaces and Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

International Symposium<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Istanbul, 19 June 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kadir Has University, Faculty of Art and Design, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In collaboration with SHIFA-ANA Project & Kadir Has University, Core Program<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the post-COVID-19 world, questions of contagion, proximity, circulation, and care have once again rendered the spatial dimensions of health visible and contested. Rather than projecting present concerns onto the past, this workshop proposes to use contemporary sensitivities as an invitation to revisit historical cases and spatial configurations with renewed attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Focusing on the period from the early modern era to the late twentieth century, and adopting a global scope, this one-day international workshop invites scholars to rethink hygiene, disease, and death through a spatial lens that moves beyond the conventional urban-rural divide. Taking the street and the field as both material sites and analytical categories, the workshop explores spaces of everyday life, cultivation, circulation, and exposure that have been continuously reconfigured in relation to health, illness, and mortality. Often conceptualized as binaries, streets and fields are historically intertwined; as villages have streets, just as cities contain gardens and cultivated plots. Examined through disease, hygiene, and death, these overlapping spaces reveal how health regimes, social practices, and spatial imaginaries are co-produced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workshop seeks to re-examine space beyond urban-rural classification in its broadest sense: as shaped by multiple actors and, in turn, shaping them. We are particularly interested in how diverse agents, governing bodies, medical authorities, municipal institutions, ordinary people, and non-human actors such as microbes, animals, materials, infrastructures, and environments, participated in the making and remaking of hygienic spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We welcome contributions from a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to history, architecture, urban studies, geography, anthropology, sociology, and medical humanities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possible themes<\/strong> include (but are not limited to):<\/p>\n\n\n\n