On Thursday, October 30th at 3pm, Dr. Shireen Hamza will present “Waterside Spaces and Public Health in Medieval Ahmedabad.”

Shireen Hamza is an historian, artist and organizer living with chronic illness in Chicago. She teaches with the Prison & Neighborhood Arts & Education Project, organizes with a community bail fund, and participates in the disability dance community. She completed her PhD in Harvard’s History of Science department and continued her research on science and medicine in the medieval Islamic world through a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University’s Science in Human Culture program. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow with a research group based in Melbourne, Pursuing Public Health in the Preindustrial World, 1100-1800.

This will be a hybrid event with attendance available both in person in the 3rd floor Welch Seminar Room and virtually via zoom.

Who: Shireen Hamza
When: October 30, 2025 at 3pm
Where: Hybrid: In person in Welch 303 and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: Waterside Spaces and Public Health in Medieval Ahmedabad