Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land
Venue
Project room 1.06, 50 George SquareDescription
Dr Tamar Novick is a Gerda Henkel Stiftung fellow and a visiting scholar in the Department of Musicology and Media Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin. She holds a PhD from the History and Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. At the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, she leads the Out of Place, Out of Time working group.
Dr Novick’s research lies at the intersection of history of technology, environmental history, animal studies, and Middle East studies. Her book, Milk & Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land (MIT Press, 2023), examines the ways in which technology became means for erecting a mystical past in modern Palestine/Israel. It focuses on the bodies that were involved, literally, in producing honey and milk, and in the reproduction of settler populations: honeybees, cows, sheep, goats, horses, and people.
This event is co-sponsored by the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures; the School of History, Classics and Archaeology; and Science, Technology and Innovation Studies.