AIAR Lecture: C. Carter Barnett - Biblical Eyes, Imperial Designs: The Architecture of Care
Schedule
Wed, 03 Jun, 2026 at 05:00 pm
UTC+03:00Location
Salah ed-Din Street 26, 9711049 Jerusalem, Israel | Jerusalem, JM
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Join us for C. Carter Barnett's lecture, "Biblical Eyes, Imperial Designs: The Architecture of Care and Control in Ottoman Palestine" on June 3, 2026 at 17:00 IDT | 10:00 EDT, with a post-lecture reception. No registration is required for this hybrid event.Zoom Webinar ID: 895 7160 9120
Passcode: 441500
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89571609120?pwd=8PxaI69bJycncGiyASi8iGeGxiiebk.1
Abstract: This presentation challenges prevailing narratives of medical modernization in Ottoman Palestine by emphasizing how religious and imperial commitments, more than medical science, shaped the development of nineteenth-century European mission hospitals. Rather than emerging as novel institutions, these hospitals are better understood within a longer continuum of religious healing and institutional charity, connected to the premodern history of the Islamic bīmāristān. Through an analysis of architectural form and function, I show how systems of patronage and charitable endowments sustained the bīmāristān, and how their erosion created openings for medical missionary intervention.
Bio: C. Carter Barnett is a PhD Candidate at Johns Hopkins University, an Azrieli Visiting PhD Fellow, and a Fulbright Israel PhD Research Fellow. His dissertation focuses on the long history of hospital care in the Middle East— from the medieval bīmāristān to the modern missionary hospital. He is broadly interested in durable conceptions of religious healing, charity, hospitality, and patronage in the medieval and modern Middle East.
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Salah ed-Din Street 26, 9711049 Jerusalem, Israel, מוג'יר א דין 10, 9712177 ירושלים, ישראל, Jerusalem, IsraelEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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