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Giorgio Ennas and Evren Cakil will present at EAHMH 2025 Health Beyond Medicine
In August, Giorgio Ennas and Evren Cakil will present at EAHMH 2025 Health Beyond Medicine. This year’s conference is hosted by the Humboldt University Berlin and will take place between 26 and 29 August.
Fellow postdoc Ennas is scheduled to participate on the 27th, together with Dr. Shiori Nosaka, Dr. Cansu Degirmencioglu and Dr. Léa Delmaire in the panel Spatial Imaginaries in the 19th-20th centuries. The title of his paper is Besieged by Contagion. The Contribution of Italo-Tunisian Physicians in the Development of a Contagionist-Besieging Imaginary. In the paper, he examines the role of Italo-Tunisian doctors in the shaping of a geographical-health imaginary of siege, among the Ottoman-Tunisian elites through the negotiations of the Sanitary Council of Tunis (1835-1885) between the 1830s and 1860s. Drawing on documents from the Archives Nationales de Tunisie (ANT), the Archivio di Stato di Torino (ASTO), the Archivio di Stato di Napoli (ASNA) and the Archivio Storico-Diplomatico del Ministero degli Affari Esteri of Rome (ASDMAE), this contribution highlights their role in constructing a Tunisian imaginary shaped by cholera’s contagious routes from Algiers, Constantinople, Tripoli and Europe.
The following day, PhD candidate Cakil is featured in the panel Regional/Transnational Health Collaborations, chaired by Liang Wan. His paper is titled: Diplomacy and Disease: The Establishment of the Superior Council of Health in Istanbul, 1831-1844. In the paper, Cakil examines the establishment of the Superior Council of Health in Istanbul in 1838, arguing that its internationalization resulted not from foreign imposition but from reciprocal diplomatic negotiations. By analyzing Ottoman and British archival sources, it explores how the Council functioned as a tool of health diplomacy, shaping sanitary regulations amid political tensions and epidemic threats.
Wishing Giorgio and Evren all the best for their presentation and an inspiring discussion!
