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A History of Water Engineering and Management in Yemen: Material Remains and Textual Foundations
- Date
- March 12, 2019
- Time
- 5:00 PM EDT - 7:00 PM EDT
- Location
- JOR 1410 (Jorgenson Hall, 350 Victoria Street)
- Open To
- Public
- Contact
- ivallier@torontomu.ca
In A History of Water Engineering and Management in Yemen, Ingrid Hehmeyer describes the three-way relationship between water, land, and humans from ancient to medieval and premodern times. Eight case studies address technical and managerial struggles, failures, and successes.
Dr. Ingrid Hehmeyer, Associate Professor in the History of Science and Technology at Ryerson University, is an agricultural engineer who specializes in human-environmental relationships in the arid regions of ancient and medieval Arabia. Her second area of research is the history of the medical sciences in the Islamic world. As a licensed pharmacist, she is particularly interested in the use of medicinal substances and their manufacture.
