What does it mean to have access to water? Certainly, reliable access to cheap or free clean potable water is fundamental concern, but the urban water archive of Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth to the mid twentieth century presents a more complex fabric of interwoven conceptions of water and water access. This presentation considers water access in multiplicity; as a series of textures that are fundamentally spatial. In sum, water access permeated lived experience beyond strict definitions of need. This presentation will consider two cases of water access in this sense. First: water as a space of labor and making a living, and second: water as a space of leisure. 

Speaker
Alexandra Schultz, Humanities Research Fellow, NYUAD

Moderated by
Masha Kirasirova, Assistant Professor of History, NYUAD

In Person (NYUAD Campus) and on Zoom

The seminar is open to the NYUAD community and by invitation. Registration has closed.