Welcome to the third event of the Spring Quarter!

KOH Choon Hwee is Assistant Professor in UCLA's History department. She originally applied to do a PhD to explore the medieval connections between China and Iran but switched to the Ottoman studies field after her first year at Yale. Currently, she is working on her book manuscript on the history of the Ottoman postal system. Her research has won awards from the Middle East Studies Association (Malcolm Kerr Dissertation Award 2020) and Yale University (Hans Gatzke prize for Best Dissertation in European history). Her first article, "The Ottoman Postmaster" came out in Past & Present in 2021 and her next article is forthcoming in Comparative Studies in Society and History in summer 2022. She did her MA at the American University of Beirut and her BA at the National University of Singapore (with one year spent at Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University and another year spent at the University of Arizona as an exchange student).

Monday, May 9, 5:30-7:00pm
Board Room, Stanford Humanities Center or over Zoom.

The speaker, KOH Choon Hwee, will be joining us in person.

Safety Guidelines: The event will be accessible on Zoom and to a limited attendance at the Stanford Humanities Center. All event attendees coming to the SHC in person are required to wear a mask both indoors and outdoors, and practice social distancing. You must register in advance and be prepared to show your Stanford Mobile onsite access badge or proof of Health Attestation submittal. To ensure the safety and public health of our Stanford University community, faculty, students, and staff must attest that they do not have COVID-like symptoms, and that they are not in a restricted status requiring isolation or quarantine.

Non-Stanford affiliates may attend over Zoom. Zoom link will be circulated before the event.

Prior to the day of the event, we will advise attendees that expressed a desire to attend in-person whether they may attend at SHC or via Zoom.