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On 11th and 12th April 2019, the workshop “Power in Medicine: Interrogating the Place of Medical Knowledge in the Modern Middle East” will take place in Berlin. It is organized by Edna Bonhomme, Shehab Ismail, (both MPIWG) and Lamia Moghnieh (AUB, EUME) and will be convened by Europe in the Middle East—Middle East in Europe (EUME) and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG). The workshop will examine the history and politics of medicine and psychiatry in the Middle East from the 1800s until the contemporary period.  Please find workshop program here and the poster here. Jennifer Derr is one of the participants of the workshop. In this audio recording, co-organizer Edna Bonhomme interviews her about her upcoming research project on the history of hepathitis and the liver in Egypt.https://soundcloud.com/user-555442334/liver-and-the-embodiment-of-disease-interview-with-jennifer-derrJennifer L. DerrJennifer L. Derr is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she teaches courses in the history of the modern Middle East, critical geography, and the history of medicine. She completed a Ph.D. in History at Stanford University in 2009. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from Stanford University and a Master of Arts from Georgetown University in Contemporary Arab Studies. Professor Derr’s research examines the intersections among science, medicine, political economy, and the environment in the modern Middle East. Her first manuscript, The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press in July 2019.The interview was conducted by Edna Bonhomme.  Edna is currently a  Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck  Institute for History of Science  where she is working on her book manuscript “Ports and Pestilence in  Alexandria, Tripoli, and Tunis” which addresses the convergence of  sanitary imperialism and traditional  medicine during the late  nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  