Water from Stone | Jesse Howell & Marijana Mišević

E529 | In this special episode of the Ottoman History Podcast, Sam Dolbee and Jesse Howell travel by bike along the Ćiro Trail from Dubrovnik in Croatia to Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where they meet fellow Ottoman historian Marijana Mišević. Along the way, they consider the legacy and traces of early modern Ottoman caravan roads across this space, as well as their intersections with the Austro-Hungarian, Yugoslav, and more recent past. The episode is about mobility, memory, and the built environment. Also bicycles, friendship, and the journey. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/09/blog-post.html Jesse Howell is the Academic Programs Manager and Associate Director of the AM Program at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He is a historian of the early modern Mediterranean, and completed his dissertation "The Ragusa Road: Mobility and Encounter in the Ottoman Balkans (1430-1700)" as part of Harvard's joint program in History and Middle East Studies. Prior to his work as a historian, he was a professional dance theater performer in California and Germany. Marijana Mišević is a historian of the early modern Ottoman Empire and the south Slavic world. She completed her PhD in Harvard's joint History and Middle Eastern Studies program in 2022 with a dissertation entitled "Writing Slavic in the Arabic Script: Literacy and Multilingualism in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire." She completed her MA at Central European University, and her BA at University of Belgrade. Sam Dolbee is an Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches classes on environment, disease, and the modern Middle East. His book Locusts of Power will be out in early 2023 from Cambridge University Press. CREDITS Episode No. 529 Release Date: 15 September 2022 Recording Location: Ćiro Trail, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina Music: Blue Dot Sessions, "Fifteen Street"; Zé Trigueiros, "Petite Route," "Big Road of Burravoe" Audio editing by Sam Dolbee Production and editing help from Chris Gratien, Arianne Sedef Urus, and Harun Buljina Special thanks to Miran Hasibović and the Herzegovina Bike Project Bibliography courtesy of Jesse Howell and images courtesy of Jesse Howell and Sam Dolbee available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/09/blog-post.html