The third meeting of the Columbia Seminar in Ottoman and Turkish Studies for Spring 2011 will be on March 25, 2011.
We are pleased to welcome Ayfer Karakaya-Stump. The title of her talk will be “Why were the Kizilbash Persecuted? Reflections on Ottoman Politics of Difference and the anti-Kizilbash campaigns of the 16th Century”
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump is an Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow at the Cornell University Society for the Humanities. She received her Bachelor’s in Political Science from Bilkent University, her M.A in Islamic History from Ohio State University, and her PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. Presently, she teaches Women and Gender in Middle Eastern History, History of the Ottoman Empire and Religion and Imperial Politics in the Early Modern Middle East at Cornell University. Her publications include “The Forgotten Dervishes: The Bektashi Convents in Iraq and their Kizilbash Clients,” International Journal of Turkish Studies, 16, no. 1&2 (2011), “Documents and Buyruk Manuscripts in the Private Archives of Alevi Dede Families: An Overview,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 37, no. 3 (Dec. 2010), “Women, Gender and Feminist Movements: Turkey,” in Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, ed. Suad Joseph et al. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003 and “Debating Progress in a ‘Serious Newspaper for Muslim Women’: The Periodical Kadın of the Post-Revolutionary Salonica, 1908-1909,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 30, no.2 (November 2003), “Irak’taki Bektaşi Tekkeleri,”[Bektashi Convents in Iraq], BELLETEN 71, no.261 (August 2007).
Ms. Karakaya-Stump is currently working on a book project on Religion and Imperial Politics in the Early Modern Middle East: The Ottomans, the Safavids and the Kizilbash Communities in Anatolia and the Balkans. She will start working as Assistant Professor at College of William and Mary in Virginia as of September 2011.
We are meeting at the Faculty House Room 2 at 1:00 pm for the lecture.
For directions to the Faculty House, please visit
http://facultyhouse.columbia.edu/.
Contact:
Hande Gumuskemer, Rapporteur,
Columbia University
New York, NY
[email protected]