The fourth meeting of the Columbia Seminar in Ottoman and Turkish Studies for Spring 2011 will be on April 8, 2011. We are pleased to welcome Prof. Palmira Brummett and Assistant Prof. Vera Constantini.
The title of Prof. Brummett’s talk will be ” The Adriatic: a Cartographic Zone of Negotiation and Encounter in the Early Modern Ottoman World”
Palmira Brummett is a Professor of History and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of Tennessee. She received her Bachelor’s and M.A in Department of History from University of Chicago, her M.PH in School of Public Health, Health Education from University of Illinois and her PhD in Dept. of History, Middle Eastern History from University of Chicago. Her teaching experience ranges from large pre-modern Western and World history surveys, to upper division courses on Middle Eastern History, to graduate, undergraduate, and honors seminars on various aspects of Ottoman and Middle Eastern history. Her publications include The ‘Book’ of Travels: Genre, Ethnology and Pilgrimage, 1250-1700, Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, No. 140 (Leiden: Brill, 2009) Image and Imperialism in the Ottoman Revolutionary Press, 1908-1911 (S.U.N.Y. Press, 2000), Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery, (S.U.N.Y. Press, 1994) Professor Brummett is currently working on a project titled Monograph: Mapping the Ottoman Empire: Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Era.
The title of Vera Constantini’s talk will be “Alternative Paths Towards the Age of Mercantilism: The Ottoman Perspective on the Venetian Project of the Scala Di Spalato”.
Vera Constantini is Currently Associate Research Scholar at the Italian Academy of Advanced Studies at Columbia University, Vera Costantini is an economic historian working as a
tenured Assistant Professor in Turkish Language and Ottoman Paleography at the “Ca’ Foscari” University of Venice. She published a book on the Ottoman conquest and early administration of Cyprus (“Il sultano e l’isola contesa. Cipro tra eredita’ veneziana e potere ottomano”, Torino UTET, 2009), based on a comparative analysis of both Ottoman and Venetian sources. Her current interests are directed to the economic crisis of the 16th century and, more precisely, to the project of the Scala di Spalato.
We are meeting at the Faculty House Room 2 at 1:00 pm for the lecture. (The room number may be subject to change by the University Seminar)
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http://facultyhouse.columbia.edu/.