Wednesday, April 20, 4:10 – 6:00 pm
1102 IAB
Murat Somer is a Democracy and Development Fellow at the Institute for International & Regional Studies, Princeton University.
Discussant: Karen Barkey, Director of Undergraduate Studies Sociology and Professor of Sociology and History, Columbia University
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)
For directions to the Faculty House, please visit:
http://facultyhouse.columbia.edu/.
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]
The Program in Ottoman Studies
New York University
presents
Jane Hathaway
Ohio State University
The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Imperial Harem:
Servant of the Sultan, Servant of the Prophet
Prof. Hathaway’s talk will focus on the Ottoman Chief Harem Eunuch, whose roles encompassed both intimate contact with the Ottoman imperial family and devotion to the sites associated the Prophet Muhammad. Hathaway will analyze the rise to prominence of the Chief Harem Eunuch as a function of the Ottoman Empire’s period of crisis and change from the late sixteenth through the seventeenth century, as well as the ties that bound acting and deposed Chief Eunuchs to the Holy Cities and to Egypt.
Jane Hathaway is Professor of History at Ohio State University. Her books include The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1800, (2008); Beshir Agha, Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Imperial Harem, (2006); A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen, (2003), The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdağlıs, (1997).
Thursday March 31, 12:30pm
The Richard Ettinghausen Library
Hagop Kevorkian Center
50 Washington Square South at 255 Sullivan Street
(Sandwiches and drinks will be available at 12:15)
For inquiries please contact Leslie Peirce, [email protected] or Hasan Karatas, [email protected]
Columbia University’ Seminar in Ottoman and Turkish Studies presents:
Ottomans/Turks in Conflict, 1800-2010: New Approaches
April 29-30, 2011
Sponsored by Columbia University’s Middle East Institute and
University Seminars
Proposals are invited from graduate students and recent PhDs
(dissertation completed after May 2008) for an intensive two-day
workshop at Columbia University around the theme of “Ottomans/Turks in
Conflict.” Papers, which will be pre-circulated, could focus on any
type of conflict–—political, social, cultural/intellectual, economic,
domestic or international—involving Ottomans and/or Turks from
approximately 1800 until the present. Preference will be given to
projects that illuminate new types of conflict, and/or that view
previously debated conflicts in new ways, form new vantage points, or
in new comparative framework. Day 1 of the workshop will focus on the
1800-1923 period, and Day 2 will turn to Republican Turkey. Selected
papers will be presented and discussed by fellow presenters as well as
several senior scholars who will be in attendance to serve as
discussants.
Accommodation near the Columbia campus and meals for two days and
two nights will be provided by the organizers, and participants will
be reimbursed for their travel expenses (up to $300 for domestic
travel and $600 for international).
Possible topics could relate to:
*Inter-imperial rivalries in the long-nineteenth century and their
consequences for specific localities/actors/social groups in Ottoman
realms
*Cultural/literary production, intellectual movements,
conflicts/debates over language, regionalism, or cultural forms in
late Ottoman and Republican periods
*Military conflict and its causes/repercussions
*Competing ideologies in late Ottoman and Republican periods
*Conflicts within and around “minority” groups in the late Ottoman and
Republican periods
*Conflicting responses to change and continuity throughout the 19th
and 20th centuries
*Conflicts over national identities, successful and unsuccessful
Please send short proposal-abstracts (250 words) along with a brief
bio (with “Ottomans/Turks in Conflict proposal” in the title line of
the email) by January 10, 2011 to:
The Center for Democracy, Toleration, and Religion is looking
to immediately hire an exceptional student researcher
who is familiar with Turkey and its media and/or law, to conduct
research, draft reports, and possibly help with some event
coordination for a project on Turkey, new media, and the law in the
spring of 2011. The student would work closely with Karen Barkey,
Professor of Sociology and History. Knowledge of Turkish helpful.
Students should submit a CV, cover letter, and a writing sample. To
apply, please email Melissa Van ([email protected]).
Ahmet Erdoğdular: voice, tanbur, percussion
Emmanuel H. During: violin
Feridun Özgören: yaylı tanbur
Mavrothi Kontanis: oud
Wednesday, December 1 at 7pm
Elebash Recital Hall
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue (34th St. @ 5th Ave.)
Admission: $12 ($9 for students and Graduate Center members)
To purchase tickets call 212.868.4444 or go to www.smarttix.com and type “Sounds of the Bosphorus” into the search bar to find the concert.
For more information call 212.817.8215
Presented by: The American Turkish Society & Moon and Stars Project
Date: December 3-12, 2010
Location: School of Visual Arts Theatre -333 West 23rd Street (between
Eighth and Ninth Avenues)
Event Description: The New York Turkish Film Festival has established
itself as one of the preeminent international film festivals in New York
drawing as much as 8,000 viewers from across the Turkish and American
communities. Now celebrating its 12th year, the festival has screened
more than 300 inspiring, handpicked films to date including Turkish
contemporary, classic early, documentary and short films. The festival,
which to date, has been reviewed by major art publications and media,
will feature 12 feature films, and 12 short films in 2010.
Contact: For more information, please call (212) 583 7617 or visit
www.newyorkturkishfilmfestival.com, www.americanturkishsociety.org or
www.moonandstarsproject.org
Exciting news regarding our very own Seminar Chair, Christine Philliou’s book, available now from the University of California Press.
Biography of an Empire : Christine M. Philliou – University of California Press.
Book Summary:
This vividly detailed revisionist history opens a new vista on the great Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, a key period often seen as the eve of Tanzimat westernizing reforms and the beginning of three distinct histories—ethnic nationalism in the Balkans, imperial modernization from Istanbul, and European colonialism in the Middle East. Christine Philliou brilliantly shines a new light on imperial crisis and change in the 1820s and 1830s by unearthing the life of one man. Stephanos Vogorides (1780–1859) was part of a network of Christian elites known phanariots, institutionally excluded from power yet intimately bound up with Ottoman governance. By tracing the contours of the wide-ranging networks—crossing ethnic, religious, and institutional boundaries—in which the phanariots moved, Philliou provides a unique view of Ottoman power and, ultimately, of the Ottoman legacies in the Middle East and Balkans today. What emerges is a wide-angled analysis of governance as a lived experience at a moment in which there was no clear blueprint for power.
Author Biography:
Christine Philliou, assistant professor, specializes in the political and social history of the Ottoman Empire, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries. Her forthcoming book, Biography of an Empire: Practicing Ottoman Governance in the Age of Revolutions (University of California Press) examines the changes in Ottoman governance leading up to the Tanzimat reforms of the mid-nineteenth century. It does so using the vantage point of Phanariots, an Orthodox Christian elite that was intimately involved in the day-to-day work of governance even though structurally excluded from the Ottoman state.