Ottoman History Podcast
313 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 199 ratingsInterviews with historians about the history of the Ottoman Empire and beyond. Visit https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/ for hundreds more archived episodes.
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Mementos from Habsburg Life in Ottoman Istanbul
July 05, 2020 17:02Episode 465 with Robyn Dora Radway hosted by Emily Neumeier What was it like to be a foreigner living in Ottoman Istanbul? In this episode, our guest Robyn Dora Radway answers this question by providing an in-depth look at an unusual type of document: alba amicorum, or friendship albums, which were essentially the social media of the sixteenth century. Produced in the Habsburg embassy (aka the “German House"), these albums functioned like yearbooks in that the owners residing in the em...
Cemal Kafadar Between Past and Present, Part 1
June 29, 2020 15:06Episode 464 with Cemal Kafadar hosted by Maryam Patton, Chris Gratien, and Sam Dolbee In part one of our interview with Cemal Kafadar, we discuss his intellectual influences in the broadest sense, ranging from the Balkan accents of the Istanbul neighborhood in which he grew up to his early interest in theater and film. Kafadar talks about key events that shaped his worldview, including the Vietnam War and the Iranian Revolution. He also touches on the works of history and literature th...
The Journeys of Ottoman Greek Music
May 03, 2020 13:56Episode 463 with Panayotis League hosted by Chris Gratien What is Greek music? For our guest Panayotis League, it's no one thing. Rather, it is diversity that defines the many regional musical traditions of Greece and the broader Greek diaspora. In this episode, we discuss League's ethnomusicological research on Greek music in diaspora, and we explore the history and transformation of Ottoman Greek music before and after the exchange of populations between Turkey and Greece. As Leagu...
Singing the Prophet's Praise
April 27, 2020 19:55Episode 462 with Oludamini Ogunnaike hosted by Shireen Hamza Reading and writing poems in praise of the prophet Mohammad is no simple matter in West Africa. Their composition was a vehicle for intellectual debate, just as their recitation was a means of spiritual transformation for the listener. In this episode, we speak to Dr. Oludamini Ogunnaike, the author of a recent book about praise or "madih" poetry in West Africa, and we listen to recordings of several recitations. Madih poetr...
Music and Silence in the Armenian Diaspora
April 23, 2020 14:38Episode 461 with Sylvia Angelique Alajaji hosted by Sam Dolbee Music, at its best, can give us a reason to live. In this episode, Sylvia Alajaji discusses how in the wake of the Armenian Genocide, music not only served this function for Armenians, but also opened up broader questions about how to define what it meant to be Armenian. Drawing from her book Music and the Armenian Diaspora, she traces the Armenian musical cultures that emerged over a century from New York to Beirut to Cali...
Erken Modern Avrupa Oyunlarındaki Türk İmgesi
April 19, 2020 17:25Bölüm 460 Fatih Parlak Sunucu: Can Gümüş Erken modern dönemde Avrupa’nın oyun dünyası nasıldı? Avrupa’nın çeşitli ülkelerinde üretilen bu oyunlarda Türkler nasıl temsil ediliyordu? Bu bölümde, Dr. Fatih Parlak ile bu sorular etrafında sohbet ediyoruz. Parlak’ın doktora tezi batılı kaynaklarda yer alan Türk imgesini durağan kabul eden ana akım yaklaşımları yeniden değerlendiriyor ve bu imgenin çok katmanlı ve çok yönlü olarak değerlendirilmesi gerektiğine vurgu yapıyor. Aynı zamanda...
The Bosnian War, Jihad, and American Empire
April 15, 2020 15:58Episode 459 with Darryl Li hosted by Sam Dolbee and Matthew Ghazarian In this episode, anthropologist and lawyer Darryl Li discusses his new book The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity. Based on ethnographic and archival research, the work explores the Bosnian jihad, in which several thousand Muslim volunteers ventured to the area to fight in response to the mass atrocities against Muslims in the midst of the Bosnian War of 1992 to 1995. Through this lens, ...
Being Urban and Urbane in Safavid Iran
April 08, 2020 18:05Episode 458 with Kathryn Babayan hosted by Nir Shafir In the seventeenth century, the city of Isfahan flourished as the capital of the Safavid Empire. How did this vibrant and growing city shape the very nature of its inhabitants? In this episode, we speak to Kathryn Babayan about how the city’s residents learned to read its new architecture and social life and how this budding urbanity in turn developed new ways of being and belonging among its residents. She focuses specifically on a...
Cihan Harbinde Arap Toprakları ve Osmanlı-Türk Hatıratı
April 01, 2020 23:36Bölüm 457 Selim Deringil Sunucu: Önder Eren Akgül Bu bölümde Selim Deringil ile, Birinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında Suriye vilayetlerinde bulunmuş dört Osmanlı-Türk yöneticisi ve entelektüeli, Ali Fuad Erden, Münevver Ayaşlı, Hüseyin Kazım Kadri ve Falih Rıfkı Atay’ın yazdıkları tanıklıklardan bölümler okuyarak Arap topraklarında Cihan Harbi’nin getirdiği muazzam siyasal ve toplumsal sarsıntıyı ve Osmanlı yönetici elitinin bu toprakları savaş süresince nasıl idare ettiğini konuştuk. Ayrı...
Science in Early Modern Istanbul
March 25, 2020 17:36Episode 456 with Harun Küçük hosted by Sam Dolbee and Zoe Griffith What did science look like in early modern Istanbul? In this episode, Harun Küçük discusses his new book, Science without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660-1732 (University of Pittsburgh Press), which tackles this question in a bold fashion. Tracing the impact of late seventeenth and early eighteenth transformations of the Ottoman economy, Küçük argues that the material conditions of scholars greatly det...
Plague in the Ottoman World
March 19, 2020 15:37Episode 455 featuring Nükhet Varlık, Yaron Ayalon, Orhan Pamuk, Lori Jones, Valentina Pugliano, and Edna Bonhomme narrated by Chris Gratien and Maryam Patton with contributions by Nir Shafir, Sam Dolbee, Tunç Şen, and Andreas Guidi The plague is caused by a bacteria called Yersinia pestis, which lives in fleas that in turn live on rodents. Coronavirus is not the plague. Nonetheless, we can find many parallels between the current pandemic and the experience of plague for people who l...
Osmanlı Devleti'nde Salgın Hastalıklarla Mücadele
March 11, 2020 21:39Bölüm 454 İsmail Yaşayanlar Sunucu: Can Gümüş Hindistan'da endemik bir hastalık olan kolera, 19. yüzyılda nasıl bir pandemiye dönüştü? Osmanlı Devleti kolerayla nasıl tanıştı ve hangi yöntemleri kullanarak mücadele etti? Bu bölümde Düzce Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü'nden Doç. Dr. İsmail Yaşayanlar ile Osmanlı Devleti'nde salgın hastalıkları konuşuyoruz. Tıp ve bakteriyolojide kaydedilen ilerlemelerin ve modern devlet pratiklerinin kamu sağlığı yaklaşımlarını nasıl dönüştürdüğünü tartışı...
Indian Ocean Exchange in Early Modern Yemen
March 06, 2020 15:52Episode 453 with Nancy Um hosted by Zoe Griffith The Red Sea port of Mocha enjoyed ties with London, Amsterdam, Surat, and Jakarta in the eighteenth century. But not all of the ivory, porcelain, and coffee that passed through Mocha was sold for a profit. In this episode, Nancy Um brings the eye of an art historian to the history of exchange and diplomacy in the early modern Indian Ocean, focusing on the ceremonies and gift exchanges that legitimated and lubricated English and Dutch t...
Muslim Sicily and Its Legacies
February 27, 2020 15:48Episode 452 with William Granara hosted by Chris Gratien During the 9th century, Arab armies from North Africa conquered Sicily, leading to four centuries of Muslim history on the island, which is now part of Italy. Sicily during that period has often been portrayed as an interfaith utopia where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived side by side, giving rise to a cultural synthesis, but as our guest William Granara explains, the reality was more complex. In this conversation with Granara...
Fighting Under the Same Banner
February 22, 2020 21:38Episode 451 with Yaşar Tolga Cora, Edhem Eldem, Nicole van Os, and Johann Strauss hosted by Işın Taylan What did it mean to individuals from different ethnic and religious backgrounds to participate in World War I under the same banner? What do personal narratives tell us about the World War I? Accounts of soldiers, officers, and women as well as non-textual sources such as medals and postcards provide novel perspectives into thinking about the experience of the Great War. This epis...
II. Abdülhamid Dönemi Alevi Algısı ve Siyaseti
February 16, 2020 16:24Bölüm 450 Yalçın Çakmak Sunucu Can Gümüş II. Abdülhamid Dönemi yönetim anlayışı, Osmanlı Devleti’nin 16. yüzyıldan itibaren izlediği Alevi/Kızılbaş siyasetini nasıl dönüştürdü? II. Abdülhamid dönemi Alevi/Kızılbaş siyasetinin temel araçları nelerdi? Bu bölümde, Munzur Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü’nden Yalçın Çakmak ile “Sultan’ın Kızılbaşları: II. Abdülhamid Dönemi Alevi Algısı ve Siyaseti” başlıklı kitabı üzerine sohbet ediyoruz. II. Abdülhamid rejiminin kendi siyaset anlayışı ve araçla...
The Language of Protest in 19th Century Egypt
February 11, 2020 15:31Episode 449 with Pascale Ghazaleh hosted by Nir Shafir Popular revolts across the Middle East during the 19th and early 20th century have often been described as nationalist or anti-colonial. But on what basis did people mobilize and what rights were they attempting to assert? In this conversation, Pascale Ghazaleh examines the language of protest, focusing on the actions of peasants and the working class, their understandings of property rights and ownership, and what they say about t...
Freedom and Desire in Late Ottoman Erotica
February 07, 2020 03:03Episode 448 with Burcu Karahan hosted by Suzie Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud "One Thousand Kisses," "Plate of Cream," "Story of a Lily:" these are some of the provocative titles that graced the covers of Ottoman erotic novels in the early decades of the twentieth century. While erotic fiction and poetry had a long history in Ottoman and Arabic manuscript culture, the erotic novels of the second constitutional period (1908-1914), some creatively...
Osmanlı Yazmalarından Hikâyeler
February 02, 2020 21:42Bölüm 447 Mehmet Kentel & Akif Yerlioğlu Sunucu: Can Gümüş Podcast'i indir Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Bu bölümde K. Mehmet Kentel ve Akif Ercihan Yerlioğlu ile İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü’nün Hafıza-i Beşer: Osmanlı Yazmalarından Hikâyeler sergisi üzerine sohbet ediyoruz. Elyazmaları üzerinden Osmanlı toplumunda çok dillilik, gündelik hayat, tıp, evren ve zamanın bilgisi, toplumsal cinsiyet ve cinselliğin izlerini süren sergi odağında yazmalarla Osmanlı tarihyazımı...
The Mediterranean in the Age of Global Piracy
January 28, 2020 16:53Episode 446 featuring Emrah Safa Gürkan, Joshua White, and Daniel Hershenzon narrated by Chris Gratien with contributions by Nir Shafir, Taylor Moore, Susanna Ferguson, and Zoe Griffith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Piracy is often depicted as a facet of the wild, lawless expanses of the high seas. But in this episode, we explore the order that governed piracy, captivity, and ransom in the early modern Mediterranean and in turn, how these practices sha...
Ottomans, Orientalists, and 19th-Century Visual Culture
January 19, 2020 15:08Episode 445 with Mary Roberts hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The line between Orientalist and Ottoman painting might at first seem clear. But in this episode, historian Mary Roberts argues that such distinctions are in fact complicated, drawing on her recent book Istanbul Exchanges: Ottomans, Orientalists and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. She explains how Istanbul became a global center of production, circulation, and exh...
The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought
January 12, 2020 00:20Episode 444 with Hüseyin Yılmaz hosted by Nir Shafir and Alp Eren Topal Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In medieval Anatolia, political authority could be found in surprising places. In this podcast, we speak to Hüseyin Yılmaz about the political role of Sufi leaders in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. We explore how these shaykhs could become powerful political leaders in their own right and how the nascent Ottoman state dealt with their power, u...
Afghanistan's Constitution and the Ottoman Empire
January 04, 2020 04:05Episode 443 with Faiz Ahmed hosted by Shireen Hamza and Huma Gupta Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, Professor Faiz Ahmed recounts the fascinating history of Afghanistan’s first modern constitution, contextualizing it within a broader legal and political history. The constitution was developed by Afghan, Ottoman and Indian and other scholars, at the behest of the country’s monarch, between 1919-1925. After the first world war, Afghanistan w...
Mughal Persian Poetry and Persianate Cultures
December 15, 2019 23:43Episode 442 with Sunil Sharma hosted by Shireen Hamza and Naveena Naqvi Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, Professor Sunil Sharma shares his research on the cast of poets who wrote Persian poetry in India, and the poetic idea of Mughal India as a paradise, or an “Arcadia.” (He also shares some excerpts of this lovely poetry with us!) We discuss how specific regions, like Kashmir, became a hot new topic in Persian poetry, and explore the kinds...
Language, Power, and Law in the Ottoman Empire
December 12, 2019 22:19Episode 441 with Heather Ferguson hosted by Zoe Griffith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, historian Heather Ferguson takes us behind the scenes of early modern Ottoman state-making with a discussion of her recent book The Proper Order of Things. We discuss how the architecture of Topkapı palace, the emergence of new bureaucratic practices, and the administration of space from Hungary to Lebanon projected early modern discourses of “order” th...
Ottoman Children and the First World War
December 09, 2019 02:47Episode 440 with Nazan Maksudyan hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Children are often imagined as victims of war or passive bystanders. But in this episode, Nazan Maksudyan is back on the program to talk about how the First World War looked through the eyes of Ottoman children and their lives as historical actors during and after the conflict. We explore the experience of child workers and the many situations faced by children throug...
An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
December 05, 2019 22:25Episode 439 with Bathsheba Demuth hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud How can we narrate human history in relation to the non-human world? In this inaugural installment of our new environmental humanities series Climes, we talk to Bathsheba Demuth about the craft of environmental history. She reads selections from her new book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, and we discuss how hunting, capitalism, and comm...
Local Capitalists in the Late Ottoman Levant
December 02, 2019 23:50Episode 438 with Kristen Alff hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Though the history of capitalism in the Middle East has been closely tied to the history of colonialism, local forms of capitalism emerged in the Ottoman Empire long before the advent of the British and French mandates. In this episode, Kristen Alff offers a new perspective on the joint-stock companies of mercantile families in the late Ottoman Levant. These families, the...
Osmanlı İstanbul'unda Evlilik ve Boşanma
November 29, 2019 23:16Bölüm 437 Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik Sunucu Can Gümüş Podcast'i indir Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Osmanlı'da çiftler nasıl evlenir, nasıl boşanırdı? Bu podcast'te Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik ile İstanbul Bab, Davud Paşa ve Ahi Çelebi mahkemelerinin 1755-1840 yıllarındaki kayıtlarını inceleyerek tamamladığı doktora araştırması odağında, Osmanlı İstanbul'unda evlilik ve boşanma davaları üzerine sohbet ediyoruz. Elbirlik'in araştırması, kadınların evlilik, boşanma ve mülkiyetle ilişki...
Narrating Migration: A Cross-Disciplinary Roundtable
November 24, 2019 18:06Episode 436 with Rawan Arar, Andrew Arsan, Reem Bailony, and Neda Maghbouleh hosted by Chris Gratien Audience questions by Joshua Donovan, Nihal Kayali, Nova Robinson, and Ben Smith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this roundtable entitled "Narrating Migration: Emerging Methods and Cross-Disciplinary Directions," held at the 2019 Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, two historians--Reem Bailony and Andrew Arsan--and two sociolog...
A Political Biography of Talaat Pasha
November 22, 2019 20:30Episode 435 with Hans-Lukas Kieser hosted by Graham Auman Pitts and Önder Eren Akgül Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud World War I and along with it the life of Talaat Pasha, who headed the Ottoman Ministry of Interior and became empire’s Grand Vizier after 1917, remain contentious in Turkey today. Hans-Lukas Kieser, professor at Australia’s Newcastle University, has recently published a pioneering biography of Talaat Pasha, which casts him as the primary a...
Family Papers and Ottoman Jewish Life After Empire
November 20, 2019 01:20Episode 434 with Sarah Abrevaya Stein hosted by Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein speaks to us about the journey of one Jewish family from Ottoman Salonica in the late nineteenth century to Manchester, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and beyond during the twentieth century. In her new book Family Papers, she reveals the poignant continuities and changes that accompanied the Sephardic family's movement from an...
The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America
November 13, 2019 21:24Episode 433 with David Gutman hosted by Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Beginning in the 1880s, thousands of Ottoman Armenians left the Harput region bound for places all around the world. The Ottoman state viewed these migrants as threats, both for their feared political connections and their possession of foreign legal protections. In this episode, David Gutman discusses the smuggling networks that emerged in response to these legal restriction...
Millet Sistemi ve Rum Toplulukları
November 08, 2019 22:12Bölüm 432 Ayşe Ozil Sunucu: Önder Eren Akgül Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Ottoman History Podcast’in bu bölümünde Ayşe Ozil ile geç Osmanlı döneminde millet sisteminin ne ifade ettiğini, Rum cemaatini, cemaat kavramının kendisini, Rum topluluklarının devlet ile ilişkisini ve bu ilişkinin ondokuzuncu yüzyıl ortalarından itibaren ne tür değişimler geçirdiğini konuştuk. « Click for More »
The Arab Conquest of Space
October 25, 2019 20:33Episode 431 with Jörg Matthias Determann hosted by Taylan Güngör Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud When Sultan bin Salman left Earth on the shuttle Discovery in 1985, he became the first Arab, first Muslim, and first member of a royal family in space. Twenty-five years later, the discovery of a planet 500 light years away by the Qatar Exoplanet Survey – subsequently named ‘Qatar-1b’ – was evidence of the cutting-edge space science projects taking place across...
Islamic Law and Arab Diaspora in Southeast Asia
October 08, 2019 20:28Episode 430 with Nurfadzilah Yahaya hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud During the 19th century, Southeast Asia came under British and Dutch colonial rule. Yet despite the imposition of foreign institutions and legal codes, Islamic law remained an important part of daily life. In fact, as our guest Fadzilah Yahaya argues, Islamic law in the region underwent significant transformation as a result of British and Dutch policies. But rather t...
How War Changed Ottoman Society
October 03, 2019 19:53Episode 429 with Yiğit Akın hosted by Chris Gratien and Susanna Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud World War I brought unprecedented destruction to the Ottoman Empire and resulted in its fall of as a political entity, but war also produced new politics. In this podcast, Yiğit Akın is back to talk about his book When the War Came Home and how years of war transformed the Ottoman Empire. We discuss how the experience of the 1912-13 Balkan Wars reshaped ...
Ethnicity and Politics in an Iraqi Oil City
September 27, 2019 21:21Episode 428 with Arbella Bet-Shlimon hosted by Susanna Ferguson and Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud How do ethnic and confessional identities become the basis for political mobilization? In this episode, Arbella Bet-Shlimon examines the long history of Iraq's first oil city, Kirkuk, to argue that the rise of ethnicized politics was by no means inevitable. She shows how a multilingual city long shared by Arabic, Turkish, and Kurdish-speaking commu...
Social Networks in Ottoman Reform
September 17, 2019 15:41Episode 427 with Yonca Köksal hosted by Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud How do social networks determine the results of government reform? In this episode we examine this quesiton during the Tanzimat reform era (1839-76) with historical sociologist Yonca Köksal. Her research focuses on the differing outcomes of the Tanzimat in two core provinces of the Ottoman Empire, Ankara and Edirne. Applying social network analysis to imperial corr...
Podcasting Feminism in Post-Revolution Armenia
September 10, 2019 01:19Episode 426 with Anahit Ghazaryan & Gohar Khachatrian hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, we sit down with Anahit and Gohar, creators of Akanjogh: Armenia's first podcast about feminism. The name of their program plays on the Armenian words for "earring" and "take heed," and the goal of this program is to grab a new Armenian audience of podcast listeners by the ear and draw their attention to enduring importance of femini...
Medical Metaphors in Ottoman Political Thought
September 05, 2019 13:59Episode 425 with Alp Eren Topal hosted by Susanna Ferguson and Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, Alp Eren Topal traces the history of medical metaphors for describing and diagnosing state and society in Ottoman political thought. From the balancing of humors prescribed by Galenic medicine to the lifespan of the state described by Ibn Khaldun and the germ theory of nineteenth-century biomedicine, we explore some of the ways people t...
"When the War Came Home" Trailer
September 03, 2019 23:07A preview of our interview with Yiğit Akın about his new book entitled When the War Came Home
1001 Nights at the Cinema
August 30, 2019 15:36Episode 424 with Samhita Sunya hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The 1001 Nights, an Arabic collection of tales, have been translated into numerous languages and adapted to many cultural contexts. In this episode, we explore the impact of the 1001 Nights on the history of cinema. As our guest Samhita Sunya explains, the 1001 Nights corpus influenced Western cinema from the earliest decades of the medium's rise. However, in our conversat...
Egypt, Libya, and the Desert Borderlands
August 26, 2019 21:15Episode 423 with Matthew Ellis hosted by Zoe Griffith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud When the Ottoman state granted the province of Egypt to the family of Mehmed Ali Pasha in the 19th century, neither party much cared where Egypt's western border lay. As Matthew Ellis argues in his book, Desert Borderland, sovereignty in the eastern Sahara, the expanse of desert spanning Egypt and Ottoman Libya, was not simply imposed by modern, centralized states. In this...
Tarihçilerden Başka Bir Hikâye
August 17, 2019 08:21Bölüm 422 Fatih Artvinli ve Ebru Aykut Sunucu Can Gümüş Podcast'i indir Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Edebiyat ve kurmacanın tarihyazımına sunduğu imkânlar nelerdir? Bu bölümde, aynı kuşaktan 14 genç tarihçinin arşiv belgesi, gazete kupürü, günlük, mektup gibi tarihsel bir malzemeden ya da metinden yola çıkarak kurguladığı öykülerden oluşan "Tarihçilerden Başka Bir Hikâye" kitabı üzerine sohbet ediyoruz. Kitabın editörlerinden Fatih Artvinli ve Ebru Aykut ile tarihsel gerçe...
Population and Reproduction in the Late Ottoman Empire
August 07, 2019 09:45Episode 421 with Gülhan Balsoy and Tuba Demirci hosted by Suzie Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud How did the experience of pregnancy and childbirth change in the Ottoman Empire in the context of nineteenth-century reforms? In this episode, we discuss how the question of managing a "population" become a key concern for the Ottoman state, bringing new opportunities and difficulties for Ottoman mothers and midwives alike. Questions about childbirth als...
Captivity and Ransom in Ottoman Law
July 31, 2019 09:36Episode 420 with Will Smiley hosted by Zoe Griffith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud How did an Irish-born Russian nobleman serving in the Russian army end up an Ottoman slave and valet to an Ottoman-Albanian officer? And what possibilities existed for his eventual release? In this episode, Will Smiley traces the history of Ottoman laws of captivity and ransom in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how older practices of enslavement and ransom t...
The Story Has It
July 18, 2019 05:09<!-- function toggle_visibility(id) { var e = document.getElementById(id); if(e.style.display == 'block') e.style.display = 'none'; else e.style.display = 'block'; } //--> a:hover { cursor:pointer; } Episode 419 with İpek Hüner Cora hosted by Işın Taylan Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Ottoman literature is heavily associated with verse, namely, Ottoman court poetry, and to some extent, folk literatur...
İstanbul'un Teneke Mahalleleri
July 06, 2019 11:55Bölüm 418 Egemen Yılgür Sunucu: Can Gümüş Podcast'i indir Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Bu bölümde Egemen Yılgür ile 19. yüzyılın son çeyreğindeki kitlesel göç hareketlerinin yarattığı konut talebiyle eş zamanlı olarak yaygınlaşmaya başlayan teneke mahalleleri üzerine yürüttüğü araştırmaları üzerine sohbet ettik. Bomonti, Nişantaşı ve Kumkapı'daki teneke mahalleleri temelinde, bu mekânsal odakların oluşumuna yol açan toplumsal ve siyasi süreçleri inceledik; göç ve kent yoksull...
Mexico and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora
July 04, 2019 04:10Episode 417 with Devi Mays hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud After their expulsion from the Iberian peninsula during the 15th century, Jewish communities settled throughout the Mediterranean, with many finding new homes in the cities of the ascendant Ottoman Empire. Centuries later, Ottoman Jews descended from this early modern diaspora still spoke a language related to Spanish, often referred to as Ladino. During the late 19th century,...