E574 | Bu bölümde, Nurçin İleri, Emine Öztaner ve Meltem Kocaman ile elektriğin Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e uzanan süreçte gündelik yaşamı ve toplumsal ilişkileri nasıl dönüştürdüğünü tartışıyoruz. İstanbul’un ilk aydınlatma girişimlerinden sanayi tesislerine, tramvay hatlarından ev içi teknolojilere uzanan örneklerle, teknolojik yeniliklerin yalnızca kent altyapılarını değil, aynı zamanda kentlilerin yaşam tahayyüllerini de nasıl şekillendirdiğini inceliyoruz. İleri’nin derlediği Bir Cereyan Hasıl Oldu: Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e İstanbul’da Elektrikli Yaşam (Tarih Vakfı, 2024) başlıklı kitabı temel alan sohbetimizde, elektriğin, bir teknik yenilik olmanın ötesinde, modernleşme, emek, toplumsal cinsiyet ve kamusal alan gibi kesişen temalar etrafında yeni bir toplumsal düzenin ve kültürel dönüşümün parçası hâline gelişini konuşuyoruz.

YAPIM VE YAYIN
Bölüm No: 574
Kayıt yeri: Avrupa Pasajı, Beyoğlu.
Yayın tarihi: 10 Kasım 2025
Ses Editörü: Can Gümüş
Music: Paed 02
Görseller ve kaynakça konuklarımızın müsaadesiyle https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/11/cereyan.html

Osmanlı'dan Cumhuriyet’e İstanbul’da Elektrikli Yaşam

Before Shakespeare became a literary icon, he was a working writer trying to earn a living in an emerging and often precarious new industry. In The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare, Daniel Swift explores the dream of making money from creating art, a dream shared by James Burbage, who built The Theatre, the first purpose-built commercial playhouse in London, and a young Shakespeare. Nobody had ever really done that before, with playwrights at the time notoriously poor.

Swift shows that Shakespeare’s creativity unfolded in a rapidly changing London where commercial theater was just beginning to take shape. The Theatre offered Shakespeare the stability, a close team of actors and cowriters,  and the professional home that he needed to develop his craft. Swift reveals a playwright who was learning on the job and becoming the Shakespeare we know today.

From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast. Published November 18, 2025. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This episode was produced by Matt Frassica. Garland Scott is the executive producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster. We had help with web production from Paola García Acuña. Leonor Fernandez edits our transcripts. We had technical help from Hamish Brown in Stirling, Scotland, and Voice Trax West in Studio City, California. Final mixing services are provided by Clean Cuts at Three Seas, Inc.

Daniel Swift is an associate professor of English at Northeastern University, London. He is the author of books on Ezra Pound, William Shakespeare, and the poetry of the Second World War, and editor of John Berryman’s The Heart Is Strange: New Selected Poems. His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, New Statesman, and Harper’s.

London's First Playhouse and Shakespeare

E575 | What could historians have to say about a fantasy novel? The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, published in 2023, follows an aging mother and captain on magical adventures across the twelfth-century Indian Ocean world with her crew. It has been read widely, hitting bestseller lists in the US and being translated into eight languages. In this episode, a group of historians discusses the novel with its author, Shannon Chakraborty. Our conversation covers gender and geography, language and literature, piety and piracy, and of course, magic.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/11/chakraborty.html

CREDITS

Episode No. 575
Release Date: 16 November 2025
Sound Production by Shireen Hamza
Music: O-Shin by Nyentek; Bahrain - Fidgeri: Songs of the Pearl Divers, recorded by Habib Hassan Touma, courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings; Arabic Music - Music performed by men from area of Ibri (major town of Dhahirah Region) by BBC Sounds

A Sea of Sorcery: Roundtable with Shannon Chakraborty

Mahmood Kooria - Piracy

Rebecca Hankins - Faith, Freedom, and Favors

KD Thompson - The Swahili Coast

Liana Saif - Witches

Shireen Hamza - Transformation

Fahad Bishara - Voyage Stories: The Natural and Supernatural on the Deck of a Dhow

In this episode, we speak with Giulio Menna and Marjolein de Vos, the founders of the Sexy Codicology project as well as the DMMapp (Digitized Medieval Manuscripts app), about the history of the projects, the digitization of medieval manuscripts and their promotion on social media.

Music credits: Intro music by TeknoAXE, “Chiptune Nobility” (CC BY  4.0), outro music by Random Mind, “The Bard's Tale” (CC0).

Recorded 4 June 2020. Edited by Tessa Gengnagel.

Episode 1: Sexy Codicology and the DMMapp

A podcast on medieval studies in the digital world, hosted by the early-career scholars of the Digital Medievalist Postgraduate Committee. 

This account features the first season of Coding Codices and is no longer being updated. For more episodes, transcripts, and other resources, check out our website at https://podcast.digitalmedievalist.org.

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