E503 | In this first part of a two-part interview, we talk to Marc Baer about how he first became interested in Ottoman history and explore the main themes and the questions underpinning the research in his five books. In this conversation, we place special focus on the books Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe and The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks. Our discussion centers on approaches to the subject of conversion in the Ottoman Empire and the history of the dönme community born out of the transformations of the 17th century.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/06/baer1.html

Marc David Baer is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests include religious conversion, gender and sexuality, and interreligious relations and state violence in the Ottoman Empire, Greece, Turkey, and Germany.

Zeinab Azarbadegan is the post-doctoral fellow at the Vienna School of International Studies. She completed her PhD at Columbia University. Her research focuses on imperial knowledge production about the space of Ottoman Iraq by the Ottomans, the Qajars, and the British in the late nineteenth century.

CREDITS

Episode No. 503
Release Date: 18 June 2021
Audio editing by Zeinab Azarbadegan
Music: Special thanks to Monsieur Doumani for permission to use the composition "The System/Το σύστημαν", Isaac Algazi - Avinou Malkenou, Isaac Algazi - Ana Ke Av Zedoni 
Images and bibliography courtesy of Marc Baer available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/06/baer1.html

Conversion and Jewish Histories of the Ottoman Empire | Marc Baer

E504 | The Ottoman conquests of the 16th century represented a watershed moment in many senses. Our guest Faisal Husain explains the most literal of these senses: the unification of the Tigris and Euphrates basins under a single political authority and its ramifications for the history of Iraq. In our conversation, we explore how Ottoman rule in Iraq created new ecological possibilities and realities, setting the stage for momentous interventions in the rivers detailed in Husain's recent book "Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire." We also reflect on what Iraq reveals about Ottoman history writ large and the empire's dualist historical identity as an agrarian empire on one hand and flexible one on the other, in which accommodating local ecological difference was critical to governance.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/06/the-environmental-origins-of-ottoman.html

Faisal Husain is Assistant Professor of History at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Rivers of the Sultan and a member of the editorial boards of Marmara Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi and Global Environment.

Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. His first monograph entitled The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier is forthcoming with Stanford University Press.

CREDITS

Episode No. 504
Release Date: 27 June 2021
Recording Location: Charlottesville, VA / State College, PA
Sound production and compisition by Sam Dolbee
Music: Chad Crouch - Pacing 
Bibliography and images courtesy of Faisal Husain available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/06/the-environmental-origins-of-ottoman.html

The Environmental Origins of Ottoman Iraq | Faisal Husain

E505 | 19. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında, dinamit gibi patlayıcıların icadı ile küresel düzeyde oluşan küçük silah fazlası Osmanlı Balkanlarındaki devrimcileri hangi bakımlardan güçlendirdi? Osmanlı Devleti, imparatorluk karşıtı eylemleri kolaylaştıran bu ”devrim karaborsası”nı hangi yöntemleri kullanarak kontrol etmeye çalıştı? Bu bölümde, Dr. Ramazan Hakkı Öztan ile geç Osmanlı Balkanlarında devrimcilik, şiddet ve teknoloji ilişkisini, meselenin küresel politik ekonomi boyutunu da dikkate alarak değerlendiriyoruz. Devrimci şiddetin kavramsallaştırılması ve ideolojilerin devrimci siyasetteki önemini eleştirel olarak ele alırken, bu alandaki arşiv kaynaklarının nasıl incelenebileceğini de örneklerle tartışıyoruz.

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/oztan.html

Ramazan Hakkı Öztan lisans eğitimini Hacettepe Üniversitesi İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı’nda, yüksek lisansını ise Wyoming Üniversitesi Tarih bölümünde tamamladı. 2016 yılında Utah Üniversitesi Tarih bölümünde Peter Sluglett’ın danışmanlığında tamamladığı doktora tezinde, 19 yüzyıl sonu Osmanlı Balkanlarında ‘milliyetçiliğin metaları’ ve ‘devrimin karaborsası’ olarak kavramsallaştırdığı silah ve dinamit kaçakçılığı üzerine yoğunlaştı. 2017-2020 yılları arasında Neuchâtel Üniversitesi’nde Jordi Tejel’in yürütücüsü olduğu ve Avrupa Birliği Ufuk2020 programı kapsamındaki bir araştırma projesinde, doktora sonrası araştırmacı olarak çalıştı ve Türkiye-Suriye sınır bölgesi üzerine araştırmalar yaptı. Kasım 2020’den beri Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk Enstitüsü’nde Dr. Öğretim Üyesi olarak görev yapmaktadır.

Can Gümüş Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü'ndeki doktora çalışmalarına, geç Osmanlı dönemi kentlerinde halk sağlığı ve kentleşme ilişkisini incelediği araştırmasıyla devam ediyor.

YAPIM VE YAYIN

Bölüm No: 505
Yayınlanma Tarihi: 6 Temmuz 2021
Kayıt yeri: İstanbul
Ses Editörü: Can Gümüş
Müzik: Aitua; A.A. Aalto; Chad Crouch
Görseller ve Kaynakça Ramazan Hakkı Öztan’ın müsaadesiyle

Balkan Komitacıları, Teknoloji ve Şiddet | Ramazan Hakkı Öztan

E506 | Refik Halid Karay (1889-1965) was a writer, bureaucrat, and political exile whose life spanned the end of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. Christine Philliou traces his life as well as a genealogy of political opposition more broadly in her new book Turkey: A Past Against History. Following Refik Halid between his exiles in Sinop, Syria, and elsewehre as well as his momentous encounter with Mustafa Kemal in the Telegraph Episode, Philliou sheds light on the complicated transition between empire and nation. She also grapples with the challenge of telling history based on the voluminous and often satirical musings of a figure himself deeply invested in interpreting the past. 

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/halit.html

Christine Philliou is professor in the History Department, Director of the Modern Greek and Hellenic Studies Program at the Institute for European Studies, and Director of the Turkish and Ottoman Studies Program at the Center for Middle East Studies at UC Berkeley. Her first book was Biography of an Empire (2010, UC Press; Greek edition forthcoming 2021 with Alexandria Publications) and her new book is Turkey: A Past Against History (2021, UC Press).

Sam Dolbee is a lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard University. His research is on the environmental history of the late Ottoman Empire told through the frame of locusts in the Jazira region.

Brittany White is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. Broadly, she is interested in the African Diaspora in former Ottoman territories.

CREDITS 

Episode No. 506
Release Date: 16 July 2021
Recording Location: Kensington, CA / Somerville, MA / New York, NY
Sound production by Sam Dolbee
Script by Brittany White and Sam Dolbee
Additional thanks to Chris Gratien
Music: Zé Trigueiros, "Petite Route," "Saez," "Big Road of Burravoe"
Images and bibliography courtesy of Christine Philliou available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/halit.html

Refik Halit: A Life of Opposition | Christine Philliou

E507 | In this episode, Fariba Zarinebaf discusses the history of Galata and the early modern Mediterranean more broadly. Beginning with the incorporation of Galata's Genoese community of Istanbul under Ottoman rule in 1453, Zarinebaf explains how the treaties known as the capitulations (ahdname in Turkish) provided a durable framework for commercial exchange and pluralistic everyday life in Ottoman port cities. She also considers how these arrangements compared with commerce and life in non-Ottoman Mediterranean ports. Through a focus on French-Ottoman relations, Zarinebaf offers a glimpse of how treaties become involved in changing economic fortunes in the Mediterranean and the world. She also attends to how these economic patterns shaped the more intimate aspects of social life in Galata, closing with the impact of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt on the French community of Galata.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/zarinebaf.html

Fariba Zarinebaf obtained her PhD in Middle Eastern history from the University of Chicago in 1991. She is a professor of history at the University of California-Riverside and was the former director of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies there. She has taught at Bilkent University, Northwestern University and the University of Virginia. Among her publications are, Les Iraniens d’Istanbul, co-edited with Thierry Zarcone, Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century Istanbul (University of California Press, 2010), Mediterranean Encounters, Trade and Pluralism in Galata (University of California Press, 2018) and Fariba Zarinebaf, John Bennet and Jack L. Davis, A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece (American School of Classical Studies, 2005), Women on the Margins: Gender, Charity and Justice in the Early Modern Middle East ( Isis press, 2014). Her next book is tentatively entitled; The Last of the Silk Caravans, Cross-Cultural Trade and Urban Life on the Ottoman-Safavid Silk Road in the Early Modern Period.

Sam Dolbee is a lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard University. His research is on the environmental history of the late Ottoman Empire told through the frame of locusts in the Jazira region.

Nir Shafir researches the intellectual and religious history of the Middle East, from roughly 1400-1800, focusing on material culture and the history of science and technology. He is an assistant professor of history at UCSD.

CREDITS

Episode No. 507
Release Date: 23 July 2021
Recording Location: Chicago, IL / Somerville, MA / Torino
Sound production by Sam Dolbee
Additional thanks to Chris Gratien
Music: Blue Dot Sessions, "Fifteen Street,"; Zé Trigueiros, "Saez" 
Images and bibliography courtesy of Fariba Zarinebaf available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/zarinebaf.html

Galata and the Early Modern Mediterranean World | Fariba Zarinebaf

E508 | The modern history of Beirut has been defined by periods of intense construction, destruction, and reconstruction. In this episode, we explore the layers of history in Beirut's cityscape through a walking tour with Rayya Haddad. We chart Beirut's transformation from its rise as a late Ottoman capital through the expansion of the port during the French Mandate period, its golden age as a commercial center in independent Lebanon during the 1950s and 60s, the long civil war that lasted from 1975 to 1990, and the postwar reconstruction carried out by the company Solidere. We also explore the history of Beit Beirut, a unqiue building designed by Youssef Aftimus--Beirut's foremost architect of the late Ottoman and French Mandate period--from its Mediterranean revivalist origins to its redesign as a sniper's haven during the war, ending with its rescue and renovation by activists in recent decades. We conclude with some thoughts on what this layered history of the city means for the new layer of destruction and reconstruction created by the explosion in the port during August 2020.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/beirut.html

Now based in the U.S., Rayya Haddad carries her camera, and her passion for dance, percussion, Mother Nature and food with her wherever she goes. She has created interventions, performances, photographic projects and installations that illuminate alternative possibilities to the limitations and restrictions placed on so many based on race, ethnicity, nationality, immigration or social status, gender and sexual identity, and more. With commercial photography her work is primarily focused on the following 3 subjects; product ranging from jewelry to the culinary arts; music, dance, theatre and performance art, and family portraiture. She received a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago after her studies of sociology in New Orleans, Louisiana.

CREDITS

Episode No. 508
Release Date: 29 July 2021
Recording Location: Beirut
Music and sound elements (by order of appearance): Nasri Shamseddine - Samhina; BBC - بيروت مدينة منكوبة; Karawan - Ya Ganna; This Week - The Agony of Lebanon; Azar Habib - Ya Rayeh; Eudet Kaado - Mowasheh El Rabiy; Soapkills - Aranis; Prof. Elia Baida - Yalli Hajarti Habayeb; Soft and Furious - So What?
Sound production by Chris Gratien
Additional thanks to Sam Dolbee

Layers of History in Downtown Beirut | Rayya Haddad

E509 | The waqf, often translated as "endowment," is a critical player in the story of urban landscapes, charitable giving, property management, and religion in the Islamic world. But what is a waqf? In this episode, Nada Moumtaz uncovers the many lives of waqf in the city of Beirut, from Ottoman times until the present. We talk about waqfs as buildings, processes, acts, and investments. We see how the story of waqf illuminates central features of the modern state while blurring boundaries between family life and public life, religion and business, charity and investment, past and future, and human and divine.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/moumtaz.html

Nada Moumtaz is Assistant Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion and in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. Her book, God's Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State will be published by University of California Press in August 2021.

Susanna Ferguson is Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Smith College. She writes and teaches on the history of gender, sexuality, and political thought in the modern Arab world.

CREDITS

Episode No. 509
Release Date: 6 August 2021
Recording Location: Northampton, MA / Beirut, Lebanon
Sound production and composition by Susanna Ferguson
Music: "Fifteen Street," Blue Dot Sessions
Bibliography and images courtesy of Nada Moumtaz at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/moumtaz.html

The Many Lives of Waqf in Beirut | Nada Moumtaz

E510 | Depictions of the Middle East as a space of timeless violence pervade modern media, popular culture, and scholarship. In The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East, Laura Robson offers a rejoinder to such misconceptions while also providing a historical explanation of these distinctly modern forms of violence in greater Syria and Iraq, also known as the Mashriq. In this episode, we discuss how a new kind of territoriality in the late nineteenth century combined with imperialist interventions to transform violence into a way of making political claims through the twentieth century and up to the present across the region. We additionally talk about historical research and writing more generally, and how Robson’s past as a trained pianist has shaped her work.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/08/robson.html

Laura Robson is the Oliver-McCourtney Professor of History at Penn State University. She has written or edited five books, most recently The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East (Oxford, 2020), a history of the relationship between violence and the state in the twentieth-century Eastern Mediterranean, and Partitions: A Transnational History of 20th Century Territorial Separatism (with Arie Dubnov; Stanford, 2019), a comparative examination of the political “solution” of ethnic partition in the decolonizing world. Her current research considers the twentieth century rise of schemes for mass refugee removal and resettlement, in the Middle East and beyond.

Sam Dolbee is a lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard University. His research is on the environmental history of the late Ottoman Empire told through the frame of locusts in the Jazira region.

Deren Ertas is a PhD Candidate in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the infrastructural politics of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic.

CREDITS

Episode No. 510
Release Date: 13 August 2021
Recording Location: State College, PA / Somerville, MA / Berlin
Sound production by Sam Dolbee and Chris Gratien
Music: Blue Dot Sessions, "Fifteen Street," Zé Trigueiros, "Saez" 
Bibliography courtesy of Laura Robson at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/08/robson.html

The Politics of Mass Violence | Laura Robson

E511 | Among the most murky periods of the Ottoman dynasty's six-century history is the period of its very emergence in medieval Anatolia. In this episode, we talk to Rudi Lindner about his attempts to understand this early period of Ottoman history and the development of hypotheses and methods concerning the investigation of Ottoman origins over the past century of scholarship. We also reflect on what decades of research and teaching has taught Lindner about sources for history and the questions they require us to ask.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/08/rudi.html

Rudi Lindner is Professor Emeritus of History and Astronomy at the University of Michigan, and the author of the books, Nomads and Ottomans in Medieval Anatolia, published by Indiana University Press in 1983, and Explorations in Ottoman Prehistory, published by the University of Michigan Press in 2007.

Joshua M. White is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean (Stanford University Press, 2017).

Maryam Patton is a PhD candidate at Harvard University in the joint History and Middle Eastern Studies program. She is interested in early modern cultural exchanges, and her dissertation studies cultures of time and temporal consciousness in the Eastern Mediterranean during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

CREDITS

Episode No. 511
Release Date: 20 August 2021
Recording Location: Charlottesville, VA / Ann Arbor, MI / Oxford, UK
Sound production by Chris Gratien
Music: Piano Sonata in B-flat major, D.960 (Schubert, Franz) performed by Randolph Hokanson
Bibliography courtesy of Rudi Lindner and Joshua White available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/08/rudi.html

The Origins of Ottoman History | Rudi Lindner

E512 | For years, the historiography of the 14th-century Black Death produced more questions than answers. Then, roughly a decade ago, genomic research confirmed that the medieval Black Death was caused by the same bacteria, yersinia pestis, which causes the modern bubonic plague. This settled the burning question of precisely which disease had caused the pandemic that produced colossal mortality in many parts of Europe, Asia, and North Africa. In this episode, we speak to Monica H. Green, whose recent work has raised new questions about the Black Death by showing that the chronology of the Black Death was incomplete. As she explains, prior outbreaks of plague in 13th-century Asia occurred at the edges of the ascendant Mongol Empire, roughly a century before the plague arrived in Western Europe. In our conversation, we learn how Green uncovered the new story of the "four Black Deaths" and in doing so, explore the historiography of the Black Death and how genetics, archaeology, and a fresh approach to textual sources have brought us to a deeper understand of one of history's deadliest pandemics.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/08/green.html

Monica H. Green is a historian of medicine specializing on medieval medical history and global health. The author or editor of four books and numerous articles, Green works on the social and intellectual history of medicine of Europe while also pursuing new work that brings scientific findings on the histories of infectious diseases into dialogue with traditional historical sources. She is currently working on a book, The Black Death: A Global History, which proposes a redefined conception of the geography and the chronology of the late medieval plague pandemic known as the Black Death. A second book-in-progress focuses on the impact of the medical translations (Arabic-into-Latin) of the 11th-century merchant-turned-monk, Constantinus Africanus. Together with Nükhet Varlık and Tunahan Durmaz, she is engaged on a project, initially funded by the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest, to make more sources on the history of plague in the Islamicate world available in English translation.

Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. His first monograph entitled The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier is forthcoming with Stanford University Press.

CREDITS

Episode No. 512
Release Date: 26 August 2021
Recording Location: Phoenix, AZ / Charlottesville, VA
Sound production by Chris Gratien
Music: via Free Music Archive - A.A. Aalto, Chad Crouch, Aitua
Bibliography courtesy of Monica Green available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/08/green.html

Rewriting the Black Death | Monica Green

E513 | Over the course its final decades, millions of Muslim immigrants, many of them refugees of war and Russian conquest, settled in the Ottoman Empire. Between a quarter and a third of people in Turkey today have ancestors who arrived with those migrations. Yet their history often stops short of capturing the personal experiences of such people, what was erased, and what they have sought to preserve. In this episode, we speak with sociologist Şölen Şanlı Vasquez about how to write a more empathetic history of migration in Turkey through the lens of the Circassian diaspora. For her, this history is not just the story of how people from the North Caucasus were expelled from one empire and settled in an another. It is also a personal story about continuity, rupture, and recovery within the families of immigrants across generations and continents. Through a conversation about her ongoing research project called "The Home Within," we explore the themes of family, gender, ethnicity, race, and erasure --- not only in Turkey --- but across contexts of migration and displacement in the US and elsewhere. And we also reflect on the importance of public history that makes these issues relevant and relatable to a wider audience.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/09/circassian.html

Şölen Şanlı Vasquez teaches sociology at the Santa Rosa Junior College. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the New School for Social Research in 2009 and her M.Sc. in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics in 2000. Her book "Women and Cultural Citizenship in Turkey: Mass Media and 'Woman's Voice' Television" has been published by I.B. Tauris in 2016. Her most recent research project, The Home Within, is a digital history project about the Circassian diaspora in Turkey.

Brittany White is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. Broadly, she is interested in the African Diaspora in former Ottoman territories.

CREDITS

Episode No. 513
Release Date: 16 September 2021
Recording Location: San Francisco, CA / Charlottesville, VA
Sound production and transcript by Chris Gratien
Additional thanks to Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Christine Philliou, and Sam Dolbee
Music: Chad Crouch
Bibliography and images courtesy of Şölen Şanlı Vasquez available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/09/circassian.html

Season 11

The Circassian Diaspora | Şölen Şanlı Vasquez

E514 | Osman of Timișoara was a Muslim subject of the Ottoman Empire born during the late 17th century in modern-day Romania. As a young man serving in the Ottoman military, he was captured by the Habsburg army. He would spend more than a decade as a captive in Austria. Many people of his time had similar stories. What made Osman special was that he left behind a rare autobiographical account of his experiences and exploits. In our conversation with Giancarlo Casale about his translation of Osman’s memoir entitled Prisoner of the Infidels, we’ll explore the similarities among experiences of enslavement in the Ottoman and Habsburg lands and learn how Osman positioned himself as a linguistic and later diplomatic go-between. And through the life of Osman, his account of his own efforts to return to the Ottoman Empire, and the momentous events he witnessed, we will reflect on his autobiography as a work of literature and the messages contained within it.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/11/casale.html

Giancarlo Casale is Professor of Early Modern Mediterranean History at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, as well as a permanent member of the history faculty at the University of Minnesota.

Brittany White is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. Broadly, she is interested in the African Diaspora in former Ottoman territories.

CREDITS

Episode No. 514
Release Date: 18 November 2021
Recording Location: Minneapolis, MN / Charlottesville, VA
Sound production by Chris Gratien
Music: Aitua; A.A. Aalto; Chad Crouch
Bibliography courtesy of Giancarlo Casale available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/11/casale.html

Osman of Timisoara: Prisoner of the Infidels | Giancarlo Casale

E515 | The 1948 War resulted in the creation of the state of Israel and the Nakba of 750,000 Palestinian refugees. In Dear Palestine, Shay Hazkani sheds new light on these events through a unique source base: hundreds of personal letters secretly copied by an Israeli censorship apparatus. We talk in this episode both about his struggle to access these materials and the subversive truths that they reveal, including everything from Moroccan Jewish volunteers who felt solidarity with Arabs to Palestinian refugees who attempted to care for and return to their homes in the immediate aftermath of the conflict.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/11/hazkani.html

Shay Hazkani is a historian of the modern Middle East, with a particular interest in the social and cultural history of Palestine/Israel, and Middle Eastern Jews. He teaches at the University of Maryland in the Departments of History and Jewish Studies. Hazkani earned his PhD in History and Judaic studies in 2016 from New York University, his Master’s from the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University ,and his BA in Middle Eastern Studies from Tel Aviv University. His work has been published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and in Israel Studies Review, and he also publishes historical pieces in the Israel-daily Haaretz. His book Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War was published in 2021 by Stanford University Press.

Sam Dolbee is a lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard University. His research is on the environmental history of the late Ottoman Empire told through the frame of locusts in the Jazira region.

CREDITS

Episode No. 515
Release Date: 29 November 2021
Recording Location: Somerville, MA
Sound production by Sam Dolbee
Music: Chad Crouch, "Pacing"; Zé Trigueiros, "Sombra," "Chiaroscuro," "Big Road of Burravoe"
Bibliography courtesy of Shay Hazkani available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/11/hazkani.html

Dear Palestine | Shay Hazkani

E516 | How did Sufis shape the identity of Gujarat, a region in northwest India? Gujarat is best known for its ancient port cities and its connectivity to the broader Indian Ocean world. It is also the site of some of the oldest Muslim settlements in the Indian subcontinent. In this interview, Jyoti Balachandran traces the way Sufi saints and communities settled the region in the fifteenth century, with lasting impacts for Gujarat's regional identity. Taking us on a tour of the vast Sarkhej tomb complex outside Ahmedabad where Sufis and Sultans are buried side by side, and through a variety of historical texts from the Sultanate to the Mughal periods, Balachandran explores the many layers of this story of Muslim belonging.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/01/gujarat.html

Jyoti Gulati Balachandran is Assistant Professor of History at Penn State. She is a historian of medieval and early modern South Asia and the Indian Ocean world, focused on social and cultural histories of Muslim communities in Gujarat and the western Indian Ocean. Her next project is a history of Muslim scholarly networks in the sixteenth century, using a variety of Arabic narrative texts produced in Gujarat and the Hejaz. She serves on the editorial board of The Indian Economic and Social History Review.

Shireen Hamza is a doctoral candidate in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the history of medical exchange in the medieval Indian Ocean world. 

CREDITS

Episode No. 516
Release Date: 8 January 2022
Recording Location: State College, PA / Chicago, IL
Sound production by Maryam Patton
Additional thanks to Faisal Husain
Music: Rajna Swaminathan, Rajas, Of Agency and Abstraction: "Chasing the Gradient"
Bibliography and images courtesy of Jyoti Balachandran available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/01/gujarat.html

The Muslim Communities of Medieval Gujarat | Jyoti Balachandran

E517 | Amerikalı misyonerlerin Osmanlı Devleti sınırlarındaki faaliyetlerini incelemek, İslam ve Hristiyan dünyası ilişkilerine dair yaygın kabuller hakkında bize ne anlatır? Osmanlı Devleti sınırları dahilindeki misyoner varlığını tespit, teftiş ve tahdid etmek amacıyla hangi yöntemlere başvurmuş, bu süreç aktörler arasında ne gibi gerilimlere yol açmıştır? Bu bölümde Emrah Şahin ile  ”İtikadın Peşinde: Osmanlı Bürokratları ve Amerikan Misyonerleri” kitabı odağında Amerikan misyonerlerinin Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda bıraktığı mirası ve devlet erkanı ile misyonerler arasındaki çok katmanlı ilişkiyi değerlendiriyoruz

Emrah Şahin Türkiye Çalışmaları Direktörü ve Eğitimci Doçent Doktor olarak Florida Üniversitesi’nde çalışmaktadır. Küresel İslam Araştırmaları Merkezi Danışma Kurulu Üyesi, Florida Dijital Sosyal Bilimler Kurulu Üyesi ve Uluslararası Çalışmalar Programı Öğretim Üyesidir. Türkiye ve Kanada’da eğitimini tamamlamıştır (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Lisans, Bilkent Üniversitesi Yüksek Lisans, McGill Üniversitesi Doktora). Ortadoğu ve Osmanlı üzerine yürüttüğü çalışmalarının merkezinde siyasetin toplumu nasıl yansıttığı ve kültürü nasıl etkilediği meselesi bulunmaktadır. Florida Yılın Öğretmeni Ödülü, McGill Seçkin Eğitimci Ödülü ve Sakıp Sabancı Uluslararası Araştırma Ödülü sahibidir.

Can Gümüş Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü'ndeki doktora çalışmalarına, geç Osmanlı dönemi kentlerinde halk sağlığı ve kentleşme ilişkisini incelediği araştırmasıyla devam ediyor.

YAPIM VE YAYIN

Bölüm No: 517
Yayınlanma Tarihi: 16 Ocak 2022
Kayıt yeri: Gainesville, FL / Istanbul
Ses Editörü: Chris Gratien
Müzik: A.A. Aalto; Chad Crouch
Kaynakça Emrah Şahin'in müsaadesiyle

Osmanlı Bürokratları ve Amerikan Misyonerleri | Emrah Şahin

E518 | In 1878, following the Congress of Berlin, Bulgaria became a de facto independent principality. Not anymore under Ottoman rule, the Muslims of Bulgaria navigated this political shift by redefining their place as a minority of a nation-state. The community underwent a political polarization between traditional notables and a group pushing for reforms within Muslim institutions. In this episode, we discuss how these reformists engaged with state and nation-building in Bulgaria by highlighting their connections with the broader Muslim world. Not only did Bulgarian Muslims contribute to the rise of the Young Turk movement, they were also part of a transnational space in which intellectuals and activists debated issues such as the place of Islam in modern society, the value of education, and the question of political relationship with non-Muslim rulers.

This episode is cross-listed with The Southeast Passage: http://thesoutheastpassage.com/methodieva-bulgarian-muslims-empire-nation/

Milena Methodieva is a scholar of Ottoman, Balkan, and Turkish history. She is Assistant Professor at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her scholarship focuses on the political, social, and intellectual transformations in the late Ottoman empire, its successors in the Balkans, and modern Turkey. In her new research project, she focuses on migration to explore the unraveling of the Ottoman imperial world and the emergence of nation-states in the Balkans and modern Turkey.

Andreas Guidi is Lecturer of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Konstanz, Germany. After his joint Ph.D. at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, he is preparing a monograph tentatively entitled “Youth between Empires: Generations, Fascist Colonialism, and the post-Ottoman Mediterranean in Rhodes”. His post-doc project investigates how smugglers and illegal trade contributed to constructing a transnational modern Mediterranean.

Jovo Miladinović is an academic staff member at University of Konstanz. His research explores the history of Balkan and Mediterannean borderlands during the 19th and 20th century.

CREDITS

Episode No. 518
Release Date: 24 January 2022
Recording Location: Toronto / Berlin
Audio editing by Andreas Guidi and Jovo Miladinović 
Music: The Southeast Passage Theme, by Giulio Stermieri; Eridi Kalmadı Dağların Karı, performed by Seval Eroğlu; Kanun Taksimi 
Images and bibliography courtesy of Milena Methodieva available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/01/methodieva.html

Bulgarian Muslims between Empire and Nation | Milena Methodieva

E519 | The expulsion of Sephardic Jews from the Iberian Peninsula and their arrival in the Ottoman Empire thereafter changed the relationship of Jewish communities to the Ottoman dynasty. The history of Ottoman Jews would become part and parcel of a narrative that contrasted the Ottoman Empire's beneficence and tolerance with the anti-Semitism of other European societies. Yet as Marc Baer explains in this second part of a two-part conversation, the image of "Sultanic saviors" became entangled with the denial not only of anti-Semitism in Turkey but also of violence against Christians in the late Ottoman Empire and the Armenian Genocide. Adopting a history of emotions approach, Baer explores the reasons for the erasure of violence and persecution in the memory of the Ottoman Empire's relationship with Christians and Jews and uses the sentiments that animate this historiography and memory as a starting point for a way forward.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/01/baer2.html

Marc David Baer is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests include religious conversion, gender and sexuality, and interreligious relations and state violence in the Ottoman Empire, Greece, Turkey, and Germany.

Zeinab Azarbadegan is the post-doctoral fellow at the Vienna School of International Studies. She completed her PhD at Columbia University. Her research focuses on imperial knowledge production about the space of Ottoman Iraq by the Ottomans, the Qajars, and the British in the late nineteenth century.

CREDITS

Episode 519
Release Date: 29 January 2022
Audio editing by Zeinab Azarbadegan
Music: A.A. Aalto; Chad Crouch; Haim Effendi - Aben Yakir li Efraim; Isaac Algazi - Adonai Chamahti
Bibliography courtesy of Marc Baer available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/01/baer2.html

Sultanic Saviors | Marc Baer

E520 | How did one learn to be a good Muslim in the early 15th century? In newly conquered Ottoman lands where Christians and converts lived side by side, how would one go about learning the proper rites and beliefs to hold? This conversation with Carlos Grenier explores the lives and ideas of two brothers, Mehmed Yazıcıoğlu and Ahmed Bican, Sufis of the frontier city of Gelibolu who grappled with this very question. Their response was to craft a synthesis, an Ottoman Islam so to speak, in the form of Turkish texts that guided their communities on the proper way to be a Muslim. They reached an enormous readership and rank as some of the most popular books to ever be produced in Ottoman Turkish. And as Grenier explains, the Yazıcıoğlus articulated a new Ottoman spiritual vernacular forged in the balance between two worlds of the Balkan and Mediterranean frontiers and the Islamic intellectual sphere.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/02/grenier.html

Carlos Grenier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Florida International University. His recent book, The Spiritual Vernacular of the Early Ottoman Frontier, and published by Edinburgh University Press, analyzes the life and works of the Yazıcıoğlu brothers of fifteenth-century Gelibolu, authors of important works of popular Ottoman Islam. Dr. Grenier is interested in religion in the early Ottoman Empire and pre-Ottoman Anatolia, in Sufis within their political contexts, in vernacular Islamic literature within global Islam, and in late medieval and early modern philosophy of nature and of language.

Maryam Patton is a PhD candidate at Harvard University in the joint History and Middle Eastern Studies program. Her research explores cultural, intellectual, and scientific exchanges across the early modern Mediterranean. Her dissertation studies the cultural history of time and temporal consciousness in 16th century Istanbul and Venice. She is also the host of "Desert Cruising with Captain Ahab," a weekly rock and metal show at WPRB Princeton.

CREDITS

Episode No. 520
Release Date: 4 February 2021
Recording Location: Miami, FL / Oxford, UK
Sound production by Maryam Patton
Music: Monplaisir - Estampe Galactus Barbare Epaul Giraffe Ennui
Bibliography courtesy of Carlos Grenier available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/02/grenier.html

The Spiritual Vernacular of the Early Ottoman Frontier | Carlos Grenier

E521 | Islam and science fiction have more history together than you might expect. In this episode, we speak with Jörg Matthias Determann about the many ways science has fueled the imagination of people in Muslim-majority contexts over the last few hundred years. In his latest book, he shows how artists and missionaries participated in "cultures of astrobiology," or the study of life on other planets. Exploring the ways that a variety of authors, artists, and governments have imagined a future with and for Muslims, Matthias shows that there are many overlapping and competing visions of Muslim Futurism.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/02/scifi.html

Jörg Matthias Determann is an associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. He also serves as an associate editor of the Review of Middle East Studies.

Shireen Hamza is a doctoral candidate in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the history of medical exchange in the medieval Indian Ocean world.

CREDITS

Episode No. 521
Release Date: 13 February 2022
Recording Location: Doha, Qatar / Chicago, IL
Sound production by Shireen Hamza
Additional thanks to Sam Dolbee
Music/Sound Elements: ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, Ḥamādah. Riḥlah ilá al-Qamar. Behna Films, 1959. https://archive.org/details/ATripToTheMoonEnglishSubs/A+Trip+to+the+Moon+(1959).mkv
Bibliography and images courtesy of Jörg Matthias Determann available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/02/scifi.html

Islam and Science Fiction | Jörg Matthias Determann

E522 | State archives that function as a site of history scholarship are generally a modern creation. But in this episode, we discuss how past Islamic empires, while not necessarily leaving behind an organized archive used by scholars today, had much more sophisticated documentary practices than often assumed. As our guest Marina Rustow has recently shown in a new book entitled <i>The Lost Archive</i>, the relative absence of extant documentation, in the case of the Fatimid Caliphate of Cairo, belies a long paper trail. Using fragments of Fatimid documents surviving in the storeroom (genizah) of a Cairo synagogue, Rustow has identified traces of a lost Fatimid archive. In part one of this two-part interview with Professor Rustow, we explore how she followed a trail of scrap paper and scholarship to locate the lost archive of a medieval Islamic dynasty.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/03/rustow1.html

Marina Rustow is a social historian of the medieval Middle East at Princeton University. She has worked extensively on the documents of the Cairo Genizah, and her published works include Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate (2008) and The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Medieval Synagogue (2020). Rustow was a 2015 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.

Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. His first book, The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier, explores the social and environmental transformation of Adana region of Southern Turkey during the 19th and 20th century.

CREDITS

Episode No. 522
Release Date: 1 March 2022
Recording Location: New York, NY / Charlottesville, VA
Sound production by Chris Gratien
Music: via Free Music Archive - A.A. Aalto - Canyon; Chad Crouch - Pacing

Locating the Lost Islamic Archive | Marina Rustow

E523 | How did ordinary Ottoman subjects experience the momentous changes that made our modern world? This episode explores that question through the history of the Çukurova region of southern Turkey. As our guest Chris Gratien has argued in a new book entitled The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier, Çukurova can be studied as a microcosm of social and environmental change in the late Ottoman Empire. In our conversation, we explore how the approaches of environmental history can offer a fresh perspective on the political history of the Tanzimat period, and we discuss how the history of malaria -- an ancient disease -- sheds light on a modern experience of displacement and dispossession for rural communities in the Ottoman Empire and beyond.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/03/gratien.html

Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. His first book, The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier, explores the social and environmental transformation of the Adana region of Southern Turkey during the 19th and 20th century.

Susanna Ferguson is Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Smith College. She writes and teaches on the history of gender, sexuality, and political thought in the modern Arab world.

CREDITS

Episode No. 523
Release Date: 11 March 2022
Recording Location: Northampton, MA
Sound production by Chris Gratien
Music: Ruhi Su - Kalktı Göç Eyledi Avşar Elleri / İskan Türküsü (digitized by Chris Gratien); Seyfettin Sucu - Canım Anzılha (digitized by Chris Gratien); A.A. Aalto - Canyon; Pictures of the Floating World - Waves; Spent Lemons - The Hollow Plain
Bibliography and images courtesy of Chris Gratien
Additional thanks to Sam Dolbee

An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier | Chris Gratien

E524 | In 1517, the Ottomans captured Cairo and with it, the Arabophone lands of the Mamluk Sultanate. Suddenly, scores of learned scholars who had been preparing and vying for positions of esteem in either the academy or the bureaucracy found themselves under new authority. How did these scholars navigate the new political and linguistic environments? As Helen Pfeifer argues in a new book, Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands, the answer lies in gentlemanly salons, where elite men displayed their knowledge and status. These social laboratories played a key role in negotiating Syria and Egypt’s integration into the empire. Through Pfeifer's study of the life and network of the star scholar Badr al-Din al-Ghazzi, we learn how urban elite of former Mamluk Syria and Egypt continued to exert social and political influence, rivaling powerful officials from Istanbul. The gentlemanly salons also illustrate how Ottoman culture was forged collaboratively by Arabophone and Turcophone actors.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/03/salons.html

Helen Pfeifer is University Associate Professor of Early Ottoman History at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Christ's College. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire.

Maryam Patton is a PhD candidate at Harvard University in the joint History and Middle Eastern Studies program. She is interested in early modern cultural exchanges, and her dissertation studies cultures of time and temporal consciousness in the Eastern Mediterranean during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

CREDITS

Episode No. 524
Release Date: 27 March 2022
Recording Location: Oxford, UK / Berlin
Sound production by Maryam Patton
Music: Pictures of the Floating World - Bumbling
Bibliography and images courtesy of Helen Pfeifer available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/03/salons.html

Scholarly Salons in 16th-Century Damascus | Helen Pfeifer

E525 | In 1609, King Phillip III of Spain signed an edict to expel a community known as the Moriscos from the Iberian Peninsula. The Moriscos were Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity during the 16th century, after Christian kingdoms displaced the last remaining Muslim rulers in Iberia. The persecution and erasure of the Moriscos following the Reconquista are well documented in the historiography, where alongside Iberian Jews, they appear as victims of the fall of Islamic al-Andalus. But in this episode of Ottoman History Podcast, we’ll explore what these events looked like through the eyes of the Moriscos themselves and study their roles as political actors in the momentous political shifts of the 16th century. In this conversation with Mayte Green-Mercado about her book Visions of Deliverance, we discuss the circulation of Muslim and crypto-Muslim apocalyptic texts, known as jofores; and how these texts were catalysts for morisco political mobilization against the Spanish crown. We chart the formal and informal networks of communication between Moriscos, the Ottoman Empire, and the broader Mediterranean world. And we reflect on the challenges and benefits of using biased sources like the records of the Inquisition alongside other material.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/04/moriscos.html

Mayte Green-Mercado is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University—Newark, and the director of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies minor in the department of History. At Rutgers she teaches courses on Islamic civilization, medieval and early modern Mediterranean and Iberian history, as well as migration and displacement. She has published articles on early modern apocalypticism, the conversion of Iberian Muslims, as well as race and ethnicity in early modern Spain. Her first book, Visions of Deliverance. Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Cornell, 2019) examined the political culture of Moriscos—Spanish Muslims forcibly converted to Catholicism beginning in 1501—through their deployment of End Time prophecies. The book won the Wadjih F. al-Hamwi Prize for the Best First Book in Mediterranean Studies from The Mediterranean Seminar. Her current book project, tentatively titled Mediterranean Displacements. Morisco Migrations in the Sixteenth Century traces the history of migrations and displacement of Moriscos around the Mediterranean basin in the pre-expulsion priod, from their forced conversion to Catholicism until their expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula in 1609. She is founder and co-director of the Mediterranean Displacements Project at Rutgers-Newark.

Brittany White is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. Broadly, she is interested in the African Diaspora in former Ottoman territories.

CREDITS

Episode No. 525
Release Date: 11 April 2022
Recording Location: Newark, NJ / Charlottesville, VA
Sound production by Chris Gratien and Brittany White
Music: Aitua; A.A. Aalto
Bibliography and images courtesy of Mayte Green-Mercado available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/04/moriscos.html

Moriscos and the Early Modern Mediterranean | Mayte Green-Mercado

E526 | How was European military intervention in the Ottoman Empire justified throughout the nineteenth century? What did the Ottoman statesmen and subjects think of these would-be attemepts to provide them with more security? From the late eighteenth century, as a new international system was emerging, European powers considered the Ottoman Empire a weaker foil to their own expanding empires. In this episode, Ozan Ozavci explores how this perception of Ottoman weakness, known as the Eastern Question, affected the Ottoman Empire's place in and engagement with the new international system and law. Exploring the different phases of the Eastern Question, from the French invasion of Egypt in 1798 to the Civil War in Greater Syria durings the 1860s, Ozavci highlights agency of individual actors in the Ottoman capital and the provinces.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/04/ozavci.html

Ozan Ozavci is Assistant Professor of Transimperial History at Utrecht University and co-convenor of the Lausanne Project.

Zeinab Azarbadegan is a post-doctoral fellow at the Vienna School of International Studies. She completed her PhD at Columbia University. Her research focuses on imperial knowledge production about the space of Ottoman Iraq by the Ottomans, the Qajars, and the British in the late nineteenth century.

CREDITS 

Episode No. 526
Release Date: 22 April 2022
Sound production by Zeinab Azarbadegan
Music: "Melodia Arabia" from Franz Hünten's Fantaisie arabe op. 136 (1845). A famous French melody copied from a North African (Egyptian or Algerian) one since 1600s. "Partant pour la Syrie" sung by Joseph Saucier (Canadian National Archives). The lyrics were inspired by the French invasion of Egypt and Syria and was the French national anthem during the Second Empire. "Aldahre Kataâ Awsali " by Munira al-Mahdiyya (Free Music Archive). "Samaii Hijaz Kar Kurdi" by Chahadé Saadé(Free Music Archive)
Images and bibliography courtesy of Ozan Ozavci available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/04/ozavci.html

A New History of The Eastern Question | Ozan Ozavci

E527 | How did the Ottomans secure widespread buy-in for modernization projects across the empire's many geographies and communities? This episode explores that question through the experiences of Armenians in the Ottoman East. Our guest, Richard Antaramian, shares some of his research, which argues that Ottoman shared governance worked through networks of power that linked center to periphery and sustained relationships among notables of different confessions, classes, and locations. The Ottoman tax-farming system of the 18th century forged ties among central authorities, provincial notables, and Armenian financiers. As the Ottoman government embarked upon the modernizing reform projects of the late 1700s and 1800s, those forms of shared governence frayed. In the Ottoman East, the Armenian Patriarchate's attempts to enact new notions of reform saw major successes, with the establishment limited representative governance, a constitution, and new educational institutions. Yet, those successes came at the cost of weakening the ties between provincial Armenians and important power brokers like provincial notables and Kurdish tribal leaders. Ultimately, the Armenian Patriarchate's successes at reform translated into trouble for its newly-isolated flock in the empire's eastern borderlands. 

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/05/antaramian.html

Richard Antaramian is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern California. His research interests include, among others, the history of non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire.

Matthew Ghazarian is a Manoogian Research Fellow in the Center for Armenian Studies and the Department of History at the University of Michigan. His research examines the intersection of social, economic, and environmental history in the late Ottoman Empire.

CREDITS

Episode No. 527
Release Date: 4 May 2022
Sound production by Matthew Ghazarian
"Um Pepino" by Blue Dot Sessions
Images and bibliography courtesy of Richard Antaramian available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/05/antaramian.html

The Catastrophic Success of the Armenian Tanzimat | Richard Antaramian

E528 | Even though Ottoman History Podcast has been producing weekly episodes for over a decade, the times when our recording team and contributors have been able to gather to reflect on and celebrate our work have been rare. In April 2022, the Ottoman & Turkish Studies Association hosted a Zoom event for the OHP contributors and listeners to talk about what we have been doing since the podcast launched in 2011 and discuss the role it has played in the broader development of our fields of study. Join us to learn more about the history of our program and put faces to the voices you have been listening to over these years. As always, thank you to our hundreds of contributors and thousands of listeners for making this decade of experience worthwhile. And check out our special list of suggestions for further listening compiled based on the recommendations of those who were in attendance!

CREDITS

Episode No. 528
Release Date: 12 May 2022
Recording Location: OTSA Zoom Room
Music: Karagüneş - Istanbu; Zé Trigueiros - Sombra / Big Road of Burravoe
Sound production by Chris Gratien
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/05/ohp10.html

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More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/01/early-modern.html

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E490 | In 1919, Paraskevi Kyrias went to Paris to advocate for Albanian independence. As a woman in the overwhelmingly masculine space of international diplomacy, she faced sexism and unwanted romantic overtures. Nevertheless, she called on her connections within a global Protestant community, her life in diaspora in the United States, and her experiences at the elite Constantinople Girls' School to play a unique role in the Albanian campaign for independence after World War I. In this episode, we speak with Dr. Nevila Pahumi about Kyrias' story, her leadership of the early Albanian women's movement, and the diary of her experiences in Paris she left behind. We also trace the history of this remarkable woman after 1919, as she and her family were repudiated by a secularizing Albanian state determined to excise Protestant activism from their national history--until she was once again remade as a feminist icon in the last years of her life.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/01/pahumi.html

Nevila Pahumi works on the history of women's education and their emergence in the public sphere in the late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Balkans. She graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with a PhD in History in 2016, and between 2016-2018 she held the Alexander Nash Fellowship in Albanian Studies at UCL's School of Slavonic and Southeast European Studies. She has published two-dissertation related articles in the Journal of Modern Greek Studies and CLIO and taught a range of topics on Eastern Europe including women, gender, and sexuality after socialism. Her research and writing have been generously supported by an IIE Fulbright Fellowship, the Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, as well as a combination of research and writing grants from the University of Michigan's Weiser Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East Eurasian Studies, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and the Rackham Graduate School.

Susanna Ferguson is Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Smith College. She writes and teaches on the history of gender, sexuality, and political thought in the modern Arab world.

CREDITS

Episode No. 490
Release Date: 21 January 2021
Recording Location: Charlottesville, VA / Northampton, MA
Sound production by Susanna Ferguson and Chris Gratien
Music: "Chuperlika," Music of the Balkans, Gogofski; Eduardo Vandaa - VALSES DE PARIS; Henry King and his Hotel Pierre Orch - April in Paris; Marko Melkon and Nick Doneff - Geozlerinden Bellidir  
Special thanks to Sam Dolbee
Images and bibliography courtesy of Nevila Pahumi available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/01/pahumi.html

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