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E192 | Bathhouses or hamams are a well-known feature of the Ottoman city typically associated with leisure. However, as our guest Nina Ergin explains, the history of hamams also provides a window onto many socioeconomic and political issues in the Ottoman Empire. In this episode, we discuss her research regarding the hamams of Istanbul during the mid-eighteenth century, what they tell us about the political economy and demographic makeup of the Ottoman capital, and how mapping hamams onto the landscape of Ottoman Istanbul can raise new questions about the social history of the city.

More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/p/urban-space-in-ottoman-world.html

Nina Ergin is Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology and History of Art at Koç University, specializing in the history of Ottoman architecture. Her work particularly revolves around monuments that have a strong social dimension, such as hamams, soup kitchens and hospitals, as well as around the sensory dimensions of the Ottoman built environment.

Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University studying the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. His doctoral research examines the ecological transformation of the Adana region of Southern Turkey from the mid-19th century onward.

    Episode No. 192
    Release date: 5 July 2015
    Location: Feriköy, Istanbul
    Editing and Production by Chris Gratien
Images courtesy of Nina Ergin 
    Musical excerpt from Debo Band - Ambassel at freemusicarchive.org

Bibliography:

Nina Ergin with contributions by Yasemin Özarslan, “Mapping Istanbul’s Hamams of 1752 and Their Employees,” Bread from the Lion’s Mouth: Artisans Struggling for a Livelihood in Ottoman Cities, ed. Suraiya Faroqhi (New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 2015), 108-135.


Nina Ergin, “The Albanian Tellâk Connection: Labor Migration to the Hamams of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul, Based on the 1752 İstanbul Hamâmları Defteri,” Turcica 43 (2011 [2012]): 229-254.

Nina Ergin, “Bathing Business in Istanbul: A Case Study of the Çemberlitaş Hamamı in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” Bathing Culture of Anatolian Civilizations: Architecture, History and Imagination (Louvain: Peeters, 2011), 142-167.


Nina Ergin, “Continuity and Change in Turkish Bathing Culture in Istanbul: The Life Story of the Çemberlitaş Hamam,” Turkish Studies 6 (2005): 93-112.

The Sociopolitical World of Ottoman Hamams | Nina Ergin

E193 | From Baghdad to Cairo to Edirne, hospitals were major and integral components of medieval and early modern Islamic cities. But what role did they play in these cities and their societies? Were they sites for the development of medical knowledge? In this podcast, Professor Ahmed Ragab examines the history and significance of hospitals in Mamluk Egypt and Syria. He argues that we must view these medieval hospitals as charitable institutions that provided needed services and drugs to the urban poor, rather than the early progenitors of our modern medical institutions. Over the course of the interview we explore how these hospitals functioned as charitable institutions, what type of medical theories and treatments they employed, why medieval rulers regarded them as so important, and why their importance decreased after the sixteenth century.

http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/07/islamic-hospitals-in-medieval-egypt-and.html

Ahmed Ragab is Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion at Harvard Divinity School. His book, The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, and Charity is available from Cambridge University Press as of September 2015.

        Release date: 26 July 2015
    Location: Harvard University
    Editing and Production by Chris Gratien
    Bibliography courtesy of Ahmed Ragab 

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ragab, Ahmed. The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion and Charity. Newark: Cambridge University Press, 2015. http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/religion/islam/medieval-islamic-hospital-medicine-religion-and-charity?format=HB

Dols, Michael W. "The Origins of the Islamic Hospital: Myth and Reality." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 61, (1987): 367-390

Horden, Peregrine. "The Earliest Hospitals in Byzantium, Western Europe and Islam." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 35, no. 3 (2005): 361-89.

Pormann, Peter E. "Islamic Hospitals in the Time of Al-Muqtadir." In Abbasid Studies Ii: Occasional Papers of the School of Abbasid Studies, Leuven, 28 June-1 July 2004, edited by John A. Nawas, 337-81. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies, 2010.

Pormann, Peter E. "Medical Methodology and Hospital Practice: The Case of Fourth-/Tenth-Century Baghdad." In In the Age of Al-Farabi: Arabic Philosophy in the Fourth-Tenth Century, edited by Peter Adamson, 95-118. London: Warburg Institute, 2008.

Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri. Ottoman Medicine: Healing and Medical Institutions, 1500-1700. Albany: SUNY Press, 2009.

Islamic Hospitals in Medieval Egypt and the Levant | Ahmed Ragab

E194 | At the turn of the twentieth century, Turkish-speaking Greek intellectuals of Cappadocian origin found themselves between mutually opposed Turkish and Greek nationalist ideologies. Their unique cultural background and their belief in the promises of the Young Turk Revolution allowed them to develop an alternative brand of Greek identity, one that combined cultural Hellenism with political loyalty to the Ottoman State. But their hopes never came true, and as such, they have been written out of history and forgotten. In this episode, we talk to Vangelis Kechriotis about his latest research on Cappadocian Christians and other issues relating to late Ottoman Greek identity, exploring the fascinating careers and difficult political choices of those caught between competing nationalist discourses.

Vangelis Kechriotis is an Assistant Professor of History at Boğaziçi University. He specializes in history of non-Muslims in the late Ottoman Empire, particularly the Greek Orthodox. His PhD dissertation completed at the University of Leiden examined the history of the Greek community of Izmir. His latest work focuses on the history of complex cultural and political identities of Cappadocian Greeks.

  http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/07/ottomanism-with-greek-face-vangelis.html

    Editing and Production by Chris Gratien
    Bibliography courtesy of Polina Ivanova
    Musical excerpts from archive.org: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem & Sari Recep / Nazmiye by Rizeli Sadik 

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Balta, Evangelia. Beyond the Language Frontier: Studies on the Karamanlis and the Karamanlidika Printing. Istanbul: Isis Press, 2010.


Benlisoy, Foti and Stefo Benlisoy. “Reading the Identity of  “Karamanli” Through the Pages of Anatoli.” In Cries and Whispers in Karamanlidika Books: proceedings of the first International Conference on Karamanlidika Studies (Nicosia, 11th-13th September 2008), edited by Evangelia Balta and Matthias Kappler, 93-108. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010.

Braude, Benjamin and Bernard Lewis, eds. Christians and Jews in in the Ottoman Empire: the Functioning of a Plural Society. New York: Holmes and Meier: 1982.

Kechriotis, Vangelis. “Ottomanism with a Greek Face: Karamanlı  Greek Orthodox Diaspora at the End of the Ottoman Empire.” In Mediterranean Diasporas: Politics and Ideas in the Long 19th Century, edited by Maurizio Isabella and Konstantina Zanou, 189-204. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Kechriotis, Vangelis. “Atina’da Kapadokyalı, İzmir’de Atinalı, İstanbul’da Mebus: Pavlos Karolidis’in Farklı Kişilik ve Aidiyetleri,” Toplumsal Tarih, no. 257 (May 2015), 28-35.


Kechriotis, Vangelis. “Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun son döneminde Karamanlı Rum Ortodoks diasporası İzmir mebusu Emmanouil Emmanouilidis,” Toplumsal Tarih, no. 251 (November 2014), 38-43.

Kechriotis, Vangelis. “On the margins of national historiography: The Greek Ittihatçı Emmanouil Emmanouilidis – opportunist or Ottoman patriot?” In Untold Histories of the Middle East: Recovering Voices from the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Amy Singer, Christoph K. Neumann, and S. Aksin Somel, 124-142. London: Routledge, 2011.


Kechriotis, Vangelis. “Educating the Nation: Migration and Acculturation on the Two Shores of the Aegean at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” In Cities of the Mediterranean: From the Ottomans to the Present Day, edited by Meltem Toksöz and Biray Kulluoğlu. 139-156. London: I.B. Tauris (2010).

Ottomanism with a Greek Face | Vangelis Kechriotis

E195 | Visit  http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/08/ottoman-empire-photography-edhem-eldem.html for images associated with the podcast. 

Photography came to the Ottoman Empire almost immediately after its invention in 1839. Some of the major figures and studios involved in Ottoman photography have been identified, and certain stylistic aspects of images produced in and of the Ottoman Empire such as orientalism are well established. Yet there is comparatively little extant work regarding the reception, impact, and circulation of images during the late Ottoman period. In this episode, Emily Neumeier and Nir Shafir sit down with Edhem Eldem to discuss the ways in which restoring contexts of viewing, circulation, and publication of images offers a different story of late Ottoman photography using examples from the Camera Ottomana photography exhibition at Koç RCAC in Istanbul, curated by Zeynep Çelik, Edhem Eldem, and Bahattin Öztuncay.

http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/08/ottoman-empire-photography-edhem-eldem.html

Edhem Eldem is a professor in the Department of History at Boğaziçi University.

Emily Neumeier is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania researching art and architecture in the Ottoman world.

Nir Shafir is a doctoral candidate at UCLA focusing on the history of knowledge and science in the early modern Middle East. He also runs the website HAZİNE, which profiles different archives, libraries, and museums that house sources on the Islamic world.

Episode No. 195
Release Date: 11 August 2015
Location: Boğaziçi University
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Bibliography and images courtesy of Edhem Eldem and Emily Neumeier
Musical excerpts from archive.org: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi / Kemany Minas - Eghin Havasi (1925) / Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla

The Camera Ottomana exhibit, curated by Zeynep Çelik, Edhem Eldem, and Bahattin Öztuncay, is on display at Koç RCAC / ANAMED in Beyoğlu, Istanbul until 19 August 2015.

FURTHER READING

Camera Ottomana exhibit website
Camera Ottomana exhibit catalog, by Zeynep Çelik, Edhem Eldem, Bahattin Öztuncay, Frances Terpak & Peter Louis Bonfitto (Koç University Press, 2015)

Eldem, Edhem. "Powerful Images: The Dissemination and Impact of Photography in the Ottoman Empire, 1870-1914" in Camera Ottomana, ed. Zeynep Çelik and Edhem Eldem. Koç University Press, 2015.

Baleva, Martina. “Revolution in the Darkroom: Nineteenth-Century Portrait Photography as a Visual Discourse of Authenticity.” Hungarian Historical Review 3, no. 2 (2014): 363­–390.

Gavin, Carney E. S., ed. “Imperial Self-Portrait: The Ottoman Empire as Revealed in the Sultan Abdul Hamid II’s Photographic Albums Presented as Gifts to the Library of Congress (1893) and the British Museum (1894).” Special issue. Journal of Turkish Studies; Türklük Bilgisi Araştırmaları 12 (1988).

Marsoobian, Armen T. Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia. London: I. B. Tauris, 2015.

Özendes, Engin. From Sébah & Joaillier to Foto Sabah: Orientalism in Photography. Istanbul: YKY, 2004.

Öztuncay, Bahattin, The Photographers of Constantinople: Pioneers, Studios, and Artists from 19th Century Istanbul. Istanbul: Aygaz, 2003.

Following Ottoman Photographs | Edhem Eldem

E196 | During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, scientists and physicians the world over began to think of sex as something that could be studied and understood through rational methods. In places like Germany, these sexologists were associated with progressive political movements that combated stigmatization of homosexuality and contraception and broke taboos regarding issues such as impotence and masturbation. In this episode, Liat Kozma examines how sexology traveled and transformed in Middle Eastern contexts through the writings of Egyptian doctors and Jewish exiles.

More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/p/women-gender-and-sex-in-history.html

Liat Kozma is a senior lecturer at the Department of Islamic and Middle East Studies, the Hebrew University. She is currently working on a book manuscript on regulated prostitution in the interwar Middle East and North Africa.

Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. 

Susanna Ferguson is a doctoral candidate in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University, where she focuses on the history of women and gender in the Arab world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

Release date: 19 August 2015
Location: Okmeydanı, Istanbul
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Bibliography and images courtesy of Liat Kozma
Additional thanks to Seçil Yılmaz

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
courtesy of Liat Kozma

Liat Kozma, " 'We, the Sexologists . . .': Arabic Medical Writing on Sexuality, 1879–1943," Journal of the History of Sexuality 22:3 (2013), 426-445.

Liat Kozma, "sexology in the Yishuv: The rise and decline of sexual consultation in Tel Aviv, 1930–39", International Journal of Middle East Studies 42 (May 2010), 231-249.

Liat Kozma, "Translating Sexology, Writing the Nation: Sexual Discourse and Practice in Hebrew and in Arabic in the 1930s," In Heike Bauer, Sexology and Translation: Cultural and Scientific Encounters across the Modern World. London: Temple University Press, 2015.

Further Reading

On Ottoman sexual discourses, see Dror Ze'evi, Producing Desire:‎  Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006 (especially chapter 1).

On sexual discourses in the 20th century Egypt, see Wilson Chacko Jacob, Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011 (especially chapter 6).

On scientification of the human body in early twentieth century Egypt, consult also
Hanan Kholoussy, "Monitoring and Medicalising Male Sexuality in Semi-Colonial Egypt," Gender & History 22 (2010), 677-691; Hibba Abugideiri, Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt. London: Ashgate, 2010, chapter 7 (titled "Egyptian doctors and domestic medicine"); and Oumnia El Shakry, The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.

On sexuality in early Zionist ideology, see Daniel Boyarin, Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997; John M. Efron, Defenders of the Race: Jewish Doctors and Race Science in Fin-De-Siècle Europe. New Haven, Con.: Yale University Press, 1994.

On concept of "sexual reform" disseminated in different European contexts (including the UK, the Netherlands and Spain) in the interwar period through the German-inspired World League for Sexual Reform, see a theme issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 12, issue 1 (January 2003).
 
Heike Bauer's forthcoming Sexology and Translation: Cultural and Scientific Encounters across the Modern World. London: Temple University Press, 2015 – will cover more such contexts of influence, including China, Japan, Russia and Peru.

Sexology in Hebrew and Arabic | Liat Kozma

E197 | This podcast explores murky boundaries in two senses. The first has to do with Anglo-Ottoman commerce and diplomacy in the early modern period. Like the more well-known case of the the British East India Company in South Asia, British diplomatic representation in Constantinople was also controlled by a corporate entity. Known as the Levant Company, the institution ensured that from the late 16th to the early 19th century there was little distinction between merchants and statesmen when it came to British diplomacy in the Ottoman Empire. The blurred lines gave way to what might be called a “cycle of necessity,” in which British diplomats gave gifts to secure commercial privileges for British merchants who would then fund the diplomats to provide gifts again. Yet the cycle did not always proceed smoothly, and discrepancies between translations of agreements often played a key role in hitches, in the process raising basic yet profound questions about what treaty-making meant. The second part of the podcast considers Ottoman maritime space and legal order more broadly. With respect to this theme, murkiness makes another appearance, this time as it related to the ability to possess or control the sea. What did it mean to draw a line across the waves, to differentiate between su and derya? Particularly in an age of imprecise mapmaking technologies, these efforts at delineation often were accompanied by a good deal of ambiguity, pointing to the complexity - if not always plurality - of legal cultures and claims to sovereignty that existed in the Ottoman maritime space and, indeed, that extended even ashore the Well-Protected Domains as well.

More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/08/british-ottoman-diplomacy-and-making-of.html

Dr. Michael Talbot completed his PhD at the School of African and Oriental Studies in London. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher with the Mediterranean Reconfigurations project at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Episode No. 197
Release Date: 22 August 2015
Location: Paris, France
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Bibliography courtesy of Michael Talbot
Image via http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O916899/a-british-official-probably-the-watercolour-anonymous-greek-artist/

British-Ottoman Diplomacy and the Making of Maritime Law | Michael Talbot

E198 | The Treaty of Berlin in 1878 brought an Austro-Hungarian occupation to many parts of the Balkans such as Bosnia that had lived under Ottoman rule for centuries. While this was certainly a historical rupture, as Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular emphasizes, this period also witnessed some important continuities with the Ottoman past. In this episode, we discuss Dr. Amzi-Erdoğdular's ongoing book project regarding those continuities and examine the lives of Ottoman Muslims of Bosnia between two empires.

More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/08/bosnia-ottoman-empire-austria.html

Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular is a Lecturer in Ottoman Language at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Afterlife of Empire, which explores Ottoman continuities in Habsburg Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Release date: 28 August 2015
Location: Columbia University
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Musical excerpt of "Bülbülüm Altın Kafeste" courtesy of Ahmet Erdoğdular and Makam New York
Bibliography and images courtesy of Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular

Susanna Ferguson is a doctoral candidate in Middle Eastern History at Columbia University, where she focuses on the history of women and gender in the Arab world during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Late Ottoman Bosnia and the Imperial Afterlife | Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular

E199 | Within the historiography, major shifts and developments in schools of thought and legal interpretation have dominated the narrative of how Islamic law has spread and transformed across time. However, as our guest Guy Burak argues in his new monograph, The Second Formation of Islamic Law, structural changes in the relationship between state, society, and law are also an important part of this story. In this episode, Dr. Burak explains how law transformed under post-Mongol Islamicate empires such as the Ottomans through changes in the ways these states claimed legal authority.

Guy Burak is the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Librarian at NYU's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library.

For "The Second Formation of Islamic Law", see: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/middle-east-history/second-formation-islamic-law-hanafi-school-early-modern-ottoman-empire?format=HB

Release date: 4 September 2015
Location: RCAC, Istanbul
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Bibliography courtesy of Guy Burak
Music excerpts via archive.org and Free Music Archive: Murat Kenarinda (Egin Havasi) - Agyazar Efendi; Karaköy Balık Pazarı (Chris Gratien); Muzaffer Akgun - Ha Bu Diyar; Podington Bear

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Guy Burak, The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Richard C. Repp, The Müfti of Istanbul: A Study in the Development of the Ottoman Learned Hierarchy (London: Ithaca Press, 1986).

Abdurrahman Atcil, “The Formation of the Ottoman Learned Class and Legal Scholarship (1300–1600)” (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2010).

Colin Imber, Ebuʾs-Suʿud: The Islamic Legal Tradition (Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 1997 ) ;

Rudolph Peters, “What Does It Mean to Be an Official Madhhab? Hanafism and the

Ottoman Empire,” in The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution, and Progress, ed. Peri Baerman , Rudolph Peters , and Frank E. Vogel (Cambridge, MA: Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005), 147–58

Snjezana Buzov, “The Lawgiver and His Lawmakers: The Role of Legal Discourse in the Change of Ottoman Imperial Culture” (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2005);

Haim Gerber, State, Society, and Law in Islam: Ottoman Law in Comparative Perspective ( Albany : State University of New York , 1994 ) .

Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez-Smith, Governing Property, Making the Modern State: Law, Administration, and Production in Ottoman Syria (London: I. B. Tauris, 2007), esp. chs. 2-3.

Judith E. Tucker, In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).

The Second Formation of Islamic Law | Guy Burak

E200 | "Sectarianism" is a a slippery term, now used to describe everything from Saudi Arabian foreign policy to the daily functioning of Lebanese politics to the rhetoric of the Islamic State. In this episode, historian Ussama Makdisi takes on the history of both the term "sectarian" and the kinds of communal political divides it is often used to describe in the late Ottoman Empire and the 20th century Middle East, reflecting on his former work and offering a preview of his forthcoming scholarship. 

More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/09/rethinking-sectarianism-in-middle-east.html

Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University. He is the author of Faith Misplaced: the Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations, 1820-2001 (Public Affairs, 2010), Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (Cornell University Press, 2008), and the Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (University of California Press, 2000). (see faculty page)

Episode No. 200
Release Date: 13 September 2015
Location: Yeniköy, Istanbul
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Musical excerpts from archive.org: Turnalar Turnalar - Darulelhan Heyeti; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi 
Image via US Library of Congress
Bibliography courtesy of Susanna Ferguson

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Asad, Talal. Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003.

Campos, Michelle.  Ottoman Brothers: Muslim, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011.

Der Matossian, Bedross. Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire. 2014.

Greene, Molly. A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Makdisi, Ussama. Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. 

_____. The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History and Violence in Ottoman Lebanon. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000.

Masters, Bruce Alan. Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab World: The Roots of Sectarianism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

White, Benjamin T. The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East: The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.

Rethinking Sectarianism in the Middle East | Ussama Makdisi

E201 | The production of motion pictures began in the 1890s, and before long, films were being screened throughout the world, including in Ottoman cities. How did Ottoman audiences receive the advent of film? What was the role of the state in promoting or limiting the spread of motion pictures? What were the contents of the earliest films shown and produced in the Ottoman Empire? In this episode, Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen offers an introduction to the emergence of cinema in the Ottoman Empire and discusses the results of her research on the subject at the Ottoman archives in Istanbul.

Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen is a doctoral candidate in the Centre for Multidisciplinary & Intercultural Inquiry at University College London researching the history of cinema in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.

More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/09/cinema-ottoman-empire-turkey.html

Episode No. 201
Release date: 23 September 2015
Location: Feriköy, Istanbul
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Music and sound excerpts: Mısır Çarşısı (Chris Gratien); Rüçhan Çamay & Dün Bügün ve Yarın - Televizyon;  Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer
Bibliography courtesy of Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen
Image by Ressam Salih (1943)

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

For the film collection of the Turkish Armed Forces, see this article in Sabah: http://www.sabah.com.tr/medya/2015/06/17/tsknin-ilk-kez-yayinladigi-tarihi-goruntuler

Savaş Arslan. Cinema in Turkey: A New Critical History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen. "Denetimden Sansüre Osmanlı’da Sinema." Toplumsal Tarih, no.  255, (March 2015): 72-79.

Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen. “1903 Sinematograf İmtiyazı.” Toplumsal Tarih, no. 229 (January 2013): 26-32.

Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen. “Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives: Inventory of Written Archival Sources for Ottoman Cinema History.” Tarih, Issue 3, Boğaziçi University Department of History (2013): 17–48.

Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen. “Mürebbiye/The Governess.” In Directory of World Cinema: Turkey, edited by Eylem Atakav, 61-63. (Bristol: Intellect, 2013).

Nezih Erdoğan. “The Spectator in the Making: Modernity and Cinema in Istanbul, 1896-1928.” In Orienting Istanbul Cultural Capital of Europe, edited by Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal and İpek Türeli, 129-143. (London: Routledge, 2010).

Dilek Kaya-Mutlu. “Ayastefanos’taki Rus Abidesi: Kim Yıktı? Kim Çekti? Kim ‘Yazdı?’” Seyir, no. 3 (Spring 2006): 12-21.

Hamid Naficy. A Social History of Iranian Cinema. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 2011.

Mustafa Özen.  “Travelling Cinema in Istanbul.” In Travelling Cinema in Europe: Sources and Perspectives, edited by Martin Loiperdinger, 47-53. (Kintop Schriften, 2008).

Saadet Özen. "'Balkanların İlk Sinemacıları' mı? Manaki Biraderler." Toplumsal Tarih, no. 219  (March 2012): 60-67.

Saadet Özen.  “Rethinking the Young Turk Revolution: Manaki Brothers’ Still and Moving Images.” MA thes., (Boğaziçi University, 2010).

Emrah Özen. “Geçmişe Bakmak: Sinema Tarihi Çalışmaları Üzerine Eleştirel Bir İnceleme.” Kebikeç, Sinema ve Tarih, no 27 (2009): 131-155.

Ali Özuyar. Babıali’de Sinema. (İstanbul: İzdüşüm Yayınları, 2004).

Early Cinema of the Late Ottoman Period | Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen

E202 | Bath houses or hamams were mainstays of the Ottoman city. But as semi-public spaces where people could mix and implicitly transgressed certain boundaries regarding nudity, they were also spaces that produced anxiety and calls for regulation. In this episode, Elyse Semerdjian discusses how in a certain time and place of eighteenth century Aleppo, the issue of Muslim and Christian women bathing together aroused the concern of Ottoman state and society.

Elyse Semerdjian is the Director of Global Studies and Associate Professor of Middle East/Islamic World History.  A specialist in early modern Ottoman history and Syria, she authored  “Off the Straight Path”:  Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo (Syracuse University Press, 2008) as well as several articles on gender, non-Muslims, and law in the Ottoman Empire.

Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East.

http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/10/bathhouse-aleppo.html

Episode No. 202
Release date: 8 October 2015
Location: Bebek, Istanbul
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Copyright free musical excerpts Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Rizeli Sadik - Erkek Kadin Oyun Havasi; Wadih El Safi - Bissaha
Bibliography courtesy of Elyse Semerdjian

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Elyse Semerdjian, "Off the Straight Path" Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2008. 

______. "Naked Anxiety: Bathhouses, Nudity, and the Dhimmī Woman in 18th-Century Aleppo" The International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 45, No. 04, pp. 651-676.

Abraham Marcus, “Privacy in Eighteenth-Century Aleppo:  The Limits of Cultural Ideals,” The International Journal of Middle East Studies, 18 (1986) 165-183.

Astrid Meier, “Bathing as a Translocal Phenomenon? Bathhouses in the Arab Provinces of the Ottoman Empire,” in Bathing Culture of Anatolian Civilizations: Architecture, History, Imagination, ed. Nina Ergin Leuven: Peters, 2011 168-197.

Madeline Zilfi, Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire:  The Design of Difference (New York:  Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Marc Baer “Islamic Conversion Narratives of Women:  Social Change and Gendered Religious

Donald Quataert,  “Clothing Laws, State, and Society in the Ottoman Empire, 1720-1829,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 29, No. 3 (Aug. 1997), 403-425

Naked Anxieties in the Baths of Ottoman Aleppo | Elyse Semerdjian

E203 | The history of the modern world is one of overlapping displacements that have severed ties not only between people and their ancestral homes but also their histories. The writing of village history among displaced communities such as Ashkenazi Jews and Ottoman Armenians has emerged as a means of preserving that history for future generations in the diaspora. In this episode, Rochelle Davis discusses her work on the village history genre among Palestinians, its place within Palestinian historical memory, and the ways in which these sources can enrich our understanding of the past.

http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/10/palestinian-village-histories-rochelle.html

Rochelle Davis is an Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Her primary research work is on refugees in the Arab World, initially Palestinian refugees (Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced (Stanford University Press, 2011)) and more recently Iraqi and Syrian refugees. A second research project examines the US military’s conceptions of culture in the 21st century wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Release date: 14 October 2015
Location: Georgetown University
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Copyright free musical excerpts Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep
Image via Library of Congress

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Davis, Rochelle. Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2011.

Ben-Ze'ev, Efrat. Remembering Palestine in 1948: Beyond National Narratives. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Doumani, Beshara. Rediscovering Palestine Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1995.

Shryock, Andrew. Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Slyomovics, Susan. The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.

Swedenburg, Ted. Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past. Minneapolis, Minn: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.

Tamārī, Salīm. Mountain against the Sea Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009.

_____. Year of the Locust A Soldier's Diary and the Erasure of Palestine's Ottoman Past. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. 

Palestinian Village Histories | Rochelle Davis

E204 | In the decades following the Armenian genocide, communities of the diaspora began to document the life of Ottoman Armenians in the towns and villages of Anatolia and publish their material in memory books aimed at preserving and transmitting Armenian histories for posterity. Largely composed in Armenian and languages of the diaspora, these books have circulated in small circles for decades as tiny fragments of a treasured but fading past. In recent years, digital technologies have created a new venue for piecing back together these fragments and sharing the history of Ottoman Armenians in a public forum. In this episode, we speak to historian Vahé Tachjian about the houshamadyan project, which since 2011 has served as a virtual space for the reconstruction and exploration of Ottoman Armenian life.

More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/10/reconstructing-ottoman-armenian-life.html

Vahé Tachjian earned his Ph.D. in History and Civilization at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He has published widely on the history of the French Mandates in the Middle East and Armenians in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is also project director of houshamadyan, a project to reconstruct Ottoman Armenian town and village life.

Visit http://www.houshamadyan.org/

Episode No. 204
Release Date: 17 October 2015
Location: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Special thanks to Nora Lessersohn for Hovannes Cherishian's recording of "Kun yeghir balas"
Additional music from Maro Nalbandian

Reconstructing Ottoman Armenian Life | Vahé Tachjian

E205 | In the 1920s and 1930s, politicians, intellectuals, and members of the public joined a lively debate about the issue of female suicide in Turkey. While we cannot know whether the rates of female suicide were actually skyrocketing during this period, the fact that so many public figures began to treat this issue as a central concern tells us a lot about the relationship between the modernizing state of Early Republican Turkey and the women whom it governed. In this episode, Nazan Maksudyan explores what might have provoked this debate, what it might say about the state and its relationship to women, gender, and the female body, and how women themselves might have used suicide as a means of asserting their agency.

More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/10/suicide-turkey.html

Nazan Maksudyan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Istanbul Kemerburgaz University. Her work examines the social, cultural, and economic history of children and youth during the late Ottoman period.

Episode No. 205
Release date: 25 October 2015
Recording location: Kemerburgaz University
Editing by Onur Engin, generously funded by a paid assistantship at Koç University under the supervision of Associate Professor Nina Ergin
Bibliography courtesy of Nazan Maksudyan
Image courtesy of Nicholas Danforth

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. Holly Shissler. "If You Ask Me': Sabiha Sertel's Advice Column, Gender Equity, and Social Engineering in the Early Turkish Republic," Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 3 (2007): 1-30.

A. Holly Shissler. "Beauty Is Nothing to be Ashamed of: Beauty Contests as Tools of Women’s Liberation in Early Republican Turkey," Comparative Studies of South-Asia, Africa and the Middle-East 24 (2004): 107–122.

Ruth A. Miller. The Limits of Bodily Integrity: Abortion, Adultery, and Rape Legislation in Comparative Perspective. Aldershot, United Kingdom: Ashgate, 2007.

Pelin Başçı. "Love, Marriage, and Motherhood: Changing Expectations of Women in Late Ottoman Istanbul," Turkish Studies, 4 (2003): 145-177.

Nazan Maksudyan. “Control over Life, Control over Body: Female Suicide in Early Republican Turkey.” Women’s History Review (Spring 2014): 1.

Nazan Maksudyan. "'This time women as well got involved in politics!': Nineteenth Century Ottoman Women's Organizations and Political Agency." In Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective to Ottoman Urban History, Nazan Maksudyan (ed.) New York: Berghahn Books, 2014. pp. 107-135.

Ayça Alemdaroğlu. "Politics of the Body and Eugenic Discourse in Early Republican Turkey," Body & Society 11 (2005): 61-76.

Nurullah Şenol. "Arşiv Belgeleri Işığında Osmanlı Toplumunda İntihar," Toplumsal Tarih 110 (2003): 52-56.

Nurullah Ulutaş. Türk Romanında İntihar (1872-1960). Ph.D. dissertation, Uludağ University, 2006.

Zafer Toprak. "Dr. Cemal Zeki’nin ‘Delişmen, Çılgın Kızlar’ı – Cumhuriyette Genç Kız ve Kadın İntiharları," Toplumsal Tarih 87 (2001) : 25-29.

Women and Suicide in Early Republican Turkey | Nazan Maksudyan

E206 | In this episode, Sherene Seikaly discusses the intersection of politics and economics under the British Mandate in Palestine through the lens of Palestinian capitalists, who are the subject of her new book entitled Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford University Press).

More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/10/capitalism-palestine.html

Sherene Seikaly is Assistant Professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the editor of the Arab Studies Journal, and co-founder and editor of Jadaliyya e-zine. Seikaly's Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2016) explores how Palestinian capitalists and British colonial officials used economy to shape territory, nationalism, the home, and the body.

Episode No. 206
Release date: 30 October 2015
Location: Georgetown University
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Bibliography courtesy of Graham Pitts
Musical excerpts from archive.org: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Bozlak and Halay - Yozgatli Hafiz Suleyman Bey; Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla
Sherene Seikaly's Men of Capital on Stanford University Press website: http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=20592

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Toufoul Abou-Hodeib,"Taste and Class in Late Ottoman Beirut," International Journal of Middle East Studies 43.03 (2011): 475-492.

Charles W. Anderson, From Petition to Confrontation: The Palestinian National Movement and the Rise of Mass Politics, 1929-1939, Diss. New York University, 2013.

Ghassan Kanafani, Thawrat 1936-1939 fi Filastin [The 1936-1939 Revolt in Palestine], 1972.

Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914, University of California Press, 2010.

Weldon C. Matthews, Confronting an Empire, Constructing a Nation: Arab Nationalities and Popular Politics in Mandate Palestine, London: I. B. Tauris, 2006.

Sherene Seikaly, Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine, Stanford University Press, 2016.

_____. “Bodies and Needs: Lesson from Palestine,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 46 (2014); 784-786.

_____. "Gender and the People in Revolutionary Times" Jadaliyya (June, 2013).

Men of Capital in Mandate Palestine | Sherene Seikaly

E207 | The 1925 Syrian Revolt was catalyzed by contestation over authority between local notables and the French mandate government, but it soon spread throughout the mandate as a form of anti-French protest. In this episode, Reem Bailony explores the ways in which the Great Syrian Revolt was also a transnational affair, sharing her research on the activities of the Greater Syrian diaspora in the Americas, Europe, and beyond over the course of 1925-27.

More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/11/transnationalism-and-1925-syrian-revolt.html

Reem Bailony earned her Ph.D. in History from UCLA. Her dissertation entitled, “Transnational Rebellion: The Syrian Revolt of 1925-1927,” examines the long-distance nationalism of Syrian-Lebanese migrant communities in relationship to the anti-French rebellion of 1925. She is currently a visiting lecturer at Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges.

Episode No. 207
Release date: 4 November 2015
Recording Location: Northampton, MA
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Musical excerpts form archive.org: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Muzaffer Akgun - Ha Bu Diyar
Bibliography and image courtesy of Reem Bailony

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

al-Atrash, Sultan Pasha. Al-mudhakkirat al-kamilah lil-za‘im sultan basha al-atrash: al-qa‘id al-‘am lil-thawra al-suriyah al-kubra, 1925-1927, 1998.

al-Bi‘ayni, Hasan. Sultan Basha Al-Atrash Wa-Al-Thawrah Al-Suriyah Al-Kubra. London: Muʼassasat al-Turath al-Durzi, 2008.

Anderson, Benedict. “Long-Distance Nationalism.” The Spectre of Comparisons. London: Verso, 1998: 58-74.

Arsan, Andrew. "‘This Age is the Age of Associations’: Committees, Petitions, and the Roots of Interwar Middle Eastern Internationalism." Journal of Global History 7.02 (2012): 166-188.

Arsan, Andrew, John Karam, and Akram Khater. "On Forgotten Shores: Migration in Middle East Studies and the Middle East in Migration Studies." Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies 1.1 (2013).

Bawardi, Hani. The Making of Arab Americans: From Syrian Nationalism to U.S. Citizenship (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014). 

Fahrenthold, Stacy. "Transnational Modes and Media: The Syrian Press in the Mahjar and Emigrant Activism during World War I." Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies 1.1 (2013).

Glick Schiller, Nina Linda Basch, and Cristina Szanton Blanc. “Transnationalism: A New Analytic Framework for Understanding Migration.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 645: 1. July 1992: 1-24.

Gualtieri, Sarah. Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora. Berkeley: University of California, 2009.

Khater, Akram Fouad.  “Becoming ‘Syrian’ in America: A Global Geography of   Ethnicity and Nation.” Diaspora 14:2/3 (2005): 299-331.

Khoury, Philip S. Syria and the French Mandate: the Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920-1945. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1987.

Nuwayhid,‘Ajaj. Sittun ʻaman Maʻa Al-Qafilah Al-ʻarabiyah: Mudhakkirat ʻajaj Nuwayhid. Beirut: Dar al-Istiqlal, 1993.

Pedersen, Susan. "Samoa on the World Stage: Petitions and Peoples before the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations." The Journal of Imperial and  Commonwealth History 40, no. 2 (2012).

Provence, Michael. The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism. Austin: University of Texas, 2005.

Waldinger, Roger D. and David Fitzgerald. "Transnationalism in Question." American Journal of Sociology 109.5 (2004): 1177-95. 

Transnationalism and the 1925 Syrian Revolt | Reem Bailony

E208 | Osmanlı tarihinde, tıpkı dünya tarihinde olduğu gibi, büyük toplumsal dönüşümlere, devrimlere, savaşlara ve barışlara dair anlatılara erkeklerin eylemleri, sesleri ve kalemleri egemen olurken, kadınlar ve çocuklar sıklıkla bu anlatıların ya dışında bırakıldı yada yardımcı öğesi olageldi. Sosyal ve feminist tarih yazımının en önemli katkısı kadın anlatılarını merkez alarak ve görünür kılarak Osmanlı toplumunda toplumsal cinsiyet rolleri, vatandaşlık hakları ve emek ilişkilerini yeni bir tarih anlayışı ve Osmanlı tarihi anlatısı sunmak oldu. Zeynep Kutluata ile bu bölümde Osmanlı’nın savaşlara ve göçlere karışmış ‘’en uzun yüzyılı’’nda kadınların gerek savaş alanlarında gerekse cephe gerisinde aldıkları aktif siyasi ve toplumsal rolleri vatandaşlık ve toplumsal cinsiyet tartışmaları ekseninde ele aldık.

http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/11/osmanli-kadin-savas.html

Zeynep Kutluata doktorasını Sabancı Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü'nde tamamlamıştır. “Ottoman Women and the State during World War I” başlıklı tez çalışmasında kadınların yazdıkları arzuhaller üzerine yoğunlaşmakta ve bu arzuhaller aracılığıyla savaş döneminde devlet ve kadınlar arasındaki ilişkiyi incelemektedir.

Bölüm No. 208
Yayın Tarihi: 6 November 2015
Kayıt Yeri: Feriköy, Istanbul
Müzik (archive.org): Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Abdullah Yuce - Bu Ne Sevgi Ah Bu Ne Izdirap
Bibiliyografya: Zeynep Kutluata'nın müsadesiyle
Resim kaynağı GoogleBooks https://books.google.com/books?id=3vNTAAAAcAAJ&dq=Tableau%20historique%2C%20politique%20et%20pittoresque%20de%20la%20Turquie%20et%20de%20la%20Russie&pg=PA109#v=onepage&q=fatima&f=false

SEÇME KAYNAKÇA

Akın, Yiğit. "War, Women, and the State: The Politics of Sacrifice in the Ottoman Empire During the First World War". Journal of Women's History. 26, no. 3 (2014): 12-35.

Ben-Bassat, Yuval. Petitioning the Sultan: Protests and Justice in Late Ottoman Palestine, 1865-1908, London-New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013.

Dombrowski, Nicole Ann (ed.). Women and War in the Twentieth Century : Enlisted with or without Consent. New York: Garland.1999.

Mazlımyan, Kohar. “Türk Kadını Savaş Yıllarında Ne Yaptı,” Hay Gin, year: 1, no: 14, 16 May 1920, trans. Lerna Ekmekçioğlu, in Kültür ve Siyasette Feminist Yaklaşımlar, no: 2, February 2007.

Kutluata, Zeynep “Geç Osmanlı Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi’nde Savaş ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet: Kara Fatma(lar)”, Kültür ve Siyasette Feminist Yaklaşımlar, 2006-2007 Seçkisi, İstanbul: BGST Yayınları, 149- 68.

Lex Heerma van Voss (ed.) Petitions in Social History, NY: The Presss Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 2001.

Sarıyıldız, Gülden. Sokak Yazıcıları: Osmanlılarda Arzuhaller ve Arzuhalciler, Istanbul: Derlem Yayınları, 2010.

Zaeske, Susan. Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women’s Political Identity, The University of North Carolina Press, 2003.


Osmanlı'da Kadın ve Savaş | Zeynep Kutluata

E209 | Moroccan folk literature has drawn the attention of researchers for over a century, beginning with the earliest French colonial ethnographers' exhaustive studies of Moroccan dialects through recordings of poems, folktales, and proverbs. The influence of these stories can also be found in the work of some of Morocco's most internationally acclaimed authors such as Mohammed Mrabet. On this podcast, Yelins Mahtat recounts a folktale from the region of Oulmès in the present-day province of Khemisset. Afterwards, Yelins takes us into the process of collecting and translating Amazigh folktales from the foothills of the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco. His research records folktales from storytellers in his family and from the villages near where he grew up. We discuss the politics of authorship and performance as well as the utility of folktales for understanding social and cultural dynamics of the Middle Atlas.

Yelins Mahtat is a doctoral candidate in linguistics at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Graham H. Cornwell is a PhD Candidate in History at Georgetown University. His dissertation is entitled "Sweetening the Pot: A History of Tea and Taste in Morocco, 1856-1960.

Episode No. 209 (tajine No. 10)
Release date: 13 November 2015
Recording location: Nederlands Instituut in Marokko, Rabat
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Bibliography courtesy of Yelins Mahtat
Musical excerpts from freemusicarchive.org: Brahim Fribgane live Live at WFMU's Transpacific Sound Paradise - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Brahim_Fribgane/
Image via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Middle_Atlas.jpg

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Akouaou, Ahmed. "Poésie orale berbère: statut, formes et fonctions." Revue de l'Occident musulman et de la Méditerranée 44.1 (1987): 69-78.

Merolla, D. "Intersections: Amazigh (Berber) Literary Space." (2014): 26.

Roux, Arsène. "Enigmes et proverbes en berbère-tachelhit." Etudes et documents berbères 12 (1995): 183-197.

Savignac, Pierre. Contes berbères de Kabylie. Presses de l'Université du Québec, 1978.
Stroomer, Harry. Tashelhiyt Berber Folktales from Tazerwalt (South Morocco): A Linguistic Reanalysis of Hans Stumme's Tazerwelt Texts with an English Translation. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2002.

Folktales of the Middle Atlas | Yelins Mahtat

E210 | The subject of health in the modern period is often discussed as a transition from traditional to scientific medicine and what Foucault has called "the birth of the clinic." Such perspectives view medicine and healing through the lens of changing methods, forms of knowledge, and authority. In this podcast, our guest Sylvia Wing Önder offers a slightly different approach to the subject in a discussion of her monograph "We Have No Microbes Here (Carolina Academic Press, 2007)," looking at continuities in the centrality of households and women in making decisions about medical care within a Black Sea village.

http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/11/health-home-turkey.html

Dr. Sylvia Wing Önder has been teaching Turkish Language and Culture at Georgetown University since 1998. Students in her anthropology classes are encouraged to interrogate the power of national, biomedical, military, and educational discourse across cultures by examining constructed and constraining categorizations of citizenship, youth, gender, religiosity, consumer embeddedness, health, and disability. 

Episode No. 210
Release date: 16 October 2015
Location: Şişli, Istanbul
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Musical excerpts from archive.org: Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Giresun Karsilamasi (Altini Bozdurayim) - Bicoglu Osman
Image: A traditional Black Sea bone-setter with her daughter-in-law and grandchildren (Photo credit: Sylvia Wing Önder)

Health and Home in a Turkish Village | Sylvia Wing Önder

E211 | When employing textual sources for history, it is easy to lose track of the fact that experiences of the past were immersed in rich sensory environments in which "the word" was only a small component of daily life. How can we restore the sights, sounds, and sensations of the Ottoman past? In this episode, Nina Ergin presents some of her research involving the sonic history of the Ottoman Empire, exploring topics such as architecture, gender, and politics through different sources that offer clues about Ottoman soundscapes.

http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/11/ottoman-sonic-history.html

Nina Ergin is Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology and History of Art at Koç University, specializing in the history of Ottoman architecture. Her work particularly revolves around monuments that have a strong social dimension, such as hamams, soup kitchens and hospitals, as well as around the sensory dimensions of the Ottoman built environment.

CREDITS

Episode No. 211
Release date: 19 November 2015
Location: Feriköy, Istanbul
Editing by Onur Engin (funded by a paid assistantship at Koç University under the supervision of Nina Ergin)
Music sample from archive.org: Katibim (Uskudar'a Gider iken) - Safiye Ayla
Sound excerpt from CHARISMA project: http://www.odeon.dk/auralisations-compared-situ-recordings
Image via Library of Congress
Additional sound sample "In Search of Silence" courtesy of Emily Neumeier

SELECT PUBLICATIONS OF NINA ERGIN

“A Sound Status among the Ottoman Elite: Architectural Patrons of Sixteenth-Century Istanbul Mosques and their Recitation Programs,” Music, Sound and Architecture in Islam, ed. Michael Frishkopf and Federico Spinetti (Austin: University of Texas Press, forthcoming 2016).

“Praiseworthy in that Great Multitude was the Silence: Sound/Silence in the Topkapı Palace, Istanbul,” Resounding Images: Medieval Intersections of Art, Music and Sound, ed. Diane Reilly and Susan Boynton (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 2015), 109-133.

“Ottoman Royal Women’s Spaces: The Acoustic Dimension,” Journal of Women’s History 26/1 (2014): 89-111.

“Hearing Ottoman (Women’s) History: From Archival Sources to the Web and Back Again,” Beyond the Printed Page feature accompanying “Ottoman Royal Women’s Spaces: The Acoustic Dimension,” Journal of Women’s History, http://bingdev.binghamton.edu/jwh/?page_id=1072.

“A Multi-Sensorial Message of the Divine and the Personal: Qur’anic Inscriptions and Recitation in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Mosques,” Calligraphy and Architecture in the Muslim World, ed. Mohammad Gharipouri and Irvin C. Schick (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013), 105-118.
“The Soundscape of Sixteenth-Century Istanbul Mosques: Architecture and Qur’an Recital,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 67/2 (2008): 204-221.

“The Fragrance of the Divine: Ottoman Incense Burners and Their Context,” The Art Bulletin 96/1 (2014): 70-97.