Ottoman History Podcast

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 420</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.reed.edu/faculty-profiles/profiles/smiley-will.html" target="_blank">with Will Smiley</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/history/ZoeGriffith.htm" target="_blank">Zoe Griffith</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/captivity-and-ransom-in-ottoman-law-will-smiley" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> How did an Irish-born Russian nobleman serving in the Russian army end up an Ottoman slave and valet to an Ottoman-Albanian officer? And what possibilities existed for his eventual release? In this episode, Will Smiley traces the history of Ottoman laws of captivity and ransom in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how older practices of enslavement and ransom transformed into a new legal category of "prisoner of war" and shedding light on a path to modern international law that lies outside of Europe. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/07/captivityandransom.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 416</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://ku.academia.edu/SooyongKim" target="_blank">with Sooyong Kim</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://ucsd.academia.edu/NirShafir" target="_blank">Nir Shafir</a> and <a href="https://unito.academia.edu/ElisabettaBenigni" target="_blank">Elisabetta Benigni</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/good-poets-bad-poetry-in-the-ottoman-empire" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> What made for a good poet in the Ottoman Empire? It is a question that far too few historians tackle because Ottoman poetry, especially that of the court, is often regarded as inaccessible. In this podcast, Sooyong Kim brings to life the social world of Ottoman poets, focusing in particular on Zati, a poet plying his trade in the imperial court in the first half of the sixteenth century. We speak about how poets succeeded and failed and why Zati's successors erased him from the canon of good poetry.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/06/goodpoets.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 412</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">with Ian Nagoski</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b> <br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/american-music-of-the-ottoman-diaspora-ian-nagoski" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, hundreds of thousands of people from the Ottoman Empire and post-Ottoman states emigrated to the U.S. Among them were musicians, singers, and artists who catered to the new diaspora communities that emerged in cities like New York and Boston. During the early 20th century, with the emergence of a commercial recording industry in the United States, these artists appeared on 78 rpm records that circulated within the diaspora communities of the former Ottoman Empire in the United States and beyond, singing in languages such as Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Armenian, Assyrian, Kurdish, and Ladino. Their music included folks songs from their homelands and new compositions about life and love in the diaspora. In this episode, Ian Nagoski of <a href="https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Canary Records</a> joins the podcast to showcase some of these old recordings, which he has located and digitized over the years, and we discuss some of the remarkable life stories of these largely forgotten artists in American music history. </div> </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/06/ottoman-diaspora-music.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 411</div> <br> <div class="guest_name_nobold"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">Produced and Narrated by Chris Gratien</a></div> <br> <div class="doap_name"> <a href="http://devinenaar.com/" target="_blank">Episode Consultant: Devin Naar</a><br> <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/popeobeda/bioe" target="_blank">Series Consultant: Emily Pope-Obeda</a></div> <div class="doap_name"> <a href="http://brandeis.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">Script Editor: Sam Dolbee</a></div> <br> <div class="doap_name_2"> <a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/mediterranean/people/core-faculty/devimays.html" target="_blank">with additional contributions by Devi Mays</a>, <a href="http://history.virginia.edu/people/profile/cnh6g" target="_blank">Claudrena Harold</a>, <a href="http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/faculty/profile/24" target="_blank">Victoria Saker Woeste</a>, <a href="https://samnegri.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Sam Negri</a>, <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/05/turkino.html" target="_blank">and Louis Negri</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b> <br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/DOAP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/turkino" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> Leo lived in New York City with his family. Born and educated in the cosmopolitan Ottoman capital of Istanbul, he was now part of the vibrant and richly-textured social fabric of America's largest metropolis as one one of the tens of thousands of Sephardic Jews who migrated to the US. Though he spoke four languages, Leo held jobs such as garbage collector and shoeshine during the Great Depression. Sometimes he couldn't find any work at all. But his woes were compounded when immigration authorities discovered he had entered the US using fraudulent documents. Yet Leo was not alone; his story was the story of many Jewish migrants throughout the world during the interwar era who saw the gates closing before them at every turn. Through Leo and his brush with deportation, we examine the history of the US as would-be refuge for Jews facing persecution elsewhere, highlight the indelible link between anti-immigrant policy and illicit migration, and explore transformations in the history of race in New York City through the history of Leo and his family.<br> <br> <i>This episode is part of our investigative series <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/p/doa.html" target="_blank">Deporting Ottoman Americans</a>.</i><br> <br></div> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/05/turkino.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 407</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://ucdavis.academia.edu/HeghnarZeitlianWatenpaugh" target="_blank">with Heghnar Watenpaugh</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://upenn.academia.edu/EmilyNeumeier" target="_blank">Emily Neumeier</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/survivor-objects-and-the-lost-world-of-ottoman-armenians-heghnar-watenpaugh" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> The genre of biography usually applies to people, but could a similar approach be applied to an object? Can a thing have a life of its own? In this episode, Heghnar Watenpaugh explores this question by tracing the long journey of the Zeytun Gospels, a famous illuminated manuscript considered to be a masterpiece of medieval Armenian art. Protected for centuries in a remote church in eastern Anatolia, the sacred book traveled with the waves of people displaced by the Armenian genocide. Passed from hand to hand, caught in the chaos of the First World War, it was divided in two. Decades later, the manuscript found its way to the Republic of Armenia, while its missing eight pages came to the Getty Museum in LA. In this interview, we discuss how the Zeytun Gospels could be understood as a "survivor object," contributing to current discussions about the destruction of cultural heritage. We also talk about the challenges of writing history for a broader reading public.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/03/survivor-objects.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 400</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://ucsd.academia.edu/NirShafir" target="_blank">with Nir Shafir</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">Suzie Ferguson</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://www.blogger.com/ENTER%20EPISODE%20URL%20FROM%20SOUNDCLOUD" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> In this episode, Nir Shafir talks about the problem of "fake minatures" of Islamic science: small paintings that look old, but are actually contemporary productions. As these images circulate in museums, on book covers, and on the internet, they tell us more about what we want "Islamic science" to be than what it actually was. That, Nir tells us, is a lost opportunity. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/02/islamicscience.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div class="episode_no"> Episode 399</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://design.njit.edu/people/celik.php" target="_blank">with Zeynep Çelik</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://history.columbia.edu/faculty/azarbadegan-zeinab/" target="_blank">Zeinab Azarbadegan</a> and <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/MatthewGhazarian" target="_blank">Matthew Ghazarian</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/orientalism-in-the-ottoman-empire-zeynep-celik" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> How did the Ottomans react to European attitudes and depictions of their own lands? Pondering on the groundbreaking book 'Orientalism' by Edward Said forty years after its publication, our guest Zeynep Çelik discusses the ways in which urban, art, and architectural historians have grappled with representations of the Ottomans by Europeans and representations of Ottomans by Ottomans themselves. Telling us about a number of paintings, monuments, scholarly writings and stories, she argues that Orientalism is still relevant and with us wherever we go. </div> <br> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/01/orientalism.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div class="episode_no"> Episode 398</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://ata.boun.edu.tr/faculty/sevketpamuk" target="_blank">with Şevket Pamuk</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="http://columbia.academia.edu/MatthewGhazarian" target="_blank">Matthew Ghazarian</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/turkish-economic-development-since-1820-sevket-pamuk" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> What forces have governed Turkey's economic growth over the past two centuries? In this episode we speak with Şevket Pamuk about development in Turkey since 1820. In the late Ottoman period, low barriers to trade, agrarian exports, and European financial control defined the limits of economic expansion, while the transition from Empire to Republic brought more inward-looking policies aimed at protecting domestic industries. From the 1980s until the present, the Turkish government came to embrace the set of policy recommendations now called the Washington Consensus, defined by trade liberalization, privatization, and de-regulation. We discuss key moments during each of these periods, comparing Turkey to other countries around the world. We also discuss broader historical debates about Islam in economic history as well as approaches to the economic as an object of study. </div> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/01/economicdevelopment.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 395</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://asbu.academia.edu/MetinAtmaca" target="_blank">with Metin Atmaca</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="http://columbia.academia.edu/MatthewGhazarian" target="_blank">Matthew Ghazarian</a> </div><br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/autonomy-and-resistance-in-ottoman-kurdistan-metin-atmaca" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> Zones of autonomy and resistance make up the region historically called Kurdistan - areas that can include parts of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Armenia - depending on whom you ask. This region, whose territory spans the boundaries of nation-states created after the First World War, continues to host conflict between powerful states and their opponents. Who ruled these areas in the past, and how did they become the rebel lands they are today? In this episode, we speak with Metin Atmaca about the rise and fall of Kurdish emirs who ruled in the Ottoman-Iranian borderlands, from their rise in the 1500s to their fall in the 1850s. We also discuss the afterlife of the Kurdish dynastic families who, in exile, re-invented themselves as political leaders, bureaucrats, and rebels in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman world. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/12/ottoman-kurdistan.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 391</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://cas-cz.academia.edu/StefanoTaglia" target="_blank">with Stefano Taglia</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://soas.academia.edu/TaylanGungor" target="_blank">hosted by Taylan Güngör</a> </div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/gettinghigh" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> The use of stimulants, what we now refer to as recreational drugs (marijuana and hashish – <i>esrar</i> and <i>haşiş</i>), in the late Ottoman world constitutes a lens through which one can observe multiple aspects of both the history of the Ottoman Empire and its historiography in its broader sense. The life and social dynamics of those involved in drug consumption contributes to sketching a picture of the social life of the Ottoman Empire and its capital and, in this sense, helps expand a field that is somewhat limited.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/11/gettinghigh.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 386</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://www.suzyhansen.com/" target="_blank">with Suzy Hansen</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b> <br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/hansen" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> Turkey is a country that most Americans know little about, and yet the United States has played an extraordinary role in the making of modern Turkey. In this podcast, we explore this disparity of awareness and the role of the US in the history of the Middle East through the lens of an American journalist's slow realization of her own subjectivity and the myriad ways in which the US and Turkey have been intertwined. In this conversation with Suzy Hansen about her award-winning book "Notes on a Foreign Country," we critically examine the formation of journalistic and scholarly expertise, and we discuss reactions of readers and reviewers to Hansen's work. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/10/hansen.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 382</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/people/ohannes-k%C4%B1l%C4%B1%C3%A7da%C4%9F%C4%B1" target="_blank">with Ohannes Kılıçdağı</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/brandeis.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">hosted by Sam Dolbee</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/ottoman-armenians-and-the-politics-of-conscription-ohannes-kilicdagi" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> The history of Ottoman Armenians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Ottoman Empire is inevitably in the shadow of 1915. In today’s episode, we explore new approaches to this history with Dr. Ohannes Kılıçdağı. We speak in particular about the hopes that the empire’s Armenian citizens attached to the 1908 Constitutional Revolution, which were high indeed. On the basis of research utilizing Armenian-language periodicals from across the empire, Kılıçdağı explains how the Armenian community enthusiastically embraced military conscription, and how this phenomenon connects to the theme of citizenship in the late Ottoman Empire more generally. We conclude by considering what use there is for history in the politics of the present. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/10/armenian-conscription.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 379</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://hist.boun.edu.tr/content/ahmet-ersoy" target="_blank">with Ahmet Ersoy </a><a href="https://www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/people/deniz-turker" target="_blank">& Deniz Türker</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/MatthewGhazarian" target="_blank">hosted by Matthew Ghazarian</a> <a href="https://history.columbia.edu/faculty/azarbadegan-zeinab/" target="_blank">and Zeinab Azarbadegan</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/the-hamidian-quest-for-tribal-origins-ahmet-ersoy-deniz-turker" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> How did the Ottomans come to visually represent their mythical origins? And to what ends? In this episode we speak with Ahmet Ersoy and Deniz Türker about the formation, development, and visualization of Ertuğrul sancak, the mythical birthplace of the Ottoman dynasty. In 1886, Sultan Abdülhamid II commissioned an expedition of military photographers, painters, and cartographers to record the region, its architecture, and its nomadic tribes. Ersoy and Türker talk to us this mission and its economic and diplomatic ramifications, drawing on their recent exhibition, Ottoman Arcadia, at the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations in Istanbul. Our discussion touches on the proliferation and dissemination of visual materials during the reign of Abdülhamid II (1876-1909), as well as his massive collection of visual materials held today as part of the Yıldız Palace Library. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/09/ottoman-arcadia.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 378</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://histart.umontreal.ca/repertoire-departement/vue/ozlem-dagoglu/" target="_blank">with Özlem Gülin Dağoğlu</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://brandeis.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">Sam Dolbee</a> and <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/ShireenHamza" target="_blank">Shireen Hamza</a> </div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/migrant-labor-in-contemporary-beirut" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> Many myths have accompanied the life of Mihri Rasim, but few are as interesting as her life itself. Born to a wealthy family in Istanbul in the late Ottoman period, Mihri Rasim became a politically connected painter, living in Italy for several years on her own and then Paris, where she played a key role in the salons of Ottoman dissidents known as the Young Turks. In the wake of the 1908 Constitutional Revolution, she returned to Istanbul, and opened the Fine Arts School for Women in Istanbul, where she went on to teach. After the war, she went to Italy, and then the United States, where she continued her work painting and teaching. In addition to many self-portraits, she also painted various powerful figures, among them Mustafa Kemal, Mussolini, and Thomas Edison. Listen for a discussion of art, gender, and migration in a period of momentous political change. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/09/mihri-rasim.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 369</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://history.osu.edu/people/hathaway.24" target="_blank">with Jane Hathaway</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://osu1.academia.edu/SanjaKadri%C4%87" target="_blank">Sanja Kadrić</a> and <a href="https://osu.academia.edu/EmilyNeumeier" target="_blank">Emily Neumeier</a> </div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/the-sultans-eunuch-jane-hathaway" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> For more than three centuries, a cadre of African eunuchs were responsible for guarding the Ottoman harem at the imperial palace in Istanbul. The head of this group, the Chief Harem Eunuch, emerged as an extremely influential individual at the court. This was especially true during the crisis years of the long seventeenth century, when the palace became divided along ever-shifting lines of political factions. In this episode, we trace the long trajectory of the office of Chief Harem Eunuch, from its establishment—coinciding with the sultan’s decision to begin residing full-time in the harem—until the ultimate demise of the empire. In particular, we highlight the high degree of mobility for these eunuchs, beginning with their initial journey from Ethiopia to the shores of the Bosphorus, and later on using their position to maintain strong ties to Cairo as well as the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. A liminal figure in every sense of the word—in terms of gender, race, and his duties at the court—the Chief Harem Eunuch offers unique insights into the nature of political life at the Ottoman palace. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/08/sultanseunuch.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 367</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/people/salim-tamari" target="_blank">with Salim Tamari</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="http://brandeis.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">hosted by Sam Dolbee</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b> <br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/tamari" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> Nationalism has greatly influenced the way we think about Palestinian history. In this episode, Salim Tamari discusses this question in relation to his new book, <i>The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine</i>, which explores Palestine under Ottoman rule during World War I. Tamari highlights the transformative nature of the conflict in Palestine, and the Ottomanist roots of many Palestinian and Arab nationalists. He also tackles the question of sources in Palestine, and how family papers have been crucial to his work. We conclude by discussing the stakes of recovering that past as the dispossession of Palestinians continues into the present.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/07/tamari.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 363</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://ku.academia.edu/LaurenDavis" target="_blank">with Lauren Davis</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">Susanna Ferguson</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/istanbul-and-the-ottoman-olfactory-heritage-lauren-davis" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> What did Istanbul's Spice Bazaar smell like in Ottoman times? In this episode, we explore the historical smellscape of this iconic market space from its early history up to the present day. Through a story about Ottoman smells and their transformations in the twentieth century, we touch on the trade routes of exotic spices, Ottoman marketing practices, and the greener, more fragrant Istanbul that still lives in the memories of twentieth-century shopowners who spent their lives in and around the Bazaar. Finally, we consider how telling history through smell could change the way we think about the past and struggle to preserve it.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/06/istanbul-and-ottoman-olfactory-heritage.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 362</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://history.princeton.edu/people/m%E2%80%99hamed-oualdi" target="_blank">with M’hamed Oualdi</a> <a href="https://ephe.academia.edu/HayriG%C3%B6k%C5%9Fin%C3%96zkoray" target="_blank">& Hayri Gökşin Özkoray</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://hu-berlin.academia.edu/AndreasGuidi" target="_blank">hosted by Andreas Guidi </a> </div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/slavery-and-servitude-in-the-ottoman-mediterranean-mhamed-oualdi" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> Our latest podcast in collaboration with <a href="http://thesoutheastpassage.com/podcast/oualdi-ozkoray-slavery-servitude-ottoman-mediterranean/" target="_blank">The Southeast Passage</a> examines how slavery flourished in the Ottoman Mediterranean in the wake of growing connectivity with other world regions and territorial expansion. The discussion draws out the ambiguity between slavery and servitude in the case of the Mamluks of the Tunisian Beylik during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Which economic processes, legal interpretations, and geographic routes impacted the evolution of the slave trade from the sixteenth century until its abolition? What are the possibilities for and problems in retracing the self-narratives of those directly involved in the slave trade?</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/05/Mediterraneanslavery.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br> <br> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 359</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://ephe.academia.edu/ZeynepOktay" target="_blank">with Zeynep Oktay Uslu</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/MatthewGhazarian" target="_blank">Matthew Ghazarian</a> and <a href="https://yale.academia.edu/I%C5%9F%C4%B1nTaylan" target="_blank">Işın Taylan</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/dervish" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class=""> In this episode, we explore the evolution of Abdal and Bektashi doctrine from the 14th to 17th centuries. The Abdals of Rum and the Bektashis were two dervish groups in Anatolia who by the 16th century would merge to become the Bektashi Sufi order. Many Bektashi beliefs and practices are also inter-connected with those of Alevi communities. By taking a closer look at Abdal and Bektashi poetry, we examine how poetry, fiction, and other aspects of dervish piety evolved into the core beliefs of contemporary Alevism in Turkey. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/04/dervish-piety.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 357</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://duke.academia.edu/DidemHavlioglu" target="_blank">with Didem Havlioğlu</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/love-poems-of-an-ottoman-woman-didem-havlioglu" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> What did it mean to be a woman in the intellectual world of early modern Islamic empires? In this episode, our guest Didem Havlioğlu offers one answer to this question through the life and works of Mihrî Hatun, an Ottoman woman from 15th-century Amasya whose poetry survives to this day. Mihrî was unique within the male-dominated sphere of early modern love poetry, and as we discuss in this podcast, her position as a woman was integral to her poetry and its meaning. These poems and the relationships of this exceptional writer are the subject of Havlioğlu's new book entitled <a href="http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2017/mihri-hatun.html" target="_blank"><i>Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender-Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History</i> (Syracuse University Press)</a>.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/04/mihri-hatun.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 354</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/people/rothman/" target="_blank">with Natalie Rothman</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://ucsd.academia.edu/NirShafir" target="_blank">Nir Shafir</a> and <a href="https://mcgill.academia.edu/Asl%C4%B1hanG%C3%BCrb%C3%BCzel" target="_blank">Aslihan Gürbüzel</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/dragomans-and-the-routes-of-orientalism-natalie-rothman" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> Dragomans are often known as diplomatic translators, but their responsibilities and roles went much further than being mere interpreters. In this podcast, we speak with Natalie Rothman about how dragomans negotiated both linguistic space and social space across the Eastern Mediterranean. Focusing specifically on the case of Venetian dragomans, we discuss their training and how they managed to become brokers of knowledge and connections between the Ottoman Empire and myriad publics in Venice and beyond. In the second half of the podcast, we delve a bit deeper and examine how dragomans came to contribute to the budding world of Orientalist knowledge among seventeenth-century European scholars.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/03/dragomans.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 349</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://bbk.academia.edu/NoemiLevyAksu" target="_blank">with Noémi Lévy-Aksu</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://soas.academia.edu/TaylanGungor" target="_blank">Taylan Güngör</a> and <a href="https://gre.academia.edu/MichaelTalbot" target="_blank">Michael Talbot</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/states-of-emergency-in-the-late-ottoman-empire-noemi-levy-aksu" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> <i>Idare-i örfiyye</i> (or <i>örfi idare</i>), loosely translated as a “state of emergency or siege,” was a neologism introduced in the first Ottoman constitution in 1876 to allow the suspension of ordinary legal order in Ottoman localities in case of actual or potential uprisings. While the term clearly referred to the Ottoman legal tradition, the <i>idare-i örfiyye </i>was also inspired by contemporary definitions of regimes of exception in France and other countries. This conversation offers an insight into the genesis of this legal notion and seeks to understand the political, geographic and social impact of the widespread implementation of<i> idare-i örfiyye</i> in the Ottoman provinces during Abdülhamid II reign and the early Young Turk period.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/02/states-of-emergency.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 348</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://history.williams.edu/profile/ab24/" target="_blank">with Alexander Bevilacqua</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/MaryamPatton" target="_blank">Maryam Patton</a> and <a href="http://harvard.academia.edu/ShireenHamza" target="_blank">Shireen Hamza</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/the-republic-of-arabic-letters" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> When and how did European scholars first begin to seriously study Islam and the Arabic language? It has often been assumed that Medieval misconceptions and polemic towards Muslims were not cast off until the secularism of the European Enlightenment. In this episode, we learn that the foundations of the modern Western understanding were actually laid as early as the 17th century. Alexander Bevilacqua shares his research on the network of Catholic and Protestant scholars he calls the “Republic of Arabic Letters.” These scholars went to great lengths to learn Arabic and gather Arabic books and manuscripts, and eventually produced careful translations of the Qur’an and histories of Muslim societies based on Arabic sources.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/02/republic-of-arabic-letters.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br></div> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 340</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/leslie-peirce.html" target="_blank">with Leslie Peirce</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">Suzie Ferguson</a> and <a href="http://neareasternstudies.cornell.edu/se%C3%A7il-yilmaz" target="_blank">Seçil Yılmaz</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/roxelana" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> In this episode, we explore the life and times of Roxelana, also known as Hürrem Sultan, a slave girl who became chief consort and then legal wife of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I (r. 1520-1566). We trace Roxelana's probable beginnings and the possible paths that took her to Istanbul, asking how she rose above her peers in the Old Palace to become a favored concubine and then the wife of the Sultan. We explore her relationship to other women at the Ottoman court, the politics of her motherhood and philanthropy, and her role in Ottoman diplomacy. In the end, Roxelana's work, her relationship with Suleiman, and the unusual nuclear family they created despite the otherwise polygynous patterns of reproduction at the Ottoman court would transform the rules of Ottoman succession, the role of Ottoman royal women, and the future of the Empire as a whole. The life story of this one remarkable woman sheds light on many facets of the history of the Ottoman Empire, showing how a single individual's story can serve as a lynchpin for grasping the complexities of an age. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/12/roxelana.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 339</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://boun.academia.edu/AudeAylindeTapia" target="_blank">with Aylin de Tapia</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="http://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">Susanna Ferguson</a>, <a href="http://neareasternstudies.cornell.edu/se%C3%A7il-yilmaz" target="_blank">Seçil Yilmaz</a> and <a href="http://history.uncc.edu/people/dr-ella-fratantuono" target="_blank">Ella Fratantuono</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/the-tanzimat-in-ottoman-cappadocia-aylin-de-tapia" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> In this episode, we consider the story of the Tanzimat reforms from the perspective of rural Cappadocia, a region in central Anatolia now famous as a tourist destination. In the nineteenth century, Cappadocia was home not only to the Muslim subjects who made up the majority of Anatolia's population but to a large population of Orthodox Christians as well. How did these communities experience the Tanzimat period and how did their relationships to each other and to the state change between 1839 and the demise of the Ottoman Empire? </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/12/cappadocia.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 334</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://29mayis.academia.edu/esg" target="_blank">with Emrah Safa Gürkan</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a> </div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/casuslar" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> Along with new maritime networks, information stiched together the empires of the early modern period. One component of the growing networks of information in the increasingly connected space of the Mediterranean world was espionage. As we learn in our latest conversation with Emrah Safa Gürkan about his new book <i>Sultanın Casusları</i> (Spies of the Sultan), the Ottoman Empire was both party and subject to the fascinating exploits of early modern spies. In this episode, we learn about the lives of Ottoman spies profiled in Gürkan's book, and we consider how the transformation of espionage in the Mediterranean relates to the development of early modern empires.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/09/spies.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 331</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://history.uncc.edu/people/dr-ella-fratantuono" target="_blank">with Ella Fratantuono</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="http://georgetown.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">Chris Gratien</a> and <a href="http://neareasternstudies.cornell.edu/se%C3%A7il-yilmaz" target="_blank">Seçil Yılmaz</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/muhacir" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> Though it is often ignored among the many histories of the great migrations of the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire experienced the arrival of millions of migrants over the course of its last decades. The migrant or <i>muhacir</i> was therefore not just a critical demographic component of both Ottoman cities and the countryside but also part of and subject to different political projects associated with the empire's transformation. In this conversation with Ella Fratantuono, we offer an introduction to the history of migration in the late Ottoman Empire and seek to understand the <i>muhacir</i> as a legal, administrative, and conceptual figure in Ottoman society.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/09/muhacir.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div class="episode_no"> Episode 328</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/khaled_elrouayheb" target="_blank">with Khaled El-Rouayheb</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/ShireenHamza" target="_blank">Shireen Hamza</a> and Abdul Latif</div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/intellectual-currents-in-early-modern-islam-khaled-el-rouayheb" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> The seventeenth century, contrary to popular belief, was a time of great originality and change for scholars in the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb. In this interview, Khaled El-Rouayheb debunks the many myths of intellectual decline by showing how the intellectual production changed in tandem with major migrations across the Islamic world. We start with the influx of Kurdish and Azeri logicians into the Ottoman Empire, and the new disciplines that they brought with them. We then discuss the movement of scholars from North Africa to Egypt and the Hejaz, and how they insisted on methods of taḥqīq, or verification, rather than taqlīd, or the acceptance of knowledge based on authority alone. Finally, we touch on how the spread of Sufi orders from India and Central Asia into Arabic-speaking regions impacted the development and disputation of the concept of waḥdat al-wujūd, or the unity of being. How does this detailed research on intellectual trends change our understanding of "modernity" and the period we call the "early modern"? </div> <br> <a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/08/khaled-el-rouayheb.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 327</div> <br> <div class="guest_name_list"> with contributions by Zeynep Çelik, Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular, Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen, Mehmet Kentel, Michael Talbot, Murat Yıldız, Burçak Özlüdil Altın, Seçil Yılmaz, Burçin Çakır, Zeinab Azerbadegan, Dotan Halevy, Chris Gratien, and Michael Ferguson</div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/visual-sources-in-late-ottoman-history" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> Visual sources such as photographs, maps, and miniatures often serve as accompaniment or adornment within works of Ottoman history. In this episode, we feature new work that interrogates methods of analyzing and employing visual sources for Ottoman history that go beyond the practice of "image as decoration." Following a conversation with the organizers of the "Visual Sources in Late Ottoman History" conference held at Columbia University in April 2017, we speak to conference participants about the visual sources they employ in their work and how these visual sources allow us to understand the history of the Ottoman Empire and post-Ottoman world in a new light.</div> <br> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/07/columbia-visual.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 323</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/erik-jan-zurcher#tab-1" target="_blank">with Erik-Jan Zürcher</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/en/bereiche-und-lehrstuehle-en/suedosteuropaeische-geschichte-en/personen/andreas-guidi?set_language=en" target="_blank">Andreas Guidi</a> and <a href="http://cetobac.ehess.fr/index.php?1400" target="_blank">Elif Becan</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/zurcher/" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> In this collaboration with <a href="http://thesoutheastpassage.com/podcast/" target="_blank">The Southeast Passage</a>, we discuss the emergence of the Turkish nationalist movement under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the establishment of a sovereign Republic of Turkey in 1923. As our guest Prof. Erik-Jan Zürcher notes, Kemalism can be studied both as a political transformation from armed struggle to a one-party state administration system and as a repertoire of discursive symbols based on the imaginary of nation, civilization, and modernity. This installment is structured along a series of lectures that Prof. Zürcher has given at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, in which he has framed Kemalism’s activism and worldview within its contemporary international context as well as along a broader chronological axis continuing into the 1950s.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/07/zurcher.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 320</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> featuring <a href="https://citybetween.com/" target="_blank">Bruce Burnside</a> & <a href="https://nyu.academia.edu/SamDolbee" target="_blank">Sam Dolbee</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/ottoman-new-york" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> The distance between the shores of the Ottoman Empire and New York City may be great, but, as this episode suggests, a great many connections exist between these places, too. This episode explores both the everyday lives of those hailing from the Ottoman domains over several centuries in the Big Apple, as well as the perceptions New Yorkers and Americans more generally had of the Ottoman Empire. Through visits to sites across the island of Manhattan, we shed light on the long and largely forgotten shared history of the Ottoman Empire and New York City, and we find it in unlikely places – such as a modest walk-up apartment on the Upper East Side – as well as in the shadow of New York landmarks like 1 World Trade Center and the Stonewall Inn. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/06/ottoman-new-york.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 308</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://uhcl.academia.edu/CengizSisman" target="_blank">with Cengiz Şişman</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/MatthewGhazarian" target="_blank"> Matthew Ghazarian</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/donme" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> In 1665, an Izmir-born Rabbi named Sabbatai Sevi (1626-76) was proclaimed to be the Jewish Messiah. His messianic movement attracted tens of thousands of followers and become known throughout the early modern world. Ottoman authorities, however, arrested Sevi in 1666, and, under duress, the charismatic leader converted to Islam. Many members of his movement followed suit and became the communities who today are called <i>dönme</i> (which literally means "convert"). After Sevi's death, <i>dönme</i> communities continued to outwardly practice Islam but inwardly retain practices of Judaism. In this episode, Cengiz Şişman talks about his research on the development of Sevi’s movement, the trajectories of <i>dönme</i> communities, and questions of conversion and communal boundaries, which became more pressing in the late nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/03/donme.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 303</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://histoire.uqam.ca/component/savrepertoireprofesseurs/ficheProfesseur?mId=R1B0DiDpQto_" target="_blank">with Stefan Winter</a></div> <div class="host_name"> <a href="http://georgetown.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/winter" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> Although the Alawi communities of Syria have played an important role in the politics of the 20th century, the longer history of these communities has often been obscured by generalizations and discourses of mystification. In this episode, we talk to Stefan Winter about the history of the Alawis over the centuries, which is the subject of his new book A History of the ‘Alawis: From Medieval Aleppo to the Turkish Republic. In particular, we focus on the ways in which Syrian Alawis were incorporated into the Ottoman Empire and experienced changes in Ottoman politics and governance. We also examine the social and economic history of the Alawis during the early modern period and the encounter with modernity.</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/03/alawis.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 300</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://history.ucdavis.edu/people/btezcan" target="_blank">with Baki Tezcan</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">Susanna Ferguson</a> </div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/baki-tezcan" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> Did the Ottoman Empire "decline" after an initial golden age of rapid expansion and military conquest? This question has long haunted the telling of Ottoman history. Critics note that describing centuries of Ottoman history simply as "decline" makes it seem inevitable that the Empire would be defeated in World War I, emptying the story of the contingency and nuance it deserves. How else might we describe the nature of political, economic, and cultural change in the later centuries of the Ottoman Empire? What other questions could we ask? In this episode, Baki Tezcan describes the period he calls the "Second Ottoman Empire," between roughly 1580 and 1826, not as a period of decline but as one of political transformation. His story radically remakes existing narratives about the nature and history of Ottoman political authority and governance and offers an important alternative to the "decline thesis" that has haunted Ottoman history for so long. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/02/rethinking-decline.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 297</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/art-of-the-quran/video-farhad-rettig.php" target="_blank">with Massumeh Farhad & Simon Rettig</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://upenn.academia.edu/EmilyNeumeier" target="_blank">Emily Neumeier</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/art-of-quran" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> The preeminent position of manuscript painting and poetry at the Ottoman court has been well established by historians, yet the equally important practice of commissioning and collecting sumptuously decorated copies of the Qur’an--the sacred text of Islam--has been less explored. The role of the Qur’an in the artistic culture of the Ottoman world is just one facet of the landmark exhibition <i>The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts</i>, on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. The show traces the formal evolution of the Qur’an, especially in terms of calligraphy and manuscript illumination, with over 60 manuscripts and folios spanning a thousand years and created in an area stretching from Egypt to Afghanistan. Besides having an opportunity to appreciate the level of labor and skill invested in producing such high-quality manuscripts, visitors will also be surprised to learn about the mobility of these books, as they were avidly collected, repaired, and donated by members of the Ottoman court to various religious institutions around the empire. In this episode, curators Massumeh Farhad and Simon Rettig sit down with us to reflect both on the reception of the exhibition in the United States, as well as the process of organizing this collaborative venture between the Smithsonian and the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts in Istanbul. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/02/quran-art-history.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 289</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/%C4%B0rvinCemilSchick" target="_blank">with İrvin Cemil Schick</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">Susanna Ferguson</a> and <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/MatthewGhazarian" target="_blank">Matthew Ghazarian</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <div class="download_text"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/the-ottoman-erotic-irvin-cemil-schick" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></div> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> What terms and ideas were considered erotic in early modern Ottoman literature, and what can studying them tell us about later historical periods and our own conceptions of the beauty, love, and desire? In this episode, we welcome İrvin Cemil Schick back to the podcast to discuss a project he is compiling with İpek Hüner-Cora and Helga Anetshofer: a dictionary called the "Erotic Vocabulary of Ottoman Literature."</div> <br> <div class="release_date"> Release Date: 18 December 2016</div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/12/irvin-cemil-schick.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/people/faculty/alphabetical/sajdi_dana.html" target="_blank">with Dana Sajdi</a></b></span><br><br><i>hosted by <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">Chris Gratien</a> and <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/ShireenHamza" target="_blank">Shireen Hamza</a></i></center> <center> <i><br></i></center> <center> </center> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/dana-sajdi" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In the conventional telling of the intellectual history of the Ottoman Empire and the Islamicate world, there has been very little room for people outside the ranks of the learned scholars or <i>ulema</i> associated with the religious, intellectual, and political elite of Muslim communities. But in this episode, we explore the writings of Shihab al-Din Ahmad Ibn Budayr, an 18th-century Damascene barber, as well as a host of writers that our guest Dana Sajdi has described as representatives of "nouveau literacy" in the Ottoman Levant. We discuss how non-elite writers left records of the people and events they encountered during a period of socioeconomic transformation in Greater Syria, and we listen to readings from the text of Ibn Budayr--the barber of Damascus--that bring to life the literary style of the unusual and extraordinary authors who wrote from the margins of the learned establishment in early modern Ottoman society.</div> <br> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/11/barber-of-damascus.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <a href="https://georgetown.academia.edu/GaborAgoston" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>with </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Gábor Ágoston</b></span></a><br><br><i>hosted by Graham Auman Pitts and Faisal Husain</i></center> <center> <i><br></i></center> <center> </center> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/war-environment-and-the-ottoman-habsburg-frontier" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Whereas military histories once focused narrowly on armies, battles, and technologies, the new approach to military history emphasizes how armies and navies were linked to issues such as political economy, gender, and environment. In this episode, we sit down with Gábor Ágoston to discuss the principal issues concerning the relationship between the Ottoman-Habsburg military frontier in Hungary and the environmental history of the early modern period. From the battle of Mohacs in 1526, through the dramatic battle of Vienna 1683, and until the Treaty of Sistova 1791, the Ottoman-Habsburg frontier was the site of fighting, fortification, and mobilization. In our conversation, we consider the environmental dimensions of these centuries of conflict and contact, focusing on how the military revolution transformed the way in which armies used and managed resources and the role of both anthropogenic and climatic factors in reshaping the Hungarian landscape.</div> <br> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/10/war-environment.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/GwendolynColla%C3%A7o" target="_blank">with Gwendolyn Collaço</a></b></span><br><br><i>hosted by <a href="http://georgetown.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" target="_blank">Chris Gratien</a>, <a href="https://ucla.academia.edu/NirShafir" target="_blank">Nir Shafir</a>, and <a href="https://akpia.mit.edu/huma-gupta" target="_blank">Huma Gupta</a></i></center> <center> <i><br></i></center> <center> </center> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/festivals-and-the-waterfront-in-18th-century-istanbul-gwendolyn-collaco" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The illustrated account of the festivals surrounding the circumcision of Sultan Ahmed III's sons in 1720 is one of the most iconic and celebrated depictions of urban life in Ottoman Istanbul. With its detailed text written by Vehbi, accompanied by the vibrant miniature paintings of Levni, this work has been used as a source for understanding the cast of professions and personalities that occupied the public space of the Ottoman capital. In this episode, we focus not on the colorful characters of Levni's paintings but rather the backdrop for the celebrations: the Golden Horn and the waterfront of 18th-century Istanbul. As our guest <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/GwendolynColla%C3%A7o" target="_blank">Gwendolyn Collaço</a> explains, the accounts of festivals in early modern Istanbul reflect the transformation of the city and an orientation towards the waterfront not only in the Ottoman Empire but also neighboring states of the Mediterranean. </div> <br> </div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/08/levni.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://dlcl.stanford.edu/people/melih-levi" target="_blank">with Melih Levi</a></b></span><br><br><i><a href="https://brown.academia.edu/ZoeGriffith" target="_blank">hosted by Zoe Griffith</a></i></center> <center> <i><br></i></center> <center> </center> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/translating-the-ottoman-novel-melih-levi" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Emerging as a literary genre towards the end of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman novel has been overshadowed by the transformation of the Turkish language and alphabet after 1928. In this episode, we speak with Melih Levi about his recent English translation with <a href="https://amherst.academia.edu/MonicaRinger" target="_blank">Monica Ringer</a> of one the first examples of the Ottoman novel, <a href="http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/spring-2016/felatum-bey.html" target="_blank">Ahmed Midhat Efendi's <i>Felatun Bey and Rakım Efendi</i> (Syracuse University Press, 2016)</a>. Far from a derivative imitation of European literary themes and forms, Ahmed Midhat's novel revolves both seriously and playfully around the concepts of <i>ala franga</i> and <i>ala turca</i>, cajoling and instructing its readers on how live as authentically "modern" Ottomans in a rapidly modernizing empire. Published in 1875, the novel opens windows onto the Ottoman family, slavery, masculinity, and social orders, as well as literal and psychological relations with Europe in nineteenth-century Istanbul. </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br> </div></div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/08/translating-ottoman-novel.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://aub-lb.academia.edu/AlexisWick" target="_blank">with Alexis Wick</a></b></span><br><br><i><a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" target="_blank">hosted by Susanna Ferguson</a></i></center> <center> <i><br></i></center> <center> </center> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/the-ottoman-red-sea-alexis-wick" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The body of water now known as the Red Sea lay well within the bounds of the Ottoman Empire's well-protected domains for nearly four centuries. It wasn't until the 19th century, however, that this body of water began to be called or conceived of as "the Red Sea" by either Ottomans or Europeans. In this episode, Professor Alexis Wick argues that we have much to learn about how history (and Ottoman history in particular) "makes its object" by studying not only the emergence of the concept of the Red Sea, Ottoman or otherwise, but also the surprising absence of such a history in previous scholarship. His new book The Red Sea: In Search of Lost Space (University of California Press, 2016) is both a conceptual history of the Red Sea as seen through both Ottoman and European eyes, and a reflection on the methodologies, tropes, and preoccupations of Ottoman history writ large.</div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br> </div></div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/08/red-sea.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://soas.academia.edu/HughKennedy" target="_blank">with Hugh Kennedy</a></span></b></div> <br> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>hosted by Taylan Güngör</i></div> <br> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/caliphate-an-idea-throughout-history-hugh-kennedy" target="blank" title="May not open in Turkey | Türkiye'de açılamaması mümkündür">Soundcloud</a></center> <br> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> What is a caliphate? Who can be caliph? What is the history of the idea? How can we interpret and use it today? In this podcast we discuss with Prof Hugh Kennedy his forthcoming book <a href="https://www.pelicanbooks.com/the-caliphate" target="_blank"><i>The Caliphate </i>(Pelican Books)</a> and the long-term historical context to the idea of caliphate. Tracing the history from the choosing of the first caliph Abu Bakr in the immediate aftermath of the Prophet Muhammad’s death in 632, the Orthodox (Rashidun) caliphs (632-661), the Umayyads (661-750), the Abbasids (750-1258) and the use of the idea of caliphate by the Ottomans down to the emergence of another Abu Bakr as “caliph” of the IS in 2014.<br> <div> <br> </div></div></div></div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/04/caliphate.html#more">« Click for More »</a>

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.uvm.edu/~history/?Page=faculty/ergene1.php&SM=employeesubmenu.html" target="_blank">with Boğaç Ergene</a></span></b><br><br><i>hosted by <a href="https://ucla.academia.edu/NirShafir" target="_blank">Nir Shafir</a></i></center> <center> <i><br></i></center> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:6652990/sounds.rss" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="http://www.hipcast.com/podcast/Hnph2NGk" target="blank" title="Click for OHP on Hipcast">Hipcast</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/economics-and-justice-in-the-ottoman-courts-bogac-ergene" target="blank" title="May not open in Turkey | Türkiye'de açılamaması mümkündür">Soundcloud</a></center> <br> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Were Ottoman courts just? Boğaç Ergene discusses this basic question in this podcast by forging a new path beyond the earlier views of the justice system as inherently fickle and capricious—immortalized in Weber’s concept of <i>kadijustiz</i>—and the idealistic views of Ottoman courts as a site of equal and fair treatment for all. Drawing on the results of research for his forthcoming publication with Metin Coşgel entitled <i>The Economics of Ottoman Justice</i>, Ergene argues for employing the quantitative methods of “law and economics” scholars, demonstrating that entrenched power holders in early modern Ottoman society were always able to use the Ottoman court system to produce outcomes favorable to themselves. </div> <br> </div></div></div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/04/economics-and-justice-in-ottoman-courts.html#more">« Click for More »</a>