Podcasts about late ottoman empire

This fortnight, we're going east (and back in history) with fabulous historian Tuğçe Kayaal (Furman University). Tuğçe explains how she queers history and the archives, how she researches homoerotic intimacies in poetry and advice books, and what religion has to do with morals, relationships and friendships. She talks about the most frequently misunderstood aspects of the Ottoman empire and what it's like teaching homoeroticism in texts from the Middle East.If you want to learn more, why not follow @tkayaal and @queerlitpodcast on Twitter? The podcast also produces mediocre Instagram content for your perusal. CW: We discuss paedophilia versus intergenerational relationships, sexual violence, homophobia, and religion. References:Miss MelinaFreddie MercuryBeylikGeorge-Louis BuffonBabayan, Kathryn. The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan. Stanford University Press, 2021.Semerdjian, Elyse. “Naked Anxiety: Bathhouses, Nudity, and Dhimmi Woman in 18th-Century-Aleppo.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 45, no. 4 (2013): 651-676.Kayaal, Tuğçe. “ ‘ Twisted Desires,' Boy Lovers, and Male-Male Cross-Generational Sex in the Late Ottoman Empire (1912-1918).” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 46, no.1 (2020): 31-46.Najmabadi, Afsaneh. Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieities of Iranian Modernity. University of California Press, 2005.Andrews, Walter G. & Mehmet Kalpakli. Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.Kobabe, Mai. Gender Queer: A Memoir. Oni Press, 2019. Sufism Sunni Mustafa Galib, Fahişeler Hayatı ve Redaet-i Ahlakiyye, 1922 Enderunlu Fazıl, Zenanname, 1695 Gelibolulu Mustafa Ali, Mevaidün Nefais Fi Kavaidil Mecalis, 16th Century.Konya The Queery Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:1. What is the Ottoman Empire?2. Which factors play into the increasing emphasis on procreational heteronormative sex in the late Ottoman Empire?3. Does Tuğçe see Sufism or Sunni Islam as more open to same-sex desire?4. How is female sexuality viewed in the examples Tuğçe mentions?5. What does the term cross-generational mean in the contexts we discuss? What are your thoughts on childhood in a historical context?

Yapılar, Mimarlar, Hikâyeler Moderatör: Cem Sorguç Canlı etkinliği içerisinde kendisinde ifade bulan yapılar, ara mekânlar ve insanlar üzerinden mimari, gündelik hayat, meşgale, vaka ara kesitinde mekânsal ve beşeri bellek kazıması. Günümüzün görünür görünmez kodlarını açmaya, geçmiş ile gelecek, eski ile yeni kopukluğunu varsayan bir retoriğe karşın bir bütünselleştirme gayreti. Beyoğlu ve Beyaz Ruslar Konuşmacı: Oya Dağlar Macar 1917 Ekim Devrimi'nin ardından İstanbul'a gelen Beyaz Rusların başta Beyoğlu olmak üzere İstanbul'daki yaşamları, etkileri. Prof. Dr. Oya Dağlar Macar lisans eğitimini Marmara Üniversitesi Tarih bölümünde tamamladı. Yüksek lisans ve doktorasını Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılâp Tarihi Enstitüsü'nde yaptı. 1998-2004 yılları arasında Bilgi Üniversitesi'nde araştırma görevlisi olarak çalıştıktan sonra 2004'te İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi'ne geçti. 2008-2009'da ABD, Kansas'taki Fort Hays Eyalet Üniversitesi'de, 2011-2012'de Boston Hellenic College'da ve 2019 yılı yaz döneminde Strasbourg Üniversitesi'nde misafir öğretim üyesi olarak bulundu. War, Epidemics and Medicine in the Late Ottoman Empire (1912-1918); Balkan Savaşları'nda Salgın Hastalıklar ve Saglık Hizmetleri; Beyaz Rus Ordusu Turkiye'de (Elçin Macar ile birlikte) isimli kitapları olan Oya Dağlar Macar'ın, tıp tarihi, siyasi tarih, 19. ve 20. yüzyıla odaklanan Osmanlı savaş tarihi alanlarında çalışmaktadır. 2017'den beri Türk Tıp Tarihi Kurumu yönetim kurulu üyesi olan Oya Dağlar Macar halen İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler bölümünde öğretim üyesidir.

Murat R. Siviloğlu on “The Emergence of Public Opinion: State and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire” (Cambridge University Press). The book argues that Ottoman society developed a realm of “public opinion” that had a crucial effect on political developments in the late 19th century. Become a member to support Turkey Book Talk. Members get a 30% discount on all Turkey/Ottoman History books published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, transcripts of every interview, transcripts of the whole archive, and over 200 reviews covering Turkish and international fiction, history and politics.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 009. This lecture is from the 2008 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “Free Traders vs. Socialists during the Late Ottoman Empire,” by Peter Mentzel (USA). PFS 2008 Playlist. Original Youtube (low quality audio). Note that the audio quality for 2006, 2008, and 2009 was poor and has been improved […]

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 009. This lecture is from the 2008 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “Free Traders vs. Socialists during the Late Ottoman Empire,” by Peter Mentzel (USA). PFS 2008 Playlist. Original Youtube (low quality audio). Note that the audio quality for 2006, 2008, and 2009 was poor and has been improved […]

Economics of genocide — Dr. Ümit Kurt, a historian of the modern Middle East, provides a rare look at economic factors as both cause and consequence of genocide. How and why did neighbors turn on neighbors? Because the financial incentives were great. Kurt, born in Aintab (Gaziantep), writes on the economics of genocide in his hometown. For more, visit Armenian.usc.edu. Publications: The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021) Co-edited with Ara Sarafian, Armenians and Kurds in the Late Ottoman Empire (CA: The Press California State University Fresno, 2020). Antep 1915: Soykırım ve Failler (Istanbul: İletişim, September 2018). “The Political Micro-Economy of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1922,” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, vol. 20, no. 6, 2018, pp. 618-638. “Theatres of Violence on the Ottoman Periphery: Exploring the Local Roots of Genocidal Policies in Antep,” Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 20, issue 3, 2018, pp. 351-371. “The Curious Case of Ali Cenani Bey: The Story of a Génocidaire,” Patterns of Prejudice, vol. 52, issue 1, 2018, pp. 58-77. The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide, co-authored with Taner Akçam (New York: Berghahn Books, 2017). “Revisiting the Legal Infrastructure for Confiscation of the Armenian and Greek Wealth: A Political-Economic Analysis of the CUP Years and the Early Modern Republic,” Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 53, issue 5, 2017, pp. 700-723.

In this episode, we talked to Élise Massicard about her research on muhtars, the neighborhood or village headmen in Turkey. Elise’s interest in muhtars in Turkey dates back to several years before President Erdoğan started to gather thousands of muhtars at his presidential palace, address them in person to acknowledge the importance of their position. Elise’s research problematizes the view of the Turkish state as a strong bureaucratic machine detached from society by showing the in-between status of muhtars as both small bureaucrats presiding over the neighborhood and as elected officials serving their constituents. Elise shows that this in-between status of complementing bureaucratic rationality with personal relationships is neither a deviation from the norm, nor a failure of modernization, but lies at the very center of the Turkish state tradition dating back to Ottoman times. Élise Massicard is a faculty member and associate research fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research, Sciences Po. She works on comparative political sociology, mainly on Turkey. Her research focuses on relationships between space and politics, which she inquires through social movements, the sociology of institutions, state-society relations, and everyday politics. Thereby, she explores the autonomy of politics from other social fields. Through qualitative in-depth studies, she focuses on the analysis of actors, and the way they are entrenched spatially and socially, but also the circulations - including transnational. https://cnrs.academia.edu/EliseMassicard Book: Massicard, E., 2019. Gouverner par la proximité: Une sociologie politique des maires de quartier en Turquie. Karthala Editions. http://www.karthala.com/recherches-internationales/3291-gouverner-par-la-proximite-une-sociologie-politique-de-quartier-en-turquie-9782811126049.html Article: “The Incomplete Civil Servant?: The Figure of the Neighborhood Headman” in Aymes, M., Gourisse, B. and Massicard, É., 2015. Order and Compromise: Government Practices in Turkey from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Early 21st Century. Brill. https://brill.com/view/journals/arab/63/3-4/article-p410_10.xml?lang=en Many thanks to Anadolu Quartet, Ahmet Tirgil, and Ahenk Müzik for our podcast music: https://soundcloud.com/anadolu-quartet/herediya

Episode 421with Gülhan Balsoy and Tuba Demircihosted by Suzie FergusonDownload the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloudHow did the experience of pregnancy and childbirth change in the Ottoman Empire in the context of nineteenth-century reforms? In this episode, we discuss how the question of managing a "population" become a key concern for the Ottoman state, bringing new opportunities and difficulties for Ottoman mothers and midwives alike. Questions about childbirth also became enmeshed in late-imperial demographic and cultural anxieties about the relationship between the Empire and its non-Muslim populations. As pregnancy and childbirth drew the attention of medical men, state bureaucrats, and men and women writers in the emerging periodical press, new technologies, regulations, and forms of medical knowledge changed what it meant to give birth and raise a child. « Click for More »

Episode 421with Gülhan Balsoy and Tuba Demircihosted by Suzie FergusonDownload the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloudHow did the experience of pregnancy and childbirth change in the Ottoman Empire in the context of nineteenth-century reforms? In this episode, we discuss how the question of managing a "population" become a key concern for the Ottoman state, bringing new opportunities and difficulties for Ottoman mothers and midwives alike. Questions about childbirth also became enmeshed in late-imperial demographic and cultural anxieties about the relationship between the Empire and its non-Muslim populations. As pregnancy and childbirth drew the attention of medical men, state bureaucrats, and men and women writers in the emerging periodical press, new technologies, regulations, and forms of medical knowledge changed what it meant to give birth and raise a child. « Click for More »

Episode 421with Gülhan Balsoy and Tuba Demircihosted by Suzie FergusonDownload the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloudHow did the experience of pregnancy and childbirth change in the Ottoman Empire in the context of nineteenth-century reforms? In this episode, we discuss how the question of managing a "population" become a key concern for the Ottoman state, bringing new opportunities and difficulties for Ottoman mothers and midwives alike. Questions about childbirth also became enmeshed in late-imperial demographic and cultural anxieties about the relationship between the Empire and its non-Muslim populations. As pregnancy and childbirth drew the attention of medical men, state bureaucrats, and men and women writers in the emerging periodical press, new technologies, regulations, and forms of medical knowledge changed what it meant to give birth and raise a child. « Click for More »

From Jerusalem to Nebraska, Dr. Bedross Der Matossian, Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, remembers life in a post-Ottoman city, and describes his path toward a study of the politics of the late Ottoman period. He speaks with Salpi Ghazarian, Director of the USC Institute of Armenian Studies. Dr. Der Matossian is currently president of the Society for Armenian Studies. To learn more about the USC Institute of Armenian Studies, visit http://armenian.usc.edu. References: Bedross Der Matossian, Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2014). Bedross Der Matossian, Hüsrana Uğrayan Devrim: Geç Dönem Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda Hürriyet ve Şiddet (Istanbul: İletişim Publications, 2016) (Turkish translation of Shattered Dreams of Revolution). Bedross Der Matossian, Sulaiman Mourad, and Naomi Koltun-Fromm (eds.), Routledge Handbook on Jerusalem (Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018). Bedross Der Matossian and Barlow Der Mugrdechian (eds.), Western Armenian in the 21st Century: Challenges and New Approaches(Fresno, CA: The Press at Fresno State, Fall 2019).

Inclusion and exclusion: the challenges of identity formation during childhood in Turkey, and in the study of children during genocide -- Dr. Nazan Maksudyan writes on these topics.  Her research focuses on the history of children and youth in the Ottoman Empire during the 19th and early 20th centuries, with a focus on non-Muslims and gender, sexuality, education and humanitarianism. To learn more about the USC Institute of Armenian Studies, visit http://armenian.usc.edu. References: Ottoman Children & Youth During World War I (Syracuse University Press, 2019)  “Agents or Pawns? Nationalism and Ottoman Children during the Great War” (2016) Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire (Syracuse University Press, 2014)  Women and the City, Women in the City (Berghahn, 2014), provided an under-researched gendered lens to Ottoman urban history.  “Orphans, Cities, and the State: Vocational Orphanages (Islahhanes) and ‘Reform’ in the Late Ottoman Urban Space” (2011) “Foster-Daughter or Servant, Charity or Abuse: Beslemes in the Late Ottoman Empire” (2008)

Episode 349with Noémi Lévy-Aksuhosted by Taylan Güngör and Michael TalbotDownload the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloudIdare-i örfiyye (or örfi idare), 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 idare-i örfiyye 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 idare-i örfiyye in the Ottoman provinces during Abdülhamid II reign and the early Young Turk period.« Click for More »

Episode 349with Noémi Lévy-Aksuhosted by Taylan Güngör and Michael TalbotDownload the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloudIdare-i örfiyye (or örfi idare), 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 idare-i örfiyye 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 idare-i örfiyye in the Ottoman provinces during Abdülhamid II reign and the early Young Turk period.« Click for More »

A lecture by Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt University)

A lecture by Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt University)

Episode 331with Ella Fratantuonohosted by Chris Gratien and Seçil YılmazDownload the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloudThough 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 muhacir 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 muhacir as a legal, administrative, and conceptual figure in Ottoman society.« Click for More »

Episode 331with Ella Fratantuonohosted by Chris Gratien and Seçil YılmazDownload the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloudThough 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 muhacir 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 muhacir as a legal, administrative, and conceptual figure in Ottoman society.« Click for More »

Dr. Avner Wishnitzer, senior lecturer in Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University, is the author of the recently published Reading Clocks Alla Turca: Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire. He analyzes with host Gilad Halpern the tension between tradition and modernity in 19th century Turkey through the introduction of the concepts of standardized time. Song: Si Himan - Bekhol Makom This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

The Young Turk revolution of 1908 restored the Ottoman constitution, suspended earlier by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and initiated a new period of parliamentary politics in the Empire. Likewise, the revolution was a watershed moment for the Empire’s ethnic communities, raising expectations for their full inclusion into the Ottoman political system as modern citizens and bringing to the fore competitions for power within and between groups. In Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire (Stanford University Press, 2014), Bedross Der Matossian examines how Ottoman ethnic communities understood and reacted to the revolution. Focusing on the Arab, Armenian and Jewish communities, and using sources in multiple languages, including Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Ladino and Ottoman Turkish, Der Matossian highlights the contradictions and ambiguities in interpretations of  Ottomanism and its reification as political structure. How, for example, could these groups express loyalty to the ideas of the revolution while protecting their own communal interests? For the Young Turks, the goal of the revolution was first and foremost to centralize power and to preserve the territorial integrity of the Empire. They saw constitutionalism and parliamentarianism as vehicles to this end. For the non-dominant ethnic groups in the Empire, however, the Revolution meant freedom and equality, often understood as political decentralization and the preservation of their ethnic privileges. Through in depth analysis of revolutionary festivals, debates in the ethnic press, electoral campaigns, parliamentary discourse and then reactions to the 1909 counter-revolution, Der Matossian shows us that the dreams of the revolution were shattered under the weight of the incompatibility these understandings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Young Turk revolution of 1908 restored the Ottoman constitution, suspended earlier by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and initiated a new period of parliamentary politics in the Empire. Likewise, the revolution was a watershed moment for the Empire’s ethnic communities, raising expectations for their full inclusion into the Ottoman political system as modern citizens and bringing to the fore competitions for power within and between groups. In Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire (Stanford University Press, 2014), Bedross Der Matossian examines how Ottoman ethnic communities understood and reacted to the revolution. Focusing on the Arab, Armenian and Jewish communities, and using sources in multiple languages, including Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Ladino and Ottoman Turkish, Der Matossian highlights the contradictions and ambiguities in interpretations of  Ottomanism and its reification as political structure. How, for example, could these groups express loyalty to the ideas of the revolution while protecting their own communal interests? For the Young Turks, the goal of the revolution was first and foremost to centralize power and to preserve the territorial integrity of the Empire. They saw constitutionalism and parliamentarianism as vehicles to this end. For the non-dominant ethnic groups in the Empire, however, the Revolution meant freedom and equality, often understood as political decentralization and the preservation of their ethnic privileges. Through in depth analysis of revolutionary festivals, debates in the ethnic press, electoral campaigns, parliamentary discourse and then reactions to the 1909 counter-revolution, Der Matossian shows us that the dreams of the revolution were shattered under the weight of the incompatibility these understandings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Young Turk revolution of 1908 restored the Ottoman constitution, suspended earlier by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and initiated a new period of parliamentary politics in the Empire. Likewise, the revolution was a watershed moment for the Empire’s ethnic communities, raising expectations for their full inclusion into the Ottoman political system as modern citizens and bringing to the fore competitions for power within and between groups. In Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire (Stanford University Press, 2014), Bedross Der Matossian examines how Ottoman ethnic communities understood and reacted to the revolution. Focusing on the Arab, Armenian and Jewish communities, and using sources in multiple languages, including Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Ladino and Ottoman Turkish, Der Matossian highlights the contradictions and ambiguities in interpretations of  Ottomanism and its reification as political structure. How, for example, could these groups express loyalty to the ideas of the revolution while protecting their own communal interests? For the Young Turks, the goal of the revolution was first and foremost to centralize power and to preserve the territorial integrity of the Empire. They saw constitutionalism and parliamentarianism as vehicles to this end. For the non-dominant ethnic groups in the Empire, however, the Revolution meant freedom and equality, often understood as political decentralization and the preservation of their ethnic privileges. Through in depth analysis of revolutionary festivals, debates in the ethnic press, electoral campaigns, parliamentary discourse and then reactions to the 1909 counter-revolution, Der Matossian shows us that the dreams of the revolution were shattered under the weight of the incompatibility these understandings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Young Turk revolution of 1908 restored the Ottoman constitution, suspended earlier by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and initiated a new period of parliamentary politics in the Empire. Likewise, the revolution was a watershed moment for the Empire’s ethnic communities, raising expectations for their full inclusion into the Ottoman political system as modern citizens and bringing to the fore competitions for power within and between groups. In Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire (Stanford University Press, 2014), Bedross Der Matossian examines how Ottoman ethnic communities understood and reacted to the revolution. Focusing on the Arab, Armenian and Jewish communities, and using sources in multiple languages, including Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Ladino and Ottoman Turkish, Der Matossian highlights the contradictions and ambiguities in interpretations of  Ottomanism and its reification as political structure. How, for example, could these groups express loyalty to the ideas of the revolution while protecting their own communal interests? For the Young Turks, the goal of the revolution was first and foremost to centralize power and to preserve the territorial integrity of the Empire. They saw constitutionalism and parliamentarianism as vehicles to this end. For the non-dominant ethnic groups in the Empire, however, the Revolution meant freedom and equality, often understood as political decentralization and the preservation of their ethnic privileges. Through in depth analysis of revolutionary festivals, debates in the ethnic press, electoral campaigns, parliamentary discourse and then reactions to the 1909 counter-revolution, Der Matossian shows us that the dreams of the revolution were shattered under the weight of the incompatibility these understandings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Young Turk revolution of 1908 restored the Ottoman constitution, suspended earlier by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and initiated a new period of parliamentary politics in the Empire. Likewise, the revolution was a watershed moment for the Empire’s ethnic communities, raising expectations for their full inclusion into the Ottoman political system as modern citizens and bringing to the fore competitions for power within and between groups. In Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire (Stanford University Press, 2014), Bedross Der Matossian examines how Ottoman ethnic communities understood and reacted to the revolution. Focusing on the Arab, Armenian and Jewish communities, and using sources in multiple languages, including Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Ladino and Ottoman Turkish, Der Matossian highlights the contradictions and ambiguities in interpretations of  Ottomanism and its reification as political structure. How, for example, could these groups express loyalty to the ideas of the revolution while protecting their own communal interests? For the Young Turks, the goal of the revolution was first and foremost to centralize power and to preserve the territorial integrity of the Empire. They saw constitutionalism and parliamentarianism as vehicles to this end. For the non-dominant ethnic groups in the Empire, however, the Revolution meant freedom and equality, often understood as political decentralization and the preservation of their ethnic privileges. Through in depth analysis of revolutionary festivals, debates in the ethnic press, electoral campaigns, parliamentary discourse and then reactions to the 1909 counter-revolution, Der Matossian shows us that the dreams of the revolution were shattered under the weight of the incompatibility these understandings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seminar given on 28 January 2015 by Professor Dawn Chatty (RSC), part of the RSC Hilary term 2015 Public Seminar Series Refugee studies rarely address historical matters; yet understanding ideas about sanctuary, refuge and asylum have long roots in both Western and Eastern history and philosophy. Occasionally the Nansen era of the 1920s is examined or the opening years of, say, the Palestinian refugee crisis are addressed. But by and large the circumstances, experiences and influences of refugees and exiles in modern history are ignored. This seminar attempts to contribute to an exploration of the past and to examine the responses of one State – the late Ottoman Empire – to the forced migration of millions of largely Muslim refugees and exiles from its contested borderland shared with Tsarist Russia into its southern provinces. The seminar focuses on one particular meta-ethnic group, the Circassians, and explores the humanitarian response to their movement both nationally and locally as well as their concerted drive for assisted self-settlement. The Circassians are one of many groups that were on the move at the end of the 19th century and their reception and eventual integration without assimilation in the region provide important lessons for contemporary humanitarianism.

A lecture by Berdross Der Matossian, Dept. of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

A lecture by Kent Schull, Binghamton University

Kadir YıldırımBu podcastımızda Osmanlı’da İşçiler (1870-1922) kitabının yazarı, İstanbul Üniversitesi İktisat Fakültesi öğretim üyesi Kadir Yıldırım’la Osmanlı işçi hareketi ve emek tarihi yazımının tarihyazımsal gelişimini, kaynaklarını ve temel kavramlarını masaya yatırıyoruz. Bu bölümle, geçen hafta Soma’da yitirdiğimiz madencilerimizi ve Çalışma ve Sosyal Güvenlik Bakanlığı verilerine göre sadece 2002’den bu yana sayıları 14.000’i bulan iş kazalarında kaybettiğimiz tüm işçilerimizi anmaya çalışıyoruz. Bu söyleşi ayrıca, iş kazalarının “doğal afet, kader, işin doğası, fıtratı” olarak nitelendirilip nitelendirilemeyeceğini tartışmasını yeniden gündeme taşıyor.    Yrd.Doç.Dr. Kadir Yıldırım, İstanbul Üniversitesi İktisat Bölümünde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır.Elçin Arabacı, Georgetown Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü doktora öğrencisidir. Halen ondokuzuncu yüzyılda Bursa'da sivil toplum üzerine doktora araştırmasını sürdürmektedir. (academia.edu)Yeniçağ Akdeniz ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Emrah Safa Gürkan İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır. (academia.edu)KAYNAKÇADonald Quataert; Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda Madenciler ve Devlet – Zonguldak Kömür Havzası 1822-1920, Çev. Nilay Ö. Gündoğan ve Azat Z. Gündoğan, İstanbul, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi, 2009.Donald Quataert; Sanayi Devrimi Çağında Osmanlı İmalat Sektörü, 2. Bsk., İstanbul, İletişim Yayınları, 2008.Mete Tunçay; Türkiye’de Sol Akımlar 1908-1925, C. 1, İstanbul, İletişim Yayınları, 2009.Mete Tunçay-Erik Jan Zürcher, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda Sosyalizm ve Milliyetçilik (1876-1923), İstanbul, İletişim Yayınları, 2010.Suraiya Faroqhi; Osmanlı Zanaatkarları, İstanbul, Kitap Yayınevi, 2011. Kadir Yıldırım; Osmanlı’da İşçiler; Çalışma Hayatı, Örgütler ve Grevler (1870-1922), İstanbul, İletişim Yayınları, 2013.Oya Sencer; Türkiye’de İşçi Sınıfı – Doğuşu ve Yapısı, İstanbul, Habora Kitabevi, 1969. Gila Hadar; “Selanik’te Yahudi Tütün İşçileri: Toplumsal ve Etnik Mücadele Bağlamında Cinsiyet ve Aile”, Osmanlı Döneminde Balkan Kadınları Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Kültür, Tarih, Der. Amila Butuovic ve Irvin Cemil Schick, Çev. Güliz Erginsoy, İstanbul, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2009, ss. 137-161.Şükrü Ilıcak; “Jewish Socialism in Ottoman Salonica”, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Vol. 2, No. 3, September 2002, ss. 115-146.Yavuz Selim Karakışla; “Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda 1908 Grevleri”, Toplum ve Bilim, S. 78, Güz 1998, ss. 187-209. Cengiz Kırlı; “A Profile of the Labor Force in Early Nineteenth-Century Istanbul”, International Labor and Working-Class History, Vol. 60, Fall 2001, ss. 125-140.M. Erdem Kabadayı, “Working for the State in a Factory in Istanbul: The Role of Factory Worker’ Religious and Gender Characteristics in State-Subject Interaction in the Late Ottoman Empire”, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, München, 2008.Yusuf Doğan Çetinkaya; 1908 Osmanlı Boykotu-Bir Toplumsal Hareketin Analizi, İstanbul, İletişim Yayınları, 2004.Cevdet Kırpık; “Osmanlı Devleti’nde İşçiler ve İşçi Hareketleri (1876-1914)”, Yayınlanmamış Doktora Tezi, Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi SBE Tarih ABD, Isparta, 2004.Ahmet Makal; Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda Çalışma İlişkileri: 1850-1920, Ankara, İmge Kitabevi, 1997.Touraj Atabaki ve Gavin D. Brockett, “Ottoman and Republican Turkish Labour History: An Introduction”, International Review of Social History, Vol 54, 2009, ss. 1-17.Gülhan Balsoy; “Gendering Ottoman Labor History: The Cibali Régie Factory in the Early Twentieth Century”, International Review of Social History, Vol. 54, 2009, ss. 45-68.Sina Çıladır; Zonguldak Havzasında İşçi Hareketlerinin Tarihi (1848-1940), Ankara, Yeraltı Maden İş Yayınları, 1977. GÖRSELLERCibali Reji Fabrikasında Paravanla Ayrılan Erkek-Kadın İşçilerHüseyin Hilmi Bey'in İştirak Gazetesinin İlk Sayısıİzmir'de Halı İşçisi Çocuk ve KadınlarSamsun Reji Fabrikasında Tütün İşçileriSosyalist Fırkası İşçileri Yürüyüşte

with Nazan Maksudyanhosted by Chris GratienThis episode is part of a series on Women, Gender, and Sex in Ottoman historyDownload the seriesPodcast Feed | iTunes | SoundcloudMuch has been written about shifts in the concept of childhood and the structure of families, particularly for the period following industrialization. However, seldom do the voices and experiences of children find their way into historical narratives. In this podcast, Nazan Maksudyan offers some insights about how to approach the history of children and childhood and discusses the lives of Ottoman children during the empire's last decades. 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. (see academia.edu)Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. (see academia.edu)Episode No. 150Release date: 22 March 2014Location: Istanbul Kemerburgaz UniversityEditing and Production by Chris GratienBibliography and images courtesy of Nazan MaksudyanCitation: "The Lives of Ottoman Children," Nazan Maksudyan and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 150 (22 March 2014) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/03/children-childhood-ottoman-empire-turkey.html.SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHYNazan Maksudyan, Orphans and Destitute Children in Late Ottoman Empire (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014). Nazan Maksudyan, “Foster-Daughter or Servant, Charity or Abuse: Beslemes in the Late Ottoman Empire”, Journal of Historical Sociology, vol. 21, no. 4, December 2008, pp. 488-512.Yahya Araz, Osmanlı Toplumunda Çocuk Olmak (İstanbul: Kitap Yayınevi, 2013).Mine Göğüş Tan, Özlem Şahin, Mustafa Sever, Aksu Bora, Cumhuriyet'te Çocuktular (İstanbul: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi, 2007).François Georgeon, Klaus Kreiser (eds.), Childhood and Youth in the Muslim World (Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose, 2007).Elizabeth W. Fernea, ed., Children in the Muslim Middle East (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1996)._________, ed., Remembering Childhood in the Middle East: Memoirs from a Century of Change (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2003).Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2005).Carl Ipsen, Italy in the Age of Pinocchio: Children and Danger in the Liberal Era (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).Marjatta Rahikainen, Centuries of Child Labor: European Experiences from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century (Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2004).IMAGESNursery/Wet-nursing Ward (ırzahane) of Darülaceze in Ottoman IstanbulBand of Ottoman islahhane (reform home) in SalonikaSurgery patients at Hamidiye Children's Hospital in Istanbul, c1905

This podcast was recorded at the Refugee Studies Centre's first Wednesday Public Seminar of Hilary Term 2011. This podcast was recorded at the Refugee Studies Centre's first Wednesday Public Seminar of Hilary Term 2011, which was on Wednesday 19th January 2011 at Department of International Development, University of Oxford. Dr Dawn Chatty, spoke on the subject of Refugees, Exiles and other Forced Migrants in the late Ottoman Empire.