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Castration, Sexual Violence, and Feminist Politics in Post–Coup Attempt Turkey (Article)Title: Castration, Sexual Violence, and Feminist Politics in Post–Coup Attempt Turkey
Author: Zeynep Korkman
Abstract: Passage of a new castration law and its peculiar timing reveals not only the centrality of neoconservative gender politics to the AKP’s hegemony but also the centrality of the reiteration of the hegemonic relationship between power, masculinity, and violence to the reassertion of political rule.
Year: 2017
Primary URL:
http://jmews.dukejournals.org/content/13/1/181.fullPrimary URL Description: permalink
Secondary URL: doi:10.1215/15525864-3728822
Access Model: online open access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Publisher: Association for Middle East Women's Studies
Gendered Fortunes: Feelings, Labors, and Publics of Divination in Turkey (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Gendered Fortunes: Feelings, Labors, and Publics of Divination in Turkey
Abstract: Gender and sexual minorities seek their fortunes in divination as neoliberalization renders their economic futures ever more precarious and as neoconservative gender politics renders their intimate fortunes ever more bleak in millennial Turkey. Drawing upon media, archival, and ethnographic research on the flourishing economy of commercial fortunetelling, I analyze how and why women and LBGTIQ individuals earn a livelihood from and explore their gendered fates through divination. I demonstrate that fortunetellers are channeled through heteropatriarchal gender norms and limited employment chances into an informal divination economy, where they are criminalized by a secularist ban against fortunetelling and stigmatized by an Islamist condemnation of unorthodox religious practices. I conclude that fortunetellers foster public spaces for the articulation of otherwise marginalized feelings of their women and LGBTIQ clients, ironically, at the expense of the devaluation of the labors of these same underprivileged groups.
Author: Zeynep Korkman
Date: 04/18/2017
Location: University of California, Los Angeles, Gender Studies
Primary URL:
http://www.genderstudies.ucla.edu/event/zeynep-korkman-gendered-fortunes-feelings-labors-and-publics-divination-turkey-0Primary URL Description: lecture announcement, Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture
Afghanistan and the Ottomans: Sufis, Scholars, and Statemakers in Inter-Islamic Exchange (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Afghanistan and the Ottomans: Sufis, Scholars, and Statemakers in Inter-Islamic Exchange
Abstract: From Rumi to the republic, longstanding historical ties exist between the lands and countries today known as Afghanistan and Turkey. Focusing on the late Ottoman era, Professor Ahmed’s presentation shall discuss findings in Turkish, Afghan, and British Indian archives to illuminate the richness and complexity of connections between these countries from the Tanzimat period to their simultaneous struggles for independence after World War I.
Author: Faiz Ahmed
Date: 03/20/2017
Location: ARIT Istanbul center
Seachange: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Seachange: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean
Abstract: Sericulture, silk weaving, and textile trade were big business in the early modern Ottoman Empire. They touched every part of society, from pashas flaunting opulent kaftans to women reeling filament in the hinterlands to merchants trading in Iran, Jeddah, and beyond. This talk explores a shifting orientation in taste and trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as Ottoman subjects responded to the new global fashions by altering both their habits of consumption and modes of production.
Author: Amanda Phillips
Date: 03/19/2018
Location: ARIT Istanbul center
Primary URL:
https://www.cornucopia.net/events/seachange-ottoman-textiles-between-the-mediterranean-and-the-indian-oceanPrimary URL Description: Event announcement
The Rise and Fall of Prohibition in Modern Turkey: A history of Alcohol, Identity, Islam, and Public Health (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition in Modern Turkey: A history of Alcohol, Identity, Islam, and Public Health
Abstract: Despite religious proscriptions and practices, currents of alcohol never wholly ceased flowing into Ottoman or Republican Turkey. Until the nineteenth century, most Turks generally observed this prohibition—or secretly evaded it. During and since that time, however, drinking became culturally habituated among many sectors of the population, with the anise-flavored raki being recognized by most as the ‘national drink’ of Turkey. Influenced by global temperance movements, especially in America and Europe, traditional moral and progressive medical arguments in Turkey found a common cause in their opposition to alcohol that led to a legal ban in 1920. Fusing arguments of public health and piety, prohibitionist legislation passed by the narrowest of margins. The tenor of these debates included, however, particular references to fiscal insecurity, to the roles of ethno-religious minorities, and to foreign powers that ranged from cautious, to stridently nationalist, and to intolerant xenophobia. Simultaneously, the global currents both for and against prohibition played roles in shaping the arguments found in the Turkish debates. This presentation uses the 1920s Turkish prohibition to trace the roots of current policies and debates dealing with the place of alcohol in modern Turkey.
Author: Emine Evered
Date: 10/23/2017
Location: ARIT Istanbul center
Alcohol at Empire’s End: Prohibition Politics in Post-WWI Ottoman Empire (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Alcohol at Empire’s End: Prohibition Politics in Post-WWI Ottoman Empire
Author: Emine Evered
Abstract: The varied intersections of war and worldwide temperance activism in the early 20th century provide unique contexts for analysis at both national and international scales. Though categorized commonly as part of an “Islamic world”—and thus omitted from many would-be global histories of alcohol, the Ottoman Empire included many sites and situations meriting consideration. Though Ottoman leaders pronounced firm proscriptions during the war for its military, it often relied on religious and moral arguments when offering justification for prohibition. Following WWI, added rationale emerged from both state and society. Proposed, debated, and passed in 1920, the Turkish republic’s prohibition only lasted until 1924, when the costs of the experiment were more evident and once Kemalists consolidated their authority. By exploring this transitional period, we can discern that the ban was not just the product of an odd internal coalition between conservatives and socio-medical reformers; it shared profound connections to ongoing temperance narratives and activism observable at the global scale, particularly in the US.
Date: 11/16/2018
Primary URL:
https://mesana.org/mymesa/meeting_program_abs.php?pid=c14db7eff4a7ef7065dd911d92d7aba3Primary URL Description: conference paper abstract
Conference Name: 2018 Annual Meeting, Middle East Studies Association
Grab ‘Em by the Patriarchy (Article)Title: Grab ‘Em by the Patriarchy
Author: Salih Can Aciksoz
Author: Zeynep Korkman
Abstract: In an age marked by the global ascendency of right-wing populist politicians, from Donald Trump in the United States to Vladimir Putin in Russia to Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, we witness an over-visibility of masculinity as a a constitutive part of the political repertoire of the contemporary populist weave and its emergent critiques. This article sketches a comparative visual ethnography of the gender and sexual politics of our populist milieu.
Year: 2017
Primary URL:
https://doi.org/10.1111/AN.430Primary URL Description: access to journal article
Access Model: pay wall
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Anthropology News
Publisher: American Anthropological Association
The Greek Dramatic Festivals of Roman Asia Minor (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: The Greek Dramatic Festivals of Roman Asia Minor
Abstract: The Greek dramatic festivals are most strongly associated with fifth century BCE Athens, but in fact, they continued into the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and spread widely across the Eastern Mediterranean. In this talk, Dr. Skotheim tours the dramatic festivals of Asia Minor, bringing to life the human activity in and around the grand theater buildings of the Roman Era, and introducing the groups of people who participated in the festivals, from the benefactors who supported them, the actors and poets who traveled to compete, and the diverse spectators who gathered to watch.
Author: Mali Skotheim
Date: 03/18/2019
Location: ARIT Istanbul, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED)
Primary URL:
https://www.cornucopia.net/events/the-greek-dramatic-festivals-of-roman-asia-minor/Primary URL Description: publicity through the Cornucopia Magazine events web page
Secondary URL:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2698273730213579&id=149955911712053&__xts__[0]=68.ARC9IBG96kgDlxU7S0J3oK0m7RMGQjFlWzYNoklZ6Y_vDClbdt_ue-ujANkRCi1eVfwZ4ZPUc34L6k25mESYQL1mD_2aJTlDHn-9Qulrcl6KpDOfpOzreV_PInwhglLeaYg-uO1oPBfwtPv72ZjfM85S4nySecondary URL Description: Facebook post through the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul
A Diaspora in Cultural Crisis: Uyghurs in Turkey (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: A Diaspora in Cultural Crisis: Uyghurs in Turkey
Abstract: In recent years Turkey’s population of ethnic Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic group from China’s northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, has rapidly increased due to political turmoil in their home region. As the Uyghur community rebuilds their lives in Turkey, they are also seeking ways to preserve their unique culture, as it is under assault at home. This talk explores the political situation in China leading to challenges for Uyghurs in Turkey, and describes some initiatives undertaken by the community to preserve their culture amid these challenges.
Author: Rebecca A. Clothey
Date: 12/17/2018
Location: ARIT Istanbul, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), Beyoglu
Primary URL:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2517818424925778&id=149955911712053&__xts__[0]=68.ARAg_Z6558aoeKfVjoJ0gjI4zgqSJIRz2no_rdiB9zJiA0PJjupXOulXqk_asTJ_P-He1TeBCROX_dDg24JyVBTJRPe-BXjB5tdKPNGgSmmzHqR8jKGEpQI9tLl9wffHEoo9mxRchhWklsteLGbjVv4VAQOPrimary URL Description: Facebook post of event
Heritage Language Transmission: A Case Study of Vepsian, Hawaiian, and Uyghur (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Heritage Language Transmission: A Case Study of Vepsian, Hawaiian, and Uyghur
Abstract: This talk compared the threats and approaches of three different cultures that are struggling to maintain their languages.
Author: Rebecca A. Clothey
Date: 2/24/2019
Location: Uyghur Academy, Istanbul, Turkey
A Diaspora in Cultural Crisis: Non-formal Education and Ethnic Uyghur Migrants in Turkey (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: A Diaspora in Cultural Crisis: Non-formal Education and Ethnic Uyghur Migrants in Turkey
Author: Rebecca Clothey
Abstract: In recent years Turkey’s population of ethnic Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic group from China’s northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, has rapidly increased due to political turmoil in their home region. As the Uyghur community rebuilds their lives in Turkey, they are also seeking ways to preserve their unique culture, as it is under assault at home. This talk explores educational initiatives undertaken by the community to preserve their culture amid these challenges.
Date: 06/05/2019
Primary URL:
https://drexel.edu/soe/resources/event-series/gec/June-5-2019-event/Primary URL Description: event webcast
Secondary URL:
http://globalphiladelphia.org/events/drexel-university-diaspora-cultural-crisis-non-formal-education-and-ethnic-uyghur-migrants-tuSecondary URL Description: Global Philadelphia access
Conference Name: Global Education Colloquium, Drexel University
Human Rights and Xinjiang (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Human Rights and Xinjiang
Author: Rebecca Clothey
Abstract: Across and around China, many phenomena raise significant human rights concerns. In much of China, a more illiberal political climate under Xi Jinping, crackdowns on human rights lawyers and unauthorized religious groups, new limits on nongovernmental organizations, and an increasingly pervasive surveillance state. In Xinjiang, there are detention and internment of Uyghurs on a massive scale, and mounting state-created threats to ethnic and Muslim identity.
Date: 02/19/2019
Primary URL:
https://cscc.sas.upenn.edu/events/2019/02/19/human-rights-and-chinaPrimary URL Description: Panel presentation at the symposium sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Center for East Asian Studies, the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, Center for Asian Law, Perry World House, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
Secondary URL:
https://cscc.sas.upenn.edu/node/3521Secondary URL Description: Blog report on the event
Conference Name: Human Rights and China
Recent Publications on Archaeological Ceramic Analyses and their Contributions to the Study of Ancient Pottery Technology (Article)Title: Recent Publications on Archaeological Ceramic Analyses and their Contributions to the Study of Ancient Pottery Technology
Author: Ann Killebrew
Abstract: This is a review article on five new books that cover archeological ceramics analysis. Archaeologists invest much effort and resources in the classification of pottery assemblages. Questions remain open as to what ancient ceramics can reveal beyond typological, stylistic, and chronological considerations regarding the peoples and societies that produced, exchanged, and used the vessels. This new generation of pottery handbooks and comprehensive monographs crosses chronological, geographical, and disciplinary boundaries leading to a more profound understanding of the life cycles of pottery, the potters that produced it, and their societies.
Year: 2019
Primary URL:
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/728870Primary URL Description: Project Muse access
Secondary URL:
http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_JEMAHS.htmlSecondary URL Description: journal access
Access Model: paywall
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Iron Age Palaces in the Levant (Book Section)Title: Iron Age Palaces in the Levant
Author: Ann Killebrew
Editor: Silvia Prell
Editor: Manfred Bietak
Editor: Paolo Matthiae
Abstract: Dr. Killebrew compares the monumental palatial architecture that characterizes Bronze Age Near Eastern settlements with the smaller free-standing royal residences of the first millennium Levant
Year: 2019
Primary URL:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvh4zg0sPrimary URL Description: full text accessible
Access Model: paywall; print
Publisher: Harrassowitz
Book Title: Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Palaces. Volume II: Proceedings of a workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, 25-26 April 2016
ISBN: 3447111836
Festive Reflections of the Landscape (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Festive Reflections of the Landscape
Author: Mali Skotheim
Abstract: This international conference on landscape archaeology was held at the German Archaeological Institute in Istanbul. It aimed to bring together archaeologists and other professional researchers that are interested in landscape and landscape-based approaches, with a special focus on the Near East.
Dr. Skotheim presented a landscape approach to ancient festivals, focusing particularly on the festivals of Aphrodisias and the Demostheneia festival at Oinoanda. She argued that these festivals can be viewed as manipulating movement of goods and people through the landscape, and that
ephemeral products such as food, drink, vegetal decorations, and vegetal prizes may have evoked the seasonality and locality of the festivals.
Date: 03/25/2019
Primary URL:
https://snela2019.wordpress.com/venue-date/Primary URL Description: conference announcement
Conference Name: Society for Near Eastern Landscape Archaeology International Symposium
Theatrical Iconography on Anatolian Terracotta Lamps (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Theatrical Iconography on Anatolian Terracotta Lamps
Author: Mali Skotheim
Abstract: Dr. Skotheim examined the lamps of Knidos, which are decorated with theatrical imagery, particularly masks, along with vegetal motifs. These lamps were found in votive deposits at the sanctuary of Demeter at Knidos. They are part of a broader trend in many areas of the Mediterranean (in Sicily, Greece, and Asia Minor) in which terracotta lamps with theatrical imagery, as well as terracotta figurines of actors, were associated with
Demeter. She discussed the relationship of drama to the cult of Demeter which reflect the similarities between Demeter and Dionysus. Both were agricultural deities, with cult
celebrations at harvest-time, and both were associated with death and rebirth.
Date: 05/16/2019
Primary URL:
https://www.deu.edu.tr/file/2019/05/Abstracts-booklet-Lamp-symposium-Abridged.pdfPrimary URL Description: Conference program and abstracts of events held at Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey
Secondary URL:
https://www.fasticongressuum.com/single-post/2018/07/12/CALL-01012019-International-Symposium-Terracotta-lamps-in-Archaic-Classical-Hellenistic-Roman-and-Early-Byzantine-Anatolia-Production-use-typology-and-distribution---Izmir-TurkeySecondary URL Description: Conference notice
Conference Name: Terracotta lamps in Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine Anatolia: Production, use, typology and distribution
Global Dimensions of Temperance and Prohibition in 1920s Turkey (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Global Dimensions of Temperance and Prohibition in 1920s Turkey
Author: Emine Evered
Abstract: In September 1920, following months of contentious debate in the renegade parliament of what later became the Republic of Turkey (1923-), MPs approved a law that prohibited the production, sale, importation, and consumption of alcohol. This history provides not only a crucial foundation for grasping today’s anti-alcoholism and Islamism under PM Erdogan; it also must be understood as an episode integral to the global dynamics of temperance and prohibitionism that impacted many states of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Date: 01/04/2019
Primary URL:
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2019/webprogram/Paper25248.htmlPrimary URL Description: Conference paper abstract
Secondary URL:
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2019/webprogram/Session17763.htmlSecondary URL Description: Conference session program, Loyal to God, Loyal to Science: From Religious Temperance to Medicalized Anti-Alcoholism around the World, 1880–1950
Conference Name: American Historical Association 133rd Annual Meeting
Tavern as Site and Spectacle in late Ottoman Urban Life (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Tavern as Site and Spectacle in late Ottoman Urban Life
Abstract: In social histories of the Middle East, coffee and tea houses long constituted focal points in both artistic representation and scholarly research. These were not the only spaces of congregation and interaction, however, just as caffeinated beverages were not the only drinks on tap. Often located in the more cosmopolitan quarters of port cities, the tavern was also a vital site in the urban landscapes of Ottoman society. Featuring not only alcohol, many of these establishments also provided their patrons with food and with access to entertainment, recreation, and opportunities for fraternization with fellow citizens. The tavern served not only as a locus for social gathering and drinking but it also served the state and its officials as a target for levying taxes and rent seeking, policing the empire’s subjects and visitors, and enforcing regulation and/or prohibition. Dr. Evered's research draws on a broad range of primary sources to interrogate the place, purpose, and pertinence of the tavern in Ottoman cities. It also informs and serves as a corrective to ongoing narrative manipulations of the country’s diverse histories and traditions.
Author: Emine Evered
Date: 01/18/2019
Location: Michigan State University, Global Urban Studies Program
Primary URL:
https://gusp.msu.edu/_assets/pdfs/Tavern_as_Site_and_Spectacle_in_late_Ottoman_Urban_Life1.pdfPrimary URL Description: Lecture announcement and abstract
Secondary URL:
https://gusp.msu.edu/events/GUSP-Colloquium-01-18-2019.htmlSecondary URL Description: Event announcement
An Ottoman Tiraz? Sultan Bayezid's Silk at Studenica Monastery, Serbia (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: An Ottoman Tiraz? Sultan Bayezid's Silk at Studenica Monastery, Serbia
Abstract: The treasury of the Studenica Monastery in southern Serbia preserves the only known Ottoman textile attributed to the fourteenth century, a massive silk hanging woven for Sultan Bayezid I. It was donated to the monastery in the very early 1400s by Bayezid’s widow, Mileva Olivera Lazarevic (Despina Hatun). The textile’s two inscriptions—al-Sultan al-calim al-cadil and Sultan Bayezid Khan cazza nasruhu—suggest it was commissioned for the Sultan himself. This talk argues, however, that the manner in which the inscriptions relate to the textile as a whole is at odds with their ostensible message. Rather than a custom design, this silk was probably a rush-job from a workshop accustomed to making goods for a commercial market. This talk introduces the textile, which has received little scholarly attention to date, putting its main features in context of its production as well as discussing its place at Studenica. It also argues for the importance of looking beyond text and evaluating evidence found in objects themselves.
Author: Amanda Phillips
Date: 10/9/2019
Location: Orient-Institut Istanbul
Primary URL:
https://www.oiist.org/events/prof-amanda-phillips/Primary URL Description: Event announcement and abstract
The Localisation of the Global: Ottoman Silk Textiles and Markets (Book Section)Title: The Localisation of the Global: Ottoman Silk Textiles and Markets
Author: Amanda Phillips
Editor: Dagmar Schafer
Editor: Giorgio Riello
Editor: Luca Mola
Abstract: Dr. Phillips charts the rise of a new east-west node of silk manufacture, the Ottoman empire, stretching from Istanbul and Bursa to Damascus, Chios and the gates of Vienna. Phillips documents the rise and fall of luxury silk production within Ottoman territories. She emphasizes how the empire's legal apparatus interacted with textile types and markets, affecting both internal consumption and exports.
Year: 2018
Primary URL:
https://boydellandbrewer.com/threads-of-global-desire-hb.htmlPrimary URL Description: Publisher's presentation
Access Model: print
Publisher: Boydell and Brewer
Book Title: Threads of Global Desire: Silk in the Pre-Modern World
ISBN: 9781783272938
Intimate Publics of Divination (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Intimate Publics of Divination
Author: Zeynep Korkman
Abstract: This paper analyzes gendered practices of divination in Turkey as a subaltern vernacular for those disadvantaged along the multiple axes of hetero-patriachal hierarchies and as a medium of navigating gendered and sexualized marginalization. Intimate publics formed around divination offer a safer venue for women and queer folk to explore their desires in context of a disciplining and moralizing public sphere colored by a reinvented gender traditionalism and masculinist violence.
Date: 11/15/2019
Primary URL:
https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/nwsa/nwsa19/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Session&selected_session_id=1540504&PHPSESSID=3bgpcjjrkaumr3klkhgfhphi81Primary URL Description: Schedule for session, Intimate Publics and Gender Politics in the Transnational Middle East
Secondary URL:
https://www.nwsa.org/Secondary URL Description: Conference webpage, National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference 2019
Conference Name: Protest, Justice, and Transnational Organizing
The End of the Bronze Age 1200 BCE: The Archaeology of Migration, Societal Collapse, and the Emergence of the Biblical World (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: The End of the Bronze Age 1200 BCE: The Archaeology of Migration, Societal Collapse, and the Emergence of the Biblical World
Abstract: Dr. Killebrew drew on her experience excavating and conducting research at sites in Egypt, Turkey and the Levant to portray the end of the Bronze Age in the region. An expert in both the Bronze and Iron Ages, she discussed the archaeological evidence for the Golden Age (Homer's Iliad) and its collapse around 1200 BCE (Homer's Odyssey and biblical exodus). What caused this crisis: climate change, migrations, social conflicts? Why did some groups survive: Philistines, Phoenicians, and early Israel?
Author: Ann E. Killebrew
Date: 4/2/2019
Location: Collins Institute for Archaeological Research, Gannon University
Primary URL:
https://www.gannon.edu/shareworthydetail.aspx?id=670Primary URL Description: Announcement of the Annual Lecture of the Collins Institute for Archaeological Research, 2019
Between Promotions and Prohibitions: the Shifting Symbolisms and Spaces of Beer in Modern Turkey (Book Section)Title: Between Promotions and Prohibitions: the Shifting Symbolisms and Spaces of Beer in Modern Turkey
Author: Kyle Evered
Author: Emine Evered
Editor: Waltraud Ernst
Abstract: To be “a real country”, Frank Zappa wrote, “at the very least you need a beer.” In the context of Turkey, however, the place of beer has often been contested. Since before the republic’s 1923 establishment, Turkish national identity enjoyed a strong association with the equally strong anise-flavoured spirit rakı. Meanwhile, Islamic conservatives like President Erdoğan point to non-alcoholic yogurt-based ayran as their alternative. While such debates attract a great deal of attention in discussion of the country’s secular–religious divide, in practice, beer long rivalled – and often far surpassed – rakı in its scales of production, profits, consumption, availability, and even politicisation. Though beer originated in Ancient times in the greater Fertile Crescent region, it was reintroduced to Anatolia as a European beverage linked with modern brewery production and the Bomonti brothers in the late Ottoman era. It survived the empire’s fall and a short-lived prohibition of alcohol in the early 1920s to become a prized concern for Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s national republic, which consolidated its production under the state monopoly TEKEL. Profiting from its consumption, the state paradoxically promoted beer while it encouraged moderation. Following beer’s history through subsequent developments brought about with rising neoliberalism and political Islam, beer became a major symbol of resistance in the 1913 Gezi Park protests and since amid ongoing Islamist and public health pressures to further regulate – or prohibit – alcohol in modern Turkey.
Year: 2020
Primary URL:
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203732038Primary URL Description: Publisher access to volume
Access Model: ebook
Publisher: Routledge
Book Title: Alcohol Flows Across Cultures Drinking Cultures in Transnational and Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9780203732038
The Greek Dramatic Festivals in Roman Asia Minor (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: The Greek Dramatic Festivals in Roman Asia Minor
Abstract: Greek drama originated at the Dionysia in Athens in the late 6th century BCE, but spread widely across the Greek-speaking world during the 4th century BCE. In the 3rd century BCE, new associations of musicians, poets, and actors, the Technitai of Dionysus, formed, and quickly became a powerful force at the festivals, negotiating with cities and rulers in the interests of their members. Performers, benefactors, spectators, and the buyers and sellers who crowded festival markets all had something to gain from their participation in these cultural events. This talk concerns the history of the Greek dramatic festivals in Roman Asia Minor, from the second century BCE through the collapse of the festivals in Late Antiquity, exploring the long-lived vitality of the festivals in Asia Minor, the unique evidence that comes from this region, and the social, economic, and political forces which shaped the institutions which supported the performance of drama for so many hundreds of years.
Author: Mali Skotheim
Date: 4/14/2019
Location: Bilkent University, Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas
Primary URL:
http://ibef.bilkent.edu.tr/2019/04/10/the-greek-dramatic-festivals-in-roman-asia-minordr-mali-skotheim-neh-fellow-american-research-institute-in-turkey/Primary URL Description: Event announcement, Bilkent University, Ankara
Meddling with Medals, Defending the Dead: Late Ottoman Soft Power from South Asia to North America (Article)Title: Meddling with Medals, Defending the Dead: Late Ottoman Soft Power from South Asia to North America
Author: Faiz Ahmed
Abstract: Before the Ottoman and British empires clashed on the battlefields of World War I, imperial rivalries between Istanbul and London often took more subtle forms. In the diplomatic realm, late Ottoman-British tussles were not limited to disputes over Ottoman territories and populations, but extended to Ottoman interventions in British domains as well. Utilizing archival and museum collections from Istanbul, New Delhi,New England, and Ottawa, this article contributes to a growing literature on late Ottoman extraterritoriality by probing Istanbul’s diplomatic and consular activities within two very different and distant British territories: India and Canada. First, the study examines discord between Istanbul and London over a seemingly innocuous yet increasingly sensitive issue: the Ottoman sultan-caliph’s conferral of honorary medals upon Indian Muslim notables. Second, the article pivots to the western hemisphere to explore Ottoman consular interventions surrounding the estates of Ottoman subjects who died in Canada. By considering examples of Ottoman‘soft power’ in two far-flung regions of the world, the study contests one-dimensional narratives of extraterritoriality that fixate on European interventions in the Ottoman domains, or frame the Ottomans as passive spectators resigned to Western superiority in the Middle East, eastern Mediterranean, or other conventional geographies associated with Ottoman history.
Year: 2020
Primary URL:
https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2020.1731567Primary URL Description: The International History Review access
Access Model: open access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: The International History Review
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
In Search of the Philistines and Other "Sea Peoples" (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: In Search of the Philistines and Other "Sea Peoples"
Abstract: The search for the Philistines, best known as one of ancient Israel’s most storied enemies, has long intrigued both scholars and the public. Recent archaeological and textual evidence, examined in its broader eastern Mediterranean context, reveals that the Philistines, together with other related groups of “Sea Peoples” best known from Egyptian New Kingdom texts, played a transformative role in the development of new ethnic groups and polities that emerged from the ruins of the Late Bronze Age empires. This lecture reassesses the origins, identity, material culture, and the impact of the Philistines and other “Sea Peoples” on the Iron Age cultures and peoples of the eastern Mediterranean.
Author: Ann E. Killebrew
Date: 10/24/2019
Location: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Primary URL:
https://calendar.utk.edu/event/aia_kershaw_lecture_in_search_of_the_philistines_and_other_sea_peoples#.YIV_PKEpDVgPrimary URL Description: calendar notice for Endowed Kershaw Lecture
Secondary URL:
https://www.archaeological.org/lecturer/ann-e-killebrew/Secondary URL Description: Archaeological Institute Lecturer biography
Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean (Book)Title: Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean
Author: Amanda Phillips
Abstract: Textiles were the second-most-traded commodity in all of world history, preceded only by grain. In the Ottoman Empire in particular, the sale and exchange of silks, cottons, and woolens generated an immense amount of revenue and touched every level of society, from rural women tending silkworms to pashas flaunting layers of watered camlet to merchants traveling to Mecca and beyond. Sea Change offers the first comprehensive history of the Ottoman textile sector, arguing that the trade's enduring success resulted from its openness to expertise and objects from far-flung locations. Amanda Phillips skillfully marries art history with social and economic history, integrating formal analysis of various textiles into wider discussions of how trade, technology, and migration impacted the production and consumption of textiles in the Mediterranean from around 1400 to 1800. Surveying a vast network of textile topographies that stretched from India to Italy and from Egypt to Iran, Sea Change illuminates often neglected aspects of material culture, showcasing the objects' ability to tell new kinds of stories.
Year: 2021
Primary URL:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520303591/sea-changePrimary URL Description: publisher's notice
Access Model: print
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780520303591
Satyr Drama in the Late Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Periods: An Epigraphical Perspective (Book Section)Title: Satyr Drama in the Late Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Periods: An Epigraphical Perspective
Author: Mali Skotheim
Editor: George W. M. Harrison
Editor: Andreas Antonopoulos
Editor: Menolaos Christopoulos
Abstract: From Marseille to the cities of Asia Minor, spectators enjoyed performances of Greek drama throughout the Hellenistic period, and well into the Roman imperial era. Although the scripts of satyr drama of the late Hellenistic and Roman era do not survive, even in fragments, there is material evidence for the genre, for which the most crucial source is epigraphical. Evidence for satyr drama performances is gathered and analyzed in the article.
Year: 2022
Primary URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110725230-034/htmlPrimary URL Description: Publisher's link to the book chapter.
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Publisher: DeGruyter
Book Title: Reconstructing Satyr Drama
ISBN: 9783110725216
Anti-alcoholism, Turkish and American non-state actors, and their mutual pursuits of national and global sobriety (Article)Title: Anti-alcoholism, Turkish and American non-state actors, and their mutual pursuits of national and global sobriety
Author: Emine Evered
Abstract: In April 1920, few months after America’s implementation of Prohibition, several MPs of Turkey’s renegade Grand National Assembly in Ankara proposed a ban on the production, sale, import, and consumption of alcohol. Some MPs questioned the need to prohibit what Islam already forbade centuries earlier, but others stressed the medical, social, and moral imperatives for an injunction. After many contentious debates, the bill passed and remained law until 1924. Through analysis of American, Ottoman, and Turkish documents regarding both NSAs’ origins and various leading figures’ agendas, this study reveals the emergence of these relations while also identifying the plurality of agendas at play that exceeded simply mandating sobriety in lands of Ottoman and early republican Turkey.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2021.2007084
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Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Middle East Studies
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Uyghur students in higher education in the USA: trauma and adaptation challenges (Article)Title: Uyghur students in higher education in the USA: trauma and adaptation challenges
Author: Rebecca Clothey
Abstract: As the U.S. higher education student population continues to change and grow, universities need to be prepared to provide adequate support for their unique needs. Yet research has not kept pace with the growth, or the variety of international student experiences. Additionally, research on at-risk migrant and refugee students in higher education institutes (HEIs) has focused primarily on their access and barriers to it, and not on their experience after they enroll. Understanding these challenges is imperative for personnel working in American HEIs in order to provide a high-quality student experience and retain their international student population. This paper addresses these gaps by exploring the unique challenges of one specific refugee and asylum-seeking community in higher education in the United States, Uyghur university students from mainland China. The challenges these students face are identified through a qualitative study including Uyghur students in HEIs based throughout the United States. The paper shows that this student population faces some unique challenges impacting their university experience, and that higher education personnel tend to have a limited understanding of their needs, making it difficult to serve them adequately.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: DOI: 10.1080/15595692.2021.1929155
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Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Don’t lose your moustache: community and cultural identity on the Uyghur internet in China (Article)Title: Don’t lose your moustache: community and cultural identity on the Uyghur internet in China
Author: Rebecca Clothey
Abstract: This article reports on data collected from the online community forums of four Uyghur language websites between 2014–2016. These posts are representative of a moment in time in which the Uyghur cultural identity was being threatened by increasingly restrictive Chinese government policies. Concept coding was applied to online discussion posts and comments, through which we identified common ideas and ‘concepts’ from the emergent themes. Findings demonstrate how these Uyghur language websites served as a platform for an online community to negotiate their cultural identity and strengthen community ties. Uyghur individuals posted materials that built cultural knowledge, reinforced cultural pride, and encouraged community cultural support.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2021.1964783
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Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Meddling with Medals, Defending the Dead: Late Ottoman Soft Power from South Asia to North America (Article)Title: Meddling with Medals, Defending the Dead: Late Ottoman Soft Power from South Asia to North America
Author: Faiz Ahmed
Abstract: Before the Ottoman and British empires clashed on the battlefields of World War I, imperial rivalries between Istanbul and London often took more subtle forms. In the diplomatic realm, late Ottoman-British tussles were not limited to disputes over Ottoman territories and populations but extended to Ottoman interventions in British domains as well. Utilizing archival and museum collections from Istanbul, New Delhi, New England, and Ottawa, this article contributes to a growing literature on late Ottoman extraterritoriality by probing Istanbul’s diplomatic and consular activities within two very different and distant British territories: India and Canada.
Year: 2021
Primary URL:
https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2020.1731567Primary URL Description: publisher's online access
Access Model: online
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: International History Review
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
The Studenica Silk (ca. 1400): Object and Interpretation (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: The Studenica Silk (ca. 1400): Object and Interpretation
Abstract: Among the treasures in the monastery of Studenica in Serbia is a large silk hanging, woven for the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I (r. 1389-1402). It is the earliest known Ottoman textile and is among the earliest works of Ottoman art of any sort. Although it is very well reserved, its initial production remains mysterious, as do its trajectories in the fifteenth century and later. This talk combines an overview of the silk's historical
context with a discussion of technology and material and makes a brief foray into its later life in Studenica and elsewhere.
Author: Amanda Phillips
Date: 03/29/2023
Location: ARIT Istanbul, online and in person
Primary URL:
https://aritweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Amanda-Phillips-AISEES-ARIT.pdfPrimary URL Description: event announcement
Education and the Politics of Cultural Survival for Uyghur Immigrants in Turkey (Article)Title: Education and the Politics of Cultural Survival for Uyghur Immigrants in Turkey
Author: Rebecca Clothey
Abstract: This paper explores the challenges of language and cultural maintenance through education among one immigrant ethnic group, the Uyghurs within Turkey, where the Uyghur population has grown in recent years. Uyghurs are a Turkic-speaking Muslim ethnic minority group of some 10 million people within China, originating from China’s northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Data for the paper are based on ethnographic research conducted in Istanbul, where the Uyghur population in Turkey is the largest. The paper illustrates how the local and global environment impact how culture is constructed, and that identity construction and language maintenance projects are not ideologically neutral. It contributes to the understudied link between language, ethnicity, politics, and education by exploring the ways in which the Uyghur community in Istanbul uses non-formal education to maintain and transmit their language and cultural traditions in their host environment.
Year: 2022
Primary URL:
https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2022.2045202Primary URL Description: publisher's access link
Access Model: online, paywall
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of Language, Identity, and Education
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Online
The Puppet and the Puppet-Master in Ancient Greece: Fragments of an Art Form (Article)Title: The Puppet and the Puppet-Master in Ancient Greece: Fragments of an Art Form
Author: Mali Skotheim
Abstract: Drawing on literary, epigraphical, and archaeological material, this article addresses the interrelation of the performance context, physical form, and aesthetic of ancient Greek puppetry. Puppeteers performed in a variety of contexts, which included processions and public theaters. During religious festivals, they were hired to supplement competitions in drama and music. I classify ancient Greek puppetry into two main types: the phallic puppets used in religious processions in the Eastern Mediterranean, and small-scale puppetry, which was performed in theaters and possibly also in private contexts. I contend that puppetry was not universally considered an insignificant art but was, rather, an important part of the performance culture of the ancient Mediterranean world. The inclusion of puppetry in religious festivals suggests a positive relationship with this art; reactions to puppetry, from laughter to thauma (wonder), align with the aims of the festivals which hosted such performances.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: doi:10.16995/olh.6568
Primary URL Description: publisher's access to article
Access Model: online, open access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Open Library of Humanities
Publisher: Elsevier
Crafts and Everyday Consumption (Book Section)Title: Crafts and Everyday Consumption
Author: Amanda Phillips
Editor: Cigdem Kafescioglu
Editor: Shirine Hamadeh
Abstract: The story of daily life in Istanbul may be told, in part, by objects. This chapter takes as its main themes the circulation and consumption of arts and crafts, the spread of styles, and notions of decorum and hierarchy as expressed in everyday household goods in the early modern city between about 1550 and 1750. The first section discusses some of the city’s markets, the main avenues by which art, objects, and commodities moved between artisan and household, and between households. The second section provides a brief survey of Ottoman writing about crafts and craftspeople, and about objects. Sources reveal abiding preoccupations: abundance, quality, and suitability. These notions influenced discussions of objects, and on attitudes toward their makers, buyers, and sellers. The third and last section looks at domestic goods and makes some preliminary suggestions about how confession might interact with crafts and, in one case, with the art found in the city’s residences.
Year: 2021
Primary URL:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468566_016Primary URL Description: permalink to book chapter
Access Model: print and online, paywall
Publisher: Brill
Book Title: A Companion to Early Modern Istanbul
ISBN: 9789004468566
Uyghur Identity and Culture: A Global Diaspora in a Time of Crisis (Book)Title: Uyghur Identity and Culture: A Global Diaspora in a Time of Crisis
Editor: Rebecca Clothey
Editor: Dilmurat Mahmut
Abstract: The collection examines how and why the Uyghur diaspora, dispersed from their homeland to communities across Australia, Central Asia, Europe, Japan, Türkiye, and North America, now has the responsibility to preserve their language and cultural traditions so that these can be shared with future generations. The book critically investigates the government censorship of Uyghur literatures and Western media coverage of the Uyghurs, while centralizing real reflections of those who grew up in the Uyghur homeland. It considers the geographical and psychological pressures that the Uyghur diaspora endure and highlights the resilience and creativity of their relentless battle against cultural erosion.
Year: 2024
Primary URL:
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003305576Primary URL Description: Publisher's presentation
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Publisher: Routledge
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9781003305576
A Transnational Perspective on Uyghur Cultural Maintenance and Preservation (Book Section)Title: A Transnational Perspective on Uyghur Cultural Maintenance and Preservation
Author: Rebecca Clothey
Author: Sean Roberts
Editor: Rebecca Clothey
Editor: Dilmurat Mahmut
Abstract: This chapter provides an overview of critical issues for the Uyghur diaspora community involved in activities that promote the preservation, maintenance, and practice of Uyghur culture, with recommendations for addressing them. The findings are based on interviews with numerous Uyghur exiles in Central Asia, Europe, and the United States. This included teachers and directors of schools, literary figures, musicians and dancers, publishers, archivists, academics, advocacy organizations, and owners of cultural businesses. Among the findings are that the Uyghur community in diaspora prioritizes Uyghur language preservation as an important means for maintaining Uyghur culture. Additionally, Uyghur cultural preservation initiatives have been implemented by the community in all countries where the Uyghur diaspora resides. However, these initiatives vary depending upon the country context, and in most cases, they are not coordinated efforts. Furthermore, almost all initiatives are produced through volunteers who may or may not have corresponding expertise in the area, which lack a sustained (or any) physical space, and which have very limited financial resources. An exception is in Kazakhstan where state funding is available for such initiatives.
Year: 2024
Primary URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003305576-7/transnational-perspective-uyghur-cultural-maintenance-preservation-sean-roberts-rebecca-clothey?context=ubx&refId=7edfbf08-4dd2-42f1-b356-1ddc70c3b7b3Primary URL Description: Publisher's book access page
Secondary URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003305576/uyghur-identity-culture-rebecca-clothey-dilmurat-mahmutSecondary URL Description: Publisher's book presentation
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Publisher: Routledge
Book Title: Uyghur Identity and Culture A Global Diaspora in a Time of Crisis
ISBN: 9781003305576
The Bay of İskenderun Landscape Archaeology and Survey Project: Dutlu Tarla and Dağılbaz Höyük—Three Millennia of Settlement in the İskenderun Plain (Book Section)Title: The Bay of İskenderun Landscape Archaeology and Survey Project: Dutlu Tarla and Dağılbaz Höyük—Three Millennia of Settlement in the İskenderun Plain
Author: Ann Killebrew
Author: B. R. Olson
Author: G. Lehman
Editor: et al.
Editor: E. Kozal
Editor: M. Akar
Abstract: Between 2004 and 2009 the Bay of İskenderun Landscape Archaeology and Survey Project conducted six seasons of survey, focusing on the Issos, İskenderun, and Arsuz Plains. In the course of our work, 200 archaeological sites were documented in this previously under-explored region of Cilicia. Our surveys revealed that two neighboring sites, Dutlu Tarla and Dağılbaz Höyük, served as the principal settlements in the İskenderun Plain during most of the Bronze and Iron Ages. Considered together, they dominated the human landscape of this region for nearly three millennia. In our contribution in honor of Marie-Henriette and Charles Gates, we present the results of our investigation at these two sister sites and their role in the İskenderun Plain. We also critique the various approaches we employed during the course of our investigations at these sites, which included both extensive and intensive survey methodologies.
Year: 2017
Primary URL:
https://www.academia.edu/43738436/The_Bay_of_Iskenderun_Landscape_Archaeology_and_Survey_Project_Dutlu_Tarla_and_Dagilbaz_Hoyuk_Three_Millennia_of_Settlement_in_the_Iskenderun_Plain_By_Ann_E_Killebrew_Brandon_R_Olson_and_Gunnar_Lehmann_2017Primary URL Description: Academia link to author's .pdf of book section
Secondary URL:
https://ugarit-verlag.com/en/products/questions-approaches-and-dialogues-in-eastern-mediterranean-archaeology-studies-in-honor-of-marie-henriette-and-charles-gatesSecondary URL Description: Publisher's presentation of edited book
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Publisher: Ugarit-Verlag
Book Title: Questions, Approaches, and Dialogues in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology: Studies in Honor of Marie-Henriette and Charles Gates
ISBN: 9783868352511
Hadrian and the Dramatic Festivals of Achaea (Book Section)Title: Hadrian and the Dramatic Festivals of Achaea
Author: Mali Skotheim
Editor: Anna Kouremenos
Abstract: This chapter focuses on Hadrian’s involvement with the Greek festivals, particularly those of Athens, and considers what impact this involvement may have had on the dramatic festivals of Achaea more widely. Hadrian’s interventions in the Greek festival network were extensive: he founded new contests, corresponded with the Technitai of Dionysus, and reorganized the Greek festival calendar, synchronizing Greek and Roman time and relating local events to a pan-Mediterranean schedule. Most significantly, he manipulated the circuit of panhellenic festivals in order to center the network on Athens, in line with his larger program of public munificence there. He concentrated the number of periodos festivals in Athens by upgrading one contest (the Greater Panathenaia) and founding three new ones (the Panhellenia, Olympia, and Hadrianeia). No other city in the Empire, not even Rome, had multiple games on the periodos. This brought competitors through Athens on a yearly basis. This Athenocentrism was both classicizing and anachronistic, referencing the perceived importance of Athens in the history of drama, while at the same time creating a place of prominence for the Athenian festivals in the wider Greek world that they had never before held. Additionally, a survey of the dramatic festivals of Boeotia in the 2nd century suggests that on a more local level, the festivals of cities with strong Roman connections, such as Thespiae, fared relatively well due to investment by elite benefactors who sought to represent themselves as the upholders of past custom while forging political relationships within the contemporary frame of Roman Greece.
Year: 2022
Primary URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003178828-5/hadrian-dramatic-festivals-achaea-mali-skotheimPrimary URL Description: Publisher's link to book section
Secondary URL:
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003178828Secondary URL Description: Publisher's link to edited book
Access Model: Publication
Publisher: Routledge
Book Title: The Province of Achaea in the 2nd Century CE: The Past Present
ISBN: 9781003178828
Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity (Book)Title: Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity
Author: Emine Evered
Abstract: Prohibition in Turkey investigates the history of alcohol, its consumption, and its proscription as a means to better understand events and agendas of the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras. Through a comprehensive examination of archival, literary, popular culture, media, and other sources, it unveils a traditionally overlooked--and even excluded--aspect of human history in a region that many do not associate with intoxicants, inebriation, addiction, and vigorous wet-dry debates.
Historian Emine Evered's account uniquely chronicles how the Turko-Islamic Ottoman Empire developed strategies for managing its heterogeneous communities and their varied rights to produce, market, and consume alcohol, or to simply abstain. The first author to reveal this experience's connections with American Prohibition, she demonstrates how--amid modernization, sectarianism, and imperial decline--drinking practices reflected, shifted, and even prompted many of the changes that were underway and that hastened the empire's collapse. Ultimately, Evered's book reveals how Turkey's alcohol question never went away but repeatedly returns in the present, in matters of popular memory, public space, and political contestation.
Year: 2024
Primary URL:
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477330319/prohibition-in-turkey/Primary URL Description: Publisher's presentation
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Publisher: University of Texas Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781477330319
Designers, Patrons, and Patterns: Ottoman Silks in the Collection (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Designers, Patrons, and Patterns: Ottoman Silks in the Collection
Abstract: Ottoman silks from the Metropolitan’s collection comprise a diverse group, ranging from velvet upholstery to cloth-of-silver used in robes-of-honor to brocades meant for liturgical use. Many partake of styles that were initiated by palace workshops, while others were made under the supervision of bureaucrats who monitored the use of precious metal and silk thread. In all cases, though, their formats, motifs, and even palettes were planned well in advance. This talk focuses on how Ottoman designers mastered the repeating systems of the loom, which allowed weavers to render the bold repeating patterns of tulips, peacock feathers, carnations, rosebuds, and medallions that characterize the Empire’s fabrics.
Author: Amanda Phillips
Date: 10/24/2022
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Primary URL:
https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/collection-areas/islamic-art/islamic-art-in-solitude-lectures?v=designers-patrons-and-patterns-ottoman-silks-in-the-collection-by-amanda-phillipsPrimary URL Description: Link to event
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https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/collection-areas/islamic-art/islamic-art-in-solitude-lectures?v=designers-patrons-and-patterns-ottoman-silks-in-the-collection-by-amanda-phillipsSecondary URL Description: Link to recording of lecture
Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey (Book)Title: Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey
Author: Zeynep Korkman
Abstract: In Gendered Fortunes, Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey’s commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigate the precarities of twenty-first-century life. Criminalized by long-standing secularist laws and disdained by contemporary Islamist government, fortunetelling cafés proliferate in part because they offer shelter from the conservative secularist, Islamist, neoliberal, and gender pressures of the public sphere. Korkman shows how fortunetelling is a form of affective labor through which its participants build intimate feminized publics in which they share and address their hopes and fears. Korkman uses feeling—which is how her interlocutors describe the divination process—as an analytic to view the shifting landscape of gendered vulnerability in Turkey. In so doing, Korkman foregrounds “feeling” as a feminist lens to explore how those who are pushed to the margins feel their way through oppressive landscapes to create new futures.
Year: 2023
Primary URL:
https://www.dukeupress.edu/gendered-fortunesPrimary URL Description: Publisher's presentation of book
Access Model: open access via OAPEN
Publisher: Duke University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781478016908
Copy sent to NEH?: No