Category: Podcast
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Dr. Carole Woodall: “Constan Town” Jazz: A guide to 1920s Beyoğlu
Lecture at the Orient-Institut Istanbul, November 10, 2014 G. Carole Woodall is an assistant professor of Modern Middle East history in the Departments of History and Women’s and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Currently, she is working on her forthcoming book titled The Decadent Modern: Cocaine, Jazz, and the Charleston in 1920s…
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Dr. Andrew Peacock: From Wild West to Islambol: The mediaeval transformation of Anatolia
Lecture at the Orient-Institut Istanbul, September 11, 2014 For at least a hundred years after the Turkish conquests in the 11th century, Anatolia was a remote frontier of the Muslim world, lacking most of the attributes of Islamic civilisation – mosques, madrasa, scholars and the accoutrements of urban Muslim life. In this sense it is…
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Prof. Cemal Kafadar: “Vampire trouble is more serious than the mighty plague”: A comparative look at the history of evil and mischief, inspired by Evliya Celebi
Lecture at the Orient-Institut Istanbul, January 9, 2014 A graduate of Istanbul’s Robert College Cemal Kafadar earned his PhD from McGill University’s Institute of Islamic Studies in 1987. After teaching for two years at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, Prof. Kafadar has been teaching at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern…