Foreigners are often regarded as representatives, symbols, and extensions of the states they owe their natural-born allegiances to. It follows that their home state’s competitiveness in host lands has the effect of magnifying or diminishing the associated individual or group’s visibility. Starting from this premise, this paper evaluates the visibility(ies) of foreigners in late-Ottoman Istanbul […]

Antoine Köpe, 1. Dünya Savaşı’nda Avusturya-Macaristan ordusunun askeri olarak İstanbul’da ve daha sonra da Filistin’de savaşa tanık oldu. 1945’te on büyük cilt tutan ve hala yayınlanmamış olan anılarını yazdı. Anılar Selanik’te başlayarak, okuyucuyu II. Meşrutiyet Döneminden ve Balkan Savaşlarından geçirerek I. Dünya Savaşı’nın İstanbul’daki başlangıcına taşıyorlar.Antoine burada savaşın nasıl başladığına tanık oluyor ve işgal kuvvetlerinin […]

Using Early Modern Ottoman fictional prose stories, this talk centers on stories set in the home and proposes to rethink home as a gendered space by looking at women’s (and men’s) performances there. The question of “Where to hide one’s lover?” introduces women’s strategies to claim home as their own space —mainly by its regulation […]