138. Medicine and Ethnography
Medicine is not merely a practice that takes place in hospitals, clinics, and laboratories. It also involves the movement and operation of medical practitioners in different social spaces. In this episode, Anat Mooreville discusses traveling doctors in Israel/Palestine and their role not only in combating trachoma (a severe eye disease that causes
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Wandering Doctors in Israel/Palestine | Anat Mooreville
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History on the Internet | Chris Gratien
139. End of Year 2013
In our final episode of our biggest year yet, we explain the importance of independent, open-access internet projects and answer the questions of CUNY-City College students about the podcast.
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Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University studying the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and modern Middle East
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Darwin in Arabic | Marwa Elshakry
COMING SOON ON OTTOMAN HISTORY PODCAST
10 January 2014
140. Translating Knowledge
Historians have begun to explore the paradox of the identification of a would-be universal form of rational knowledge known as science with the particular historical experience of Europe. This begs the question: how have new forms of scientific knowledge been translated, received, assimilated, and
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Race, Slavery, and Islamic Law in the Early Modern Atlantic | Chris Gratien
141. Ahmad Baba of Timbuktu
Notions of racial difference played an important role in the Atlantic slave trade and have left a long legacy well after the slave trade was abolished during the nineteenth century. Yet centuries earlier, an Islamic scholar from Timbuktu had formulated an argument against the enslavement of individuals based on race or skin color. In this episode, Chris
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A History of Police Reform in Turkey | Leila Piran
142. Human Rights in Turkey
As part of its EU accession candidacy, a number of reforms related to "democratization" have been applied to Turkey's legal and administrative apparatuses. One such reform regarded the conduct and practices of police and law enforcement. In this episode, Leila Piran discusses her research on the impacts of this process involving interviews with law
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The Ottoman Scramble for Africa | Mostafa Minawi
143. Imperial Underdogs
The Ottoman Empire occupies an unusual place among the competing imperial powers of the nineteenth century. On one hand, a weak military position often forced the Ottomans to accept unfavorable economic and political arrangements while playing other empires off each other to maintain autonomy. On the other, we find expansion of state institutions
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Galata and the Capitulations | Fariba Zarinebaf
144. Commercial Law in the Ottoman Empire
The capitulations, a series of bilateral agreements with European states and merchants, are sometimes held up as symbols of early Ottoman concessions to European powers and the beginnings of Ottoman economic decline. This misreading, which is in part the product of a misinterpretation of the word "capitulation" itself, impedes a
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Bathing in the Bosphorus | Burkay Pasin
145. Public Space in Ottoman Istanbul
The public bath or hamam was fixture of most Ottoman towns. When interest in seaside summer spaces grew during the nineteenth century, this urban space was adapted to an aquatic one in the form of sea baths that littered the Bosphorus and appeared in some other coastal cities of the Ottoman Empire. In this episode, Burkay Pasin offers an overview
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Ottoman Poland | Michael Polczynski & Paulina Dominik
146. Ottoman Poland
Poland is not always remembered among the great imperial rivals of the Ottoman Empire such as Safavid Iran, the Habsburgs, and Muscovy within discussions of early modern European history. Yet, the longstanding and continuous interactions between the Polish and Ottoman worlds comprise an important component of the story of the European state system and its
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Muslims in the Middle Kingdom | Kelly Hammond
147. China's Muslim Communities
China is home to one of the world's largest Muslim populations, and the history of Islam in China is almost as old as the religion itself. In this episode, Kelly Hammond offers an overview of the history of Muslims in China, their links to the greater Muslim world, and their experience during the Japanese occupation of the World War II era.
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Beyond Heterodoxy: Kizilbash/Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia | Ayfer Karakaya-Stump
148. Kizilbash
The history of Anatolia's Alevi or Kizilbash community has long been written by outsiders who have variously portrayed them as mysterious, heretical, heterodox, or uncivilized. Alevism has been often juxtaposed with the high religion would-be orthodox Sunni practice. This historical understanding of Alevis has continued to influence the way these communities are
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Common Ground and Imagined Communities | Daniel Pontillo
149. The Nation as Conversation
The study of discourse already occupies a prominent place within the humanities, but what can the study of a much differently defined discourse in the study of language offer to fields such as history? In this episode, we attempt to bridge the gap between language and cognitive science and the field of history through a comparison of two analogous
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The Lives of Ottoman Children | Nazan Maksudyan
150. From the Mouths of Babes
Much 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
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Hydropolitics and the Hajj | Michael Christopher Low
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Child and Nation in Early Republican Turkey | Yasemin Gencer
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Komitas: a Biographical Mixtape | Chris Gratien
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Neither Muslim Nor Christian / Zeynep Türkyılmaz
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Girit Müslümanlarının Ada'da Son Yılları | Melike Kara
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Sources for Early Ottoman History | Christopher Markiewicz
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Türkiye'de Tarih Öğretimi | Emrah Yıldız
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