 with Nevila Pahumi hosted by Susanna Ferguson| In 1919, Paraskevi Kyrias went to Paris to advocate for Albanian independence. As a woman in the overwhelmingly masculine space of international diplomacy, she faced sexism and unwanted romantic overtures. Nevertheless, she called on her connections within a global Protestant community, her life in diaspora in the United States, and her experiences at the elite Constantinople Girls' School to play a unique role in the Albanian campaign for independence after World War I. In this episode, we speak with Dr. Nevila Pahumi about Kyrias' story, her leadership of the early Albanian women's movement, and the diary of her experiences in Paris she left behind. We also trace the history of this remarkable woman after 1919, as she and her family were repudiated by a secularizing Albanian state determined to exise Protestant activism from their national history -- until she was once again remade as a feminist icon in the last years of her life. « Click for More »

<a href="https://ucl.academia.edu/NevilaPahumi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> with Nevila Pahumi </a><a href="https://smith.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hosted by Susanna Ferguson</a> | In 1919, Paraskevi Kyrias went to Paris to advocate for Albanian independence. As a woman in the overwhelmingly masculine space of international diplomacy, she faced sexism and unwanted romantic overtures. Nevertheless, she called on her connections within a global Protestant community, her life in diaspora in the United States, and her experiences at the elite Constantinople Girls' School to play a unique role in the Albanian campaign for independence after World War I. In this episode, we speak with Dr. Nevila Pahumi about Kyrias' story, her leadership of the early Albanian women's movement, and the diary of her experiences in Paris she left behind. We also trace the history of this remarkable woman after 1919, as she and her family were repudiated by a secularizing Albanian state determined to exise Protestant activism from their national history -- until she was once again remade as a feminist icon in the last years of her life. <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/01/pahumi.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

Paraskevi Kyrias, Albania, and the US at the Paris Peace Conference

Episode 448   with Burcu Karahan  hosted by Suzie Ferguson   Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud   "One Thousand Kisses," "Plate of Cream," "Story of a Lily:" these are some of the provocative titles that graced the covers of Ottoman erotic novels in the early decades of the twentieth century. While erotic fiction and poetry had a long history in Ottoman and Arabic manuscript culture, the erotic novels of the second constitutional period (1908-1914), some creatively adapted from French originals, emerged in a period of unprecedented freedom for writers. Yet the novels themselves were often less explicit and transgressive than their their titles might suggest. In this episode, Burcu Karahan shows how, in late Ottoman fiction, stories about sex and desire celebrated not only sexual freedom, but also conservative fantasies about male sexual power and the power of heterosexual love.    « Click for More »

Episode 448 <a href="https://stanford.academia.edu/BurcuKarahan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> with Burcu Karahan </a> <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hosted by Suzie Ferguson</a> <center> Download the podcast <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/freedom-and-desire-in-late-ottoman-erotica-burcu-karahan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> "One Thousand Kisses," "Plate of Cream," "Story of a Lily:" these are some of the provocative titles that graced the covers of Ottoman erotic novels in the early decades of the twentieth century. While erotic fiction and poetry had a long history in Ottoman and Arabic manuscript culture, the erotic novels of the second constitutional period (1908-1914), some creatively adapted from French originals, emerged in a period of unprecedented freedom for writers. Yet the novels themselves were often less explicit and transgressive than their their titles might suggest. In this episode, Burcu Karahan shows how, in late Ottoman fiction, stories about sex and desire celebrated not only sexual freedom, but also conservative fantasies about male sexual power and the power of heterosexual love. <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/02/erotica.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

Freedom and Desire in Late Ottoman Erotica

Bölüm 437   Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik   Sunucu Can Gümüş   Podcast'i indir  Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud   Osmanlı'da çiftler nasıl evlenir, nasıl boşanırdı? Bu podcast'te Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik ile İstanbul Bab, Davud Paşa ve Ahi Çelebi mahkemelerinin 1755-1840 yıllarındaki kayıtlarını inceleyerek tamamladığı doktora araştırması odağında, Osmanlı İstanbul'unda evlilik ve boşanma davaları üzerine sohbet ediyoruz. Elbirlik'in araştırması, kadınların evlilik, boşanma ve mülkiyetle ilişkili konularda mahkemeleri aktif olarak kullandıklarını gösterirken, Osmanlı ailesinde ve toplumunda kadının rolüne dair yaygın kanıları da yeniden değerlendiriyor.   « Click for More »

Bölüm 437 <a href="https://bogaziciuniversity.academia.edu/LeylaKayhanElbirlik" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik </a> Sunucu <a href="https://boun.academia.edu/YeterCanG%C3%BCm%C3%BC%C5%9F" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Can Gümüş</a> <center> Podcast'i indir</center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/osmanli-istanbulunda-evlilik-ve-bosanma-leyla-kahyan-elbirlik" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> Osmanlı'da çiftler nasıl evlenir, nasıl boşanırdı? Bu podcast'te Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik ile İstanbul Bab, Davud Paşa ve Ahi Çelebi mahkemelerinin 1755-1840 yıllarındaki kayıtlarını inceleyerek tamamladığı doktora araştırması odağında, Osmanlı İstanbul'unda evlilik ve boşanma davaları üzerine sohbet ediyoruz. Elbirlik'in araştırması, kadınların evlilik, boşanma ve mülkiyetle ilişkili konularda mahkemeleri aktif olarak kullandıklarını gösterirken, Osmanlı ailesinde ve toplumunda kadının rolüne dair yaygın kanıları da yeniden değerlendiriyor. <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/11/evlilikvebosanma.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

Osmanlı İstanbul'unda Evlilik ve Boşanma

Episode 421  with Gülhan Balsoy and Tuba Demirci hosted by Suzie Ferguson   Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud   How 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 421 <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/G%C3%BClhanBalsoy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">with Gülhan Balsoy </a><a href="https://kemerburgaz.academia.edu/TubaDemirci" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">and Tuba Demirci</a> <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hosted by Suzie Ferguson</a> <center> Download the podcast <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/population-and-reproduction-in-the-late-ottoman-empire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> How 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. <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/08/populationreproduction.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

Population and Reproduction in the Late Ottoman Empire

a:hover {   cursor:pointer;  }       Episode 419  with İpek Hüner Cora hosted by Işın Taylan  Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud   Ottoman literature is heavily associated with verse, namely, Ottoman court poetry, and to some extent, folk literature. Ottoman stories, however, remain unexplored, even though they circulated in the empire and entertained many. For us, today, they are an invaluable source to study daily life, gender and space in the early modern Ottoman world. What is an Ottoman story? What do Ottoman stories tell us? In this episode, İpek Hüner Cora joins the podcast to talk about fictional prose stories in the Ottoman Empire and we discuss the gendered and spatial aspects of stories scattered in manuscript collections.   « Click for More »

a:hover { cursor:pointer; } <center> Episode 419 <a href="https://bogaziciuniversity.academia.edu/NIpekH%C3%BCnerCora" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">with İpek Hüner Cora</a> <a href="https://yale.academia.edu/I%C5%9F%C4%B1nTaylan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hosted by Işın Taylan</a> Download the podcast <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/the-story-has-it-ipek-huner-cora" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> Ottoman literature is heavily associated with verse, namely, Ottoman court poetry, and to some extent, folk literature. Ottoman stories, however, remain unexplored, even though they circulated in the empire and entertained many. For us, today, they are an invaluable source to study daily life, gender and space in the early modern Ottoman world. What is an Ottoman story? What do Ottoman stories tell us? In this episode, İpek Hüner Cora joins the podcast to talk about fictional prose stories in the Ottoman Empire and we discuss the gendered and spatial aspects of stories scattered in manuscript collections. <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/07/the-story-has-it.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

The Story Has It

Bölüm 384  Muzaffer Özgüleş  Sunucu: Can Gümüş   Podcast'i indir Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud   Toplumsal cinsiyet bakış açısının son birkaç on yılda Osmanlı tarih yazımına yaptığı müdahaleler, saray kadınlarının imar faaliyetlerinde üstlendiği rolün giderek daha çok araştırılmasına da vesile oldu. Muzaffer Özgüleş’i konuk ettiğimiz bu bölümde, Sultan IV. Mehmed’in hasekisi, Sultan II. Mustafa ve Sultan III. Ahmed’in validesi Gülnuş Emetullah Sultan’ın imar faaliyetlerini detaylandırırken kadın baniler odağında kent, mimarlık üretimi ve toplumsal cinsiyet ilişkisini değerlendiriyoruz.   « Click for More »

Bölüm 384 <a href="https://gantep.academia.edu/MuzafferOzgules" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Muzaffer Özgüleş</a> <a href="https://boun.academia.edu/YeterCanG%C3%BCm%C3%BC%C5%9F" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sunucu: Can Gümüş</a> <center> Podcast'i indir <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/osmanlida-kadinlar-ve-mimarlik-uretimi-muzaffer-ozgules" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> Toplumsal cinsiyet bakış açısının son birkaç on yılda Osmanlı tarih yazımına yaptığı müdahaleler, saray kadınlarının imar faaliyetlerinde üstlendiği rolün giderek daha çok araştırılmasına da vesile oldu. Muzaffer Özgüleş’i konuk ettiğimiz bu bölümde, Sultan IV. Mehmed’in hasekisi, Sultan II. Mustafa ve Sultan III. Ahmed’in validesi Gülnuş Emetullah Sultan’ın imar faaliyetlerini detaylandırırken kadın baniler odağında kent, mimarlık üretimi ve toplumsal cinsiyet ilişkisini değerlendiriyoruz. <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/10/ozgules.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

Osmanlı'da Kadınlar ve Mimarlık Üretimi

Episode 378  with Özlem Gülin Dağoğlu  hosted by Sam Dolbee and Shireen Hamza   Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud   Many myths have accompanied the life of Mihri Rasim, but few are as interesting as her life itself. Born to a wealthy family in Istanbul in the late Ottoman period, Mihri Rasim became a politically connected painter, living in Italy for several years on her own and then Paris, where she played a key role in the salons of Ottoman dissidents known as the Young Turks. In the wake of the 1908 Constitutional Revolution, she returned to Istanbul, and opened the Fine Arts School for Women in Istanbul, where she went on to teach. After the war, she went to Italy, and then the United States, where she continued her work painting and teaching. In addition to many self-portraits, she also painted various powerful figures, among them Mustafa Kemal, Mussolini, and Thomas Edison. Listen for a discussion of art, gender, and migration in a period of momentous political change.    « Click for More »

Episode 378 <a href="https://histart.umontreal.ca/repertoire-departement/vue/ozlem-dagoglu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">with Özlem Gülin Dağoğlu</a> hosted by <a href="https://brandeis.academia.edu/SamDolbee" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sam Dolbee</a> and <a href="https://harvard.academia.edu/ShireenHamza" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shireen Hamza</a> <center> Download the podcast <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/migrant-labor-in-contemporary-beirut" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> Many myths have accompanied the life of Mihri Rasim, but few are as interesting as her life itself. Born to a wealthy family in Istanbul in the late Ottoman period, Mihri Rasim became a politically connected painter, living in Italy for several years on her own and then Paris, where she played a key role in the salons of Ottoman dissidents known as the Young Turks. In the wake of the 1908 Constitutional Revolution, she returned to Istanbul, and opened the Fine Arts School for Women in Istanbul, where she went on to teach. After the war, she went to Italy, and then the United States, where she continued her work painting and teaching. In addition to many self-portraits, she also painted various powerful figures, among them Mustafa Kemal, Mussolini, and Thomas Edison. Listen for a discussion of art, gender, and migration in a period of momentous political change. <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/09/mihri-rasim.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

Mihri Rasim Between Empire and Nation

Episode 369  with Jane Hathaway  hosted by Sanja Kadrić and Emily Neumeier   Download the podcast  Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud   For more than three centuries, a cadre of African eunuchs were responsible for guarding the Ottoman harem at the imperial palace in Istanbul. The head of this group, the Chief Harem Eunuch, emerged as an extremely influential individual at the court. This was especially true during the crisis years of the long seventeenth century, when the palace became divided along ever-shifting lines of political factions. In this episode, we trace the long trajectory of the office of Chief Harem Eunuch, from its establishment—coinciding with the sultan’s decision to begin residing full-time in the harem—until the ultimate demise of the empire. In particular, we highlight the high degree of mobility for these eunuchs, beginning with their initial journey from Ethiopia to the shores of the Bosphorus, and later on using their position to maintain strong ties to Cairo as well as the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. A liminal figure in every sense of the word—in terms of gender, race, and his duties at the court—the Chief Harem Eunuch offers unique insights into the nature of political life at the Ottoman palace.    « Click for More »

Episode 369 <a href="https://history.osu.edu/people/hathaway.24" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">with Jane Hathaway</a> hosted by <a href="https://osu1.academia.edu/SanjaKadri%C4%87" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sanja Kadrić</a> and <a href="https://osu.academia.edu/EmilyNeumeier" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Emily Neumeier</a> <center> Download the podcast</center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/the-sultans-eunuch-jane-hathaway" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> For more than three centuries, a cadre of African eunuchs were responsible for guarding the Ottoman harem at the imperial palace in Istanbul. The head of this group, the Chief Harem Eunuch, emerged as an extremely influential individual at the court. This was especially true during the crisis years of the long seventeenth century, when the palace became divided along ever-shifting lines of political factions. In this episode, we trace the long trajectory of the office of Chief Harem Eunuch, from its establishment—coinciding with the sultan’s decision to begin residing full-time in the harem—until the ultimate demise of the empire. In particular, we highlight the high degree of mobility for these eunuchs, beginning with their initial journey from Ethiopia to the shores of the Bosphorus, and later on using their position to maintain strong ties to Cairo as well as the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. A liminal figure in every sense of the word—in terms of gender, race, and his duties at the court—the Chief Harem Eunuch offers unique insights into the nature of political life at the Ottoman palace. <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/08/sultanseunuch.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

The Sultan's Eunuch

Mihrî Hatun

Episode 357  with Didem Havlioğlu hosted by Chris Gratien   Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud   What did it mean to be a woman in the intellectual world of early modern Islamic empires? In this episode, our guest Didem Havlioğlu offers one answer to this question through the life and works of Mihrî Hatun, an Ottoman woman from 15th-century Amasya whose poetry survives to this day. Mihrî was unique within the male-dominated sphere of early modern love poetry, and as we discuss in this podcast, her position as a woman was integral to her poetry and its meaning. These poems and the relationships of this exceptional writer are the subject of Havlioğlu's new book entitled Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender-Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History (Syracuse University Press).  « Click for More »

Episode 357 <a href="https://duke.academia.edu/DidemHavlioglu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">with Didem Havlioğlu</a> <a href="https://virginia.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hosted by Chris Gratien</a> <center> Download the podcast <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/love-poems-of-an-ottoman-woman-didem-havlioglu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> What did it mean to be a woman in the intellectual world of early modern Islamic empires? In this episode, our guest Didem Havlioğlu offers one answer to this question through the life and works of Mihrî Hatun, an Ottoman woman from 15th-century Amasya whose poetry survives to this day. Mihrî was unique within the male-dominated sphere of early modern love poetry, and as we discuss in this podcast, her position as a woman was integral to her poetry and its meaning. These poems and the relationships of this exceptional writer are the subject of Havlioğlu's new book entitled <a href="http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2017/mihri-hatun.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender-Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History (Syracuse University Press)</a>. <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/04/mihri-hatun.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

Love Poems of an Ottoman Woman: Mihrî Hatun

Episode 350  with Hanan Hammad  hosted by Susanna Ferguson and Seçil Yilmaz   Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud   In this episode, we discuss the emergence of new masculinities, femininities, and visions of "good sex" in Egypt's al-Mahalla al-Kubra, a city in the Nile Delta that became one of the main centers of industrial production and manufacturing in the early twentieth century. How did men and women who came to al-Mahalla to work in the factory, run boardinghouses, and perform other forms of labor negotiate the coercive hierarchies of industrial capitalism in their daily and intimate lives? What can we learn about modes of existence and resistance from considering their experiences, and how do the stories of working-class men and women challenge or nuance the more well-known accounts of gender and family in Egypt that have been based on the middle-class press?   « Click for More »

Episode 350 <a href="https://tcu.academia.edu/HananHammad" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">with Hanan Hammad</a> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Susanna Ferguson</a> and <a href="http://neareasternstudies.cornell.edu/se%C3%A7il-yilmaz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Seçil Yilmaz</a> <center> Download the podcast <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/industrial-sexualiies-in-twentieth-century-egypt-hanan-hammad" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> In this episode, we discuss the emergence of new masculinities, femininities, and visions of "good sex" in Egypt's al-Mahalla al-Kubra, a city in the Nile Delta that became one of the main centers of industrial production and manufacturing in the early twentieth century. How did men and women who came to al-Mahalla to work in the factory, run boardinghouses, and perform other forms of labor negotiate the coercive hierarchies of industrial capitalism in their daily and intimate lives? What can we learn about modes of existence and resistance from considering their experiences, and how do the stories of working-class men and women challenge or nuance the more well-known accounts of gender and family in Egypt that have been based on the middle-class press? <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/03/industrial-sexualities.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

Industrial Sexualities in Twentieth-Century Egypt

"Women, Gender, and Sex in the Ottoman World" is a series of podcasts that pulls together women’s history and the history of gender and sex in the Ottoman Empire and beyond. It explores the particular historical experiences of women and girls based on the conviction that returning the lives, experiences, and ideas of women to the historical record will change the way we look at historical periods and transformations at large. It also investigates the ways in which gender and sexuality can serve as useful categories of historical analysis (Scott, 1986) as they help us to better understand broad transformations in regimes of knowledge and politics, relations of property, forms of governance, and the nature of the state. (podcast image by Russian photographer Prokudin-Gorskiĭ of Armenian woman in Artvin ca. 1905-1915 courtesy of US Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/prk2000001172/)

"Women, Gender, and Sex in the Ottoman World" is a series of podcasts that pulls together women’s history and the history of gender and sex in the Ottoman Empire and beyond. It explores the particular historical experiences of women and girls based on the conviction that returning the lives, experiences, and ideas of women to the historical record will change the way we look at historical periods and transformations at large. It also investigates the ways in which gender and sexuality can serve as useful categories of historical analysis (Scott, 1986) as they help us to better understand broad transformations in regimes of knowledge and politics, relations of property, forms of governance, and the nature of the state. (podcast image by Russian photographer Prokudin-Gorskiĭ of Armenian woman in Artvin ca. 1905-1915 courtesy of US Library of Congress <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/prk2000001172/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/prk2000001172/</a>)

Women, Gender, and Sex in the Ottoman World

 with Gary Leiser   hosted by Emrah Safa Gürkan, Kahraman Şakul, and Louis Fishman   This episode is part of a series on Women, Gender, and Sex in Ottoman history Download the seriesPodcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud     The image of prostitution as humanity's "oldest profession" often obscures the fact that this phenomenon has carried different social meaning and economic value across time and space. In this episode, Dr. Gary Leiser explores social understandings of prostitution in the Eastern Mediterranean between various political and legal frameworks during the medieval period.    Gary Leiser is a retired civil servant whose work focuses on medieval Islamic history.    Emrah Safa Gürkan is an Assistant Professor at İstanbul 29 Mayıs University. His work focuses on early modern Mediterranean and Ottoman History. (see academia.edu)   Kahraman Şakul is an Assistant Professor of History at İstanbul Şehir University focusing on Ottoman military history. (see academia.edu)    Louis Fishman is an Assistant Professor of History at CUNY-Brooklyn College studying Palestinian and Israeli history during the late Ottoman Period. (see faculty page)  Episode No. 98 Release date: 25 March 2013 Location: Istanbul Şehir University Editing and Production by Chris Gratien  Bibliography courtesy of Gary Leiser  SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY  Stavroula Leontsini, Die Prostitution im früher Byzanz (Vienna: Verband der wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften Österreichs, 1989)  al-Maqrīzī, al-Mawāʿiẓ wa ʾl-iʿtibār bi-dhikr al-khiṭaṭ wa ʾl-āthār, (Cairo: Būlāq, 1853-54), 2 vols.  James Brundage, “Prostitution, Miscegenation and Sexual Purity in the First Crusade,” in Crusade and Settlement, edited by Peter W. Edbury, pp. 57-65 (Cardiff: University College Cardiff Pr., 1985).  Bernadette Martel-Thoumian, “Plaisirs illicites et châtiments dans les sources mamloukes fin ixe/xve – début xe/xvie siècle,” Annales Islamologiques, 39 (2005): 275-323.  Mark D. Meyerson, “Prostitution of Muslim Women in the Kingdom of Valencia: Religious and Sexual Discrimination in a Medieval Plural Society,” in The Medieval Mediterranean: Cross-cultural Contacts, edited by Marilyn J. Chiat and Kathryn Reyerson, pp. 87-95 (St. Cloud, MN:  North Star Press, 1988).  Aḥmad ʿAbd ar-Rāziq (ed.), La Femme au temps des Mamlouks en Égypte (Cairo: Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, 1973).  “Bighāʾ,” Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edition, Supplement  Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, La Sexualité en Islam, 2nd ed. (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1979).

<center> with Gary Leiser</center><center> </center><center> </center><center> hosted by Emrah Safa Gürkan, Kahraman Şakul, and Louis Fishman</center><center> </center><center> </center><center> This episode is part of a series on <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/09/women-literati-and-ottoman-intellectual.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Women, Gender, and Sex in Ottoman history</a> Download the series <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WomenGenderAndSexInTheOttomanWorld" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Podcast Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/women-gender-sex-in-ottoman/id1027383770" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/sets/the-gender-list" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Soundcloud</a></center> The image of prostitution as humanity's "oldest profession" often obscures the fact that this phenomenon has carried different social meaning and economic value across time and space. In this episode, Dr. Gary Leiser explores social understandings of prostitution in the Eastern Mediterranean between various political and legal frameworks during the medieval period. Gary Leiser is a retired civil servant whose work focuses on medieval Islamic history.  Emrah Safa Gürkan is an Assistant Professor at İstanbul 29 Mayıs University. His work focuses on early modern Mediterranean and Ottoman History. (<a href="http://29mayis.academia.edu/esg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see academia.edu</a>) Kahraman Şakul is an Assistant Professor of History at İstanbul Şehir University focusing on Ottoman military history. (<a href="http://sehir.academia.edu/KahramanSakul" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see academia.edu</a>) Louis Fishman is an Assistant Professor of History at CUNY-Brooklyn College studying Palestinian and Israeli history during the late Ottoman Period. (<a href="http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/faculty_profile.jsp?faculty=677" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see faculty page</a>) Episode No. 98 Release date: 25 March 2013 Location: Istanbul Şehir University Editing and Production by Chris Gratien Bibliography courtesy of Gary Leiser SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Stavroula Leontsini, Die Prostitution im früher Byzanz (Vienna: Verband der wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften Österreichs, 1989) al-Maqrīzī, al-Mawāʿiẓ wa ʾl-iʿtibār bi-dhikr al-khiṭaṭ wa ʾl-āthār, (Cairo: Būlāq, 1853-54), 2 vols. James Brundage, “Prostitution, Miscegenation and Sexual Purity in the First Crusade,” in Crusade and Settlement, edited by Peter W. Edbury, pp. 57-65 (Cardiff: University College Cardiff Pr., 1985). Bernadette Martel-Thoumian, “Plaisirs illicites et châtiments dans les sources mamloukes fin ixe/xve – début xe/xvie siècle,” Annales Islamologiques, 39 (2005): 275-323. Mark D. Meyerson, “Prostitution of Muslim Women in the Kingdom of Valencia: Religious and Sexual Discrimination in a Medieval Plural Society,” in The Medieval Mediterranean: Cross-cultural Contacts, edited by Marilyn J. Chiat and Kathryn Reyerson, pp. 87-95 (St. Cloud, MN:  North Star Press, 1988). Aḥmad ʿAbd ar-Rāziq (ed.), La Femme au temps des Mamlouks en Égypte (Cairo: Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, 1973). “Bighāʾ,” Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edition, Supplement Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, La Sexualité en Islam, 2nd ed. (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1979).

Prostitution in the Eastern Mediterranean

 with Aurelie Perrier   hosted by Sam Dolbee   This episode is part of a series on Women, Gender, and Sex in Ottoman history Download the seriesPodcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud   The association of Algeria with sex figured prominently in the artwork and literature that was critiqued so famously by Edward Said in Orientalism. In this episode, Dr. Aurelie Perrier discusses the practical backdrop of this argument beyond the level of discourse by exploring illicit sex in 19th century Algeria under both Ottoman and French rule. Beginning with the fluid boundaries of Ottoman-administered sex work, she describes the transformations that accompanied French colonialism beginning in 1830. Contextualizing the sex trade in both eras with flows of labor migration, Perrier also illuminates the spatial dynamics of the French approach to prostitution, namely the birth of red-light districts and brothels. At once centralizing and segregating sex work, this new politics of space was intimately connected to the boundaries of race and class that were the premise of colonialism in the first place. Yet it appears in many cases these boundaries were transgressed, undermining the credibility of the colonial state. Moreover, even as the state claimed unprecedented control over the intimate lives of its citizens/subjects, people still managed to use the system for their own purposes, or evade it altogether. Still, the undeniable encroachment of the state left an indelible mark on Algeria's history with distinctly gendered implications.  « Click for More »

<center> with Aurelie Perrier</center><center> </center><center> </center><center> hosted by Sam Dolbee</center><center> </center><center> </center><center> This episode is part of a series on <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/09/women-literati-and-ottoman-intellectual.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Women, Gender, and Sex in Ottoman history</a> Download the series <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WomenGenderAndSexInTheOttomanWorld" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Podcast Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/women-gender-sex-in-ottoman/id1027383770" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/sets/the-gender-list" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Soundcloud</a></center> The association of Algeria with sex figured prominently in the artwork and literature that was critiqued so famously by Edward Said in Orientalism. In this episode, Dr. Aurelie Perrier discusses the practical backdrop of this argument beyond the level of discourse by exploring illicit sex in 19th century Algeria under both Ottoman and French rule. Beginning with the fluid boundaries of Ottoman-administered sex work, she describes the transformations that accompanied French colonialism beginning in 1830. Contextualizing the sex trade in both eras with flows of labor migration, Perrier also illuminates the spatial dynamics of the French approach to prostitution, namely the birth of red-light districts and brothels. At once centralizing and segregating sex work, this new politics of space was intimately connected to the boundaries of race and class that were the premise of colonialism in the first place. Yet it appears in many cases these boundaries were transgressed, undermining the credibility of the colonial state. Moreover, even as the state claimed unprecedented control over the intimate lives of its citizens/subjects, people still managed to use the system for their own purposes, or evade it altogether. Still, the undeniable encroachment of the state left an indelible mark on Algeria's history with distinctly gendered implications. <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/03/illicit-sex-prostitution-ottoman-french-algeria.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

Illicit Sex in Ottoman and French Algeria

Episode 340  with Leslie Peirce  hosted by Suzie Ferguson and Seçil Yılmaz   Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud   In this episode, we explore the life and times of Roxelana, also known as Hürrem Sultan, a slave girl who became chief consort and then legal wife of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I (r. 1520-1566). We trace Roxelana's probable beginnings and the possible paths that took her to Istanbul, asking how she rose above her peers in the Old Palace to become a favored concubine and then the wife of the Sultan. We explore her relationship to other women at the Ottoman court, the politics of her motherhood and philanthropy, and her role in Ottoman diplomacy. In the end, Roxelana's work, her relationship with Suleiman, and the unusual nuclear family they created despite the otherwise polygynous patterns of reproduction at the Ottoman court would transform the rules of Ottoman succession, the role of Ottoman royal women, and the future of the Empire as a whole. The life story of this one remarkable woman sheds light on many facets of the history of the Ottoman Empire, showing how a single individual's story can serve as a lynchpin for grasping the complexities of an age.   « Click for More »

Episode 340 <a href="https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/leslie-peirce.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">with Leslie Peirce</a> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Suzie Ferguson</a> and <a href="http://neareasternstudies.cornell.edu/se%C3%A7il-yilmaz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Seçil Yılmaz</a> <center> Download the podcast <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/roxelana" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> In this episode, we explore the life and times of Roxelana, also known as Hürrem Sultan, a slave girl who became chief consort and then legal wife of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I (r. 1520-1566). We trace Roxelana's probable beginnings and the possible paths that took her to Istanbul, asking how she rose above her peers in the Old Palace to become a favored concubine and then the wife of the Sultan. We explore her relationship to other women at the Ottoman court, the politics of her motherhood and philanthropy, and her role in Ottoman diplomacy. In the end, Roxelana's work, her relationship with Suleiman, and the unusual nuclear family they created despite the otherwise polygynous patterns of reproduction at the Ottoman court would transform the rules of Ottoman succession, the role of Ottoman royal women, and the future of the Empire as a whole. The life story of this one remarkable woman sheds light on many facets of the history of the Ottoman Empire, showing how a single individual's story can serve as a lynchpin for grasping the complexities of an age. <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/12/roxelana.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

Hürrem Sultan or Roxelana, Empress of the East

Episode 289  with İrvin Cemil Schick  hosted by Susanna Ferguson and Matthew Ghazarian   Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud   What terms and ideas were considered erotic in early modern Ottoman literature, and what can studying them tell us about later historical periods and our own conceptions of the beauty, love, and desire? In this episode, we welcome İrvin Cemil Schick back to the podcast to discuss a project he is compiling with İpek Hüner-Cora and Helga Anetshofer: a dictionary called the "Erotic Vocabulary of Ottoman Literature."   Release Date: 18 December 2016  « Click for More »

Episode 289 <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/%C4%B0rvinCemilSchick" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">with İrvin Cemil Schick</a> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SusannaFerguson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Susanna Ferguson</a> and <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/MatthewGhazarian" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Matthew Ghazarian</a> <center> Download the podcast</center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/the-ottoman-erotic-irvin-cemil-schick" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a> What terms and ideas were considered erotic in early modern Ottoman literature, and what can studying them tell us about later historical periods and our own conceptions of the beauty, love, and desire? In this episode, we welcome İrvin Cemil Schick back to the podcast to discuss a project he is compiling with İpek Hüner-Cora and Helga Anetshofer: a dictionary called the "Erotic Vocabulary of Ottoman Literature." Release Date: 18 December 2016 <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/12/irvin-cemil-schick.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

The Ottoman Erotic

with Liat Kozma  hosted by Susanna Ferguson and Chris Gratien  Download the episode Podcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud  During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, scientists and physicians the world over began to think of sex as something that could be studied and understood through rational methods. In places like Germany, these sexologists were associated with progressive political movements that combated stigmatization of homosexuality and contraception and broke taboos regarding issues such as impotence and masturbation. In this episode, Liat Kozma examines how sexology traveled and transformed in Middle Eastern contexts through the writings of Egyptian doctors and Jewish exiles.   « Click for More »

with Liat Kozma hosted by Susanna Ferguson and Chris Gratien Download the episode <a href="http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:6652990/sounds.rss" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Podcast Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/sexology-in-hebrew-and-arabic-liat-kozma" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Soundcloud</a> During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, scientists and physicians the world over began to think of sex as something that could be studied and understood through rational methods. In places like Germany, these sexologists were associated with progressive political movements that combated stigmatization of homosexuality and contraception and broke taboos regarding issues such as impotence and masturbation. In this episode, Liat Kozma examines how sexology traveled and transformed in Middle Eastern contexts through the writings of Egyptian doctors and Jewish exiles. <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/08/sexology-germany-israel-palestine-egypt.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

Sexology in Hebrew and Arabic

with Elyse Semerdjian  hosted by Chris Gratien  Download the episode Podcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud  Bath houses or hamams were mainstays of the Ottoman city. But as semi-public spaces where people could mix and implicitly transgressed certain boundaries regarding nudity, they were also spaces that produced anxiety and calls for regulation. In this episode, Elyse Semerdjian discusses how in a certain time and place of eighteenth century Aleppo, the issue of Muslim and Christian women bathing together aroused the concern of Ottoman state and society.  « Click for More »

with Elyse Semerdjian hosted by Chris Gratien Download the episode <a href="http://ottomanhistory.hipcast.com/rss/ottomanhistorypodcast.xml" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Podcast Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/naked-anxieties-in-the-baths-of-ottoman-aleppo-elyse-semerdjian" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Soundcloud</a> Bath houses or hamams were mainstays of the Ottoman city. But as semi-public spaces where people could mix and implicitly transgressed certain boundaries regarding nudity, they were also spaces that produced anxiety and calls for regulation. In this episode, Elyse Semerdjian discusses how in a certain time and place of eighteenth century Aleppo, the issue of Muslim and Christian women bathing together aroused the concern of Ottoman state and society. <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/10/bathhouse-aleppo.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

Naked Anxieties in the Baths of Ottoman Aleppo

Episode 296  with Sarah Ghabrial  hosted by Edna Bonhomme and Sam Dolbee   Download the podcast  Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud   In French Algeria, the colonial imperatives of assimilation and difference gave birth to legal pluralism. In this episode, Dr. Sarah Ghabrial explains what it meant for Algerian women to have different legal structures operating at the same time. The ability to argue one's case in an Islamic court and also appeal it in French common law provided openings for women in matters of personal status. But it also had limits. They may have ultimately been able to divorce their husbands, but divorcing themselves from patriarchal structures of power proved more difficult, if not impossible. At the same time as legal codes changed, so, too, did medicine. As in much of the world, a state-sponsored scientific medicine, mostly practiced by men, began to crowd out local healing practices and knowledge of bodies, in many cases performed and possessed by women such as midwives. But it would have a particularly racialized impact in French Algeria. We also examine the impact of this change in court, where the latter form of medicine came to be an arbiter of truth, particularly in divorce cases. We close by shifting from matters of impotence to questions of agency, and how useful of a concept it is for this history.   « Click for More »

Episode 296 <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/SarahGhabrial" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">with Sarah Ghabrial</a> hosted by <a href="https://princeton.academia.edu/EdnaBonhomme" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Edna Bonhomme</a> and <a href="https://nyu.academia.edu/SamDolbee" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sam Dolbee</a> <center> Download the podcast</center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/ghabrial" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> In French Algeria, the colonial imperatives of assimilation and difference gave birth to legal pluralism. In this episode, Dr. Sarah Ghabrial explains what it meant for Algerian women to have different legal structures operating at the same time. The ability to argue one's case in an Islamic court and also appeal it in French common law provided openings for women in matters of personal status. But it also had limits. They may have ultimately been able to divorce their husbands, but divorcing themselves from patriarchal structures of power proved more difficult, if not impossible. At the same time as legal codes changed, so, too, did medicine. As in much of the world, a state-sponsored scientific medicine, mostly practiced by men, began to crowd out local healing practices and knowledge of bodies, in many cases performed and possessed by women such as midwives. But it would have a particularly racialized impact in French Algeria. We also examine the impact of this change in court, where the latter form of medicine came to be an arbiter of truth, particularly in divorce cases. We close by shifting from matters of impotence to questions of agency, and how useful of a concept it is for this history. <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/02/ghabrial.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

Women and Colonial Legal Pluralism in Algeria

with Lerna Ekmekçioğlu  hosted by Chris Gratien   The World War I period irrevocably changed the life of Ottoman Armenians and ultimately heralded the end of Christian communities throughout most of Anatolia. However, following the Ottoman defeat in the war, the brief Armistice period witnessed efforts by Armenians in Istanbul to reconstitute their community in the capital. In this episode, Lerna Ekmekçioğlu explores these efforts and in particular activities to locate and gather Armenian orphans and widows dislocated by war and genocide.     Lerna Ekmekçioğlu is Assistant Professor of History at MIT. Her research focuses on the intersections of minority identity and gender in the  modern Middle East. (see faculty page) 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. 161 Release date: 27 June 2014 Location: Beyoğlu, Istanbul Editing and Production by Chris Gratien Bibliography courtesy of Lerna Ekmekçioğlu  Citation: "Reconstituting the Stuff of the Nation: Armenians of Istanbul during the Armistice Period," Lerna Ekmekçioğlu and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 161 (27 June 2014) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/06/armenian-widows-orphans-istanbul.html.  SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY  Lerna Ekmekcioglu, “A Climate for Abduction, A Climate for Redemption: The Politics of Inclusion during and after the Armenian Genocide.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 55, no. 3 (2013): 522–53.  Uğur Ümit Üngör, “Orphans, Converts, and Prostitutes: Social Consequences of War and Persecution in the Ottoman Empire, 1914–1923,” War in History 19, 2 (2012): 173–92.  Taner Akçam, The Young Turks’ Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), 287–339.  Victoria Rowe, “Armenian Women Refugees at the End of Empire: Strategies of Survival,” in Panikos Panayi and Pipa Virdee, eds., Refugees and the End of Empire: Imperial Collapse and Forced Migration in the Twentieth Century (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 164.  Keith David Watenpaugh, “The League of Nations’ Rescue of Armenian Genocide Survivors and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism, 1920–1927,” American Historical Review 115, 5 (2010): 1315–39, here 1315.  Matthias Bjørnlund, “‘A Fate Worse than Dying:’ Sexual Violence during the Armenian Genocide,” in Dagmar Herzog, ed., Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe’s Twentieth Century (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 16–58.   Vahé Tachjian, “Gender, Nationalism, Exclusion: The Reintegration Process of Female Survivors of the Armenian Genocide,” Nations and Nationalism 15, 1 (2009): 60–80  Vahé Tachjian, “Recovering Women and Children Enslaved by Palestinian Bedouins,” in Raymond Kévorkian and Vahé Tachjian, eds., The Armenian General Benevolent Union, One Hundred Years of History (Cairo: AGBU, 2006).  Katharine Derderian, “Common Fate, Different Experience: Gender-Specific Aspects of the Armenian Genocide, 1915–1917,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 19, 1 (May 2005): 1–25.   Vahakn Dadrian, “Children as Victims of Genocide: The Armenian Case,” Journal of Genocide Research 5 (2003): 421–38.   Vahram Shemmassian, “The League of Nations and the Reclamation of Armenian Genocide Survivors,” in Richard Hovannisian, ed., Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Confronting the Armenian Genocide (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2003), 94.  Ara Sarafian, “The Absorption of Armenian Women and Children into Muslim Households as a Structural Component of the Armenian Genocide,” in Omer Bartov and Phyllis Mack, eds., In God’s Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century (New York: Berghahn Books, 2001), 209–21.  Isabel Kaprielian-Churchill “Armenian Refugee Women: The Picture Brides 1920–1930,” Journal of American Ethnic History 12, 3 (1993): 3–29. Eliz Sanasarian, “Gender Distinction in the Genocidal Process: A Preliminary Study of the Armenian Case,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 4, 4 (1989): 449–61.    

with Lerna Ekmekçioğlu hosted by Chris Gratien The World War I period irrevocably changed the life of Ottoman Armenians and ultimately heralded the end of Christian communities throughout most of Anatolia. However, following the Ottoman defeat in the war, the brief Armistice period witnessed efforts by Armenians in Istanbul to reconstitute their community in the capital. In this episode, Lerna Ekmekçioğlu explores these efforts and in particular activities to locate and gather Armenian orphans and widows dislocated by war and genocide. <center> <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/search/label/Lerna%20Ekmek%C3%A7io%C4%9Flu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Lerna Ekmekçioğlu is Assistant Professor of History at MIT. Her research focuses on the intersections of minority identity and gender in the modern Middle East. (<a href="http://history.mit.edu/people/lerna-ekmekcioglu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see faculty page</a>) <a href="http://georgetown.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a>Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. (<a href="http://georgetown.academia.edu/ChrisGratien" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see academia.edu</a>) Episode No. 161 Release date: 27 June 2014 Location: Beyoğlu, Istanbul Editing and Production by Chris Gratien Bibliography courtesy of Lerna Ekmekçioğlu Citation: "Reconstituting the Stuff of the Nation: Armenians of Istanbul during the Armistice Period," Lerna Ekmekçioğlu and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 161 (27 June 2014) <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/06/armenian-widows-orphans-istanbul.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/06/armenian-widows-orphans-istanbul.html</a>. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Lerna Ekmekcioglu, “A Climate for Abduction, A Climate for Redemption: The Politics of Inclusion during and after the Armenian Genocide.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 55, no. 3 (2013): 522–53. Uğur Ümit Üngör, “Orphans, Converts, and Prostitutes: Social Consequences of War and Persecution in the Ottoman Empire, 1914–1923,” War in History 19, 2 (2012): 173–92. Taner Akçam, The Young Turks’ Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), 287–339. Victoria Rowe, “Armenian Women Refugees at the End of Empire: Strategies of Survival,” in Panikos Panayi and Pipa Virdee, eds., Refugees and the End of Empire: Imperial Collapse and Forced Migration in the Twentieth Century (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 164. Keith David Watenpaugh, “The League of Nations’ Rescue of Armenian Genocide Survivors and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism, 1920–1927,” American Historical Review 115, 5 (2010): 1315–39, here 1315. Matthias Bjørnlund, “‘A Fate Worse than Dying:’ Sexual Violence during the Armenian Genocide,” in Dagmar Herzog, ed., Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe’s Twentieth Century (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 16–58. Vahé Tachjian, “Gender, Nationalism, Exclusion: The Reintegration Process of Female Survivors of the Armenian Genocide,” Nations and Nationalism 15, 1 (2009): 60–80 Vahé Tachjian, “Recovering Women and Children Enslaved by Palestinian Bedouins,” in Raymond Kévorkian and Vahé Tachjian, eds., The Armenian General Benevolent Union, One Hundred Years of History (Cairo: AGBU, 2006). Katharine Derderian, “Common Fate, Different Experience: Gender-Specific Aspects of the Armenian Genocide, 1915–1917,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 19, 1 (May 2005): 1–25. Vahakn Dadrian, “Children as Victims of Genocide: The Armenian Case,” Journal of Genocide Research 5 (2003): 421–38. Vahram Shemmassian, “The League of Nations and the Reclamation of Armenian Genocide Survivors,” in Richard Hovannisian, ed., Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Confronting the Armenian Genocide (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2003), 94. Ara Sarafian, “The Absorption of Armenian Women and Children into Muslim Households as a Structural Component of the Armenian Genocide,” in Omer Bartov and Phyllis Mack, eds., In God’s Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century (New York: Berghahn Books, 2001), 209–21. Isabel Kaprielian-Churchill “Armenian Refugee Women: The Picture Brides 1920–1930,” Journal of American Ethnic History 12, 3 (1993): 3–29. Eliz Sanasarian, “Gender Distinction in the Genocidal Process: A Preliminary Study of the Armenian Case,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 4, 4 (1989): 449–61. </center>

Reconstituting the Stuff of the Nation

with Akram Khaterhosted by Graham Pitts  .  Scholars have long neglected the Middle East’s Christian communities in general and Christian women in particular. In this episode, Akram Khater draws attention to the biography of Hindiyya al-'Ujaimi (1720-1798) to explore the religious and political upheavals of 18th-century Aleppo and Mount Lebanon. Hindiyya’s story speaks to the dynamic history of the Maronite Church, the  fraught encounter between Arab and European Christianities, and the role of faith as a historical force. For half a century, she held as much sway over the Maronite Church as any other cleric. The extent of her influence won her powerful enemies in Lebanon and the Vatican. Hindiyya weathered one inquisition but was eventually convicted of heresy and confined to a solitary cell for the final decade of her life. The story of her ascent and demise illuminates gendered aspects of piety and politics in the Christian Middle East.    Download the podcast  Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | Soundcloud    Scholars have long neglected the Middle East’s Christian communities in general and Christian women in particular. In this episode, Akram Khater draws attention to the biography of Hindiyya al-'Ujaimi (1720-1798) to explore the religious and political upheavals of 18th-century Aleppo and Mount Lebanon. Hindiyya’s story speaks to the dynamic history of the Maronite Church, the  fraught encounter between Arab and European Christianities, and the role of faith as a historical force. For half a century, she held as much sway over the Maronite Church as any other cleric. The extent of her influence won her powerful enemies in Lebanon and the Vatican. Hindiyya weathered one inquisition but was eventually convicted of heresy and confined to a solitary cell for the final decade of her life. The story of her ascent and demise illuminates gendered aspects of piety and politics in the Christian Middle East.  « Click for More »

<a href="http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/akhater/personal/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">with Akram Khater</a> <a href="https://georgetown.academia.edu/GrahamPitts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hosted by Graham Pitts</a> . Scholars have long neglected the Middle East’s Christian communities in general and Christian women in particular. In this episode, Akram Khater draws attention to the biography of Hindiyya al-'Ujaimi (1720-1798) to explore the religious and political upheavals of 18th-century Aleppo and Mount Lebanon. Hindiyya’s story speaks to the dynamic history of the Maronite Church, the fraught encounter between Arab and European Christianities, and the role of faith as a historical force. For half a century, she held as much sway over the Maronite Church as any other cleric. The extent of her influence won her powerful enemies in Lebanon and the Vatican. Hindiyya weathered one inquisition but was eventually convicted of heresy and confined to a solitary cell for the final decade of her life. The story of her ascent and demise illuminates gendered aspects of piety and politics in the Christian Middle East. <center> Download the podcast</center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/gender-politics-and-passion-in-the-christian-middle-east-akram-khater" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Soundcloud</a></center> Scholars have long neglected the Middle East’s Christian communities in general and Christian women in particular. In this episode, <a href="http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/akhater/personal/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Akram Khater</a> draws attention to the biography of Hindiyya al-'Ujaimi (1720-1798) to explore the religious and political upheavals of 18th-century Aleppo and Mount Lebanon. Hindiyya’s story speaks to the dynamic history of the Maronite Church, the  fraught encounter between Arab and European Christianities, and the role of faith as a historical force. For half a century, she held as much sway over the Maronite Church as any other cleric. The extent of her influence won her powerful enemies in Lebanon and the Vatican. Hindiyya weathered one inquisition but was eventually convicted of heresy and confined to a solitary cell for the final decade of her life. The story of her ascent and demise illuminates gendered aspects of piety and politics in the Christian Middle East. <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/03/hindiyya.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

Gender, Politics, and Passion in the Christian Middle East

with Ellen Fleischmann &amp; Christine Lindner  hosted by Susanna Ferguson     This episode is part of a series entitled Women, Gender, and Sex in the Ottoman World   Download the seriesPodcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud    In this episode, Ellen Fleischmann and Christine Lindner discuss the history of women and gender and the American Protestant Mission in Lebanon. How did American missionary women experience and transform the American Protestant project in the Levant in the 19th and 20th centuries? How did American missionaries, both women and men, interact with women from Beirut and Mt. Lebanon, both those who converted and those who did not? And how did these heterogeneous interactions produce new experiences of womanhood, family, power, and authority in the Levant? Drs. Fleischmann and Lindner reflect on these questions based on their considerable research in Lebanon and elsewhere, and also share their thoughts about sources and strategies for tracing women's history and missionary history in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Levant.    « Click for More »

with Ellen Fleischmann &amp; Christine Lindner hosted by Susanna Ferguson <center> This episode is part of a series entitled <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/09/women-literati-and-ottoman-intellectual.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Women, Gender, and Sex in the Ottoman World</a></center> <center> Download the series <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WomenGenderAndSexInTheOttomanWorld" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Podcast Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/women-gender-sex-in-ottoman/id1027383770" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="http://www.hipcast.com/podcast/HFGPl7Lk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hipcast</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/sets/the-gender-list" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Soundcloud</a></center> In this episode, Ellen Fleischmann and Christine Lindner discuss the history of women and gender and the American Protestant Mission in Lebanon. How did American missionary women experience and transform the American Protestant project in the Levant in the 19th and 20th centuries? How did American missionaries, both women and men, interact with women from Beirut and Mt. Lebanon, both those who converted and those who did not? And how did these heterogeneous interactions produce new experiences of womanhood, family, power, and authority in the Levant? Drs. Fleischmann and Lindner reflect on these questions based on their considerable research in Lebanon and elsewhere, and also share their thoughts about sources and strategies for tracing women's history and missionary history in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Levant. <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/03/women-missionaries-lebanon.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

Women and the American Protestant Mission in Lebanon

with Yasemin Gencer  hosted by Chris Gratien and Emily Neumeier       Following the World War I period, the founders of a new Turkish Republic sought to define and legitimize the new order as a break with the Ottoman past. In this episode, Yasemin Gencer explains the ways in which  notions such as childhood were used to construct the image of a renewed Turkish society in the nationalist press during the early years of the Republican period.  « Click for More »

with Yasemin Gencer hosted by Chris Gratien and Emily Neumeier Following the World War I period, the founders of a new Turkish Republic sought to define and legitimize the new order as a break with the Ottoman past. In this episode, Yasemin Gencer explains the ways in which  notions such as childhood were used to construct the image of a renewed Turkish society in the nationalist press during the early years of the Republican period. <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/04/childhood-family-press-turkish-nationalism-republic.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

Child and Nation in Early Republican Turkey

with Beth Baron  hosted by Chris Gratien and Susanna Ferguson    In this episode, Beth Baron discusses the historical context of the Muslim Brotherhood's rise during the interwar period and how the organization's activities and goals were shaped by the actions of European missionaries in Egypt.  « Click for More »

with Beth Baron hosted by Chris Gratien and Susanna Ferguson In this episode, Beth Baron discusses the historical context of the Muslim Brotherhood's rise during the interwar period and how the organization's activities and goals were shaped by the actions of European missionaries in Egypt. <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/01/history-muslim-brotherhood-egypt.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

Missionaries and the Making of the Muslim Brotherhood

with Nazan Maksudyan  hosted by Susanna Ferguson  Download the episode Podcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud  In the 1920s and 1930s, politicians, intellectuals, and members of the public joined a lively debate about the issue of female suicide in Turkey. While we cannot know whether the rates of female suicide were actually skyrocketing during this period, the fact that so many public figures began to treat this issue as a central concern tells us a lot about the relationship between the modernizing state of Early Republican Turkey and the women whom it governed. In this episode, Nazan Maksudyan explores what might have provoked this debate, what it might say about the state and its relationship to women, gender, and the female body, and how women themselves might have used suicide as a means of asserting their agency.  « Click for More »

with Nazan Maksudyan hosted by Susanna Ferguson Download the episode <a href="http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:6652990/sounds.rss" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Podcast Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/women-and-suicide-in-early-republican-turkey-nazan-maksudyan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Soundcloud</a> In the 1920s and 1930s, politicians, intellectuals, and members of the public joined a lively debate about the issue of female suicide in Turkey. While we cannot know whether the rates of female suicide were actually skyrocketing during this period, the fact that so many public figures began to treat this issue as a central concern tells us a lot about the relationship between the modernizing state of Early Republican Turkey and the women whom it governed. In this episode, Nazan Maksudyan explores what might have provoked this debate, what it might say about the state and its relationship to women, gender, and the female body, and how women themselves might have used suicide as a means of asserting their agency. <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2015/10/suicide-turkey.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

Women and Suicide in Early Republican Turkey

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